Weird software (hardware?) issue

m.roth2006 at rcn.com m.roth2006 at rcn.com
Fri Nov 9 17:52:16 UTC 2007


I come in this morning, and one of the developers tells me he can't log onto one of the servers. I try, and it gives no response to putty. I go to the lab, and it doesn't responsd to the console (via kvm switch). So I power cycle the thing, let it come up, and it has problems: it claims it can't remote mount home (no path to server), yet I know the net's up.

I reboot after it's up clean, and the same thing.

Logs show it's been having trouble syncing the time, for some reason, but nothing else. In the log after the boot, I get this real strangeness (I've included a couple lines before and after, to give context):
Nov  9 09:03:54 drama kernel: tg3: eth0: Link is up at 1000 Mbps, full duplex.
Nov  9 09:03:54 drama kernel: tg3: eth0: Flow control is off for TX and off for RX.
Nov  9 09:03:37 drama ^A: hÃ<9d>        ^PV(
Nov  9 09:03:37 drama ^A:
Nov  9 09:03:37 drama ^A: ^D
Nov  9 09:03:37 drama ^A: facility local7
Nov  9 09:03:37 drama ^A: ^B
Nov  9 09:03:37 drama ^A: ^D
Nov  9 09:03:37 drama ^A: ^B
Nov  9 09:03:37 drama ^A: ^B
Nov  9 09:03:37 drama ^A: ^D
Nov  9 09:03:37 drama ^A: facility local7
Nov  9 09:03:37 drama ^A: # /etc/initlog.conf
Nov  9 09:03:37 drama ^A: ^A
Nov  9 09:03:37 drama ^A: ^B
Nov  9 09:03:37 drama ^A: ^A
Nov  9 09:03:37 drama ^A: ^A
Nov  9 09:03:37 drama ^A:
Nov  9 09:03:37 drama ^A: ^A
Nov  9 09:03:37 drama ^A: ^E
Nov  9 09:03:37 drama ^A:
Nov  9 09:03:37 drama ^A: ^F
Nov  9 09:03:37 drama ^A: ^F
Nov  9 09:03:37 drama ^A: ¨_£   8V(
Nov  9 09:03:37 drama ^A: ^F
Nov  9 09:03:37 drama last message repeated 2 times
Nov  9 09:03:37 drama ^A:
Nov  9 09:03:37 drama ^A: # initlog configuration file
Nov  9 09:03:37 drama ^A:
Nov  9 09:03:37 drama rc.sysinit: Remounting root filesystem in read-write mode:  succeeded

Anyone ever seen anything like that? I haven't yet found anything that looks wrong.... Oh, it also complains:
Nov  9 09:04:18 drama xinetd[933]: Unknown user: ident [file=/etc/xinetd.d/auth] [line=14]
Nov  9 09:04:18 drama xinetd[933]: Error parsing attribute user - DISABLING SERVICE [file=/etc/xinetd.d/auth] [line=14]

I don't see this on the other server like it (there's two still running RHEL 3, and the other had no trouble yesterday, and that's where the home directories the problematic one was trying to mount from).

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