[rhn-users] RHEL3 box hanging at login

[Thomas Holzgruber]

Hi,

i had the same problem, i turned off the audit daemon to start at boot 
time to solve this problem.

//thomas

Tom Hodder wrote:

>Hi,
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>In a blade farm of a hundred or so RHEL3 boxes, 2 of these machines started
>hanging after the password was entered at the login prompt, both via ssh and
>locally, this was after a few days of running time.
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>This didn't seem to be effecting services such as httpd, but atd and crond were
>also hung. I guess atd and crond try to change to a user context and require
>login functionality to do that.
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>I've been troubleshooting the problem this weekend, so I stopped some services
>to get a smaller set of processes that might be causing this problem and
>rebooted.
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>BigMistake!(tm) - Now the box is hanging at the first prompt, though services
>like apache seem to have started up.
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>I understand that there is a known bug/condition that is caused by ssh sessions
>ending and not killing their children, and this seems to be what is happening
>here. Though I don't understand why it effects the local logins as well.
>
>Has anyone seen this problem before and got any ideas on what might be a good
>line to take in troubleshooting this machine.
>
>Tom
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