Hey Darren and the gang; Now you know why alternative means to reboot, and/or reset headless systems are so popular. i.e. Get an ip controlled power strip or something that allows you to reboot the box AND get a prompt no matter what happens in the interim.
Very best regards; Bob Finch > Hello all, > > I have a headless box running Arch as a Print and File server (Cups, > NFS). Up until a few days ago everything was working fine. The only way > I can get into this box is through ssh. Now when I try to ssh to the > box it accepts the connection, prompts for passphrase, successfully > authenticates me, prints the 'welcome' banner, then nothing. No shell > prompt, just nothing. I can type commands but they aren't having an > effect. I have to manually close the konsole, because ctrl-c doesn't > work. > > The strange thing is that printing and nfs still works just fine... > > So it would seem that perhaps ssh cannot start a bash process or > something, perhaps this is related to the bash/readline problem that > came up a while ago? I am sure this started because of a pacman -Syu, > as it was working fine before. > > The problem is that I cannot get a shell to fix this... > As mentioned the box is headless, and I can't even swap the monitor from > my workstation because it has no video card. I really don't want to buy > a vid card just to fix this... does anyone have an idea what I might do > here? > > I suppose if worst comes to worst I could swap the vid card out of my > workstation until this is resolved, but I am not even sure if this will > be of any use because as it stands, there are no interactive logins on > the box, and hence, no open shell, only login prompts on the virtual > consoles, so even if I did get a monitor hooked up, I could probably > not get a shell (just as with ssh). > > So what does one do in this situation... > > I am afraid I cannot provide much trouble shooting info, as I cannot run > any commands on this box. > > Any comments, ideas? > > Thanks, > -d > -- > darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org > "...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more > expected..." - Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972 _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
