Tom Chiverton wrote: > On Tuesday 18 July 2006 01:13, Hans Omli wrote: >> login prompt until I press Enter. This problem doesn't appear on the >> original release or Update 1 of RHEL4. Critical issue for managing remote >> servers, as I can't restart without someone in front of the box to press >> <Enter>.
This may or may not be related, but I was running CFMX7 on a Fedora Core 3 machine with a dac960 family RAID controller and was having jrun lockup when starting. Going to the console and touching anything woke it up. Traced it to jrun opening /dev/urandom and running the entropy pool dry. /dev/urandom blocks if it runs out of 'randomness'. This normally wouldn't happen as SCSI or IDE disk access adds to the 'entropy pool', but the DAC960 driver doesn't for some reason. Going to the console and just 'twiddling the mouse' would enable the startup to continue. I eventually stuck an IDE disk in the server and mounted it as swap space. The accesses to this to mount the swap volume during startup generated enough 'entropy' to allow jrun to start without blocking. (Service since moved to RH AS4 with a SCSI RAID that does 'add to the entropy pool'). Possibly a combination of your hardware configuration and software updates have caused a entropy shortage. Does your server console have a mouse on it ?. Does touching the mouse allow the startup to continue ?, if so it may be the same issue I had. Note on my server, starting jrun was the last thing it did, so I could ssh remotely and see that jrun had got stuck. Trying to access CD remotely was often enough to wake it up. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/message.cfm/forumid:14/messageid:4155 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:14 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.14
