On Sun Jan 13, 2002 at 07:14:44PM +0000, bascule wrote: > i'm getting the ocasional system freeze, i can't ctrl-alt-bspace or switch to > a console and everytime this happens i can't ssh in from another machine, it > seems too much of a coincidence that ssh fails at the same time but the > question is does the freeze kill sshd or is it the other way round, i've been > looking in /var/log to see if there might be some reference to sshd but i can > find none, where might - if anywhere - i find any messages concerning sshd > errors, every time i think to check sshd is up while the system is fine i can > log in no problem, is there some logging that i could turn on?
If your system is freezing solid, it would make sense for sshd to not respond. Have you tried pinging the machine when it's in this frozen state? Does it respond? Do any other services respond? Ie. if you're running an MTA on there (postfix, sendmail, whatever), does it respond when you telnet to port 25 from another machine? I suspect the *entire* machine is freezing, not just X, which is what is rendering sshd useless to go in and correct the issue. -- MandrakeSoft Security, OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net 1024D/FE6F2AFD 88D8 0D23 8D4B 3407 5BD7 66F9 2043 D0E5 FE6F 2AFD Current Linux kernel 2.4.8-34.1mdk uptime: 9 days 11 hours 24 minutes.
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