Thanks very much chap, finally in the wee morning hours, I decided to power-cycle (as can't even login to do reboot) the box & it came up fine. No eventful messages found in /var/log/messages file
Thanks U On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 11:00 PM, Kit Gerrits <[email protected]> wrote: > > The error: > SCSI0 (0:0) : rejecting I/O to offline device > means that one of the disks has failed. > > If the /var/ filesystem resides on this disk, the security logs become > unwritable and the system refuses log-ins. > > The physical terminal is usually the most fail-safe way to log in (it has > the most overrides. > If this fails (as it appears to have done, you could try rebooting, to see > if the disk will come back (it sometimes does). > > Otherwise, I fear you may need to swap out the disk and restore (or > reinstall) what was on there. > > > Regards, > > Kit > > ------------------------------ > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *sunhux G > *Sent:* vrijdag 8 oktober 2010 19:31 > *To:* linux clustering > > *Subject:* Re: [Linux-cluster] RHES4 box does not prompt for password > afterentering login id at console > > Pressing Ctrl-Alt-Fx where x is one of the numbers, > I got into another virtual console which showed the message: > > SCSI0 (0:0) : rejecting I/O to offline device > > Is the above message related to the login issue? > > > I've just managed to login to another Linux box on the same subnet > & tried "ssh -v a_use...@problem_linux_box_address" & the remote > connection was closed, screen display is as follows : > > [r...@svrname ~]# ssh -v [email protected] > OpenSSH_3.9p1, OpenSSL 0.9.7a Feb 19 2003 > debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config > debug1: Applying options for * > debug1: Connecting to 172.16.x.y [172.16.x.y] port 22. > debug1: Connection established. > debug1: permanently_set_uid: 0/0 > debug1: identity file /root/.ssh/id_rsa type -1 > debug1: identity file /root/.ssh/id_dsa type -1 > ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host > > > > ping to the problem box is Ok > > > On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 12:36 AM, sunhux G <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I have a Dell 1850 box running RHES4.6 with Tomcat 5.5.17 >> and Opinion 5.2.9 : tonight the Dataprotector centralized backup >> failed to backup via this server's NIC. >> >> After entering root at the login: prompt, the console screen clears >> & it's back with the login prompt again without prompting for >> password. >> >> I would not want to reboot this box if possible as it's production. >> >> Haven't tried ssh into it yet but anyway, I only recall there's root >> login id in this box, there's no other login id & since it's a hardened >> box, I can't ssh into this box using root. >> >> any other idea? >> >> There's no alert from the monitoring tool (which usually we'll get if >> the filesystem or memory utilization or CPU exceeded the defined >> thresholds or ping fails to this box). >> >> >> TIA >> U >> >> >> > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 9.0.862 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/3183 - Release Date: 10/07/10 > 20:34:00 > > > -- > Linux-cluster mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster >
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