On 2009-08-17, Andres Salazar <[email protected]> wrote: > > During the past week two boxes two boxes on the same network have > stopped responding, they carry OpenBSD 4.5 i386 and I have logged at > every possible log to find out why this occurs however I havent been > able to spot anything unusual. All of the sudden they just stop > responding requests. > > What these freezes do have in common is that when the boxes are > reached via the KVM they present the login screen, they allow text to > be entered in the login field... but upon hitting enter for it to ask > the password thats when it just hangs. > > Iam afraid this will keep on happening and I woudl like to know if > anybody has experienced this before.. these have been perfectly > working boxes and it would be just odd both would have the same > problem in the same few days. > > Upon a reboot everything returns to normal.
Set ddb.console=1 in sysctl.conf and reboot (you can't change this on a running system with securelevel=1 as is normally set), if/when it happens again you can try breaking into DDB (ctrl+alt+esc from glass console, BREAK from serial console) and you may be able to get more information about what's happening (trace/ps would be good places to start - serial console would let you paste the output into email which would be helpful if you need other people to look at it).
