On Wed, 7 Nov 2001, Howard Lowndes wrote: > My gateway box did something odd just now. It wouldn't lease out an IP to > a box that I had just fired up so I went to check. I found that I > could hit Enter at the login prompt and get the cursor to drop a line but > the login prompt did not repeat as it normally does. > > I could switch through to a virtual screen and get the prompt from > mingetty. I could enter an account name, but mingetty was not handing > over to login to prompt for the password. > > Ctrl-Alt-Delete also would not work, so the only recourse was to the big > red button. > > I don't think this box has been compromised. > > Any thoughts?
What kernel version? This sounds suspiciously like what my box was doing under a bodgey 2.4.4 kernel when it kept giving kernel paging faults - the superficial processes kept running - but nothing new could be spawned by init or by anything else forking or whatever. Hard reboot was the only way to get it back. Check your logs, and look for "Unable to handle kernel paging request" errors - sometimes they made it into the log on my box. DaZZa -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
