SUMMARY: Cheap Thrills: an E4500 doesn´t respond

Well, thanks for the usual great responses, but that was an symptom of a
larger problem.

The message I pasted was, unfortunately, bogus. Our operator typed it
incorrectly. There is no such thing as a 'uname -h' in Solaris............

The whole problem turned out to be a swap problem.

The user we werw trying to log in was OK but the home direcory vanished.

# ls -l /home
total 0

But when tried to list the full pathname, the ls locked:

# ls -l /home/troubleduser
(...)

Bad omen.

Started to check the whole system.

user@troubledhost # swap -l
swapfile             dev  swaplo blocks   free
/dev/md/dsk/d40     85,40     16 3821408 1888272
/ora01/swapfile1     ?,?      16 4192224 2262176

Gess what? /ora01/swapfile1 was removed. The swapper was paging out to
nowhere.

Tried to remove the reference to the deleted file by swap -d, but the command
refused to do so, because the file wasn4t there.

The system eventually deadlocked. Fortunately enough, I removed the reference
from the vfstab before the crash.

The system is OK now.

Cheers,

Filipe.


-----Original Message-----
From: Filipe Litaiff
Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 11:13 AM
To: sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org
Subject: UPDATE: Cheap Thrills: an E4500 doesn4t respont


Forumers,

I think a bad thing happened with /usr/lib.

Tha machine is mostly funcional, but we can4t still log-in.

Im my perception, the following message we get when a console is attached, is
the key:

INIT: Command is respawning too rapidly. Check for possible errors.
id: co "/usr/lib/saf/ttymon -g -h -p " 'uname -h ' console login: " -T sun -d
/dev/console -l console -m ldterm, ttcombat"

Any insights? Couldn4t find anything meaningful in google and sunsolve.

Thanks in advance,

Filipe


-----Original Message-----
From: Filipe Litaiff
Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 10:01 AM
To: sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org
Subject: Cheap Thrills: an E4500 doesn4t respont


Hi fellow forumers,

We have an E4500 wich we can4t login. It seems to autenthicate but we never
get the prompt:

"
Escape character is '^]'.


SunOS 5.9

login: bogususer
Password:
Login incorrect
login: validuser
Password:

"

If the login is valid, it autenthicates an locks. Same happens to ssh:

"
hostorig # ssh validuser@hostdest
validuser@hostdest's password:
"
Locks again.

Wen we try to connect the console:

"
INIT: Command is respawning too rapidly. Check for possible errors.
id: co "/usr/lib/saf/ttymon -g -h -p " 'uname -h ' console login: " -T sun -d
/dev/console -l console -m ldterm, ttcombat"
"

Net services are functional, AFAIK. "rpcinfo -p troubledhost" responds
soundly.

Any ideas???? What are the chances that a reboot solves the problem?

Thanks, and needless to say, it is very urgent.

Filipe.
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