Topic: username prompt YES, password prompt NO

[guestHH]

Hi,

has anybody experienced that on the console while trying to log in you get a username prompt but after that no password prompt...?

I have experienced this on two 5.6U4 servers. The servers are pingable but no service is working (pop, ssh, etc.) A reboot is the only remedy.

To be complete, it appears to have something to do with making a VPN connection to the servers.

Any suggestion is welcome 'cause I don't want to hassle bugs@e-smith.com for something stupid.

TIA
Regards,
guestHH

[steve]

Hi RequestedDeletion,
not that this helps but...
i upgraded my 5.5 box to update 6, post-upgrade, reboot.
machine was up and pingable but no Internet, no mail, no nothing...
nmap also gave me nothing
was able to login and reboot and all is well
btw
is it ok to do a
shutdown -r now
or should i do
/sbin/e-smith/signal-event reboot

thanks.

steve

[guestHH]

Thanks Steve,

since I couldn't login anymore (no password prompt) my reboot had to be 'pull the plug'....

after that machine is operating fine upto now.

Regards,
guestHH

[John A]

Hi RequestedDeletion,


I have set up a "Server Only" SME 5.6  and have had it happen to me twice. Cannot login from a PC  (using Samba) and also on the main console cannot get  login: . I can ping the server only. Turn the server off and it starts up and you can login via console and PC. This server is going to a client of mine  when i finish setting it  up (file server and intranet). I have not up graded it has yet. I have another server set up the same with 5.1.2  and it gives me no trouble.



John A

[guestHH]

Thanks John,

anybody else ?

[Malcolm]

Hi RequestedDeletion

a bit off topic but...

'Pull the plug'..... sounds as though you could do with the powerswitch module.

I'm a bit of a novice with e-smith, I posted this http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=7608.msg27999#msg27999 on the General discussions. What do you think?

MalL

[Dan Brown]

...or even just hit ctrl-alt-delete...

[guestHH]

Malcolm, I'll take a look

Dan, it's a ssh link, so....

Regards,
guestHH

[steve]

work on win2k so much that i hit ctrl+alt+del (to lock the computer) on my server (can't remember if i was logged in or not)
this caused the server to shutdown...doh!

so maybe that would work if you can't log in
but as you said, it would not work over a ssh connection

steve

[John A]

Hi RequestedDeletion,

Have you go any more information on this problem, had a client ring this morning users unable to login to domain server. This server is running as server only, SME 5.6, DHCP server. When I arrived there on the monitor connected to the SME I could not even get a login (same as before) , could only ping the server. Power off and on and all is fine again. Another strange thing, the server is using Tapeware to do the back up each night at 10:00PM, last night (28th May) no back up and on the tapeware "Calendar" it was shaded "grey" which mean skip this day (same as Saturday and Sunday ) BUT the the back up started at 12:01 am on 29th and worked fine.

If no one has an answer then I will have to re-install a lower version say 5.5

Thanks in advance for any advise


John A

[guestHH]

Sorry John,

No additional info other then a suggestion from Mitel:

"This is usually an indication of some resource starvation on the server -
high load or lack of file handles, for instance"

the log tells me nothing other then log entries just stop at 'freeze' time.

Regards,
guestHH

[Ray Mitchell]

Possibly RAM problems ??
see
http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=16723.msg64737#msg64737

Ray