Hi, What happened before: I had issue with a Debian server SATA bus [1]. I noticed because apt-get upgrade hung, because initramfs updater calls "sync" which hang because of [1]. All operations accessing a certain (backup) disk blocked. Shutdown over network. It was reported server power LED still up, so probably shutdown hang, too. Server was powered off and disk pulled.
Then server did not come up. Now I went to its location with monitor and keyboard. I saw a screen full of boot messages, each line prefixed with green "[OK]". On bottom, I got asked for root password. I though Debian does not use root passwords? I'm old fashioned so fortunately I set one, so I could log in. I noticed /var/log/syslog had not been updated recently. Obviously logging is not running / working. All file systems are correctly mounted read-write. What happens? Why is however dropping me only a shell when everything from booting worked fine? What is this for a bad idea to spawn a LOCAL shell on a server? Or is Debian nowadays desktop only? I know ubuntu-server, is there also some debian-server? Any hint appreciated. Steffen [1] task kworker/u8:0:27432 blocked for more than 120 seconds Workqueue: writeback bdi_writeback_workfn (flush-8:48) [<ffffffff81510d09>] ? io_schedule+0x99/0x120 ...
