Cold reboot of the router helped :)
regards, martin 2011/8/10 Martin T <m4rtn...@gmail.com>: > I have a Juniper M20 with Junos 9.4R4.5, which all of the sudden > doesn't support SSH login: > > > martint@martin:~> ssh 192.168.1.254 > > Enter passphrase for key '/home/martin/.ssh/id_dsa': > --- JUNOS 9.4R4.5 built 2009-11-16 16:23:14 UTC > could not open user interface connection: management daemon not running > Retry connection attempts ? [yes,no] (yes) > could not open user interface connection: management daemon not running > Retry connection attempts ? [yes,no] (yes) > could not open user interface connection: management daemon not running > Retry connection attempts ? [yes,no] (yes) > could not open user interface connection: management daemon not running > Retry connection attempts ? [yes,no] (yes) > could not open user interface connection: management daemon not running > Retry connection attempts ? [yes,no] (yes) no > Connection to 192.168.1.254 closed. > martint@martin:~> > > > Over console line I can see, that mgd is actually running: > > root 1169 0.0 1.0 28948 21668 ?? I 25Feb11 0:54.90 /usr/sbin/mgd > -N > > > I tried to execute another instance of mgd with "/usr/sbin/mgd -N", > but this resulted with: > > "mgd: error: daemon MGD detects existing daemon using lock file" > > As it turned out, mgd uses lock file in order to ensure, that only one > instance of mgd is running at any specific time. Then I tried to force > mgd to reload gently using "kill -HUP 1169", but it looks like mgd > ignores the hang up signal. Then I sent SIGTERM with "kill 1169", > which caused mgd to restart: > > root 79861 3.1 1.0 24824 21124 ?? S 10:26PM 0:00.39 /usr/sbin/mgd -N > > ..but there is still no access to the router over SSH. However, now I > don't get the "could not open user interface connection" error. > Instead the SSH session just hangs there forever. > > Any ideas, how to regain access to this machine over SSH? Or is the > reboot only option out there in such case? > > > regards, > martin > _______________________________________________ juniper-nsp mailing list juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp