Re: What kind of crash is this ? (kernel ? userland ? )

[Melvyn Sopacua]

On Sunday 01 February 2004 03:40, Joe Schmoe wrote:

 I can ssh to the system, it gives me the BSD copyright and the uname
 message, but never ever gives me a prompt.  What is going on in this
 scenario ?  What kind of things have you seen that cause a crash like this
 ?

Prolly not a crash, but an SSH problem or very busy system. If you press 
CTRL-C, what happens?
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Melvyn

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What kind of crash is this ? (kernel ? userland ? )

[Joe Schmoe]

Hello,
 
I have become familiar with certain FreeBSD crashes - namely, I can tell the 
difference between the kernel crashing, and the userland crashing.
 
If the machine is down, but I can still ping it, then the userland has crashed - the 
kernel is still running, which is why it responds to pings.
 
But if it crashes and just reboots itself, then the kernel has crashed.  
Oversimplified I know, but I am leading up to:
 
What kind of a crash is it if:
 
I can ssh to the system, it gives me the BSD copyright and the uname message, but 
never ever gives me a prompt.  What is going on in this scenario ?  What kind of 
things have you seen that cause a crash like this ?
 
thanks.



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