Re: VPS instance crashed, hangs during boot

2020-12-29 Thread Mayuresh
On Tue, Dec 29, 2020 at 07:26:17PM +0100, Rhialto wrote: > If you did an update in place (not erasing everything first), then some > old shared libraries should still remain there for use with your > existing packages. Thanks for the confirmation. Yes I did an in place update. At least so far I di

Re: VPS instance crashed, hangs during boot

2020-12-29 Thread Brad Spencer
Rhialto writes: > [1:text/plain Hide] > > On Tue 29 Dec 2020 at 14:25:43 +0530, Mayuresh wrote: >> I have skipped /etc set when upgrading. Hope it won't cause any surprises. > > If you did an update in place (not erasing everything first), then some > old shared libraries should still remain ther

Re: VPS instance crashed, hangs during boot

2020-12-29 Thread Rhialto
On Tue 29 Dec 2020 at 14:25:43 +0530, Mayuresh wrote: > I have skipped /etc set when upgrading. Hope it won't cause any surprises. If you did an update in place (not erasing everything first), then some old shared libraries should still remain there for use with your existing packages. > Mayuresh

Re: VPS instance crashed, hangs during boot

2020-12-29 Thread Mayuresh
On Tue, Dec 29, 2020 at 12:12:07PM +0530, Mayuresh wrote: > Thinking whether to A. ask hetzner to refresh 8.1 image as it's not > booting and reinstall sets? B. use 9.1 iso image as it is booting and > upgrade sets other than etc? It's going to break all the packages > installed which were for 8.1.

Re: VPS instance crashed, hangs during boot

2020-12-28 Thread Mayuresh
On Tue, Dec 29, 2020 at 11:46:47AM +0530, Mayuresh wrote: > When the boot just hangs: > http://mayuresh.sdfeu.org/boothangs.jpg > > When the boot drops to a db prompt > http://mayuresh.sdfeu.org/dbprompt.jpg Tried booting with 8.1 iso image, but somehow it was not booting from the image (may be i

Re: VPS instance crashed, hangs during boot

2020-12-28 Thread Mayuresh
On Tue, Dec 29, 2020 at 11:27:58AM +0530, Mayuresh wrote: > A NetBSD 8.1 amd64 Hetzner VPS instance was found to be on db> prompt with > no known event that led to it. Its ssh (key only access), http ports were > open and it was running postfix. Something nasty by someone can't be ruled > out. > >

VPS instance crashed, hangs during boot

2020-12-28 Thread Mayuresh
A NetBSD 8.1 amd64 Hetzner VPS instance was found to be on db> prompt with no known event that led to it. Its ssh (key only access), http ports were open and it was running postfix. Something nasty by someone can't be ruled out. Attached is a screen shot where it hangs on reboot. It's important t