Do you use NFS on your machine? I have three RH 7.1 systems running kernels which I compiled. Everything runs fine until I use NFS (it is always running, but I usually don't have any filesystems mounted/exported). Several times, I've had very strange things happen--it eventually ends in programs failing to load (including system progs like /bin/login), and having to reboot. NFS is the only thing I can link to these problems, and it's happened with more than one kernel.
Your problem may be totally unrelated, but it was the only thing I could think of. :) Regards, Ben On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 08:23:26AM -0500, The TriMatrix Group, LLC wrote: > Hello Enigma Users, > > I have a RHL 7.2 system which has been running quite well for some time > all around. > I have most of the Errata installed too. > > Last week, I suddently noticed 3 things had broken simultaneously... and > I am suspecting there could be more, but the following I have verified > do break break: > > (1) SSH Client complains permission denied about 3 times and drops to > prompt when I try to do an ssh command line.... > [root@foobar /]# ssh foobarserver2.com -l root2 > Permission denied, please try again. > Permission denied, please try again. > Permission denied (publickey,password). > > (2) ftp client fails to stop at password prompt - just drops to ftp > interactive prompt... > [root@foobar /]# ftp virtual-webserver.com > Connected to foobarserver3.com. > 220-Welcome to your FTP home site. > 220- > 220- > 220 foobarserver3.com FTP server (Version wu-2.6.1(1) Thu Aug 3 14:56:12 > > EDT 2000) ready. > 530 Please login with USER and PASS. > 530 Please login with USER and PASS. > KERBEROS_V4 rejected as an authentication type > Name (foobarserver3.com:root): root2 > 331 Password required for root2. > Password: > 530 Login incorrect. > Login failed. > ftp> > > > (3) man pages end up with this error: > [root@foobar /]# All, and I mean all of them, man pages, like "man ls" > end up with this error at the shell prompt: > Error executing formatting or display command. > System command (cd /usr/share/man && (echo ".ll 9.9i"; echo ".pl 1100i"; > > /usr/bin/gunzip -c '/usr/share/man/man1/ls.1.gz'; echo; echo ".pl > \n(nlu+10") | /usr/bin/gtbl | /usr/bin/nroff -mandoc | /usr/bin/less > -isr) exited with status 256. > No manual entry for ls > > > I've been able to temporarily FIX the above 3 items simultaneously by > installing a bunch of > RPM's either updates or forced re-installs, but that does not always > work, but when it does work, > it fixes all three items. I emailed this to mikeharris at redhat and > some others, and one told > me to do a check rpm --verify -all and yes there were some permissions > diff's (which is to be > expected) but nothing serious showed up. > > IF ANY OF YOU KNOWS what is going on here, what on earth do these all > have in common that could cause this mystery breakage, this is driving > me nuts and I can't locate anything > out of the ordinary - I've already run fsck -t ext3 and all is fine > there too. I also ran a AntiVir for Linux with latest virus > description file. The only CRON JOB > that I see running constantly is this: > > Feb 16 10:12:00 foobar CROND[1196]: (mailman) CMD (/usr/bin/python -S > /var/mailman/cron/qrunner) > Feb 16 10:13:01 foobar CROND[1198]: (mailman) CMD (/usr/bin/python -S > /var/mailman/cron/qrunner) > Feb 16 10:14:00 foobar CROND[1200]: (mailman) CMD (/usr/bin/python -S > /var/mailman/cron/qrunner) > Feb 16 10:15:00 foobar CROND[1204]: (root) CMD (/usr/bin/mrtg > /etc/mrtg/mrtg.cfg) > Feb 16 10:15:00 foobar CROND[1205]: (mailman) CMD (/usr/bin/python -S > /var/mailman/cron/qrunner) > Feb 16 10:15:00 foobar CROND[1206]: (mailman) CMD (/usr/bin/python -S > /var/mailman/cron/gate_news) -- Ben Logan: ben at wblogan dot net OpenPGP Key KeyID: A1ADD1F0 Civilization is fun! Anyway, it keeps me busy!! _______________________________________________ Seawolf-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list
