Thanks for your help. Just found the problem - it seems some nice individual has hacked into the machine. I found they have added HTML files announcing this fact. This explains the strange behaviour. So who knows what they have done to the system.
Looks like a day of re-installing the whole system. Thanks very much to those hackers. Dan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bret Comstock Waldow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Dan Banyard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2003 10:02 AM Subject: Re: [SLUG] Linux box hanging on startup > Hi, > > You say "it stops" but really you need to say what it does - you're > assuming it stops. For instance, it might switch to a video mode that > doesn't show you the prompt you expect and blithely waits for you to > login as you always have. > > What do you see up until "it stops", what do you see when "it stops", > and has it ever worked before? Is this a change in a working system, or > an install that didn't complete successfully? > > If it was working, what did you attempt last (that changed something so > the outcome is different now)? > > Cheers, > Bret > > > On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 18:33, Dan Banyard wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have a linux box which is hanging when it boots up. At this stage I am > > not as to why this has happened (hardware or software) but I am trying to > > work out what to do. I watch it go through the boot sequence and when it > > gets to the point where should give me a login prompt is just stops. > > > > So far I have managed to restart the box in rescue mode (i am using SuSE > > 7.2) and can successfully mount the hard disk. I am really trying to find > > information on what exactly is going wrong. I have been looking through the > > /var/log files and nothing jumps out. I realise there could be a million > > things going wrong but can anyone think of where I can look for clues? Does > > anyone know of anyone who offers a good linux doctor type service? > > > > thanks in advance > > > > dan > > > -- > bwaldow at alum.mit.edu > > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
