 | | | No logins after several days | No logins after several days 2006-02-11 - By bob
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i was having the same exact issue, would you be running auditd by any chance
?
-bob
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From: "D Canfield" <canfield@(protected)>
To: "Discussion of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (Taroon)"
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Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2006 11:56 AM
Subject: Re: No logins after several days
> I'll try to check out kswap the next time, but I don't recall any of the
> processes looking abnormal, which was so frustrating. The machine is an
> NFS client (/home is located there). It's also using LDAP for logins.
> Both of those made me worry that there was a network issue, but when this
> blocking occurs, I can ping the LDAP and NFS servers just fine, and none
> of our other 20 boxes that are setup this way (some RHEL3, others RHEL4)
> have this problem.
>
> DC
>
> Blackburn, Marvin wrote:
>> What does the kswapd process look like.
>> We had similar problems when the kswapd process started consuming large
>> amounts of cpu and load would grow till
>> system locked up. Do you have nfs on this system?
>>
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>>> From: taroon-list-bounces@(protected)
>>> [mailto:taroon-list-bounces@(protected)] On Behalf Of D Canfield
>>> Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2006 12:10 PM
>>> To: taroon-list@(protected)
>>> Subject: No logins after several days
>>>
>>> We're having a problem with one of our RHEL3 test boxes in that after a
>>> few days, the login system starts hanging. Any established ssh sessions
>>> run fine. Any running processes continue just fine. CPU load
>>> percentages and iowait displayed via top are nominal, but the load
>>> number starts growing steadily and it any attempt to login via ssh or
>>> the console accepts the username and password and then hangs with no
>>> further response. A reboot fixes this, but it occurs again every few
>>> days.
>>>
>>> Anyone have any suggestions as to where I can begin to figure out what's
>>> happening? I usually open a few root sessions on the console after each
>>> reboot so that I can poke around once it happens, but I've not found
>>> anything thus far.
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> DC
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