topic Re: Server locks up when logging in in Operating System - HP-UX

Server locks up when logging in

Chassidy Rentz — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 14:53:59 GMT

HP server locks up when anyone logs into the console or through a telnet session, but the problem does not occur when you log in with Secure Shell. Any advice on where to look for the problem? There are no errors displayed.

Re: Server locks up when logging in

Victor Fridyev — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 15:22:20 GMT

Hi,

Please, what does it mean "locks" ?
Could you also provide with the following:
OS version, is the system trusted, do you have NIS, which user[s] do you work with ?

Regards V.

Re: Server locks up when logging in

Patrick Wallek — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 15:46:45 GMT

You should also see if the syslog (/var/adm/syslog/syslog.log) has anything useful.

What is displayed on the screen when you login via telnet or on the console? Does it ever get to a prompt? Can you ping the server when this occurrs? Can you still SSH to the server when this occurrs?

Re: Server locks up when logging in

Mel Burslan — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 16:04:10 GMT

take a username and go to his/her home directory. Move the .profile, .login, .kshrc, .cshrc and whatever else .*rc files to a temporary storage directory and see if you can login that way. More than likely, some esoteric command placed in the one of those startup profiles is blocking your access. If you have enabled disk quotas recently, it is a good candidate to do such nasty stuff.

Re: Server locks up when logging in

Victor Fridyev — Sat, 15 Oct 2005 05:30:42 GMT

There is an additional reason for the lock (or stuck). If a homedir there is on a NFS, which means that histfiles there are on NFS as well, the login process can take a lot of time. In order to resolve the problem, histfiles should be linked to a local directory, e.g. /tmp

HTH