Ask for login id & hangs

[Makesh Annamalai]

Hi All,

I have a strange problem. The machine was working fine till yesterday. But now it ask for login id & hangs doesnot ask for password...

login as: root



I have checked the permission for /var & /opt and made sure the SSH is running ....

Please help

[Shrikant Lavhate]

Hi,

Any recent changes in system?
Any change in .profile file?
Changed TERM settings?

Just a thought.. chk it.

[Jeeshan]

whats the space of / file system now?

[RUET]

I suspect a /var full

[Grayh]

Any error messages in event viewer?

Who are you logging in as?

Possibilities:

1. User profile may be damaged. (Repair, restore or re-create)

2. Registry may have grown larger than was allotted. (Increase the allowed size under performance settings)

3. May be time to schedule a reboot.

4.An ip confilct can also hang the box at login

Moreover I would also check if the system is properly patched as this will lessen these hangs.

PHKL_23409 NFS, Large Data Space, kernel memory leak
PHNE_27902 Cumulative STREAMS Patch
PHNE_29473 cumulative ARPA Transport patch
PHNE_26096 telnet kernel and telnetd(1M) patch
PHCO_27721 login(1) cumulative patch

[Torsten.]

Why suggesting old 11.00 patches for telnet while we don't know the OS version - but it is SSH?

Since you still have access check the (syslog) log files and do a "bdf".

[Patrick Wallek]

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Any error messages in event viewer?

Who are you logging in as?

Possibilities:

1. User profile may be damaged. (Repair, restore or re-create)

2. Registry may have grown larger than was allotted. (Increase the allowed size under performance settings)
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Somehow these suggestions seem to be Windows centric. I seriously doubt they have any useful application on an HP-UX server.

[OldSchool]

"2. Registry may have grown larger than was allotted. (Increase the allowed size under performance settings)

3. May be time to schedule a reboot."

The above are the usual cure-alls for windows.

HPUX doesn't have a registry, and boots usually aren't required to "fix things"

[SKR_1]

Check for all the vg00 Filesystems whether anyone running out of space.

Check the .profile file.

Thanks

SKR

[Bill Hassell]

Check if some root user has tried to "improve" critical directory permissions. These directories must have these permissions and ownerships:

ll -d / /dev /etc /var /usr
drwxr-xr-x 30 root root 8192 Jun 23 13:36 /
dr-xr-xr-x 18 bin bin 8192 Jun 23 13:38 /dev
dr-xr-xr-x 32 bin bin 8192 Jul 24 22:37 /etc
dr-xr-xr-x 25 bin bin 8192 May 19 2006 /usr
dr-xr-xr-x 27 bin bin 8192 Oct 26 2006 /var

[Matthew Bialczak]

See Bill Hassel's response. I once did a file restore and inadvertently had the files relocated to root. The restore software changed the permissions on "\" to Owner read only and I had the same problem. Luckily I was still logged in as root on a different session and was able to put the permissions back and get on my way.

[Makesh Annamalai]

Thanks all for the time...The issue is due to DNS server failure. So after removing the /etc/nsswitch.conf & /etc/resolv.conf the system starts working.

Thanks again for your time.