Server doing some weird things, HELP!!

[Phillip Popp]

Hi,
I am running hp 10.2, Yester day my srever was doing some weird things. couldn't run sam, not even an ls would work. Rebooted, all worked fine till today. Now I can only seem to log into system with root. All other users report no shell when I try to do a su.

I think something is starting to physically go wrong with my hard drives. I thought about running fsck. Can this be run on a mounted file system. Will this repair or rewrite any bad files? I have 10 people at my cube asking what is wrong, please give me some guidence. i do not see any thing in the syslog that points to a problem, although admittitly, I don't really know where to look in the file or other log files for guidence. Please help!!

Thanks,

Phil

[Court Campbell]

try running bdf and see if a file system is full. If you can try and post the output from syslog and dmesg.

[MarkSyder]

Check your disc(s) with ioscan -fnC disk

No shell? Do ll /etc/passwd and check the date and timestamp in case someone has been messing about with the contents. Make sure the shell allocated to users is a valid one.

Mark Syder (like the drink but spelt different)

[V. Nyga]

Hi,

also check user log in .dt - error.log, startlog, sessionlogs.

'a mounted file system' - mounted from where?

Volkmar

[Phillip Popp]

Here is my syslog after I rebooted today and the old one. After rebooting I still can not get usert to work, still no shell.
File system not full, only 80 some %. Passwd file seems ok.

Any idea what to do next?

Thanks,

[Court Campbell]

A follow up to Mike's suggestion would be to run pwck. Also check to see if the shell binary that the users are using is actually in there. Maybe someone removed/renamed/deleted it. The syslog you attached looks fine.

[Court Campbell]

Sorry Mark I called you Mike. How could I forget that after reading "Mark Syder (like the drink but spelt different)" so many times.

[Phillip Popp]

Here is more .log files

Thanks,

[V. Nyga]

Hi,

this sems to be the log file of root (which works, right?).
Check .dt in the users home directories ...

V.

[Phillip Popp]

I did an IO scan and it see all three disks, all three claimed, with paths.

Did not get any error messages?

Thanks,

[Andrew Young_2]

Hi Phil

Could you also add your /etc/rc.log file?

In addition just to check that your /home folders are all local and not automounted. You are not running NIS perhaps?

What result do you get when you run bdf /home.

Also bdf without any parameters (I suspect it might hang though)

Run ioscan -fnC disk and see if there are any NO_HW or other errors.

What shell are the users using?

My feelings are there are either problems with the users home directories or with the shell which is usually in /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin but check /etc/passwd for its location.

HTH

Andrew Y

HTH

Andrew Y

[Phillip Popp]

Here is an error log from another user

How can I check the shell binaries the users are using? i am not that familiar with unix to check shell things

thanks,

[Phillip Popp]

Here is an log from another user

[MarkSyder]

"Sorry Mark I called you Mike. How could I forget that after reading "Mark Syder (like the drink but spelt different)" so many times."

That's quite all right, Mr Campfire ;-)

Phil - the final field in the /etc/passwd file tells you the user's shell. For root it should be /sbin/sh, for other users it may be different. Check the entry for a user who cannot log in and do ll /sbin/sh (or whatever shell it happens to be). The ll command should produce successful output.

Mark

[Yogeeraj_1]

hi Phil,

can you try to telnet on the server and create a new test user using SAM and see if the latter is able to login.

revert

kind regards
yogeeraj

[Phillip Popp]

Here are some more files

[Phillip Popp]

My users are using the k shell

[Court Campbell]

what happens if you

# ll /usr/bin/ksh

See if the binary is there. try running the shell as root and see if runs or possibly makes a core dump.

[Phillip Popp]

It does not like the || in front of the /usr/bin/ksh. Syntax error " || not expected"

With out it, it just returns back to the prompt, no out put messages?

[Andrew Young_2]

Hi Phil

Use ls -l instead of ll

Regards

Andrew Y

[MarkSyder]

It looks as if you've typed || (pipe) instead of ll (letter l).

Mark

[Phillip Popp]

Ok
I just added a user, every thing says in sam it was added fine. when i go to telnet login it says "no shell" Yes I did use pipe. attached is the output of /ls -l /usr/bin/ksh

thanks for sticking with me guys.

Phil

[MarkSyder]

The output is identical to /usr/bin/ksh on one of my systems (apart from the date).

Is /usr/bin/ksh listed in /etc/shells?

Mark

[Court Campbell]

can you post the output from

# awk -F: '{print $7'} /etc/passwd

[MarkSyder]

Please disregard my last post - I picked it up from Google and have just checked one of my systems - /etc/shells doesn't exist. Next time check first!

Mark