The login prompt does not appear

[ClaudiaAmado]

It is an HP-UX 11 installed in a

This morning, when we tried to connect in the system, we couldn't.
We could "ping" the server. However, when we tried to "telnet", the login prompt did not show up:
Just a message like "trying"
We had to restart the server. The server came up in the fsck command. After this, we executed the fsck and the system is running fine.
There is no error messages in syslog file neither in the rc.log
Is there any other place to look for some reason about this?

[Patrick Wallek]

Check the /var/adm/syslog/OLDsyslog.log file.

Did you try logging into the system console? If all else fails, you should always be able to log in there.

It is possible that your inetd daemon died. Since you could ping, basic networking was working. But since telnet gets spawned by inetd, it is possible that inetd wasn't working.

Do you have anything like Measureware running? If so, you may be able to go back to the measureware data and look at the processes that were running right before you restarted.

Other than that, it will be difficult to tell exactly what happened.

[ClaudiaAmado]

Thank you for your answer.

There is none measurement tool running there. I won't be able to check it.
But it is really probable that the inetd had died.

The most difficult here is explain it to the customer.......

Any ideas about what could cause the inetd death?

[Peter Godron]

Hi,
did you try the console ?
Any warning lights on the machine itself ?
Did you get the "Connected to" and "Escape character" message ?

I suspect inetd had problem.
If the actual machine had a problem you could try and check:
/var/opt/resmon/log/event.log
Or check the OLDsyslog.log

Please also read:
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/helptips.do?#33 on how to reward any useful answers given to your questions.

[Peter Godron]

Hi,
thanks for the update.

To answer your question on inetd dying :
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=661377

[ClaudiaAmado]

Yes. I tried to connect by console. I couldn't.
I got the "Connected to" and "Escape character" message but the "login" did not appeared.

In the OLDsyslog.log there are no error messages. It just stops writing there.

Thank you anyway!

[Bill Hassell]

You mentioned:

> Yes. I tried to connect by console. I couldn't. I got the "Connected to" and "Escape character" message but the "login" did not appeared.

This isn't the real console. It is a terminal connected to the serial port on the back of the server. (of course, I am assuming that this is not a graphics workstation). When you are connected to the real console you can always type CTRL-B to get a processor prompt. If you have a newer model, you can connect to the special GSP LAN which mirrors the console, but only if has already been setup.

As far as inetd being killed, you need to look through root's shell history to see if anyone issued a kill command -- possibly making a mistake with the process ID number. Of course, your machine must be up to date on patches, especially all networking.