[96215] in RedHat Linux List
Re: top is not working
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Bohn)
Sun Oct 25 13:07:53 1998
From: "Eric Bohn" <ebohn@apci.net>
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Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 12:11:57 -0600
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Well it seems like a hardware or network problem. Perhaps the problem is
with the machine you use to ssh. Were there any symptoms of problems from
users of this machine previous to yours? Are you sure? Does the "other"
5.1 box (box #2) exhibit the same problems? Can you log into the machines
locally after "cleaning" them and do they exhibit the same problems?
- Eric
-----Original Message-----
From: Nikki Cook <sunny@mail.suntrix.com>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Date: Saturday, October 24, 1998 1:02 PM
Subject: top is not working
Ok, now I'm comfortable enough with how things are done here to present you
all with my problem in hopes that you can help me.
This is on a 5.1 box (orig 2.0.34 kernel from the CD) that has been running
flawlessly since July until about a week ago. I normally admin that
machine via ssh. I also normally tail -f messages because this box is a
shell user box.
The first thing I saw was the tail screen go nuts, like a panic or race. I
couldn't do anything with the box to get control, nothing responded, so I
hit the power button.
It rebooted just fine, forced the fsck without any glaring problems. All
daemons loaded, all croned user processes started, and everything looked
just ducky 'till I ran top to check on their procesess. I noticed that
Top's CPU % was about half what it normally took. I checked file size/date
against another 5.1 box on our network, no difference.
The next time I tried to run top, it threw a "bad data in /var/run/utmp" at
me, and made that xterm unusable.
After reading and digging for info, I rm'd /var/run/utmp and /var/log/wtmp,
touched those files, logged out and back in. Top still wouldn't run. Now
this is really weird, Top wouldn't run on that other 5.1 box either. Yes,
I was logged into it as well via ssh when all this started.
Back to box #1... I rm'd and touched the files again, rebooted, changed to
single user mode and ran fsck on each partition. It fixed stuff, then I
ran it a second time on each partition and all partitions showed clean.
Logged in. Top ran 3 times, then started throwing the same "bad data"
complaint at me.
I checked /dev/ttyp*, didn't see anything weird there.
If I've left lots out that you need to know to help me or point me in a
direction, my apologies. Yep, I'm one of those "newbies" that needs
somebody to take me by my sweaty li'l palm and explicitly and succinctly
tell me how to fix this. I just don't have the know-how to sort this out
and fix it on my own.
TIA,
Nikki
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