[4943] in Hotline Meeting
Re: soup.mit.edu
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
Tue May 7 15:20:02 1991
Date: Tue, 7 May 91 15:18:45 -0400
From: tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
To: qjb@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: hoffmann@MIT.EDU, hotline@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, postmaster@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Emanuel 'Jay' Berkenbilt's message of Tue, 7 May 91 14:37:03 -0400,
Reply-To: tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
I've rebooted soup and reconnected its ethernet. Before rebooting it, I
tried logging in as root (it was the standard "watchmaker" password),
but the root login was broken so that console logins didn't work --- it
would think for a long time and then go back to the login window, and
when I tried logging via xdm, it couldn't handle not being connected to
the network and just hung forever. While I was trying to login via the
console, I noted that the load was 18 or 19, so there were a lot of
processes trying to do _something_. I settled for rebooting it and
making sure there weren't leftover turds in /usr/spool/mqueue before
letting it come up the rest of the way.
- Ted
