[8004] in testers
Re: m12-182-? is sad
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Geoffrey Thomas)
Thu Apr 16 23:03:00 2009
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 23:02:30 -0400 (EDT)
From: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@MIT.EDU>
To: Mitchell E Berger <mitchb@mit.edu>
cc: Adam Seering <aseering@mit.edu>, testers@mit.edu
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I've reported this and a closely related issue (logins without network
give you an unhelpful error message), along with some potential solution
ideas, at
https://debathena.mit.edu:444/trac/ticket/208
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Geoffrey Thomas
geofft@mit.edu
On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, Mitchell E Berger wrote:
> You didn't try rebooting it? If the network cable has been out for
> a length of time, a whole bunch of things on the machine are going
> to have noticed (among them, AFS, zhm, syslogd, aptitude, etc.), and while
> they may recover given time, assuming that the machine will immediately
> be fine upon reinserting the cable is generally not accurate.
>
> Mitch
>
>> Hey,
>> The DebAthena computer adjacent to M12-182-4 (it doesn't have a label
>> and I can't log in to check) is currently sad. Its Ethernet cable was
>> unplugged when I walked up to it. I plugged it back in, and tried to
>> log in; the login hung while trying to render my applications bar. I
>> killed X (ctrl-alt-bksp); the machine is now sitting at a text console.
>>
>> Adam
>>
>
