On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 10:09:55PM +0200, Jari Fredriksson wrote: [..] > > It boots, finds the hard disk, and loads stuff. Last stuff it prints on > screen is usual boot stuff, and in addition to that Arno's Firewall > output. I think that is normally printed to screen console. All logging > should be logged via syslog to my main server, but nothing happends now. > > The console does not show login prompt, and the machine seems to be dead > or otherwise dead after the boot. It does not route network, and does > not allow me to log in and study logs. does it respond to pings? can you ssh in? have you tried booting into single-user mode? is it locked up hard or does the keyboard (capslock, numlock) respond? Any response from the magic Alt-SysRq? > > If only the NIC was broken it should allow me to log in from > console, right? if it previously allowed console login, I would assume it would continue to do so unless, in general. > > What might cause this? It boots but not fully. No error messages in > console. It just does not do anything useful. if it is locked hard that would point to some hardware problem, otherwise I would look for recent updates for a clue. Some boot process is failing to terminate. A
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