I logged in through the web. Did fine until log out, when I got a server error. I also get server error for the online logs: DBD::mysql::st execute failed: Incorrect key file for table './acis/events.MYI'; try to repair it at /home/aras/acis/lib/sql_helper.pm line 453, <FILE> line 6. ...propagated at /home/aras/acis/lib/ACIS/Web/Admin/Events.pm line 685, <FILE> line 6. mysql.err has plenty of 090601 11:21:12 [ERROR] /usr/sbin/mysqld: Incorrect key file for table './acis/events.MYI'; try to repair it I remember that you upgraded MYSQL. I think I remember Ivan saying you cannot use any MYSQL version with ACIS. This may be an issue here, although I doubt this would crash the machine. Christian Zimmermann FIGUGEGL! Department of Economics University of Connecticut 341 Mansfield Road, Unit 1063 Storrs, CT 06269-1063 http://ideas.repec.org/zimm/ christian.zimmermann@uconn.edu http://ideas.repec.org/e/pzi1.html On Mon, 1 Jun 2009, Thomas Krichel wrote:
Ruggieri, Timothy writes
I just got back from the UITS datacenter. Nebka was running with no obvious hardware problems, I couldn't see any warning lights or anything like that. I could log in at the local console, but once I entered my ID and password, the login process froze and nothing more would happen.
I restarted the computer and once it came back up I was able to log in normally and can now get in via SSH.
My rough guess would be that a bash process was frozen and had killed the shell entirely. That would explain why I couldn't get a prompt on local login and would also kill any number of network services that rely on shell scripting.
That's just a guess though. A quick look at /var/log/messages does show a number of segfaults reported on the 29th, which may bear further investigation.
Thank you so much for this report. I remebered that I could get authenticated, but it failed to create a terminal for the shell to run in. I had that problem with sahure a couple of times. In that case you can get in with
ssh machine /bin/bash -i
so that thee is no terminal created. I get this solution from some Cretian student web site. It saved me in the sahure problems. I tried it out on nebka and could not pass authentication. I then demissed my sanity and thought this may have been a fatamorgana.
The mysql segfaults are an issue we know about.
I will change the rsync_by_directory feeder of RePEc data to a standard rsync. This may be a trigger.
Thanks again Tim! BTW, if you plan a w/e in the city my appartment is free all Summer.
Cheers,
Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel RePEc:per:1965-06-05:thomas_krichel new phone: +7 913 748 8056 skype: thomaskrichel