[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andy Spiegl) writes:
> Hi!
>
> I've got a webserver which is running constantly. A few days ago
> we had to reboot it, because of a SCSI problem with the JAZ drive.
> (side note: can you imagine the load went up to 115 still growing!?)
>
> Well, after the reboot the system stopped at the prompt:
> Press Ctrl-D or give root password.
>
> I wonder what could have caused this? This is a huge problem,
> because the computer is many kilometers away and administered
> only over the net. It was tedious to find someone up there to
> resolve this. That's why I would really like to find out what
> caused this and how I can avoid it in the future.
>
> BTW: running Hamm incl.all updates
from slink?
Try downgrading modutils (far guess: it was broken a week ago).
You can't really tell what caused this, without seeing the messages
from bootstrap.
HTH,
Jens
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