Lord Imbrius the Despondent wrote: > Question, all. Had a Gentoo web server. Was humming along great for 3 > months. One morning, I went to ssh into it and it denied me access. > Mind you, the website hosted by the server was still running. So I > walked over to the console and went to log in. All logins were denied, > even root. So I rebooted and attempted to enter single-user mode by > passing "1" to the kernel command line from GRUB. And it loaded the > kernel. And then stopped with the error "/sbin/init: not found." > > After I booted off the Gentoo livecd, I found that the contents of /bin, > /sbin, and /lib were missing, and that key config files in /etc (like > passwd, group, and shadow) had turned to total garbage (random > characters). So I extracted a new stage3 tarball in the root directory > and re-created the config files. It booted fine and ran for about 10 > minutes. Then, after having ssh'd into it successfully twice, it again > locked me out. When I tried a console login, I got the error "udev: > device node /hda3 not found" and it was locked hard. Another reboot got > me to the "/sbin/init: not found" error again. Now I have completely > repartitioned the drive and started over. It SEEMS to be working. The > drive is brand new. Running with recommended settings (UDMA 4). I've > never had any I/O errors, no access problems, etc. It just randomly > started deleting key files after a few minutes of activity. Any clues? > BTW, the drive tools provided by Western Digital find no errors with the > drive.
Josh, better if you create a new thread instead of replying to Meino's thread and 'hijacking' the topic. Is there a chance that your server has been compromised? -- Regards, Mick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
