strange messages in /var/log and all logins refused ...

[twig les]

I did a mount -a, then a fsck -y, then manually changed the
passwords back to what they were and the machine seems ok.  df
-h shows both disks working fine and I can access the root and
all partitions.  I hope this was just some stupid disk problem
that is *not* the harbinger of another disk death.  Thnx.

BTW, what exactly pointed to a disk failure and why?  I'm not a
programmer by profession (which is good bc I'm pretty bad at
it).

--- Andy Farkas <andyf at speednet.com.au> wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, twig les wrote:
> 
> > Also, I found some strange output in /var/log/messages.0.gz
> on
> > the machine that locked up.  There is an identical machine
> (same
> > hardware and config) that did *not* have any of this stuff. 
> The
> > last line in the message below (the "Device not configured")
> is
> > repeated hundreds of times.  I've pasted it below ... does
> > anyone know what this indicates?  I tried google, but found
> > nothing conclusive.
> >
> >
>
================================================================
> >
> > Jul  3 10:00:00 mas02 newsyslog[14137]: logfile turned over
> [...snip]
> > Jul  3 10:51:32 mas02 /kernel: (da0:ahc0:0:0:0):
> Invalidating
> > pack
> > Jul  3 12:00:02 mas02 /kernel: Connection attempt to TCP
> > 127.0.0.1:25 from 127.0.0.1:1388
> > Jul  3 13:00:00 mas02 /kernel: Connection attempt to TCP
> > 127.0.0.1:25 from 127.0.0.1:1389
> > Jul  3 14:00:00 mas02 /kernel: Connection attempt to TCP
> > 127.0.0.1:25 from 127.0.0.1:1390
> > Jul  3 15:00:00 mas02 /kernel: Connection attempt to TCP
> > 127.0.0.1:25 from 127.0.0.1:1391
> > Jul  3 16:14:40 mas02 last message repeated 17 times
> > Jul  3 16:16:51 mas02 last message repeated 30 times
> > Jul  3 20:15:00 mas02 /usr/sbin/cron[14546]: login_getclass:
> > retrieving class information: Device not configured
> 
> Your disk has died and the kernel has turned it off. This is
> bad
> because it seems to be your root disk.
> 
> --
> 
>  :{ andyf at speednet.com.au
> 
>         Andy Farkas
>     System Administrator
>    Speednet Communications
>  http://www.speednet.com.au/
> 
> 
> 


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