"John C. Frickson" wrote:

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> I've got a strange one here. I'm running four SLES 10 SP1 servers.
> On only one of them, sometimes when I log in as a regular user, I
> can't do anything. Even an 'ls' just acts as if I only hit ,
> not a command. I can do something like 'cat ' and see a
> list of files in the current directory. I can also run any bash
> built-in command, such as 'cd'. I can also log in as root and do
> anything without problems.
>
> Rebooting fixes it for a while, but that's not a good option on a
> production server. I did some fooling around, and found out that
> if I either stop or restart acpid, the normal user login works
> again.
>
> So I have two questions. 1) Does anybody know what the problem is?
> 2) Is acpid something that I need to be running on a server? Or
> should I just shut it off?
>
> Thanks,
> John
Just a WAG. Is the machine set to go to sleep in the BIOS ?
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Regards:
Baron.

On 2008-02-13 05:55, Baron wrote:
> "John C. Frickson" wrote:
>
>> I've got a strange one here. I'm running four SLES 10 SP1 servers.
>> On only one of them, sometimes when I log in as a regular user, I
>> can't do anything. Even an 'ls' just acts as if I only hit ,
>> not a command. I can do something like 'cat ' and see a
>> list of files in the current directory. I can also run any bash
>> built-in command, such as 'cd'. I can also log in as root and do
>> anything without problems.
>>
>> Rebooting fixes it for a while, but that's not a good option on a
>> production server. I did some fooling around, and found out that
>> if I either stop or restart acpid, the normal user login works
>> again.
>>
>> So I have two questions. 1) Does anybody know what the problem is?
>> 2) Is acpid something that I need to be running on a server? Or
>> should I just shut it off?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> John
> Just a WAG. Is the machine set to go to sleep in the BIOS ?

Hmm, I really doubt it, but I'll check next time I have to reboot.
Nothing seems to be asleep, though.

And I take back part of what I said above. It happened again, and I
stopped acpid, and the normal user login still doesn't work.