CentOS - Jul 2013 - CentOS 6.4 login after reboot after apcupsd shutdown - shows POWER FAILURE

Hi list,
just putting a new server through its automatic shutdown triggered by 
the UPS / apcupsd.
All worked faultlessly, including powering up when power came back on to 
the UPS.

So then I go to log in and get "POWER FAILURE" followed by 
"Authentication failure" - this is on the console

via SSH I just get "POWER FAILURE" and the ssh connection drops.

So I guess the, log everyone out and stop further logins instruction is 
still lurking around somewhere.

How do I regain control of my server??
Does this mean I need to boot with a rescue disk and edit some file 
somewhere??

How do I prevent this re-occurring, after a perfect shutdown and 
restart, only to get stymied here.

Google has lots of help for dealing with various corruptions due to 
power failure - not the case here, the POST, grub, init restart
all look just fine.
TIA

On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 07:50:34PM +1200, Rob Kampen
wrote:
> So then I go to log in and get "POWER FAILURE" followed by
> "Authentication failure" - this is on the console
> 
> via SSH I just get "POWER FAILURE" and the ssh connection drops.
Sounds like /etc/nologin; contents of which are displayed immediately
before the login session terminates.  Configured within apcupsd.conf
with a configuration setting of NOLOGINDIR pointing to /etc by default;
I don't believe it can be disabled, however.
> So I guess the, log everyone out and stop further logins instruction
> is still lurking around somewhere.
> 
> How do I regain control of my server??
Remove /etc/nologin.
> Does this mean I need to boot with a rescue disk and edit some file
> somewhere??
"ssh root at host rm -f /etc/nologin" will remove it.
> How do I prevent this re-occurring, after a perfect shutdown and
> restart, only to get stymied here.
apcupsd should be handling this automatically when mains power is
restored.  Perhaps check the package documentation / project bugtracker.




							John
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On 07/09/2013 08:04 PM, John R. Dennison wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 07:50:34PM +1200, Rob Kampen wrote:
>> So then I go to log in and get "POWER FAILURE" followed by
>> "Authentication failure" - this is on the console
>>
>> via SSH I just get "POWER FAILURE" and the ssh connection
drops.
> Sounds like /etc/nologin; contents of which are displayed immediately
> before the login session terminates.  Configured within apcupsd.conf
> with a configuration setting of NOLOGINDIR pointing to /etc by default;
> I don't believe it can be disabled, however.
Thanks John, I'll look for this file.
>> So I guess the, log everyone out and stop further logins instruction
>> is still lurking around somewhere.
>>
>> How do I regain control of my server??
> Remove /etc/nologin.
>
>> Does this mean I need to boot with a rescue disk and edit some file
>> somewhere??
> "ssh root at host rm -f /etc/nologin" will remove it.
>
>> How do I prevent this re-occurring, after a perfect shutdown and
>> restart, only to get stymied here.
not an option, already set no root login via ssh.
however I have console access, so a <Ctrl><Alt>F7 got me another tty
and
root login from there worked.

now to debug the apcupsd....
Thanks for the help - appreciated
> apcupsd should be handling this automatically when mains power is
> restored.  Perhaps check the package documentation / project bugtracker.
>
>
>
>
> 							John
>
>
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