I had a similiar issue with a machine when the drive that housed / stopped
responding. I was able to ping, and get an SSH connection, but it would
immediately close my connection. After rebooting, everything was fine. I
found in the logs that da0 was timing out. I replaced the drive.
-Steve
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On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Matt King wrote:
> So this morning I woke up and went to check mail, and couldn't get to
my
> server. Pinged it, was alive; ssh'd in, still got a login prompt.
> Logged in, and got:
>
> -bash: /etc/profile: Device not configured
>
> And the connection was closed.
>
> I rebooted the machine and it came back to normal, but this concerns me.
> Could be it a disk problem? Memory problem? Anyone else have this
> issue before?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Matt King
> magnet | internet
> http://www.magnetinternet.com
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