Help! System not responding!

UNIX Solaris
1

Hello All!

please help. I have a solaris8 server (NIS client) that lost network connectivity to NIS master server. After restoring connectivity to NIS master server, I can't access the server.

  1. The server responds to ping.
  2. Telnet -- after it authenticates I do not get a prompt.
  3. ssh does not work.
  4. At the console, I am able to see console messages but I do not get the prompt.

:confused:

2

When you login at the console can you execute commands? I have seen a few rare cases where the PS1 variable is set to nothing therefore no prompt appears. Try a few commands even though there is no prompt. If that works set your PS1 variable in your login script to what you want your prompt to be.

3

I don't know what the significance of "NIS client" is in relation to your problem, but from the console can you use the escape

#.

to get back to lom and power off / power on?

Was the server restared recently. Did something change on the server itself recently that you can think of?

4

what kind of server is it? how do you start your console session?