authentication dies

[Alfred Hovdestad]

There are two things that you can check.  First, check that there are 
sufficient i-nodes.  Do a 'df -i' to see how many free i-nodes are left. 
  This doesn't happen often but it can be hard to find.

Second, check if auditd is running.  The default configuration on auditd 
  stops logins, interactive connections (like ssh, scp, etc.) if /var is 
over 80% full.  If you don't need auditd running, I would shut it down.

    Alfred Hovdestad, RHCE
    University of saskatchewan


Duffy, Scott E wrote:
> I have a rhel 3 EM64T system that was working awesome until yesterday. I
> was transferring some files with scp and it just failed in the middle of
> it. I try to log back in and after I enter my password it hangs. I had
> terms open tried to change to su it hangs. I go to the terminal some
> stuff works and others don't like service control and logs guis. I do a
> ctr-alt-backspace, and gnome doesn't start. Well I still have a login
> that hangs after I enter the password. I restart, and can log in. I can
> also su -l user and that works for a bit. As well as the guis that
> require authentication too(the ones that didn't work before). I did
> updates a week ago and it was running fine until yesterday. I am only
> having problems with that. Apache php and mysql are still running
> strong.  Maybe a pam issue? I turned off ssh, and ftp and it still does
> this.
> 
> 
> Thanks for any help.
> 
> 
> 
> Scott Duffy
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