Console Random Text

[Tamouh H.]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org 
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of 
> Andy Christianson
> Sent: March 21, 2008 7:28 PM
> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Console Random Text
> 
> Hello everyone,
> 
>  
> 
> I am having a very strange problem. My sever stopped 
> responding in SSH.
> At the time,
> 
> a co-worker said he was importing a MySQL database from a USB 
> drive mounted as ext2fs.
> 
>  
> 
> I went back to check on the console, and it was scrolling 
> *EXTREMELY* quickly with
> 
> apparently random text (it could have said something, but it 
> was too fast to read). 
> 
>  
> 
> I could not switch to another virtual console. It would not 
> respond to any keyboard input.
> 
>  
> 
> Oddly enough, the machine was still responding to ICMP.
> 
>  
> 
> Does anyone have ANY clues as to what this could be? This is 
> a server that an entire
> 
> Company runs on, so it's really important that I find out 
> what is causing this.
> 
> 
>  
> 
> -Andy
> 

If it looks like it is online, but no services respond then it could be a bad backplane or corrupted RAID. From personal experience.

Tamouh