i386/60919: No login possible (sporadic)

[Oliver Hoffmann]

>Number:         60919
>Category:       i386
>Synopsis:       No login possible (sporadic)
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-i386
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
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>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Jan 05 02:30:08 PST 2004
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Oliver Hoffmann
>Release:        5.1 RELEASE
>Organization:
UW-Service
>Environment:
FreeBSD  5.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE #0: Thu Jun  5 02:55:42 GMT 2003     root at wv1u.btc.adaptec.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
      
>Description:
>From time to time it is not possible to login. Neither via ssh nor directly at the console. After typing a login-name and password it hangs. Just a presumption: Maybe the gettys are not running?
Other things (samba, network) are running and still usable.   
I can't see any correlation between this behavior and an event like a cronjob, network traffic or hardware issues.
>How-To-Repeat:
Waiting. It can last a few days or weeks (non-stop operation).
>Fix:
Not realy a fix but the only way to get a commandline again: Perform a reset.      
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