server hangs after sp1

On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 19:30:05 +0000, Marc-Andre Vallee wrote:
> When connecting by ssh, with an lum enabled account, it freezes.
> with putty, i can only enter my username, and can't get the password prompt.
> on the server console itself, can only login root.
> when this happens, if i'm already log-in root at the server console, I
> can't issue commands, like top, ps or w to see what is happening, it's
> like if a process is consuming all cpu or i/o resources.!>!?!
>
> the only way i found to make this back to normal is to reboot the
> server, and even a ctrl-alt-delete doesn't work, linux is complety
> knock-out.
> this wasn't like this with the initial release.
> i suspect the newest kernel....
>

Try this when it happens again -
/etc/init.d/namcd stop
killall -9 namcd
/etc/init.d/namcd start

I am seeing similiar issues now. Top and ps I think hang trying to pull
the names of the user running the processes.

Brian