[ale] SSH session ends immediately after authentication

[Geoffrey]

Jason Day wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 09:00:13PM -0500, Dow_Hurst wrote:
> 
>> Jason, One thought is that all available processes were full and no
>> other ttys could start.  If you have a IDE drive you could run
>> smartd and check it that way for occurring errors.  Two thoughts
>> there...
> 
> 
> Thanks Dow.  Badblocks did find some errors in the root partition, so
>  that could explain the problem.  What I don't understand is why a
> reboot fixed it.

Maybe the process had created some tmp files that were in the suspect 
area of the root partition?  Is /tmp part of the root partition or a 
separate partition?

> 
> I've enabled SMART support in the BIOS.  I'll give smartd a try.
> 
> Thanks to everyone for the help, Jason


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Until later, Geoffrey