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iwonbigbro

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Registered: 2010-09-01

Posts: 11

Can't login via USB term - login: timeout message.

Something has failed on my NAS tonight after being okay for about 6-8 months.  I have some NFS services setup and NIS, and I am assuming login is failing due to some kind of autofs issue.  That's understandable for normal users, but I don't get why root can't login:

Arch Linux 3.12.6-1-ARCH (ttyS0)
login: root
Password: 
login: timed out after 60 seconds

Arch Linux 3.12.6-1-ARCH (ttyS0)
login: 

Is there any way to interrupt to boot process that would allow me to login.  Anything that would spare me the pain of removing hard drives and picking them apart to find out what went wrong.

iwonbigbro

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Registered: 2010-09-01

Posts: 11

Re: Can't login via USB term - login: timeout message.

These messages look interesting...

[FAILED] Failed to start Load Kernel Modules.
See 'systemctl status systemd-modules-load.service' for details.
...
[FAILED] Failed to start Packet Filtering Framework.
See 'systemctl status iptables.service' for details.
...

There are failures that follow, but I am guessing everything stems from kernel modules failing to load.  I guess this is the root of my login issue...

iwonbigbro

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Registered: 2010-09-01

Posts: 11

Re: Can't login via USB term - login: timeout message.

Is there a USB rescue image I can boot from using u-boot?