Re: Server login hangs

I'm sure shutdown would work, although my users may not appreciate it as
everything is working fine for them. I did a few remote perfmon logs and
don't see anything bad wrt memory or CPU usage. It simply won't let me
logon.

I'll come back later and play with it when no-ones here.

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Allan Williams



"Dave Nickason [SBS MVP]" <gwdibble@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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It won't let you restart using the shutdown command from your desktop PC?

I'm prejudiced as I'm currently fighting an AV problem, but I would always
start with AV for any performance problem with no other ready explanation.
If shutting down the AV services doesn't let you connect, I'd continue to
stop non-MS services one at a time until it either starts responding, or
you run out of things to stop. (FYI, I recommend starting with the non-MS
stuff because if the cause is SBS or another commonly installed MS
product, the problem would probably be more widely reported).


"Al Williams" <donotreplydirect@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Already looked in there - no events or issues that I could see. Perfmon
logs show the CPU and disk idle as they usually are.

As for services - any I could restart that are related to the console or
remote logons?

It would be nice if I could see a process/memory usage display but can't
think of anyway of getting one...

I'll come back later and pull the plug on the UPS to force it to shutdown
(need to test that anyways) but as you said I'd like to know how it got
into this state. I also don't understand why remote access fails the
same way...

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Allan Williams



"Dave Nickason [SBS MVP]" <gwdibble@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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Open Computer Management on your desktop. R-click Computer Management
at the top of the list and click Connect to another computer. That
should at least let you connect to the SBS to view the event viewer,
which might point you in the right direction. You can also access
Services - maybe shutting down 3rd party (non-Microsoft) services might
free things up so you can log in.

If you want to restart the server, on the workstation go to Start -> Run
and type "shutdown -i" without the quotes. That'll give you a GUI
interface that will let you restart the server. I recommend at least
looking at the event logs and any other information you can get to
before initiating a reboot - if whatever this is prevents the server
from restarting, the more you know, the better.


"Al Williams" <donotreplydirect@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Something strange just happened with my fully patched SBS2003 SP2
Premium server.

I went to login to the locked console and after I entered the password
the screen went black, then painted the desktop color and hung at that
point. Waited a while and no change, so I tried to RDP into the server
and the RDP connection did the same thing - hangs after the desktop
color is painted.

Strange thing is the server is working fine (I can remote manage it),
no issues in the logs, no high CPU/disk activity seen, no services
stopped - all clients are happy.

Anyway of finding out what is up so I can login to reboot it?

It would be nice if I could see a task list or something but I'm not
sure how to do that if I can't login.

Thanks.

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Allan Williams










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