running ESXi 5.5.0 1331820, encountered an issue: in vSphere none of the virtual machines have working consoles (just unresponsive black screen, launching it in a separate window produces a static black window) and statistics in 'Resource Allocation' are greyed out and blank.
The virtual machines themselves are working and have no apparent issues. They and ESXi are accessible via network. The host is ssh-able and responds to shell commands.
Tried restarting management agents with '/etc/init.d/hostd restart', '/etc/init.d/vpxa restart' and 'services.sh restart' to no avail, the latter produced the following output:
# services.sh restart
Running xorg stop
Running wsman stop
Stopping openwsmand
Running sfcbd stop
This operation is not supported.
Please use /etc/init.d/sfcbd-watchdog stop
Running snmpd stop
Errors:
No such file or directory
Running sfcbd-watchdog stop
Running vpxa stop
watchdog-vpxa: Terminating watchdog process with PID 183141692
vpxa stopped.
Running vobd stop
watchdog-vobd: Terminating watchdog process with PID 182093059
vobd stopped
Running lacp stop
watchdog-net-lacp: Terminating watchdog process with PID 183141584
Running memscrubd stop
memscrubd is not running
Running nscd stop
watchdog-nscd: Terminating watchdog process with PID 183141540
Running smartd stop
watchdog-smartd: Terminating watchdog process with PID 183141504
smartd stopped
Running dcbd stop
watchdog-dcbd: Terminating watchdog process with PID 183141467
Running cdp stop
watchdog-cdp: Terminating watchdog process with PID 183108652
Running slpd stop
Stopping slpd
Running rhttpproxy stop
watchdog-rhttpproxy: Terminating watchdog process with PID 183141366
rhttpproxy stopped.
Running vsantraced stop
watchdog-vsantraced: Terminating watchdog process with PID 183141318
vsantraced stopped
Running swapobjd stop
watchdog-swapobjd: Terminating watchdog process with PID 183141208
Waiting for process to terminate...
swapobjd stopped
Running vmfstraced stop
watchdog-vmfstracegd: PID file /var/run/vmware/watchdog-vmfstracegd.PID does not exist
watchdog-vmfstracegd: Unable to terminate watchdog: No running watchdog process for vmfstracegd
vmfstracegd is not running
Failed to clear vmfstracegd memory reservation
Running sensord stop
sensord is not running
Running lbtd stop
watchdog-net-lbt: Terminating watchdog process with PID 183140749
net-lbt stopped
Running hostd stop
watchdog-hostd: Terminating watchdog process with PID 183107941
hostd stopped.
Running storageRM stop
watchdog-storageRM: Terminating watchdog process with PID 183140666
storageRM stopped
Running sdrsInjector stop
watchdog-sdrsInjector: Terminating watchdog process with PID 183140630
sdrsInjector stopped
Running usbarbitrator stop
watchdog-usbarbitrator: Terminating watchdog process with PID 183140593
usbarbitrator stopped
Running DCUI stop
Disabling DCUI logins
VobUserLib_Init failed with -1
Running ntpd stop
Stopping ntpd
watchdog-ntpd: Terminating watchdog process with PID 183140489
Connect to localhost failed: Connection failure
Running ntpd restart
Connect to localhost failed: Connection failure
Starting ntpd
Running DCUI restart
Enabling DCUI login: runlevel =
VobUserLib_Init failed with -1
Running usbarbitrator restart
usbarbitrator started
Running sdrsInjector restart
sdrsInjector started
Running storageRM restart
storageRM started
Running hostd restart
Ramdisk 'hostd' with estimated size of 413MB already exists
hostd started.
Running lbtd restart
net-lbt started
Running sensord restart
sensord started
Running vmfstraced restart
VMFS Global Tracing is not enabled.
Running swapobjd restart
swapobjd started
Running vsantraced restart
Storing traces to /scratch/vsantraces
vsantraced started
Running rhttpproxy restart
rhttpproxy started.
Running slpd restart
Starting slpd
Running cdp restart
cdp started
Running dcbd restart
dcbd started
Running smartd restart
smartd started
Running nscd restart
nscd started
Running memscrubd restart
The checkPages boot option is FALSE, hence memscrubd could not be started.
Running lacp restart
LACP daemon started
Running vobd restart
vobd started
Running vpxa restart
Running sfcbd-watchdog restart
Running snmpd restart
Running sfcbd restart
This operation is not supported.
Please use /etc/init.d/sfcbd-watchdog start
Running wsman restart
Starting openwsmand
Running xorg restart
As this machine has some sensitive services, full reboot would be highly undesirable. Is there anything I could try to fix the two mentioned issues?
Thanks.