CentOS w/ IPMI not responding to input?

Question

I just installed CentOS Release 6.2 (Final) on one of our machines, however after rebooting post install, the system seems unresponsive to any input. It is sitting at "testsrv login:" but nothing happens when I type.

I have tried both normal keyboard input as well as the virtual keyboard. Is there something I am missing?

Solution

Check to see if you are in video only mode. It shows up in the bar at the top of the window. If there is more then one user using ipmi you might not have control of the session. (you can check in the user list section) You can kick people out of the session by restarting just the ipmi.