[Linux-cluster] Cluster software won't start at boot

[Bryn M. Reeves]

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Lon Hohberger wrote:
>> Well, they people that set that system up are a bit strange.
>> They have runlevel 5 as initdefault, but the system does not show a
>> graphical login at boot.
>> (startx works, though)
> 
> That's weird, but certainly not the problem.  Although, it might be
> related somehow...  clumanager doesn't start, and X doesn't start, but
> both *should*.

Sounds like inittab weirdness - I saw symptoms like this a few times
while teaching class when students would do stuff like:

id:5:initdefault:

# System initialization.
si::sysinit:/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit

l0:0:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 0
l1:1:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 1
l2:2:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 2
l3:3:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 3
l4:4:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 4
l5:5:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 3 <------
l6:6:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 6
...

When attempting to change their default runlevel.

It makes life kinda exciting if things are disabled (K links) in rc3.d
but enabled (S links) in rc5.d - runlevel/who -r etc. report one thing,
but the services started are those belonging to the other runlevel.

It's also worth checking grub.conf incase they've overridden initdefault
from the kernel command line.

Kind regards,

Bryn.
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