strange problem - server hangs at boot Runlevel 3 - RHEL4

[Götz Reinicke]

Hi,

there are no files left there ... :-(

Thanks anyway!

Götz


Vladimir Kosovac schrieb:
> Boot to rl 1 and see if there are maybe stale pid/lock files on your 
> system:
> 
> /var/lock/subsys/crond
> /var/run/crond.pid
> 
> If you find any of these, remove them and try again.
> 
> Don't really have any better ideas.
> 
> V
> 
> On 5/22/06, Götz Reinicke <goetz.reinicke at filmakademie.de> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a RHEL4 server which hangs on booting into the default runlevel
>> 3. The bootprocess stopps at the crond.
>>
>> Booting runlevel 1 manualy from grub works, starting the services by
>> hand works than too; e.g. networking, crond.
>>
>> Switching to runlevel 3 by "init 3" works too and the crond is startet
>> as well, but I can't log in at the loginprompt; I doublechecked the
>> rootpassword, but I do get the log-messsage, that the login failed.
>>
>> There are no errors in the logfiles concerning the default boot.
>>
>> Any ideas how to track the problem down?
>>
>> All I did was a reboot of the server ...
>>
>> Thanks a lot for any hint!!!
>>
>> Best regards
>>
>> Götz
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