strange problem - server hangs at boot Runlevel 3 - RHEL4

[Vladimir Kosovac]

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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