strange problem - server hangs at boot Runlevel 3 - RHEL4

[Götz Reinicke]

Hi,

no, we don't use NIS.


Mahesh Pokala schrieb:
> Are you running NIS ?  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Götz Reinicke
> Sent: Monday, May 22, 2006 2:50 AM
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> Subject: strange problem - server hangs at boot Runlevel 3 - RHEL4
> 
> 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



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