strange problem - server hangs at boot Runlevel 3 - RHEL4

[Thomas Callahan]

Check your PAM settings, you may have a misconfigured or wrong path  
for an authentication module.


Thanks,
Tom Callahan
TESSCO Technologies
Desk: (410)-229-1361
Cell: (410)-588-7605
Email: callahant at tessco.com

A real engineer only resorts to documentation when the keyboard dents on
the forehead get too noticeable.



On May 22, 2006, at 7:06 PM, Mahesh Pokala wrote:

> 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
> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> 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
>
> Götz
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