INIT: no more processes left in this runlevel

[George Magklaras]

What type of server is this (I mean the hardware/make)? I have seen 
boxes experiencing this issue having power management issues with ACPI/APM.

Did the problem appear suddenly or is this a first install?

GM

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George Magklaras

Senior Computer Systems Engineer/UNIX Systems Administrator
EMBnet Technical Management Board
The Biotechnology Centre of Oslo,
University of Oslo
http://folk.uio.no/georgios



unix syzadmin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This is a RHEL4 U1 server.  We are unable to restart this server using "init
> 6" or "shutdown -r now" command.
> 
> ---------*******---------
> # more /etc/redhat-release
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 (Nahant Update 1)
> 
> # who -r
>          run-level 3  Aug  3 02:43                   last=S
> 
> # uname -a
> Linux lnx101 2.6.9-11.ELsmp #1 SMP Fri May 20 18:26:27 EDT 2005 i686 i686
> i386 GNU/Linux
> ---------*******---------
> 
> At the console it gives the below messages and seems to be hung.
> 
> ---------*******---------
> Unmounting pipe filesystems
> Unmounting filesystems:
> umount2: Device or resoruce busy
> umount: /usr device is busy
> umount2: Device or resource busy
> umount: /usr device is busy
> 
> INIT: no more processes left in this runlevel [failed]
> 
> ---------*******---------
> Please suggest
> Thanks.