Live upgrade from RHEL 5.7 to RHEL 6.2

[Georgios Magklaras]

Do you see the login banner at the console after the boot messages? Has 
the system forked the  /sbin/mingetty processes? One thing that comes to 
mind with RHEL 6 is the upstart module. In RHEL 6 this replaced the 
traditional SysVInit system. So, I suggest you take a look via the 
network login to:

1)ACTIVE_CONSOLES directive in /etc/sysconfig/init.
2)/etc/init/prefdm.conf
3)/etc/init/tty.conf

Best regards,

-- 
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George Magklaras PhD
RHCE no: 805008309135525

Senior Systems Engineer/IT Manager
Biotechnology Center of Oslo and
the Norwegian Center for Molecular Medicine
EMBnet TMPC Chair

http://folk.uio.no/georgios

Tel: +47 22840535



On 03/29/2012 04:31 PM, Christina Salls wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>       I have just completed a live upgrade from RHEL 5.7 to RHEL 6.2.  My
> system seemed to boot up fine, watching the console output.  I cannot,
> however, access the console through the mouse or keyboard.  I can ssh in
> and looking at /var/log/messages, it seems as though it recognized the
> keyboard and mouse:
>
>
> Mar 29 09:31:04 panther kernel: usb 2-2: New USB device found,
> idVendor=04b4, idProduct=6830
> Mar 29 09:31:04 panther kernel: usb 2-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=56,
> Product=78, SerialNumber=100
> Mar 29 09:31:04 panther kernel: usb 2-2: Product: USB2.0 Storage Device
> Mar 29 09:31:04 panther kernel: usb 2-2: Manufacturer: Cypress Semiconductor
> Mar 29 09:31:04 panther kernel: usb 2-2: SerialNumber: 3123077A17A2
> Mar 29 09:31:04 panther kernel: usb 2-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1
> choice
> Mar 29 09:31:04 panther kernel: Write protecting the kernel read-only data:
> 10240k
> Mar 29 09:31:04 panther kernel: Freeing unused kernel memory: 1040k freed
> Mar 29 09:31:04 panther kernel: Freeing unused kernel memory: 1760k freed
> Mar 29 09:31:04 panther kernel: usb 4-1: new full speed USB device using
> uhci_hcd and address 2
> Mar 29 09:31:04 panther kernel: dracut: dracut-004-256.el6
> Mar 29 09:31:04 panther kernel: device-mapper: uevent: version 1.0.3
> Mar 29 09:31:04 panther kernel: device-mapper: ioctl: 4.22.6-ioctl
> (2011-10-19) initialised: dm-devel at redhat.com
> Mar 29 09:31:04 panther kernel: udev: starting version 147
> Mar 29 09:31:04 panther kernel: usb 4-1: New USB device found,
> idVendor=046b, idProduct=ff10
> Mar 29 09:31:04 panther kernel: usb 4-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1,
> Product=2, SerialNumber=3
> Mar 29 09:31:04 panther kernel: usb 4-1: Product: Virtual Keyboard and Mouse
> Mar 29 09:31:04 panther kernel: usb 4-1: Manufacturer: American Megatrends
> Inc.
> Mar 29 09:31:04 panther kernel: usb 4-1: SerialNumber: serial
> Mar 29 09:31:04 panther kernel: usb 4-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1
> choice
> Mar 29 09:31:04 panther kernel: input: American Megatrends Inc. Virtual
> Keyboard and Mouse as
> /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.1/usb4/4-1/4-1:1.0/input/input3
> Mar 29 09:31:04 panther kernel: generic-usb 0003:046B:FF10.0001:
> input,hidraw0: USB HID v1.10 Keyboard [American Megatrends Inc. Virtual
> Keyboard and Mouse] on usb-0000:00:1a.1-1/input0
> Mar 29 09:31:04 panther kernel: input: American Megatrends Inc. Virtual
> Keyboard and Mouse as
> /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.1/usb4/4-1/4-1:1.1/input/input4
> Mar 29 09:31:04 panther kernel: generic-usb 0003:046B:FF10.0002:
> input,hidraw1: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [American Megatrends Inc. Virtual
> Keyboard and Mouse] on usb-0000:00:1a.1-1/input1
> Mar 29 09:31:04 panther kernel: usb 7-1: new low speed USB device using
> uhci_hcd and address 2
> Mar 29 09:31:04 panther kernel: usb 7-1: New USB device found,
> idVendor=413c, idProduct=2105
> Mar 29 09:31:04 panther kernel: dracut: Starting plymouth daemon
> Mar 29 09:31:04 panther kernel: usb 7-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1,
> Product=2, SerialNumber=0
> Mar 29 09:31:04 panther kernel: usb 7-1: Product: Dell USB Keyboard
> Mar 29 09:31:04 panther kernel: usb 7-1: Manufacturer: Dell
> Mar 29 09:31:04 panther kernel: usb 7-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1
> choice
> Mar 29 09:31:04 panther kernel: input: Dell Dell USB Keyboard as
> /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.1/usb7/7-1/7-1:1.0/input/input5
> Mar 29 09:31:04 panther kernel: generic-usb 0003:413C:2105.0003:
> input,hidraw2: USB HID v1.10 Keyboard [Dell Dell USB Keyboard] on
> usb-0000:00:1d.1-1/input0
> Mar 29 09:31:04 panther kernel: usb 7-2: new low speed USB device using
> uhci_hcd and address 3
> Mar 29 09:31:04 panther kernel: usb 7-2: New USB device found,
> idVendor=046d, idProduct=c001
> Mar 29 09:31:04 panther kernel: ahci 0000:00:1f.2: PCI INT B ->  GSI 19
> (level, low) ->  IRQ 19
> Mar 29 09:31:04 panther kernel: ahci: SSS flag set, parallel bus scan
> disabled
> Mar 29 09:31:04 panther kernel: usb 7-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1,
> Product=2, SerialNumber=0
> Mar 29 09:31:04 panther kernel: usb 7-2: Product: N48
> Mar 29 09:31:04 panther kernel: usb 7-2: Manufacturer: Logitech
> Mar 29 09:31:04 panther kernel: usb 7-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1
> choice
> Mar 29 09:31:04 panther kernel: input: Logitech N48 as
> /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.1/usb7/7-2/7-2:1.0/input/input6
> Mar 29 09:31:04 panther kernel: generic-usb 0003:046D:C001.0004:
> input,hidraw3: USB HID v1.00 Mouse [Logitech N48] on
> usb-0000:00:1d.1-2/input0
>
>
> I am not sure where to look next.  Any ideas?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
>        Christina
>