On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Darko Stankovic wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am having trouble with my red hat 6.0 server, and I hope you can
> help me. The server was working for a couple of months and I have
> not touched it for a while. Then I moved it to a different locatio,
> and booted it with some older monitor. I used cold boot just turning
> off and on machine. Now after it boots, it displays a login prompt
> if I am pfysically by the server and after I type in my login id it
> just hangs there. If I use telnet to connect to it, it makes a
> connection but then it hangs, there is not even a login prompt.
>
> Here are also some services that fail during a boot up that could
> indicate the problem.
>
>:
>
> Mar 1 11:56:56 machine1 syslog: syslogd startup failed
> Mar 1 11:56:56 machine1 remote: fatal: Extra argument start.
> Mar 1 11:56:56 machine1 rc: Starting remote failed
> Mar 1 11:56:56 machine1 rc: Starting service failed
>
> I dont know how to fix this so if you could help me here I would apreciate
> it.
>
> Thanx,
>
> Darko
>
>
Did you do a proper shutdown before moving the machine? Your
discription of a "cold boot" makes me wonder. From the sounds of
things, you may have some corrupted files. But it is hard to say from
the messages. The machine did a file system check on boot up, right?
Did it report any errors?
As a start to fixing it, try booting into the single user mode. You
will probably have to use "linux init=/bin/bash" where linux is the
lable for your kernel. From there, you can run e2fsck manualy, and see
what shape your drives are in. You can also check /etc/inittab, the
files in /etc/rc.d, and in /etc/rc.d/init.d. This is a good place to
start. Find out why syslog, and the other scripts are failing.
If you can not boot into the single user mode, then it is time to use a
resque floppy. You may end up backing up your data, and upgrading to
6.2, plus updates if the errors are bad enough.
Mikkel
--
Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons,
for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
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