On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 06:59:43PM -0700, Vwaju wrote: > For months, I have been booting Debian 3.1 every day and experimenting > with networking tools. Today I didn't do much except read man pages, > and I'm not aware of doing anything to change any configuration, but > when I rebooted my computer it stalled out at > > INIT: Entering runlevel 2 > > After it hangs here, it starts printing out messages of the form: > > Out of Memory: Killed process 2253 (sysklogd) > > If I scroll back on the monitor, there are a number of messages like > this: > > modprobe: FATAL: Error inserting pciehp > modprobe: FATAL: Error inserting shpchp > modprobe: FATAL: Error inserting hw_random > modprobe: FATAL: Error inserting rtc > > What is going on here? > > Is there any way to boot in this circumstance?
Since it hangs after entering runlevel 2, you may try booting single (runlevel 1). If it still hangs, try booting with init=/bin/sh which will not run any initscripts. You can then run them in order with a 'start' paratmeter. This way, you'll figure out exactly where the problem is. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org