Hey all,
I have a Linux machine
Machine: Intel Pentium 4, EM64T with Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS 3.0 for EM64T (64 bit distribution) Kernel: 2.4.21
The machine hangs up during the boot-up process at run level 3 (I think). I asked my system administrator to look into it, and he did the following steps, but I think we really need help now ... My work is on hold! So any help would be greatly appreciated. My office is in AV Williams, so in case its possible for someone to look at it, that too would be great!
Below are listed the steps that were used to try and see what is going on:
I have a Linux machine
Machine: Intel Pentium 4, EM64T with Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS 3.0 for EM64T (64 bit distribution) Kernel: 2.4.21
The machine hangs up during the boot-up process at run level 3 (I think). I asked my system administrator to look into it, and he did the following steps, but I think we really need help now ... My work is on hold! So any help would be greatly appreciated. My office is in AV Williams, so in case its possible for someone to look at it, that too would be great!
Below are listed the steps that were used to try and see what is going on:
Here's a few things that I tried
1. Changed the default shell for "root" in /etc/passwd from /bin/bash
to /bin/tcsh. This had no effect.
2. Changed the password for "root" in /etc/shadow to "*". I believe
this is the equivalent of having a blank password.
This had no effect.
3. Observed that attempting to login with an invalid
username or password has the same effect as trying to login with a valid username and
password--things hang !!!
4. Changed the default run level in /etc/inittab from
5 (X11) to 3 (multi-user). The boot process already
seemed to be stopping at run level 3 anyway,
so this didn't really make any difference either.
5. Can still login in single-user mode (also known as
run level 1).
It doesn't seem like the login process ever
progresses to where it checks the passwords.
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks
Ayush
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