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Re: What causes single user boot?



news.andy@spiegl.de (Andy Spiegl) writes:

> Hi!
> 
> I've got a webserver which is running constantly.  A few days ago
> we had to reboot it, because of a SCSI problem with the JAZ drive.
> (side note: can you imagine the load went up to 115 still growing!?)
> 
> Well, after the reboot the system stopped at the prompt:
> Press Ctrl-D or give root password.
> 
> I wonder what could have caused this?  This is a huge problem,
> because the computer is many kilometers away and administered
> only over the net.  It was tedious to find someone up there to
> resolve this.  That's why I would really like to find out what
> caused this and how I can avoid it in the future.
> 
> BTW: running Hamm incl.all updates

from slink?

Try downgrading modutils (far guess: it was broken a week ago).

You can't really tell what caused this, without seeing the messages
from bootstrap.

HTH,

Jens
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