RE: Help!! "No more processes left in runlevel"

["Christian Pernegger" <pernegger@chello.at>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Krzys Majewski [mailto:majewski@cs.ubc.ca]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2000 2:10 PM
> To: Debian user list (undigested)
> Subject: Help!! "No more processes left in runlevel"
> 
> 
> Shit shit shit I've broken my machine again. 
> Won't halt, won't boot. When booting it claims it's going into
> runlevel 3 but none of the rc3.d scripts are run, and it
> won't let me login (except as root), saying "system bootup in
> progress". If I try to change runlevel it sends TERM, sends
> KILL, and then says "no processes left in runlevel", and
> hangs. 

I had exactly this behavior yesterday, although probably not for
the same reason.

I had uncommented the "echo" entry at the beginning of
/etc/init.d/rc, because I thought that would additionally print the
executed commands. However this switches rc to "only print" while
init itself sends real TERMs and KILLs.

So I ended up with "no processes left in runlevel" (and a crash)

:(

But I can't imagine what would change this entry if you didn't...

Christian