RE: Help!! "No more processes left in runlevel"
Aha. That is exactly what I did. In fact, I got the idea from
this list last night.. maybe from you!
Thanks
-chris
On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Christian Pernegger wrote:
> > -----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
>
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