Re: Startup: give root password for maintenance

[Andreas Janssen <andreas.janssen@bigfoot.com>]

Hello

Philippe Dhont   (Sea-ro) (<philippe.dhont@searo.be>) wrote:

> I installed new kernel which works fine but when i do a reboot i also
> get in the upstart process:
> 
> Give root password for maintenance
> (or type control-D for normal startup)
> 
> Of course i press control-D but how can i remove this ?
> I want that the computer can automatically reboot without asking this
> question.

Normally this happens if the system boots into single user mode
(runlevel 1 or s). You should try to reboot and explicitly select
another runlevel (e.g. type "Linux 2" at the lilo prompt). If that
works, change the default runlevel. Check /etc/inittab and your
bootloader configuration (the append="..." line if you use lilo).

best regards
        Andreas Janssen

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