[lug] Redhat 6 server will not boot

[Orion Poplawski]

On 01/16/2013 02:06 PM, Richard Mandel wrote:
> I have a customer with a Redhat Ent 6 server that will not boot. In the boot
> sequence, it gets an OK at "Starting the CIM server", but then hangs.
>
> I am looking at the drive via my USB Stick-based Fedora.
>
> How can I find what might be the process attempting to run AFTER the
> "Starting the CIM server"?

Well, you are probably booting into runlevel 3.  Look in /etc/rc.d/rc3.d at 
the S* scripts.  It runs those in order.

I believe you can also press "I" at the start of the boot process to get an 
interactive boot process which will ask you if you want to start each service 
in turn.

> Which log might give me the most interesting info?

/var/log/messages

>
> Richard Mandel
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