[lug] Redhat 6 server will not boot

[Richard Mandel]

Got into the machine with my Fedora 17 USB stick. The Xorg log files showed
that there was a fatal server error caused by a corrupted xorg.conf file. I
modified the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file which had had a few lines changed by
system-config-keyboard which had broken the file.........with the simple
addition of "Identifier  "Default Layout",

And all is well.

Thanks to Orion for his help. 

Richard Mandel
Linux Support Guys

richard at linuxsupportguys.com
Phone, Mobile and SMS: +1-303-499-1525


-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces at lug.boulder.co.us [mailto:lug-bounces at lug.boulder.co.us]
On Behalf Of Orion Poplawski
Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2013 2:21 PM
To: Boulder (Colorado) Linux Users Group -- General Mailing List
Subject: Re: [lug] Redhat 6 server will not boot

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
> Linux Support Guys
>
> richard at linuxsupportguys.com
> Phone, Mobile and SMS: +1-303-499-1525
>
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