topic Re: boots straight to single user mode in Operating System - HP-UX

boots straight to single user mode

michael nimmons — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 05:54:18 GMT

i have a hp j6000 and the problem started when it would not let you log into any account and on the sysadmin account is said can not access the home directory, then it froze so i turned the power off and back on again. so now when it boots it gives two warning messages first one is something like there is not enough space for the crash dump and the other is the /etc/inittab file is corrupt and then it initiates single user and ask for log in name. after logging in i tried to run the fsck -y command but it says there is not such command i also tried fsck just to check but there was nothing.

Re: boots straight to single user mode

Ivan Ferreira — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 06:38:53 GMT

In tru64 normally to check filesystem integrity you must run the /sbin/advfs/verify command.

When you boot into single user mode, use the bcheckrc command to mount all filesystems and verify that you have available space.

The iniittab may not be corrupt, but by using bcheckrc you can verify all files. Maybe you are not in single user mode, maybe the /usr cannot be mounted and that's why X does not start.

Re: boots straight to single user mode

Michael Schulte zur Sur — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 06:46:59 GMT

Hi,

could it be that this is HP-UX and not Tru64?

greetings,

Michael

Re: boots straight to single user mode

Devender Khatana — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 11:13:43 GMT

Hi,

It is obviously a inittab coruption or deletion. Is /etc/inittab there? If yes copy it to some other name like inittab.backup and copy it from /usr/newconfig/etc/inittab and try reboot. If boot is susseccful then you can make required changes to inittab having compare with inittab.backup just saved.

Also check for file system utilization.

HTH,
Devender

Re: boots straight to single user mode

michael nimmons — Thu, 17 Nov 2005 01:06:19 GMT

yes this is HP-UX I apologize. I posted it in the wrong section on accident.