Run level after boot

[Luke Morgan]

Hi,
I have a critical server running 10.20

Rebooted it last night using shutdown -r 1
and it rebooted ok but started up seemingly in single user mode.
who -r showed that it was at run level 3, but I wasn't prompted to log in, no network services were working and /home and others had not been mounted.
init 3 solved the problem and brought the server up to run level 3 and (touch wood :} )
everything is fine.
I checked /etc/inittab and the top line reads
init:3:initdefault:

Any ideas why that might have happened?

Thanks

Luke

[melvyn burnard]

first point, your critical server is runing an OS that is no longer supported
second point, check what /etc/rc.log shows.

[twang]

checl /etc/rc.log and see what applications started at current run level.

[Michael Tully]

Your problem seems to have stemmed from 'shutdown -r 1' seemingly has placed your system into single user mode (some people say run level one).
The -r does actually mean run level. Have a look at the man page 'man 1m shutdown'

The correct procedure to reboot your system is

# cd /
# shutdown -r -y 0 (using no numbers for -r)

From your /etc/inittab file, the line init:3 is actually the default run level when your system is fully up, meaning the scripts running in /sbin/rc1.d , /sbin/rc2.d & /sbin/rc3.d

[Luke Morgan]

Thank you all.

Melvyn, I am aware it is no supported and I have made those 'above' me aware quite some time ago.

Melvyn and twang, thank you, I am currently looking through the log file.

Michael, I had a look at the man page and according to that, shutdown -r 0 will reboot the server. The man page states that -r is to reboot. However, the command you have stated would work too, so I thank you for the suggestion.

Luke

[Ravi_8 · Accepted solution]

Hi Luke

since you have issued command
#shutdown -r 1
system goes to run level 1 wherein no netwok services available, mount -a would have mounted all file systems.

init:3:initdefault meaning that
whenever you isuue reboot/shutdown -r, system will comeup to run level 3 by default (unless you interrupt the boot process)

[melvyn burnard]

blast! missed the -r1 bit.
This would have taken the system down to run level 1, which is not really what you want to do, as already pointed out by other respondents.

[Luke Morgan]

It is documented here to use shutdown -r 1.
I thought that it meant to shutdown and reboot in 1 second.

I will be revising the documentation to shutdown -r

Many thanks to you all for your help.

Luke

[Ravi_8]

Hi Luke

#shutdown -h now
will completely halt the system
#reboot or
#shutdown -r now

will reboot the machine

[Caesar_3]

Hello!

As the shutdown without parameters goes to
single mode the -r X goes to X runlevel.

For reboot use shutdown -ry 0

Caesar

[Richard Ace_1]

JUST A NOTE TO BE AWARE

Using

#reboot

Is a dirty way of rebooting the system from Run Level 3, as I beleive it does not run through the run scripts and shuts down things neatly. It just kills the processes off and unmount the File Systems and shuts down.

Though

#reboot

Is ok to issue from Run Level 1

Though the other two commands are fine.

Cheers

Rich

[Joe Robinson_2]

was looking at this thread this morning, I have a similiar problem. my inittab is correct, and the rc.log looks fine (starting all it should be) however, CDE isn't starting at the console, it just goes to a root prompt; doing 'init 3' does start CDE, so I (seemingly) don't have reason to suspect any of those scripts in run-level 3. Suggestions, anyone?

Thanks in adavnce,
Joe

[Pete Randall]

Joe,

I would have to suggest that you start another thread, perhaps referring back to this one. With the magic bunny already assigned to this one, your response will be better with a new thread and you'll also be able to assign points to those who help you.


Pete