Redhat system hangs on reboot and shutdown

[David Kleinman]

My Redhat 2.1, 2.4.9-e48enterprise dl580 hangs when I try to shut it down or reboot it. Here's the message left on the console:
INIT: no more processes left in this runlevel

I have multiple other dl580s in the same configuration that reboot w/o issue.

The drivers on the good and the bad systems are the same:

HBA Drivers:
Bad system:
===========
scsi0 : QLogic QLA2312 PCI to Fibre Channel Host Adapter: bus 6 device 1 irq 11
Firmware version: 3.02.28, Driver version 7.00.03
Good system:
===========
scsi0 : QLogic QLA2312 PCI to Fibre Channel Host Adapter: bus 6 device 1 irq 22
Firmware version: 3.02.28, Driver version 7.00.03

Bios:
=====
Bad system:
Proliant system Bios p27
Good system:
Proliant system Bios p27

Anyone seen this? A google search on the INIT string only brings up an IPOD issue.

[Steven E. Protter]

One of your init/shutdoown scripts is hanging.

If the systems are identical a quick fix would be to copy the contents of /etc/init.d/ from good system to hung system.

If this is not practical, you'll want to do an interactive login. There is a keypress option for this before the init scripts start.

An interactive login will allow you to identify which init script is hanging so you can take corrective action.

SEP

[Vitaly Karasik_1]

- You can compare sw versions on both servers by comparing "rpm -qa" output.

- In order to avoid hardware issues, you can take harddisks from "good" system and boot "bad" box from this disk.

[Ross Minkov]

Davis,

Compare /etc/inittab files on a good and the bad system. If you could copy one good inittab to the bad system then you could use diff to compare them.

Regards,
Ross

[tony j. podrasky]

I suggest you boot it to single user,
and then try a shutdown. If it works,
you can be pretty sure it isn't a
lowlevel hardware problem.

Next, try booting to init 2 and shutting
down. If it hangs, reboot to init 2, and
then cd /etc/rc.d/init.d and begin stopping
the services by hand and see what happens.

regards,
tonyp

[Juan José_2]

Try to copy from the good system the file:

/etc/rc.d/init.d/killall

and you must create the symbolic links:

cd /etc/rc.d/rc0.d/
ln -s ../init.d/S00killall S00killall
cd /etc/rc.d/rc6.d/
ln -s ../init.d/S00killall S00killall

Regards,