System freezes w/ any run level above 1...

[mightyscotchpine]

Hi guys and gals.
I have an Openserver system that will boot into single-user mode fine. When I do an init 2, (or any other init besides 1), the system freezes. At that point I get nothing but a blinking cursor.

Some possibilities I was considering were:
1) a corrupt non-root filesystem

2) a corrupt inittab or ioctl.syscon file

Has anyone else ran across this specific problem? What did it turn out to be? I have to go take a look at this system first thing in the morning (Pacific time), so I'm hoping there are some East Coasters out there reading this.

 

[stanhubble]

Is it trying to go into X?
what changed....rebuilt kernel? rebuilt kernel environment?

what is the last thing in /usr/adm/messages ?
/usr/adm/syslog ?

for #1....try and mount your filesystems in single user mode.

for #2....depends on what changed

 

[tshot]

it seems u can work in single user then

For "1) a corrupt non-root filesystem"
try mountall. i u r able to mount all. it seem then point 2 is valid


For "2) a corrupt inittab or ioctl.syscon file"
- ioctl.syscon, if ^D does bot work. (probably it isnot) rememvoe ioctl.sysycon and reboot. it will recreate/relink


for inittab check TA # 105591 at

http://support.sco.com

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