[Users] problem booting...

Roman Kagan rkagan at sw.ru
Mon May 22 06:07:16 EDT 2006


On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 11:23:15AM -0400, hbeaumont hbeaumont wrote:
> However on a new remote install I'm having problems.
> 
> The base system is (real) Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4
> (Nahant Update 1)
> 
> The system boots into the kernel but then I cannot connect. I can ping
> the system but no ssh connection. If I boot back to the regular kernal
> I can ssh in.
> 
> The only messages on the screen are:
> 
> "Init spawning too fast"

This normally means that an entry in /etc/inittab with 'respawn' action
exits too quickly.  Mind posting your /etc/inittab?

On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 11:52:59AM -0400, hbeaumont hbeaumont wrote:
> On 5/17/06, hbeaumont hbeaumont <ahlist at gmail.com> wrote:
> >The base system is (real) Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4
> >(Nahant Update 1)
> >
> 
> also, if it matters, the system seems to have some ipv6 stuff enabled.
> ssh sees the ip as a ipv6-ish ip:
> 
> ip=::ffff:192.168.1.100

Where is this line from?  I don't remember off the top of my head any
config file in RHEL4 with this syntax...

On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 12:04:34PM -0400, hbeaumont hbeaumont wrote:
> I believe it is booting fine as I can ping it. Just cannot connect to
> ssh. I'm not sure what the status of selinux is on the host. I assume
> it is not running (the selinux=0)

Try to look at /var/log/messages and /var/log/secure.

Roman.


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