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Old 04-08-2009, 08:35 AM   #1
bomahony
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RHEL5 Server -- all init5 processes died


this happened yesterday ona RHEL5 VM. Server was pingable, and when i logged in to VMWare Infastructure, i was able to access the console. Restarted httpd, sshd, mysql etc. I was then able to ssh back into the box.

Looks like all the init5 processes just died.

[root@server log]# service --status-all| grep "dead"
acpid dead but subsys locked
atd dead but pid file exists
auditd dead but pid file exists
hcid dead but subsys locked
sdpd dead but subsys locked
crond dead but pid file exists
cupsd dead but pid file exists
gpm dead but pid file exists
hidd dead but subsys locked
rpc.statd dead but pid file exists
ntpd dead but pid file exists
pcscd dead but pid file exists
portmap dead but subsys locked
smartd dead but subsys locked
smbd dead but pid file exists
nmbd dead but pid file exists
squid: ERROR: No running copy
syslogd dead but pid file exists
klogd dead but pid file exists
xfs dead but pid file exists
yum-updatesd dead but subsys locked

After i started everything, it seems to work fine. Before i started anything a who -r gave a runlevel 5.

There are only two of us with root passwords and neither of us were at the machine at the time.

Checking logs / history nothing seems to be logged.

Any ideas where else I could look for where the problem might be?
 
Old 04-08-2009, 08:40 AM   #2
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Try to reboot the server and see what happen, meaning watch the console while is booting, maybe there was some file system issue, got in read-only mode and thats why most of the services didnt started.

Check that, could help or try dmesg

Good luck!
 
Old 04-08-2009, 09:31 AM   #3
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I checked dmesg already, and nothing in there. Thing is the server was running fine for at least 4-5 days since it was commissioned. And becuase its now live (this didnt happen while it was in testing) its a pain to organise time to bring it down.

Any other areas i can look at without it affecting usage?
 
  


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