[KLUG Members] Re: [iccm-tech] please help!

[randall perry]

After signing on, you can hold down the shift key + pageup to scroll to the 
top to see the messages of what loaded and when.  Try going to your 
etc/init/rc.d directory and that should show you what services are starting 
up.  If you suspect something is spawning processes that you can't 
pinpoint, You can try running at another runlevel.  (a safe-mode, if you will).

I will cross post this to the knowledgeable LUGs and see what we get.
Randall Perry
www.domain-logic.com

At 01:16 AM 8/27/2002 +1000, you wrote:

>We use redhat 7.2 linux on intel machines.
>
>I was working as per normal, when all of a sudden programs I invoked
>started core dumping.  Programs which were running stayed running but new
>programs crashed.  It looked like shell commands which were processed by
>the shell itself were ok, but outside programs crashed.  There is however
>the possiblity that I accidentally wiped some file(s) in /etc.  However to
>my untrained eye the basic files look ok, (eg. inittab, fstab,
>modules.conf, ld.so.conf).  When I rebooted the server, it stalled on INIT.
>I got the message respawning too fast.  I think that this probably means
>mingetty is not starting or crashing like the programs earlier.  So at this
>moment I suspect that some vital basic library is not being loaded.  Please
>help, this is our main file server.
>
>I have checked disk space and it seems ok, although some big partitions are
>upto 93% full (incl. /usr).
>
>Chandra
>Christian Blind Mission International