Lon Hohberger wrote: >>> Well, they people that set that system up are a bit strange. >>> They have runlevel 5 as initdefault, but the system does not show a >>> graphical login at boot. >>> (startx works, though) >> >> That's weird, but certainly not the problem. Although, it might be >> related somehow... clumanager doesn't start, and X doesn't start, but >> both *should*. > >Sounds like inittab weirdness - I saw symptoms like this a few times while teaching class when students would do stuff like: > >id:5:initdefault: > ># System initialization. >si::sysinit:/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit > >l0:0:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 0 >l1:1:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 1 >l2:2:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 2 >l3:3:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 3 >l4:4:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 4 >l5:5:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 3 <------ >l6:6:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 6 >... > >When attempting to change their default runlevel. > That trick sounds horribly familiar... ( Sorry, NDA ;-) ) Checked, but this is not the case (It's much more fun to redirect runlevels to 6 or 0 :-D [root@nzcs1 etc]# grep :5 /etc/inittab id:5:initdefault: l5:5:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 5 x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon >It makes life kinda exciting if things are disabled (K links) in rc3.d but enabled (S links) in rc5.d - runlevel/who -r etc. report >one thing, but the services started are those belonging to the other runlevel. That's cute, checked and passed: [root@nzcs1 etc]# find . -type l -ls |grep cluster 2796355 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Jun 3 2004 ./rc.d/rc0.d/K01cluster -> ../init.d/cluster 2976480 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Jun 3 2004 ./rc.d/rc1.d/K01cluster -> ../init.d/cluster 3009017 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Jun 3 2004 ./rc.d/rc2.d/S99cluster -> ../init.d/cluster 3026727 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Jun 3 2004 ./rc.d/rc3.d/S99cluster -> ../init.d/cluster 3042076 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Jun 3 2004 ./rc.d/rc4.d/S99cluster -> ../init.d/cluster 3058185 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Jun 16 2005 ./rc.d/rc5.d/S99cluster -> ../init.d/cluster 3090980 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Jun 3 2004 ./rc.d/rc6.d/K01cluster -> ../init.d/cluster >It's also worth checking grub.conf incase they've overridden initdefault from the kernel command line. Foiled again! >From /boot/grub/grub.conf: default=13 fallback=10 # This entry (no. 10) added by Proliant HBA install script title HP-2.4.9-e.24enterprise-1 root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.9-e.24enterprise ro root=/dev/cciss/c0d0p5 hda=ide-scsi initrd /HP-initrd-2.4.9-e.24enterprise.img # This entry (no. 13) added by Proliant HBA install script title HP-2.4.9-e.24enterprise-2 root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.9-e.24enterprise ro root=/dev/cciss/c0d0p5 hda=ide-scsi initrd /HP-initrd-2.4.9-e.24enterprise.img-0 (I'm still trying to figure out WTF HP did with my grub.conf) I -DO- appreciate all the help I have received so far. This is an interesting little trick they must have pulled... Regards, Kit -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster