On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 9:21 AM, Georgios Magklaras <georgios@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Thanks for your response. wrote: > Do you see the login banner at the console after the boot messages? No, I do see a graphical login window, but no banner. Has the system forked the /sbin/mingetty processes? Interesting. no tty1 [root@panther tmp]# ps -ef | grep mingetty root 2958 5831 0 09:44 pts/0 00:00:00 grep mingetty root 4719 1 0 Mar29 tty2 00:00:00 /sbin/mingetty /dev/tty2 root 4721 1 0 Mar29 tty3 00:00:00 /sbin/mingetty /dev/tty3 root 4723 1 0 Mar29 tty4 00:00:00 /sbin/mingetty /dev/tty4 root 4725 1 0 Mar29 tty5 00:00:00 /sbin/mingetty /dev/tty5 root 4727 1 0 Mar29 tty6 00:00:00 /sbin/mingetty /dev/tty6 > One thing that comes to mind with RHEL 6 is the upstart module. In RHEL 6 > this replaced the traditional SysVInit system. So, I suggest you take a > look via the network login to: > > 1)ACTIVE_CONSOLES directive in /etc/sysconfig/init. > # What ttys should gettys be started on? ACTIVE_CONSOLES=/dev/tty[1-6] # Set to '/sbin/sulogin' to prompt for password on single-user mode # Set to '/sbin/sushell' otherwise SINGLE=/sbin/sushell > 2)/etc/init/prefdm.conf > [root@panther init]# more prefdm.conf # prefdm - preferred display manager # # Starts gdm/xdm/etc by preference start on stopped rc RUNLEVEL=5 stop on starting rc RUNLEVEL=[!5] console output respawn respawn limit 10 120 exec /etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon > 3)/etc/init/tty.conf > [root@panther init]# more tty.conf # tty - getty # # This service maintains a getty on the specified device. stop on runlevel [S016] respawn instance $TTY exec /sbin/mingetty $TTY Also, this is what inittab looks 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 5 l6:6:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 6 # Trap CTRL-ALT-DELETE ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t3 -r now # When our UPS tells us power has failed, assume we have a few minutes # of power left. Schedule a shutdown for 2 minutes from now. # This does, of course, assume you have powerd installed and your # UPS connected and working correctly. pf::powerfail:/sbin/shutdown -f -h +2 "Power Failure; System Shutting Down" # If power was restored before the shutdown kicked in, cancel it. pr:12345:powerokwait:/sbin/shutdown -c "Power Restored; Shutdown Cancelled" # Run gettys in standard runlevels cons:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -L `stty -F /dev/ttyS1 speed` ttyS1 vt100 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty1 2:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty2 3:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty3 4:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty4 5:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty5 6:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty6 # Run xdm in runlevel 5 x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon > > Best regards, > > -- > -- > George Magklaras PhD > RHCE no: 805008309135525 > > Senior Systems Engineer/IT Manager > Biotechnology Center of Oslo and > the Norwegian Center for Molecular Medicine > EMBnet TMPC Chair > > http://folk.uio.no/georgios > > Tel: +47 22840535 > > > > > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list