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INIT:no more processes left in this runlevel

Hi Experts!

I am experiencing problems with my RedHat 9.0. I have been using Redhat for a long time and i have installed the redhat Linux 9.0 few days ago - without problems. Since from last week some commands are not working anymore. "halt" is one of them . I am not able to shutdown RedHat anymore, If i try to reboot the system, i face similiar kind of problems. In this case, however, the system does try to reboot, but at the end i get the message " INIT:no more processes left in this runlevel " i have to turn off the computer.

other error messages on rebooting :

"/etc/rc6.d /S01reboot: line 204 :/sbin/reboot: succeed.

Thanks In Advance!

de2Zotjes

Can you be more specific about not working? What happens if you type halt on the prompt? (being root offcourse)

How did go to RedHat9.0? Is it a fresh install or did you upgrade from a previous version?

I am running a RH9-machine as a file server here, I checked and the commands that are giving you grief are all part of the SysVinit package, I have SysVinit-2.84-13 installed here, working like a charm. One last point make sure that the named pipe /dev/initctl exists and has proper permissions:

[martijn@asp /]$ ls -l /dev/initctl
prw------- 1 root root 0 May 5 19:15 /dev/initctl
If it is not there create it:
(as root) mkfifo -m u=rw,go= /tmp/initctl

Umesh

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Hi,

Actually this machine was kept for testing and nothing else, and there wasn't issue of data loss etc.
I tried as suggested by ([martijn@asp /]$ ls -l /dev/initctl), file was there..

[root@dcserv root]# ls -l /dev/initctl
prw------- 1 root root 0 Jul 28 11:21 /dev/initctl|

Finally I reinstalled the linux OS & now everything is fine...

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