Re: URGENT : System hands on "Freeing unused kernel memory: "

J . A . Magallon (jamagallon@able.es)
Tue, 27 Mar 2001 09:50:02 +0200

On 03.27 Thomas Foerster wrote:
>
> But suddenly the box was offline. One technical assistant from our ISP tried
> to reboot
> our server (he couldn't tell me if there had been any messages on the screen),
> but the
> system always hangs on
>
> Freeing unused kernel memory: xxk freed
>

Try booting with init=/bin/bash, it looks like kernel gets a bad /sbin/init,
and gets stuck. Perhaps the shutdown damaged init, it starts to run and get
hung.

-- 
J.A. Magallon                                          #  Let the source
mailto:jamagallon@able.es                              #  be with you, Luke... 


Linux werewolf 2.4.2-ac25 #5 SMP Mon Mar 26 17:46:56 CEST 2001 i686


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