I restarted the a Centos 5.6 server tonight and I ran in this issue:

I was able to boot.

Then instead of a normal boot with graphical interface the system requested :

'Enter run level'

'INIT'

I typed 5

then I got 'INIT: no more process left in this run level

How can I recover from the situation?

This is a production system back-up are made but left on the disk and transfer at the end of the day into an other system

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Michel Donais