On 8/4/2014 7:30 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
On 8/4/2014 5:47 PM, Kirk Bocek wrote:
Just had a problem with CentOS 6.5 x86_64 after the last kernel upgrade. It looks like the boot sector got hosed somehow and the system was unbootable. I was able to fix it with a boot to an install image USB and running grub-install. System is now bootable.
However, I've lost the system console. No login prompt is provided at the console.
The system boots and is remotely accessible. Services seem just fine. I don't see any error messages after booting, either dmesg or /var/log/messages.
Can anyone tell me what packages provide console login so I can try a reinstall.
is it booting up in init level 3, or 5 (text console vs X-windows ?)
Okay, it looks like upstart isn't running /etc/init/start-ttys.conf
After running "initctl list" and seeing that tty was in stop/waiting, I manually ran:
initctl start tty TTY=/dev/tty1
six times to get the six usual ttys. After looking at start-ttys.conf I guess I could have just run that once instead. Now "initctl list" looks like:
$initctl list rc start/running, process 1507 tty (/dev/tty3) start/running, process 6169 tty (/dev/tty2) start/running, process 6167 tty (/dev/tty1) start/running, process 6165 tty (/dev/tty6) start/running, process 6176 tty (/dev/tty5) start/running, process 6174 tty (/dev/tty4) start/running, process 6172 plymouth-shutdown stop/waiting control-alt-delete stop/waiting rcS-emergency stop/waiting readahead-collector stop/waiting kexec-disable stop/waiting quit-plymouth stop/waiting rcS stop/waiting prefdm stop/waiting init-system-dbus stop/waiting readahead stop/waiting splash-manager stop/waiting start-ttys stop/waiting readahead-disable-services stop/waiting rcS-sulogin stop/waiting serial stop/waiting
Which looks right to me. At the moment I'm at work and this host is at home so I can't check the console.
I looked at start-ttys.conf:
start on stopped rc RUNLEVEL=[2345]
That looks right. Can anyone tell me why it's not running?