[CentOS] Booting problem after update, how to track order of starting services

Mon Jan 27 14:22:58 UTC 2014
Ljubomir Ljubojevic <centos at plnet.rs>

On 01/27/2014 03:18 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I have updated system/server that worked for a long time. It was upgrade
> from 6.4 to latest.
>
> After restart, system freezes after most/all of the daemons are booted.
>
>   From interactive mode I found out that services starting are:
>
> ...
> ...
> atd
> jexec
> atieventsd
> libvirtd
> certmonger
> libvirt-guests
> local
> nxsensor
> nxserver
> webmin
>
> As soon as I allow webmin to pass, system freezes. BUT, if I stop after
> nxserver, and leave booting process at question weather to start webmin,
> and I login via SSH, I can start webmin.
>
> Question is how I find out what comes after webmin service.
>
> /var/log/messages is not written to, and I do not see anything in
> /var/log/boot.log
>
> System can operate normally if I leave it like that, I can even log-in
> via NX.
>
>

Freeze is manifested with non responsive direct console, nothing on the 
screen, but also with network dying out.

I disabled SELinux because restorecon was spewing file not found on some 
Windows files hosted there via Samba.

I also tried disabling kdump.




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