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

Mon Jan 27 14:37:10 UTC 2014
Ljubomir Ljubojevic <centos at plnet.rs>

On 01/27/2014 03:22 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:
> 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.
>

Ok, so adding "3" to kernel line did boot system to multi-text mode. I 
will check drivers and nomodeset next


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