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

From: J . A . Magallon (jamagallon@able.es)
Date: Tue Mar 27 2001 - 02:50:02 EST

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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...

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