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Linux 6.5 boot freezes during startup !

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My Linux RHEL freezes at initializing (loading). The usual bar that appears at the bottom of the
screen during loading shows up and increases until about almost ready to load the desktop, but
instead , the bar freezes and stay there.

The last think I was doing was playing with adding new repositories and downloading files. I don't
know much else. I Don't know anyting about troubleshooting.

Any help here?

Started February 22 2014 at 11:28 PM by

jecalderon Active Contributor 110 Points

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26 February 2014 12:15 AM (https://access.redhat.com/discussions/732093#comment-712583)

R. Hinton (/user/1603663)  Community Leader

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(I and the others are) Glad to help,
GURU
By the way, rhel is quite stable. the tips folks gave above - you might have been back
6827
Points in business quickly. I've been an administrator with time in the trenches across most
major operating systems and RHEL Linux is far more predictable and stable than all
the others I've dealt with over decades. Although the BSD folks (bless their hearts)
might say theirs is the most stable etc...

THIS PARAGRAPH EDITED That aside, my Linux systems have far more stability in
my environment than the windows systems and the Solaris systems. EDITED: the
last statement was too heavy handed. Solaris Unix is actually very stable, and while
my preference is Linux, Solaris is quite stable. END EDIT Operating systems that
freeze etc may be the result of numerous things such as memory leaks (databases,
and more), a simple kernel patch for oracle, a full file system, or not going back to a
previous kernel on rare occasion. If you want something that never freezes or
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requires tuning, you will find that will be a tough call in the long run because any OS
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can be betrayed by it's lack of care/feeding, proper instantiation or ill-administration,
or even 3rd party software not properly instantiated.

If you can find an OS that doesn't have some discussion group or need for
troubleshooting or a support plan - make sure to pick that one. I wish you luck.

I mean the above plainly and with a full absence of negativity, but wanted to reply to
your last comment.

Kind regards, Remmele

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22 February 2014 11:53 PM (https://access.redhat.com/discussions/732093#comment-710923)

PixelDrift.NET Support (/user/6652183)  Community Leader

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First thing to do is press 'esc' during the boot sequence (when the progress bar
GURU appears), this will reveal which part of the boot process is being executed. Watch the
6589 services start, and hopefully you will see one that hangs/pauses.
Points

24 February 2014 6:42 PM (https://access.redhat.com/discussions/732093#comment-711573)

jecalderon (/user/5414823)
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kdump FAILED
ACTIVE It stopped at cartmonger . It displays OK to the right but does no go any further.
CONTRIBUTOR

110 Points

24 February 2014 6:58 PM (https://access.redhat.com/discussions/732093#comment-711603)

Akemi Yagi (/user/856543)

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Sounds as if the problem has to do with starting GUI. What graphics device do you
GURU have?
3264
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24 February 2014 8:40 PM (https://access.redhat.com/discussions/732093#comment-711693)

R. Hinton (/user/1603663)  Community Leader

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If it is an nvidia card, and you got a new kernel, download (if you haven't already),
GURU and run the nvidia setup at init 3 (not init 5)
6827 root@yoursystem # NVIDIA.someversion.run --accept-license
Points (run chmod 755 against the file first).

You may have to (afterwards) run 'nvidia-xconfig' or something like that (I'm
rebuilding my current system right now and typing this from memory).

24 February 2014 9:43 PM (https://access.redhat.com/discussions/732093#comment-711713)

R. Hinton (/user/1603663)  Community Leader

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Jose, did you try booting to your other kernel??? See the comments near the end of
GURU this discussion (James Radtke). Then you can see if that works and make it work
6827 with your current kernel if you got a new kernel.
Points
What rhel version are you running? There are bugs for certmonger at certian
previous points with RHEL (saw this with Google results)

23 February 2014 12:09 AM (https://access.redhat.com/discussions/732093#comment-710943)

R. Hinton (/user/1603663)  Community Leader

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Hi Jose,
GURU
Sorry to hear your system is giving you trouble.
6827
Points
Try the tip above first from PixelDrift, be ready with pen/paper or a smart
phone to take a photo of errors during boot (if an option).
Check additional basic system recovery options through this Red Hat Rescue
Mode guidance... (https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-
US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Installation_Guide/ap-
rescuemode.html)
Take a bit and look at the overall boot process at this Red Hat documentation
(https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-
US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Installation_Guide/s1-boot-init-
shutdown-process.html)
Try logging into single user using the grub menu, check the log files for
errors/issues.
-- Examine your /etc/fstab and see if all your local partitions/mounts have
mounted 
-- While in single user mode, no remote mounts will mount.
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While in single user mode, check to see if you received a new kernel or other
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Do you use a system with an NVIDIA card or some other display driver that
needs updating after a kernel?
Is your system hanging on a remote mount?
Did you make any changes to your /etc/fstab very recently?
Do you have another like system that is behaving well and is not experiencing
these issues?

If you are able to get to the grub menu, go to single user and log in.

Then cd to /var/log/ - and check the latest log files written to (probably messages
file, maybe the yum.log file)

[root@yoursystem ~]# cd /var/log

[root@yoursystem log]# ls -ltr
[root@yoursystem log]# less messages

Look in the messages file (while in "less messages" hit SHIFT G together to go to
the bottom of the log. You'll have to scroll up to get past the typical boot messages,
but dig for a while and see if there's any obvious errorrs

Also, do a dmsg and scroll through the results to see if there's anything that looks
like it failed.

[root@yoursystem log]# dmesg

---check your output for anything obviously wrong---

Below, check to see if you got a recent kernel update:

1) The time/date stamp of your /boot/grub/grub.conf to see when the last time
it was updated (that is when the most likely time you received a kernel update)
2) The time/date stamp of /boot/vmlinuz-[latest-version] and
/boot/initramfs-[latest-version]

[root@yoursystem log]# ls -l /boot/grub/grub.conf

-rw-------. 1 root root 1800 ??? ?? ??:?? /boot/grub/grub.conf
[root@yoursystem log]# ls -l /boot/
[root@yoursystem log]# ls -ltr /boot/ | egrep 'vmlinuz|initramfs'

The question marks above will be different - make note of the date of grub.conf,
vmlinuz and initramfs files and determine if you the time/date stamps correspond
with the issues you faced.

Check your /var/log/yum.log file and see if you have any recent updates
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[root@yoursystem log]# cat /var/log/yum.log
---check your output---
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Check your mounts (local while in single-user mode) to see if everything

mounted as expected:
Also check your /etc/fstab against the df -PhT output from below

[root@yoursystem log]# df -PhT | column -t

[root@yoursystem log]# grep -v ^\# /etc/fstab

Check your partitions with 'fdisk -l' 'pvdisplay' 'vgdisplay' and 'lvdisplay' and
compare to your df -PhT output and output from your /etc/fstab.
Come back here and post if you need more help - someone should probably
reply.

Hopefully others will join in and provide anything I may have missed above,

Kind Regards,
Remmele

23 February 2014 1:20 AM (https://access.redhat.com/discussions/732093#comment-710973)

james.radtke@siriusxm.com (/user/3527103)  Community Leader

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You likely downloaded/installed a new kernel. I would first boot to one of the
GURU previous kernels to see if they still work. Press any key after the BIOS finishes.
6863
Points If the old kernel does boot, I would remove the other kernels and reboot. The install
the kernels again.

The tip from Pixel/Remmele is priceless - you can hit -esc- once the "progress bar"
appears (or shortly thereafter). The point where things go south will help quite a bit
in helping us figure this out.

25 February 2014 7:18 PM (https://access.redhat.com/discussions/732093#comment-712393)

jecalderon (/user/5414823)
(/user/5414823)
I like to thank you all for the effort helping me on this one.
ACTIVE
CONTRIBUTOR
I choose to do a full re-installation. Frankly, this got me for surprise, I choose to go
110 Points RHEL betting that I will never have to deal with freezes or crashes. But it looks like
the OS has too many tweets that require enhancement.

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R. Hinton (/user/1603663)  Community Leader

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(I and the others are) Glad to help,
(/user/1603663)
By the way, rhel is quite stable. the tips folks gave above - you might have been back
GURU
in business quickly. I've been an administrator with time in the trenches across most
6827
Points
major operating systems and RHEL Linux is far more predictable and stable than all
the others I've dealt with over decades. Although the BSD folks (bless their hearts)
might say theirs is the most stable etc...

THIS PARAGRAPH EDITED That aside, my Linux systems have far more stability in
my environment than the windows systems and the Solaris systems. EDITED: the
last statement was too heavy handed. Solaris Unix is actually very stable, and while
my preference is Linux, Solaris is quite stable. END EDIT Operating systems that
freeze etc may be the result of numerous things such as memory leaks (databases,
and more), a simple kernel patch for oracle, a full file system, or not going back to a
previous kernel on rare occasion. If you want something that never freezes or
requires tuning, you will find that will be a tough call in the long run because any OS
can be betrayed by it's lack of care/feeding, proper instantiation or ill-administration,
or even 3rd party software not properly instantiated.

If you can find an OS that doesn't have some discussion group or need for
troubleshooting or a support plan - make sure to pick that one. I wish you luck.

I mean the above plainly and with a full absence of negativity, but wanted to reply to
your last comment.

Kind regards, Remmele

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