no more processes left in this runlevel

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server SLES Install-Boot
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This morning one of our SLES 11.1 servers greeted us with a “no more processes left in this runlevel” on boot, which then locks up the device.

Some of reading I have done says to create a new inittab or mkinitrd to recreate initrd. So far neither has worked successfully. I can access the linux volumes with the install/rescue disk, but that’s about it.

Anyone have some suggestions?

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Hi technomoney,

a shot into the dark: Have you checked for full file systems, i.e. /var?

Else, what’s in the logs, especially /var/log/messages (or where-ever you may have redirected syslog)?

Regards,
Jens

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/var/log/messages

[XTCOM]: pam_sm_authenticate in pam_ncl.c is called
[XTCOM]: Password is not available to the NCL PAM module. So Reprompting for password
[XTCOM]: pam_sm_authenticate in pam_ncl.c is called
controle-kit-daemon: Glib-GObject-WARNING: IA_g_object_get_valist: value location for ‘gchararray’ passed as NULL
controle-kit-daemon: WARNING: Unable to restart system: Failed to execute child process “/usr/lib/ConsoleKit/scripts/ck-system-restart”

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Issue revolved. I had a corrupt /bin/bash file.

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Hi technomoney,

Oh. Thanks for lettings us know, I’ll put the “rpm -V” on my list of things to check when nothing else catches the eye…

Regards,
Jens