[SUMMARY] boot failure with utmpx write issue

From: Felix Schattschneider <felix.schattschneider_at_dw-world.de>
Date: Tue May 09 2006 - 05:20:48 EDT
Hi everybody,

thanks for all of your hints, which unfortunately didn't help me in my 
case, but anyway, finally I found the problem which was the file 
/etc/inittab. Somehow, and I really cannot explain why, this file didn't 
contain the original content but the content of some rc-script, so after 
replacing it with an inittab from another server, the machine booted 
flawlessly.

We're talking voodoo here...

Felix

> When booting, I get a
> 
> INIT: Cannot create /var/adm/utmpx
> INIT: failed write of utmpx entry:"  "
> INIT: SINGLE USER MODE
> Type control-d to proceed with normal startup, (or give root password 
> for system maintenance):
> 
> Sadly, I cannot even get into single user mode, as any input is ignored 
> and the machine just seems to be dead.

-- 
Mit freundlichen Gr|_en,
Felix Schattschneider

felix.schattschneider@dw-world.de
+49 228 429 3729
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