HP-UX respawning boot failure


 
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Old 01-08-2008
HP-UX respawning boot failure

Hello.
System is a HP Visualize C3600 running X11 and after a power failure machine will not boot (see error messages below)

From what I've read, this may be caused by a corrupted etc/inittab file. Solution suggested on other websites is to boot in single user mode and edit file inittab commenting out offending lines. Was able to boot in ISL and use hpux -is to get command prompt, but vi not available. Wondering how to edit the inittab file and it this is indeed the correct solution.


Error messages:


INIT: Command is respawning too rapidly
id:cons "/usr/sbin/getty console console

INIT Command is respawing too rapidly
id:cim1 "/opt/ubem/sbine/cimserverd

INIT Command is respawing too rapidly
id:ems4 "/etc/opt/resmon/lbin/p_cllient

INIT Command is respawing too rapidly
id:samd "/usr/sam/lbin/samd * system mgmt daemon"
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Old 01-08-2008
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Old 01-08-2008
In this particular case, I suspect that filesystems are unmountable. Go back to single user mode and do:
mount -a -l
If everything mounts, then I am wrong. But you will then have vi available. Smilie

If they don't mount, use fsck on the broken ones.
 
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