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Hi friends, need help wrt. a OEL server reboot issue.. I have installed Oracle Ent Linux on SUN x4170 server. uname -a output... Linux OFSVS-11 2.6.18-128.2.1.4.9.el5xen #1 SMP Fri Oct ...
  1. 02-08-2010 #1
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    OEL server reboot issues.. unusual.

    Hi friends,

    need help wrt. a OEL server reboot issue..
    I have installed Oracle Ent Linux on SUN x4170 server.
    uname -a output...
    Linux OFSVS-11 2.6.18-128.2.1.4.9.el5xen #1 SMP Fri Oct 9 14:57:31 EDT 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

    when i give init 6 the server hangs after completing the shutdown process..
    the normal scenario will be the server will initiate a reboot but here what i have seen is the server is in hung state.. it just gives a blank screen..
    Request your help..
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    You need to look at the log files to see what process is not terminating and hanging the reboot. Since you are running a Xen-enabled kernel, do you have any virtual machines running when you do the do the shutdown/reboot? Also, you say you are changing the runlevel to 6 (reboot). What happens when you issue the reboot command itself - I presume you are doing a telinit 6 instead?
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    The /var/log/messages doesn't give anything related to the same. yes its a XEN enabled kernel but this issue is noticed even when no VMs are running on it.
    Also just to cross check, we installed RHEL on a server (same make model) and the reboot was happening properly..
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    Sounds like a problem with Oracle's version of RHEL then... Drop them a nasty-gram about this.
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