Dennis Kibbe wrote:

> After an unclean shutdown RHEL4 WS refuses to boot and locks up at "Starting HAL Daemon".
> 
> Pressing "I" for interative mode when requested doesn't do anything,  computer continues to boot in non-interactive mode.
> 
> Removing the "rhgb" and "quiet" from the boot options and booting to runleven 3 doesn't solve the problem.  I can reach a login: prompt but the machine is locked at that point.  Can not type; can not change tty.  Booting to runlevel 1 (single-user) is the only thing that works.
> 
> I've seen some references to this problem by googling, but have found no solution.  The RH Knowledgebase didn't offer anything useful.
> 
> Has anyone else experienced this?  And how did you resolve the problem
> 
> My Slackware installation has never done this to me. <g>
> 
> Dennisk
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I haven't seen this, but it sounds interesting.
Anything in /var/log/messages that may give a clue?

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