To narrow the problem, have you tried removing the HAL Daemon from the default run
level?  If not HAL, then maybe try service which begins after HAL during boot. Or
maybe boot to run-level 1 and start each services until the computer hangs.


On Sun, 29 May 2005 16:30:26 -0700 (PDT), Dennis Kibbe pushed these keyboard buttons:
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>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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