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I have a somewhat strange problem. I run SL6.5 (a RHEL clone) and a couple months ago updated the kernel. The kernel release notes can be found here. I updated to the 431.17.1 kernel. During boot, the boot process mostly completes, but it hangs right before the login screen appears. If I boot to the older kernel (431.11.2), everything boots fine. The 431.20.3 kernel acts just like the 431.17.1. Below is the screen when it hangs (I apologize for the quality/glare, there is no good way to take a screen cap during boot).

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Note that sshd has sucessfully started at this point, so I booted into a liveCD onto one of my co-workers desktops and used ssh to connect to the computer. The connect worked fine, I was able to navigate my root file system, and even started matlab using X11 forwarding which appeared without issue.

I have tried looking at the /var/log and don't see any major errors occuring during boots. I am wondering what I can do to sort out what is causing this, and how I might fix it.

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  • Looks like it hangs at "atd" do you know what that is./
    – Ramhound
    Jun 20, 2014 at 15:50
  • no, but I turned it off in ntsysv, and it just stopped right after the crond. Jun 20, 2014 at 15:53
  • You need to determine what it is or figure a way to skip atd and crond
    – Ramhound
    Jun 20, 2014 at 15:54
  • I turned off the last 4 services on the list one by one and it had no effect. And is the last service to start before the login screen appears. I think it is hanging somewhere in between. Jun 20, 2014 at 16:23

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After trying to figure out what was hanging by using ntsysv to turn off services shown in the image in the question and getting nowhere, I decided to see if it was the actual display of the login screen that caused the problem. I checked, and NVIDIA had released a new driver, so I downloaded it an booted into run-level 3 to install it. At this point I realized that the new kernel booted fine in run-level 3.

After installing the new driver, the new kernel booted without issue. I don't know if the new driver solved it, or if rebuilding the old driver would have been sufficient (I am guessing that it would have been).

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