No login prompt and no tty's

Moin!

I have tested settings for my NIC and lost the network conection to my server. So, I would login me directly on the server and correct my settings - but there was no login promt after boot, only the boot messages. And all virtual consoles didn't work.
(I had to boot from a OS from a USB stick to reanable the network.)

A check over ssh confirmed: no tty is running.

root@server:~# ps -e | grep tty
root@server:~#

The getty settings in inittab looks correct to me:

1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1
2:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty2
3:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty3
4:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty4
5:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty5
6:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty6

Starting getty manually is working.

root@server:~# getty 38400 tty2 &
[1] 8137
root@server:~# ps -e | grep tty
 8137 pts/0    00:00:00 getty

I never had this problem before. And Google mostly find Xserver related stuff.

OMV 0.5.44
Linux 3.2.0-0.bpo.4-amd64
GUI and ssh working.
No other problems noticed.

So, what can I do?
Why do the tty's not start?

kalle

A little more information.

Based an this (https://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg3T1012075) my inittab is not load completly.

root@server:~# who -p
                      2014-04-13 08:55       1186 id=l2

root@server:~# ps -ef | grep 1186
root      1186     1  0 08:55 ?        00:00:00 /bin/sh /etc/init.d/rc 2
root      1189  1186  0 08:55 ?        00:00:00 startpar -p 4 -t 20 -T 3 -M start -P N -R 2
root      4688  2159  0 16:20 pts/0    00:00:00 grep 1186

This startpar process isn't finished and prevent the load of the rest of the inittab file, for example getty.

root@server:~# kill -9 1189

root@server:~# ps -ef | grep tty
root      4765     1  0 16:21 tty1     00:00:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty1
root      4766     1  0 16:21 tty2     00:00:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty2
root      4767     1  0 16:21 tty3     00:00:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty3
root      4768     1  0 16:21 tty4     00:00:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty4
root      4769     1  0 16:21 tty5     00:00:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty5
root      4770     1  0 16:21 tty6     00:00:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty6
root      4789  2159  0 16:21 pts/0    00:00:00 grep tty

When I kill startpar all tty's are loading.

Anyone know this problem?
What can I do?

kalle

Thanks for replying.

The last package I installed were Autoshutdown. And I modified it a little because I get multiple processes after a few suspend cycles, but not in the init script.
I have purged ASD and rebooted my server - but the problem still exists.

The last two lines on the screen when booting are:

Stopping watchdog keepalive daemon...
Starting watchdog daemon...

Maybe its helpfull.

The problem is, I'm not knowing when this began.
Normally, I dont have a screen connected to my server and don't using any of the tty's.

How can I find the faulty init script?

kalle

Oh, what a shame.

In rc.local I'm starting a little script, translating network names into IP's for using with autoshutdown.
And because it's running in a loop, rc.local never finished to load.

Sending my script to the background solves the tty problem.

SORRY!

Thanks.
kalle