Re: [monit] Server Won't Boot

[Martin Pala]

Have you analyzed why your system is not booting? Who is "they"?

Monit shouldn't prevent the system from boot. Regardless of whether  
you configured it via inittab or init.d script, if the service fails,  
the system is able to resume normally. The root cause seems to be  
outside of monit, most probably configuration issue. The OS reinstall  
is overkill from my point of view - you should find the root cause.

You didn't provided any details on your system. What system it is,  
how is monit installed, configured and started, provide all relevant  
system logs. Provide the console output up to the system freeze.


Martin

P.S. Did you tried the single user mode to recover the system?


On Jan 5, 2008, at 5:14 PM, mike johnson wrote:

> I have monit 4.10.1 installed on my server and everything seemed to  
> be going ok. It would restart apache from time to time as I needed  
> it to. Then last night the server went down for some reason. Since  
> this is a dedicated server I sent a reboot request to my host. They  
> responded with
>
> "The system is failing on reboot. The error message is :
>
> Cannot execute /usr/local/bin/monit"
>
> They kept working with the server then finally said
>
> "Your server won't reboot after repeated instances to rebuild the  
> init.d . The only choice we have left is to reload your OS. Please  
> let us know if you have any external backups for us to proceed with  
> the reload."
>
> Why would monit keep the server from booting?
>
> Cheers,
> Mike
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