# no more processes left in this runlevel

**URL:** <https://forums.suse.com/t/no-more-processes-left-in-this-runlevel/27060>\
**Category:** SLES Install-Boot\
**Created:** [May 21, 2015, 3:36pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/no-more-processes-left-in-this-runlevel/27060 "2015-05-21T15:36:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![technomoney](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/fbc32d/32.png) [@technomoney](https://forums.suse.com/u/technomoney)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2015, 3:36pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/no-more-processes-left-in-this-runlevel/27060/1 "2015-05-21T15:36:01Z")

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This morning one of our SLES 11.1 servers greeted us with a “no more processes left in this runlevel” on boot, which then locks up the device.

Some of reading I have done says to create a new inittab or mkinitrd to recreate initrd. So far neither has worked successfully. I can access the linux volumes with the install/rescue disk, but that’s about it.

Anyone have some suggestions?

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**Author:** ![Jens-U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d78d45/32.png) [@Jens-U](https://forums.suse.com/u/Jens-U)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2015, 4:05pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/no-more-processes-left-in-this-runlevel/27060/2 "2015-05-21T16:05:20Z")

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Hi technomoney,

a shot into the dark: Have you checked for full file systems, i.e. /var?

Else, what’s in the logs, especially /var/log/messages (or where-ever you may have redirected syslog)?

Regards,  
Jens

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**Author:** ![technomoney](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/fbc32d/32.png) [@technomoney](https://forums.suse.com/u/technomoney)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2015, 7:20pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/no-more-processes-left-in-this-runlevel/27060/3 "2015-05-21T19:20:13Z")

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> [@jmozdzen;27982](#):
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> what’s in the logs, especially /var/log/messages (or where-ever you may have redirected syslog)?

/var/log/messages

[XTCOM]: pam\_sm\_authenticate in pam\_ncl.c is called  
[XTCOM]: Password is not available to the NCL PAM module. So Reprompting for password  
[XTCOM]: pam\_sm\_authenticate in pam\_ncl.c is called  
controle-kit-daemon: Glib-GObject-WARNING: IA\_g\_object\_get\_valist: value location for ‘gchararray’ passed as NULL  
controle-kit-daemon: WARNING: Unable to restart system: Failed to execute child process “/usr/lib/ConsoleKit/scripts/ck-system-restart”

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**Author:** ![technomoney](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/fbc32d/32.png) [@technomoney](https://forums.suse.com/u/technomoney)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2015, 8:15pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/no-more-processes-left-in-this-runlevel/27060/4 "2015-05-21T20:15:04Z")

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Issue revolved. I had a corrupt /bin/bash file.

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**Author:** ![Jens-U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d78d45/32.png) [@Jens-U](https://forums.suse.com/u/Jens-U)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2015, 8:39pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/no-more-processes-left-in-this-runlevel/27060/5 "2015-05-21T20:39:41Z")

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Hi technomoney,

> [@technomoney;27994](#):
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> Issue revolved. I had a corrupt /bin/bash file.

Oh. Thanks for lettings us know, I’ll put the “rpm -V” on my list of things to check when nothing else catches the eye…

Regards,  
Jens