XServe hangs on software reboot

[j_chang]

I have 8 new Xserve (10.4.1) that hangs when the blue screens pop up and the spinwheel keeps spinning instead of the login window.

I boot up in a single user mode and ran fsck -fy (boot partition) and fsck_hfs -f (two other drives) it gave the status of OK.

System Log:

Jul 7 12:49:31 US-Server configd[32]: executing /System/Library/SystemConfiguration/Kicker.bundle/Contents/Resources/enable-networkJul 7 12:49:31 US-Server configd[32]: posting notification com.apple.system.config.network_changeJul 7 12:49:31 US-Server lookupd[86]: lookupd (version 365) starting – Thu Jul 7 12:49:31 2005Jul 7 12:49:31 US-Server configd[32]: setting hostname to “us_server.privateschool.com”Jul 7 12:49:35 US-Server configd[32]: AppleTalk startup completeJul 7 12:49:35 US-Server configd[32]: AppleTalk shutdownJul 7 12:49:35 US-Server configd[32]: AppleTalk shutdown completeJul 7 12:49:35 US-Server configd[32]: AppleTalk startupJul 7 12:49:41 US-Server configd[32]: AppleTalk startup complete

===== Recycle the Power ==========

After serveral reboot, the system finally came up.

Any idea?

Thanx.

[Zeheeba]

I believe that if the hang is happening on the blue screen before the startup process status bar, then the problem could be hardware related since the OS actually hasn’t loaded up yet. Hopefully someone can clarify this…

Z

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