"Multi-user.target start" and "graphical.target" hang
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Environment
Azure Cloud Environment.
Situation
Running “runlevel” the response is “unknown”.
Both multi-user.target and graphical.target are in an inactive dead state.
Trying to isolate to multi-user.target hangs until it is manually terminated.
Resolution
"systemctl list-jobs" shows the following:
JOB UNIT TYPE STATE
259 sapstart.service start running
105 multi-user.target start waiting
232 systemd-update-utmp-runlevel.service start waiting
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sapstart.service is stuck in an endless loop.
Update the sapstart.service and run "systemctl daemon-reload".
Cause
The sapstart.service called a user customized script which had a "while loop" with no limit on retries causing an endless loop.
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- Document ID:000020259
- Creation Date: 26-May-2021
- Modified Date:11-Jun-2021
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