[BlueOnyx:13318] Re: Booting stops at: Clearing pam_abl databases

[Chris Gebhardt - VIRTBIZ Internet]

On 7/8/2013 8:10 AM, Richard Morgan wrote:
> Hi, hope someone can help with this...
>
> I ended up rebooting a server as it had hundreds of processes for /usr/sbin/pam_abl --purge and the CPU usage was very high.
>
> It's starting up then getting to the message:
>
> Clearing pam_abl databases
>
> At this point it just stops (I don't know if there's disk activity as it's in a data centre).
>
> Is this likely to eventually complete or is there anything else I can do?
>
> Thanks, all help is appreciated.

Hi Richard,
It may or may not complete and move on.   If it does not, then you may 
wish to consider rebooting into single user mode and then manually 
purging like so:
rm /var/lib/abl/hosts.db
rm /var/lib/abl/users.db

FWIW, that would likely have allowed you to "purge" without having to 
reboot.  Something for "next time".   :)

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