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[Hamish Greig <hgreig AT bigpond.net.au>]

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On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 21:31, Johan Olofsson wrote:
> My smgl box hangs on Entered runlevel default...
> after i upgraded it to use the new init system i did recast init.d devfsd
> and net-tools
>
> sorcery devel
> girmore test
>
recasting init.d after the initial install and before a reboot is a sure way 
to hose the whole thing.
the init.d conversion checks for the existence of /devices as a dir and asks 
you if you want to convert the scripts to use /dev.
one part of the shutdown and reboot scripting (tshutdown and smgl_cleanup) is 
to remove this dir and symlink /dev to /devices. If you recast init.d before 
the reboot then it still finds that dir and defaults to /devices again and 
the whole thing gets hosed, the scripts and spells you have just cast can get 
mv-ed to /etc/init.d.backup and the whole thing starts from scratch. the 
files like /etc/inittab proper list /dev as the devfs mount point but 
/etc/sysconfig/devices will show /devices which will also cause a problem.
It really isn't necessary to do anything repeatedly and the only user input 
is 
to edit lilo.conf or rebuild kernel to mount devfs on boot if you have chosen 
to use /dev
Hamish
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