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  • From: Hamish Greig <hgreig AT bigpond.net.au>
  • To: Johan Olofsson <inmac AT sdf.lonestar.org>, sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
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  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Init upgrade
  • Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2003 01:18:47 +1000

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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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