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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

Quoting Rohan Nicholls <rohan.nicholls AT pareto.nl>:
> Hi guys,
> 
> Me again with more questions.
> 
> I have installed sourcemage on a new dell laptop at work.  Everything
> was working fine with booting etc. Until I followed the instructions
> about upgrading the system,
> 
> from the wiki:
> Note: Now is the PERFECT time to do a rebuild of your system. But first
> you'll want to update sorcery and your grimoires with "sorcery update &&
> scribe update" then choose your features and compilation options in
> Sorcery with "sorcery".
> CAVEAT Before doing the rebuild, you will want to update the following
> spells (in order): 
> binutils gcc gettext glibc
> using this command "cast -c binutils gcc gettext glibc"
> this will get you past the nastiness of recompiling everything (again)
> when gettext/glibc are updated to use your architecture specs. 
>       * gettext no longer triggers a rebuild of glibc [since 0.7], so
>         you now need to list it.
> Follow the cast -c command by 'sorcery rebuild' to do the full rebuild.
> 
> I did all that and it took a whole day, and the next day when I booted
> to smgl it was happy, ran through loading the kernel, through runlevelS
> and when it went to runlevel2 it had success getting networking going
> and then froze (not in the crash sort of way, the keyboard responded but
> it seemed as though it was waiting for something); Ctrl-c would not make
> it skip to the next task, and the only thing that had any effect was
> hitting Ctrl-Alt-Delete twice at which point it went into the shutdown
> sequence.
> 
> I have been looking around in the rc and init scripts that I could find,
> and am going to start looking more closely at it, but I also have to get
> work done, so I hoping someone has a quick answer for me.
> 
> While I was wondering around the scripts I see that sourcemage has gone
> for a simpler init solution than the sysV one, more leaning towards the
> bsd one which I MUCH prefer.  I am about to visit the wiki and see if I
> can figure out what is called when in the way of services and how.  So
> just wanted to say nice choice for the init, as it actually looks
> comprehensible to the likes of l'il ol' me.:-)

I also had this problem and doing a `cast -r -c init.d simpleinit-msb` fixed 
it
(not sure if the recast of simpleinit-msb is necessary, but it's what I did).

-sandalle

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Eric Sandall                     |  Source Mage GNU/Linux Developer
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http://eric.sandall.us/          |  SysAdmin @ Inst. Shock Physics @ WSU
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