Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 09:46:13 -0600 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Brian Peterson <brianp@apocalypse.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Freezes at /sbin/init Message-ID: <15005.7493.384691.230895@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <40546830@toto.iv>
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Brian Peterson <brianp@apocalypse.org> types: > From: Jim Durham <durham@w2xo.pgh.pa.us> > ... > As to why /sbin/init won't run, more information would be a real > help. When you mount the drive from the fixit floppy, does /sbin > exist? Does init exist? Can you fsck all the partitions on the > hard drive successfully? > > Yes, they both exist on the hard drive. Fsck runs ok; at least, > it does phase 1-5 without complaint, and goes on to tell me how > many files I have, the disk fragmentation, etc. > This happens for /, /usr, and /var. (All my filesystems.) Try comparing /sbin/init on the fixit file system to the one on your file system. If they aren't the same, move the old one and copy the new one into place. > I should mention that daemons are started from /usr/local/etc/rc.d. > This directory contains Bourne shell scripts to fire the various > daemons, and such scripts should also understand the arguments > "start" and "stop". > > Are you sure your installation completed? Things will get very > strange if you bail out early. > > Guess what? I don't HAVE anything in /usr/local !!! > Certainly not a /usr/local/etc/rc.d > (There IS a /usr/local directory, though. It's just empty.) He's only half right. Ports daemons are started from /usr/local/etc/rc.d. Base system daemons are started from /etc/rc (or the things it runs). Don't worry about it being empty - at least not yet. The problem you've described is apparently happening before that. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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