From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 28 7:46:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 43CAC37B71B for ; Wed, 28 Feb 2001 07:46:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 36890 invoked by uid 100); 28 Feb 2001 15:46:13 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15005.7493.384691.230895@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 09:46:13 -0600 To: Brian Peterson Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Freezes at /sbin/init In-Reply-To: <40546830@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.89 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Brian Peterson types: > From: Jim Durham > ... > 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. 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