From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 10 14:49:18 2000 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 F054E37B4CF for ; Fri, 10 Nov 2000 14:49:14 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 48879 invoked by uid 100); 10 Nov 2000 22:49:14 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14860.31594.95478.593472@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 16:49:14 -0600 (CST) To: Stanley Hopcroft Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.1-RELEASE. panic. I'm not going anywhere without my init. In-Reply-To: References: <14860.25478.379016.781155@guru.mired.org> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" 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 Stanley Hopcroft types: > > What do you mean by "looked fine"? Did you do a cmp on it and an > > offline copy that should have been ok? Did you save the init that > > wasn't working (always a good idea to do that kind of thing)? > > No to all of the above. "looked fine" is my asinine way of saying I > couldn't think of doing anything else apart from seeing that its size > was non zero, and that it was in /sbin. > > How could I have got the damaged file to another system to compare it > (apart from saving it and moving it later) ? You don't need to go that far. Just "mv /sbin/init /sbin/init-broken" before installing the new one and rebooting. You can then examine it at your leisure.