From owner-freebsd-stable  Thu May 31  0:20:23 2001
Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Received: from dt051n37.san.rr.com (dt051n37.san.rr.com [204.210.32.55])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D52A37B423
	for <stable@FreeBSD.ORG>; Thu, 31 May 2001 00:20:20 -0700 (PDT)
	(envelope-from DougB@DougBarton.net)
Received: from DougBarton.net (master [10.0.0.2])
	by dt051n37.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA84264;
	Thu, 31 May 2001 00:20:08 -0700 (PDT)
	(envelope-from DougB@DougBarton.net)
Message-ID: <3B15F0A8.2A4E1BF6@DougBarton.net>
Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 00:20:08 -0700
From: Doug Barton <DougB@DougBarton.net>
Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority
X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386)
X-Accept-Language: en
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: Jim Bayers <bayers@yahoo.com>
Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Kernel Fails to Boot.  Errors out On MySQL
References: <20010530230634.25706.qmail@web11502.mail.yahoo.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Precedence: bulk
List-ID: <freebsd-stable.FreeBSD.ORG>
List-Archive: <http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/> (Web Archive)
List-Help: <mailto:majordomo?subject=help> (List Instructions)
List-Subscribe: <mailto:majordomo?subject=subscribe%20freebsd-stable>
List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:majordomo?subject=unsubscribe%20freebsd-stable>
X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG

Jim Bayers wrote:
> 
> I have a remote freebsd server.  I successfully did a
> buildworld, compiled the kernel and installed it.
> There were no errors.
> 
> When I rebooted, it didn't come back up.
> 
> A technician there--its a dedicated server--tried to
> 'boot kernel.old' and couldn't.  He's getting the
> message:
> 
> "starting mysqld daemon with databases from
> /var/db/mysql".
> 
> And it hangs.

	You need to get the system into single user mode, (use boot -s) then:

fsck -p
mount -a -t nonfs
cd /usr/local/etc/rc.d
for file in *; do
mv $file $file.dont
done

then 'exit'

Once the system comes up multiuser, diagnose and fix mysql problems. For
future reference, ALWAYS disable startup scripts for third party stuff
before _starting_ the upgrade. This is especially true for remote upgrades. 

Good luck,

Doug

To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message