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Broken startup; syslogd hangs...



At 10:10 AM 05/13/2000 +0930, John Pearson wrote:
On Fri, May 12, 2000 at 04:49:21PM -0500, Gregory Guthrie wrote
> Help!!
>
> I had a working system, and after several weeks up we were moving some
> (Apache) files around and wanted to make sure that the system setup for
> Apache was OK, se we re-booted.
>
> At re-boot I now get:
...
It's trying to fsck your extneded partition, rather than your true root
partition.  My guess is that /etc/fstab is wrong, and that it lists
/dev/hda1 as root instead of /dev/hda6.  The fact that you get to
single-user mode means that hte kernel and LILO are configured correctly.

-- John, Bingo. Thanks.

I now have another problem..

The boot goes into

INIT: entering run level 2
Starting system log daemon: syslogd

and hangs...

I edited /etc/rc2.d/S10sysklogd -> /etc/init.d/sysklogd to give hello messages, and find that is hangs on the actual call to start /sbin/syslogd. Commenting out this call and everything seems to run OK as far as I can tell. Trying to manually start syslogd also hangs. I notice that during boot a ctl-break shows a ps like table of processes, and that does show two instances of syslogd running.

Any ideas?

The other broken symptom is that networking does not work; ifconfig reports everything fine, but ping hangs, and the hub shows the link not active. During boot the ethernet card shows proper initialization, and seems OK.

The way I broke things seems that I had tar'ed up a lot of old files from a previous system, and accidently un'tared too many of them, including the /etc/fstab that was bad. nothing else from etc was in the archive, so I cannot account for the current problem.

Is there a "refresh system files" option for Debian with the rescue disk, or dselect, or ... ?

Thanks,
Gregory Guthrie

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Gregory Guthrie
guthrie@mum.edu         (515)472-1125    Fax: -1103
       Computer Science Department
       College of Science and Technology
       Maharishi University of Management
       http://www.mum.edu/csdept
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