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Re: re-exec init??



In article <[🔎] E13VIo8-0000va-00@debian>,  <mcclosk@cats.ucsc.edu> wrote:
>Sep  1 23:03:26 debian init: Trying to re-exec init
>
>Isn't it true that init should only be started at boot time and when
>changing runlevels? Or have I misunderstood? What could bring about an
>attempt to restart it when the system is up and running? I've
>certainly not seen an entry like this in the log files before.

Usually a libc6 upgrade will do this ('init u') so that init runs
with the new libraries as well. Otherwise init would keep open the
old libs during a reboot, causing a filesystem inconsistency.

>There was one other worrisome entry, this one in kern.log:
>Sep  2 09:48:12 debian kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for
>kswapd...

Aka "out of memory"

>I'd be grateful for any advice or information. My normal mail-server
>is down for the weekend. If you could copy any replies to
>    mcclosk@cats.ucsc.edu
>I'd be even more grateful.

Sorry, reading this in a local gatewayed newsgroup

Mike.



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