Re: portmap segfaulting, debian unbootable
On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Adam C Powell IV wrote:
> I just upgraded sid yesterday, and tried to reboot this morning, but
> portmap is segfaulting, and the machine doesn't seem to timeout while
> trying to mount remote filesystems.
>
> The portmap package seems pretty old, but I think its March 18-19 build
> date was after the gmon_start stuff was fixed...
>
> Any ideas? I'm afraid my only repair options are to boot into redhat or
> completely reinstall... :-(
You should be able to boot with init=/bin/sh (or a similar shell). Unless
you are nfs booting, then it should be easier to fix. Then downgrade to a
working version of portmap.
You can almost always avoid a reinstall, well sometimes it is faster
though :)
-Rms
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