Re: /etc/nologin appearing on upgrade
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 05:10:36PM +0100, Russell Coker wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Mar 2003 15:04, Russell Coker wrote:
> > I was in the middle of upgrading to today's unstable when my machine became
> > unstable. The X server became confused and stopped accepting keyboard
> > input for unknown reasons.
>
> This has just happened on a second machine. Process 1 seems to have the
> command-line "init boot" and the system startup scripts are running. As some
> of the daemons are already running one of the startup scripts hangs and then
> init doesn't get to reap defunct processes or remove the /etc/nologin file it
> created.
>
> I still don't know which package caused this or why.
If DELAYLOGIN=yes in /etc/default/rcS, The boot scripts touch /etc/nologin
early in the boot process to disallow logins until the system has fully come
up (see /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh). So, if init were prodded into trying to
execute the boot sequence on a running system, this could happen.
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- mdz
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