I've an ultra 5, and if I install unstable with the 2.6 kernel on it, it hangs during boot like this. I've added set -x to the script that seems to be hanging it: Initializing random number generator...done. Recovering nvi editor sessions... done. + test -x /usr/bin/audioctl + PARAMS= + DEVICE= + '[' -f /etc/default/audioctl ']' + . /etc/default/audioctl + case "$1" in + echo -n 'Setting audio parameters...' Setting audio parameter Yes, it really seems to hang midway through the echo. Except it's not really hung, the machine still responds to ping, just the console doesn't work. Strange huh? I tried removing /etc/rcS.d/S75audioctl, and the system then boots and works ok. After it's booted, I can run /etc/init.d/audioctl start with no problems. I've tried reinstalling, and reproduce the problem every time, though it's fine if I install a 2.4 kernel. I tried installing ssh and configuring it to start before audioctl during boot. I could log in via ssh, and was suprised to see that the init script no longer seems to be running, and no other init scripts are running either. This is a complete ps fax: PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND 1 ? S 0:03 init boot 2 ? SN 0:00 [ksoftirqd/0] 3 ? S< 0:00 [events/0] 4 ? S< 0:00 \_ [khelper] 16 ? S< 0:00 \_ [kblockd/0] 27 ? S 0:00 \_ [pdflush] 28 ? S 0:00 \_ [pdflush] 30 ? S< 0:00 \_ [aio/0] 15 ? S 0:00 [powerd] 17 ? S 0:00 [khubd] 29 ? S 0:00 [kswapd0] 133 ? S 0:00 [kseriod] 206 ? S 0:00 [kjournald] 216 ? Ss 0:00 [init] 367 ? S 0:00 [kjournald] 368 ? S 0:00 [kjournald] 369 ? S 0:00 [kjournald] 370 ? S 0:00 [kjournald] 371 ? S 0:00 [kjournald] 795 ? Ss 0:00 dhclient -e -pf /var/run/dhclient.eth0.pid -lf /var/r 802 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/sshd 855 ? Ss 0:00 \_ sshd: root@pts/0 858 pts/0 Ss 0:00 \_ -bash 919 pts/0 R+ 0:00 \_ ps fax I was not ale to strace init, so I don't know what it's doing. telinit does not seem to work. And that process 216 that is apparently a swapped out init child is very strange. Nothing interesting in dmesg, and of course syslogd is not running yet. One other interesting thing is that if I echo to /dev/console, it hangs. Here's another weird thing: If I turn on bootlogd, it doesn't hang. -- see shy jo
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