Re: Where did my init.d/boot go?
On Mon, Apr 06, 1998 at 11:42:50PM -0500, vandeveb@letu.edu wrote:
> Since hamm was frozen, I started the process of updating my bo system.
> I've been running hamm now for a week or so, and using FTP to update all
> of my out-of-date packages. Last night I installed some of the new
> packages, ( of which the only important one I remember was sysvinit ), and
> when I rebooted my system, I was no longer able to open a tty, and thus
> even though I logged in, and Linux validated my password, it was unable to
> give me a shell.
>
> After examining the boot messages, and seeing a line that said 'unable to
> find /etc/init.d/boot', I booted up from a beautiful little slackware
> rescue disk, and saw that my boot was now boot.OLD.
>
> How do I find out what package did this?
>
> I assume that whatever package moved my boot to boot.OLD, was intending to
> write a new file. Do I need this new boot file? My system seems to be
> running fine w/ my old boot.
>
Your install is broken by buggy grep 2.1-6.
I got the same result but I upgrade a copy of my system :)
Get grep 2.1-7 and maybe reinstall all packages by hand (whith: dpkg -i).
Mirek
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