Re: Broken startup; syslogd hangs...
On Sat, May 13, 2000 at 01:39:20PM -0500, Gregory Guthrie wrote
> At 10:10 AM 05/13/2000 +0930, John Pearson wrote:
> >On Fri, May 12, 2000 at 04:49:21PM -0500, Gregory Guthrie wrote
> > > Help!!
> > >
> > > I had a working system, and after several weeks up we were moving some
> > > (Apache) files around and wanted to make sure that the system setup for
> > > Apache was OK, se we re-booted.
> > >
> > > At re-boot I now get:
> >...
> >It's trying to fsck your extneded partition, rather than your true root
> >partition. My guess is that /etc/fstab is wrong, and that it lists
> >/dev/hda1 as root instead of /dev/hda6. The fact that you get to
> >single-user mode means that hte kernel and LILO are configured correctly.
>
> -- John, Bingo. Thanks.
>
> I now have another problem..
>
> The boot goes into
>
> INIT: entering run level 2
> Starting system log daemon: syslogd
>
> and hangs...
>
Funny thing - I had the *exact same thing* the other day setting
up a new machine. I didn't formally diagnose the problem, but
noticed that the fancy new MB (MB 6136PRO) I was using had
assigned the same IRQ to 2 network cards and my SCSI controller.
I fixed it by shuffling cards and re-installing (after tearing
my hair out for an hour or three, and on a machine with no user
data on it, it seemed the expedient thing).
Assuming you already have good hardware and no resource conflicts,
try re-installing the sysklogd package in case the problem is a
corrupt file.
> I edited /etc/rc2.d/S10sysklogd -> /etc/init.d/sysklogd to give hello
> messages, and find that is hangs on the actual call to start /sbin/syslogd.
> Commenting out this call and everything seems to run OK as far as I can
> tell. Trying to manually start syslogd also hangs. I notice that during
> boot a ctl-break shows a ps like table of processes, and that does show two
> instances of syslogd running.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> The other broken symptom is that networking does not work; ifconfig reports
> everything fine, but ping hangs, and the hub shows the link not active.
> During boot the ethernet card shows proper initialization, and seems OK.
>
This is almost uncanny - the one unresolved issue with the
machine I mentioned above is a 3c905 Bommerand card that
configures OK, but passes no packets; ping, telnet, etc. all
return no output, and the packet counters shown by ifconfig are
stuck at zero. I'm back to the site today with a DOS boot disk
and 3Com's configuration utility to see if disabling Plug'n'Play
mode (or some similar trick) fixes things. Maybe you should
look into that?
John P.
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