Broken Startup (repeat)...
I seem to have somehow have broken my system, and want a minimal way to ix it;
Is there a "refresh system files" option for Debian with the rescue disk,
or dselect, or ... ?
I.e. to say "install base" from a rescue, will this do an add-only refresh
of files from the archives, or will it wipe out what I have and start over?
Since the system was working FINE before a re-boot, I feel that there must
just be one small thing somewhere broken...
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> 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:
The boot goes into
INIT: entering run level 2
Starting system log daemon: syslogd
and hangs...
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.
The way I broke things seems that I had tar'ed up a lot of old files from a
previous system, and accidently un'tared too many of them, including the
/etc/fstab that was bad. nothing else from etc was in the archive, so I
cannot account for the current problem.
Is there a "refresh system files" option for Debian with the rescue disk,
or dselect, or ... ?
Thanks,
Gregory Guthrie
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Dr. Gregory Guthrie
guthrie@mum.edu (515)472-1125 Fax: -1103
Computer Science Department
College of Science and Technology
Maharishi University of Management
(Maharishi International University 1971-1995)
http://www.mum.edu/cs_dept
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