[gentoo-dev] Help!

[gentoo-dev] Help!

[John P. Davis]

Hi all -
All that I can say is *arg*.
I was working on my machine last night, and it hard crashed. Upon restart,
it seems that /var/state/init.d/* is invalid (shows processess that are
started (but not really), etc) and therefore I cannot boot and my rootfs
stays ro (annoying). I can get into my system via single user, but that is
worthless thanks to my ro root fs. I tried copying /var/state/init.d from
the livecd into my own /var/state/init.d, but no joy there. Any ideas?

Cheers,
//zhen
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Gentoo Linux, Inc.
Documentation Coordinator
Bugzilla Administrator
http://www.gentoo.org
zhen@gentoo.org



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[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] Help!

[Brandon Low]

My guess: this is probably caused by an upgrade then downgrade of baselayout from 1.5.x to 1.6.x and back.  If you get into the system in single user and make sure that your /etc/is all on 1 version or the other of baselayout (prferably 1.5.x) you should be OK.

That is JUST A GUESS, good luck!

--B

On Mon, 02/10/03 at 09:07:49 -0500, John P. Davis wrote:
> Hi all -
> All that I can say is *arg*.
> I was working on my machine last night, and it hard crashed. Upon restart,
> it seems that /var/state/init.d/* is invalid (shows processess that are
> started (but not really), etc) and therefore I cannot boot and my rootfs
> stays ro (annoying). I can get into my system via single user, but that is
> worthless thanks to my ro root fs. I tried copying /var/state/init.d from
> the livecd into my own /var/state/init.d, but no joy there. Any ideas?
> 
> Cheers,
> //zhen
> -- 
> John P. Davis
> Gentoo Linux, Inc.
> Documentation Coordinator
> Bugzilla Administrator
> http://www.gentoo.org
> zhen@gentoo.org
> 
> 
> 
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[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] Help!

[John P. Davis]

> My guess: this is probably caused by an upgrade then downgrade of
> baselayout from 1.5.x to 1.6.x and back.  If you get into the system in
> single user and make sure that your /etc/is all on 1 version or the
> other of baselayout (prferably 1.5.x) you should be OK.
>
> That is JUST A GUESS, good luck!
>
> --B
>
> On Mon, 02/10/03 at 09:07:49 -0500, John P. Davis wrote:
>> Hi all -
>> All that I can say is *arg*.
>> I was working on my machine last night, and it hard crashed. Upon
>> restart, it seems that /var/state/init.d/* is invalid (shows
>> processess that are started (but not really), etc) and therefore I
>> cannot boot and my rootfs stays ro (annoying). I can get into my
>> system via single user, but that is worthless thanks to my ro root fs.
>> I tried copying /var/state/init.d from the livecd into my own
>> /var/state/init.d, but no joy there. Any ideas?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> //zhen
>> --
>> John P. Davis
>> Gentoo Linux, Inc.
>> Documentation Coordinator
>> Bugzilla Administrator
>> http://www.gentoo.org
>> zhen@gentoo.org
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> gentoo-core@gentoo.org mailing list

That shouldn't be too much of a problem, but what do I do if I see
different versions of baselayout? Since my root fs is ro, how could I fix
that? Chroot from a livecd?

Cheers,
//zhen
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John P. Davis
Gentoo Linux, Inc.
Documentation Coordinator
Bugzilla Administrator
http://www.gentoo.org
zhen@gentoo.org



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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] Help!

[Brandon Low]

mount -o remount,rw /dev/rootfs

On Mon, 02/10/03 at 09:32:31 -0500, John P. Davis wrote:
> 
> > My guess: this is probably caused by an upgrade then downgrade of
> > baselayout from 1.5.x to 1.6.x and back.  If you get into the system in
> > single user and make sure that your /etc/is all on 1 version or the
> > other of baselayout (prferably 1.5.x) you should be OK.
> >
> > That is JUST A GUESS, good luck!
> >
> > --B
> >
> > On Mon, 02/10/03 at 09:07:49 -0500, John P. Davis wrote:
> >> Hi all -
> >> All that I can say is *arg*.
> >> I was working on my machine last night, and it hard crashed. Upon
> >> restart, it seems that /var/state/init.d/* is invalid (shows
> >> processess that are started (but not really), etc) and therefore I
> >> cannot boot and my rootfs stays ro (annoying). I can get into my
> >> system via single user, but that is worthless thanks to my ro root fs.
> >> I tried copying /var/state/init.d from the livecd into my own
> >> /var/state/init.d, but no joy there. Any ideas?
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> //zhen
> >> --
> >> John P. Davis
> >> Gentoo Linux, Inc.
> >> Documentation Coordinator
> >> Bugzilla Administrator
> >> http://www.gentoo.org
> >> zhen@gentoo.org
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> gentoo-core@gentoo.org mailing list
> 
> That shouldn't be too much of a problem, but what do I do if I see
> different versions of baselayout? Since my root fs is ro, how could I fix
> that? Chroot from a livecd?
> 
> Cheers,
> //zhen
> -- 
> John P. Davis
> Gentoo Linux, Inc.
> Documentation Coordinator
> Bugzilla Administrator
> http://www.gentoo.org
> zhen@gentoo.org
> 
> 
> 
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[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] Help!

[Colin Morey]

On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 14:34, Brandon Low wrote:
> mount -o remount,rw /dev/rootfs
> 
> On Mon, 02/10/03 at 09:32:31 -0500, John P. Davis wrote:
<BIG SNIP>
come on people, was it really important to quote the whole of the
previous messages? :)

there are still people who pay for their bandwidth, (even worse there
are some people who are on dial-ups).
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[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] Help!

[Riyad Kalla]

Colin,
You are being very insensitive to the group of us that have 
NO long term memory and NEED to see all 18 pages and 46 replies :)

Kidding!

> > <BIG SNIP>
> > come on people, was it really important to quote the whole of
> > the previous messages? :)
> > 
> > there are still people who pay for their bandwidth, (even
> > worse there are some people who are on dial-ups).
> > -- 
> > Colin Morey <peitolm@gentoo.org>


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[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] Help!

[John P. Davis]

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Heh, reemerging baselayout fixed it ;-)
No hard feelings seth!

Cheers,
//zhen
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Gentoo Linux Technologies, Inc.
Senior Developer / Bugzilla Administrator

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