From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30614 invoked by uid 1002); 10 Feb 2003 14:40:58 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 5340 invoked from network); 10 Feb 2003 14:40:58 -0000 Message-ID: <4636.199.18.40.130.1044887551.squirrel@mail.uberdavis.com> Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 09:32:31 -0500 (EST) From: "John P. Davis" To: In-Reply-To: <20030210142723.GH17098@lostlogicx.com> References: <4395.199.18.40.130.1044886069.squirrel@mail.uberdavis.com> <20030210142723.GH17098@lostlogicx.com> X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal Cc: , , Reply-To: zhen@gentoo.org X-Mailer: SquirrelMail (version 1.2.8) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] Help! X-Archives-Salt: 1e248d39-f89a-4e29-a6ac-581850ef748d X-Archives-Hash: a787d2eb57d781ca6bf799350ef0e1f2 > 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 --=20 John P. Davis Gentoo Linux, Inc. Documentation Coordinator Bugzilla Administrator http://www.gentoo.org zhen@gentoo.org -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list