Re: [gentoo-server] can't boot anymore!

["Kerin Millar" <kerframil@gmail.com>]

On 10/04/2008, Davide Cittaro <davide.cittaro@ifom-ieo-campus.it> wrote:
> Hi there, I think I've messed up something in init scripts and probably I'm
> missing something... btw I have some machines, different hardware, and they
> all can't boot.
>  When udev is used (as specified in /etc/conf.d/rc) it crashes and disks
> can't be created, so I have only an emergency shell...
>  If I specify static devices (also in /etc/conf.d/rc) I have fsck working on
> disks, but later on it freezes on "Caching services dependendecies"... If I
> interrupt it says that /var/lib/init.d/depcache doesn't exists and /sbin/rc
> fails with a segfault on "chgrp utmp /var/run/utmp"...
>  I really can't get rid of this... Since I've never touched udev rules or
> init scripts I guess it somehow has to do with some broken ebuild...

I've seen a similar issue mentioned in the forums before. Ensure that
/etc/init.d only contains valid scripts (no incomplete merges and the
like) and also that there are no orphaned files (qfile -o
/etc/init.d/*). Then try touch /etc/init.d/*; /sbin/depscan.sh
--update.

Regards,

--Kerin
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