[gentoo-user] Problems Booting

[gentoo-user] Problems Booting

[serent]

I'm ~x86 on a dell laptop. 

I'm having some fun this morning. Everything was working this morning, but I 
shut down the system for my daily commute and now it won't boot. I seem to 
remember a few gnome emerges last night, but everything emerged cleanly and ran 
etc-update.

I have some failing init scripts such as xfs (ie, X Font Server) and net.eth0.  I did a 'rc-update del' on these and xdm, so that I'd have a starting point from which to work from. 

However, it sill won't give me a bash shell. It literally hangs after starting 
the last script. 

Does anybody know which rock to turn over to find out why this is the case? 

--Kurt

PS- I can boot off the Gentoo Live CD. I did a new 'emerge sync', but I can't 
find anything that would fix this. I also checked bugs.gentoo.com, but 
nada. I'm running fsck on all my file partitions to see if there is an 
error. 


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Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout 12.0.pre1- Problems Booting

[Kurt Guenther]

I masked the latest baselayout and remerged 11.13.  All is well again.   
I opened bug:

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99691



serent@bellsouth.net wrote:

>I'm ~x86 on a dell laptop. 
>
>I'm having some fun this morning. Everything was working this morning, but I 
>shut down the system for my daily commute and now it won't boot. I seem to 
>remember a few gnome emerges last night, but everything emerged cleanly and ran 
>etc-update.
>
>I have some failing init scripts such as xfs (ie, X Font Server) and net.eth0.  I did a 'rc-update del' on these and xdm, so that I'd have a starting point from which to work from. 
>
>However, it sill won't give me a bash shell. It literally hangs after starting 
>the last script. 
>
>Does anybody know which rock to turn over to find out why this is the case? 
>
>--Kurt
>
>PS- I can boot off the Gentoo Live CD. I did a new 'emerge sync', but I can't 
>find anything that would fix this. I also checked bugs.gentoo.com, but 
>nada. I'm running fsck on all my file partitions to see if there is an 
>error. 
>
>
>  
>

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Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout 12.0.pre1- Problems Booting

[Rumen Yotov]

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Kurt Guenther wrote:

>
> I masked the latest baselayout and remerged 11.13.  All is well 
> again.   I opened bug:
>
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99691
>
>
>
> serent@bellsouth.net wrote:
>
>> I'm ~x86 on a dell laptop.
>> I'm having some fun this morning. Everything was working this 
>> morning, but I shut down the system for my daily commute and now it 
>> won't boot. I seem to remember a few gnome emerges last night, but 
>> everything emerged cleanly and ran etc-update.
>>
>> I have some failing init scripts such as xfs (ie, X Font Server) and 
>> net.eth0.  I did a 'rc-update del' on these and xdm, so that I'd have 
>> a starting point from which to work from.
>> However, it sill won't give me a bash shell. It literally hangs after 
>> starting the last script.
>> Does anybody know which rock to turn over to find out why this is the 
>> case?
>> --Kurt
>>
>> PS- I can boot off the Gentoo Live CD. I did a new 'emerge sync', but 
>> I can't find anything that would fix this. I also checked 
>> bugs.gentoo.com, but nada. I'm running fsck on all my file partitions 
>> to see if there is an error.
>>
>>  
>>
>
Hi,
Can confirm on what Kurt said, also had problems "till need to boot from 
LiveCD" to repair the system with latest ~x86 baselayout-1.12.0_pre1-r1.
Will report on the Bug above (seems /etc/conf.d/rc to be the culpit).
HTH. Rumen

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Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout 12.0.pre1- Problems Booting

[Andrew Gaydenko]

It is possible to downgrade without CD using - just go into level 1.
I have done a baselayout downgrading this way :-)

======= On Wednesday 20 July 2005 21:51, Rumen Yotov wrote: =======

Hi,
Can confirm on what Kurt said, also had problems "till need to boot from 
LiveCD" to repair the system with latest ~x86 baselayout-1.12.0_pre1-r1.
Will report on the Bug above (seems /etc/conf.d/rc to be the culpit).
HTH. Rumen

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Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout 12.0.pre1- Problems Booting

[Rumen Yotov]

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Andrew Gaydenko wrote:

>It is possible to downgrade without CD using - just go into level 1.
>I have done a baselayout downgrading this way :-)
>
>======= On Wednesday 20 July 2005 21:51, Rumen Yotov wrote: =======
>
>Hi,
>Can confirm on what Kurt said, also had problems "till need to boot from 
>LiveCD" to repair the system with latest ~x86 baselayout-1.12.0_pre1-r1.
>Will report on the Bug above (seems /etc/conf.d/rc to be the culpit).
>HTH. Rumen
>
>  
>
Hi,
Thanks for the tip, but as i haven't messed much with runlevels, choose 
to go the "classical" way.
OT done bad things as unpacking a binary from / before to get the system 
back (missing glibc ;).
Rumen

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Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout 12.0.pre1- Problems Booting

[Andrew Gaydenko]

If you use grub, just edit from grub menu kernel string: add " init 1" to it's end.


======= On Wednesday 20 July 2005 22:40, Rumen Yotov wrote: =======
...

>It is possible to downgrade without CD using - just go into level 1.
>I have done a baselayout downgrading this way :-)
>
>======= On Wednesday 20 July 2005 21:51, Rumen Yotov wrote: =======
...
Hi,
Thanks for the tip, but as i haven't messed much with runlevels, choose 
to go the "classical" way.

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Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout 12.0.pre1- Problems Booting

[Kurt Guenther]

Andrew Gaydenko wrote:

>If you use grub, just edit from grub menu kernel string: add " init 1" to it's end.
>
>  
>

I'll have to keep that in mind.  I was successful with "init=/bin/bash", 
but then I couldn't run any of the init scripts.

Booting off the Live CD worked, but it's tedious after ~20 times.

--Kurt

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Re: [gentoo-user] Problems Booting

[Rumen Yotov]

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serent@bellsouth.net wrote:

>I'm ~x86 on a dell laptop. 
>
>I'm having some fun this morning. Everything was working this morning, but I 
>shut down the system for my daily commute and now it won't boot. I seem to 
>remember a few gnome emerges last night, but everything emerged cleanly and ran 
>etc-update.
>
>I have some failing init scripts such as xfs (ie, X Font Server) and net.eth0.  I did a 'rc-update del' on these and xdm, so that I'd have a starting point from which to work from. 
>
>However, it sill won't give me a bash shell. It literally hangs after starting 
>the last script. 
>
>Does anybody know which rock to turn over to find out why this is the case? 
>
>--Kurt
>
>PS- I can boot off the Gentoo Live CD. I did a new 'emerge sync', but I can't 
>find anything that would fix this. I also checked bugs.gentoo.com, but 
>nada. I'm running fsck on all my file partitions to see if there is an 
>error. 
>
>
>  
>
Hi,
As there are problems with latest baselayout (2-3 persons) on boot check 
for "baselayout-1.12.0_pre1-r1" and go to the stable/previous version: 
1.11.13.
HTH. Rumen

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Re: [gentoo-user] Problems Booting

[Richard Fish]

Rumen Yotov wrote:

> serent@bellsouth.net wrote:
>
>> I'm ~x86 on a dell laptop.
>> I'm having some fun this morning. Everything was working this 
>> morning, but I shut down the system for my daily commute and now it 
>> won't boot. I seem to
>>
> Hi,
> As there are problems with latest baselayout (2-3 persons) on boot 
> check for "baselayout-1.12.0_pre1-r1" and go to the stable/previous 
> version: 1.11.13.
> HTH. Rumen


So Kurt, here is your friendly tip/clue that you should have email sent 
from both "serent@bellsouth.net" and "kurtg@serent.com" include your name!

Cheers,

-Richard

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Re: [gentoo-user] Problems Booting

[Chris Woods]

Something very similar happened to me. baselayout-1.12.0_pre1-r1 was emerged 
in the past day or two, and the next time I rebooted, it hung up on what at 
first seemed to be having issues loading alsa. The boot did get into runlevel 
3, so I was able to get in remotely and mess around. After pruning various 
things from the startup routine, it turned out to be sys-apps/dbus causing the 
problem for me. I removed that from the init sequence, rebooted, and 
everything is back to normal (or seems to be).

I'm not familiar with dbus, but it was a dependency of evolution, and the very 
simple description of the "dbus" use flag seemed innocuous enough.

I'm still running on baselayout-1.12.0_pre1-r1.

Regards,
Chris

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