On 5/21/06, Teresa and Dale <teendale@vista-express.com> wrote:
>
> fei huang wrote:
>
> > This issue was found when I started to use gentoo again after around
> > three months. I remember that I updated some packages including the
> > portage... the system suspends with  " *no more* processes *left in
> > this runlevel*
> > <
> http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=2&url=http%3A%2F%2Flists.debian.org%2Fdebian-user-catalan%2F2005%2F12%2Fmsg00168.html&ei=JRVvRIugEY78oQKRuZT3Bg&sig2=JMh6dJZsXqlJFzbvo8gPug
> >"
> > message. I have solved this problem by removing all files under /etc/
> > within the package "baselayout", and re-emerge it. but I got another
> > problem that all applications failed to run and complained " error
> > while loading shared libraries: lib stdc++.so.5: cannot load shared
> > object file: No such file or directory", I had no idea and re-emerge
> > gcc together with some other updates, I could not reboot again!!!..
> > It makes me crazy. any  ideas  about  this problem... mm
> >
> > thanks a lot.
> > daniel
>
>
> I ran into that a good while back.  What I had was a blank inittab file
> in /etc.  This is what should be in there:
>
> > #
> > # /etc/inittab:  This file describes how the INIT process should set up
> > #                the system in a certain run-level.
> > #
> > # Author:  Miquel van Smoorenburg, <miquels@cistron.nl>
> > # Modified by:  Patrick J. Volkerding, <volkerdi@ftp.cdrom.com>
> > # Modified by:  Daniel Robbins, <drobbins@gentoo.org>
> > # Modified by:  Martin Schlemmer, <azarah@gentoo.org>
> > #
> > # $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/sys-apps/sysvinit/files/inittab,v
> > 1.5 2005/12/22 02:03:23 vapier Exp $
> >
> > # Default runlevel.
> > id:3:initdefault:
> >
> > # System initialization, mount local filesystems, etc.
> > si::sysinit:/sbin/rc sysinit
> >
> > # Further system initialization, brings up the boot runlevel.
> > rc::bootwait:/sbin/rc boot
> >
> > l0:0:wait:/sbin/rc shutdown
> > l1:S1:wait:/sbin/rc single
> > l2:2:wait:/sbin/rc nonetwork
> > l3:3:wait:/sbin/rc default
> > l4:4:wait:/sbin/rc default
> > l5:5:wait:/sbin/rc default
> > l6:6:wait:/sbin/rc reboot
> > #z6:6:respawn:/sbin/sulogin
> >
> > # TERMINALS
> > c1:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty1 linux
> > c2:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty2 linux
> > c3:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty3 linux
> > c4:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty4 linux
> > c5:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty5 linux
> > c6:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty6 linux
> >
> > # SERIAL CONSOLES
> > #s0:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 9600 ttyS0 vt100
> > #s1:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 9600 ttyS1 vt100
> >
> > # What to do at the "Three Finger Salute".
> > ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -r now
> >
> > # Used by /etc/init.d/xdm to control DM startup.
> > # Read the comments in /etc/init.d/xdm for more
> > # info. Do NOT remove, as this will start nothing
> > # extra at boot if /etc/init.d/xdm is not added
> > # to the "default" runlevel.
> > x:a:once:/etc/X11/startDM.sh
> >
>
> I was lucky, I make a back-up of my /etc directory every once in a
> while.  I just copied it back over.  I had to boot from the CD and mount
> the root partition to do that though.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Dale
> :-)


the inittab file is ok, really odd, I could not go back to the point where
the system was working, even I re-emerge the baselayout again. no idea about
this problem, though I've even checked all the stuff under init.d and conf.d..
so...  I really appreciate if there's any clue offered.

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