[4691] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Problem with 9.3 update
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Wed Jul 14 16:26:30 2004
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: "Jonathan R. Birge" <birge@mit.edu>
Cc: release-team@mit.edu
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Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 16:26:23 -0400
On Wed, 2004-07-14 at 15:23, Jonathan R. Birge wrote:
> I made a mistake when originally updating my personal Athena
> workstation: I ran the update_ws program during an X session instead
> of in a console window. At the end of the install, there was an error.
I don't suppose you remember anything about the error? Normally,
updating from an X session works fine, although it's not what we
recommend.
> I then shutdown X and reran the update from a console windows. This
> succeeded, or at least that's what the update program said. However,
> when I reboot, the startup process stops in the middle and throws me
> into a shell. No error messages appear to be generated, it just stops
> and I get a root prompt. However, if I do a 'telinit 5' then
> everything continues and appears to work fine (I'm writing this from
> the workstation, in fact). Do you know what happened?
I don't know what happened. I can make two guesses:
* Somehow, the default boot option became the option to boot
single-user.
* One of the init scripts is throwing you into a shell for some
reason.
If you send us your /boot/grub/grub.conf (or, if you don't have that
file, /etc/lilo.conf), we can check out the first option. To check out
the second one, run "ps auxw" from the shell prompt you get and look for
a process like "/bin/sh /etc/rcN.d/SNNfoo start", and let us know what
it is.
