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Re: 4.0: Won't boot past "GPM MOUSE..."
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Edward Webber)
Sat Oct 26 07:11:57 1996
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In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 25 Oct 1996 10:51:57 -0400."
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Date: Sat, 26 Oct 1996 21:10:11 +1000
From: William Edward Webber <wew@yallara.cs.rmit.EDU.AU>
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|> got all of the RPMs installed with no problem, let the machine reboot,
|> watched it start, saw a message reading "GPM Mouse services"...and the
|> machine stops.
|
|Try booting the machine in single user mode ("linux single") at the LILO
|prompt. That should get you a shell.. Try running:
|
| sh -x /etc/rc.d/init.d/gpm start
|
|Erik
I don't know whether this is related (probably not), but there is a minor
bug (?) in /etc/rc.d/init.d/gpm. The line reading
if [ -n ${MOUSETYPE} ]; then
should read
if [ -n "$MOUSETYPE" ]; then
because in the former case if $MOUSETYPE is undefined, ${MOUSETYPE}
will be 'removed' by bash, and the test [ -n ] will return true (not
what's intended), trying to executing gpm with an invalid option.
Shouldn't cause the install to hang, though, just won't start up
gpm. (At least this is what happened on my machine after the upgrade.)
Regards,
William Webber.
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William Webber Postgrad. Dip. in CS, RMIT, Australia
wew@yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au Interests: linux, chess, Glenn Gould
"Well, I'll say this for you, the quality of your stupidity is rising"
- Lucy, from Peanuts.
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