Re: Jensen boot question/problem

[Jo Schambach <jschamba physics utexas edu>]

Following Erik's lead, I played around a little with my setup (again, a
Jensen, with S. Moeller's kernel 2.2.12.gz, and a RH 6.0 installation)
and deleted all of the daemon calls in the init.d scripts. Then my
system starts up properly, and seems to work correctly. So his
assumption that there is something wrong with the "daemon" function in
the RH 6.0 setup seems to be correct. I haven't followed through any
further, but maybe someone else has seen this already (and possibly
solved it)?

Jo

erik@avalon.harvard.edu wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I don't think it is necessarily an ethernet problem (although in Jo's case
> maybe it is, given that the kernel isn't finding the eth0 modules).
> Here's why I think something else might be going on:  I've gotten to
> essentially the same place.  But I am able to boot to single user mode
> then start the network manually (/etc/rc.d/init.d/network start).  After
> doing this I can telnet and FTP out of the box.  When either init tries or
> I attempt manually to start portmap using /etc/rc.d/init.d/portmap start
> the machine simply sits there.  I can Control-C and get back right away if
> I try this from the command line.  If I just start portmap (/sbin/portmap)
> from the command line, it starts up just fine, and ps shows that portmap
> is running.  After snooping around in /etc/rc.d/init.d/portmap and
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions, it appears that the scripts are hanging when
> trying to get the PID of a nonexistant process (  in
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/portmap, it uses the call "daemon portmap" to start
> portmap, the daemon function defined in /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions does a
> few things like check if the desired program is already running before
> starting it).
> 
> Perhaps there is something wrong with my network setup (I'm using whatever
> was installed by RH6.0 by default and using the network setup that the
> installer generated).
> 
> Don't know if this helps anyone, but maybe it will fill in some missing
> pieces or trigger someone to say, "aha, I know what's going on..."
> 
> Oh yeah, a few more details of my setup: I'm running a monolithic 2.2.12
> kernel that I compiled on the Jensen (I was able to FTP the source to the
> Jensen), it has KNFS and SUNRPC enabled (not sure if that is relevant) as
> well as DE422 ethernet and DEC Etherworks (wasn't sure which one to use).
> My /var directory is mounted on a different partition than /
> 
> Are there any known problems with the RH6.0 init scripts?
> 
> Hope this helps?!?
> 
> --erik
> 
> On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Phillip Ezolt wrote:
> 
> > Jo,
> >       Try waiting a long time after "starting portmapper".  It doesn't look
> > like the ethernet driver is being installed.   If the portmapper is trying
> > to use the network without an ethernet devices, long timeouts will occur.
> >
> > Since you can get it up in single user mode, I'll bet this is the problem.
> >
> > Although it is not a long term solution, try just waiting (10-20 minutes just
> > to be sure)  and see if you can get a regular prompt.
> >
> > If so, then you just have to figure out how to get your ethernet module
> > loaded and detected, and you should be all set!
> >
> > --Phil
> >
> > Compaq: Business Critical Servers Division/Benchmark Performance Engineering
> > ---------------- Alpha, The Fastest Processor on Earth --------------------
> > Phillip.Ezolt@compaq.com        |C|O|M|P|A|Q|        ezolt@perf.zko.dec.com
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Jo Schambach wrote:
> >
> > > I am slowly edging towards a working system. After my last post, I
> > > figured out that I am able to boot single user by using the following
> > > response to the aboot prompt:
> > >
> > > 0/2.2.12.gz root=/dev/sda4 single
> > >
> > > and I finally got a bash shell.
> > > According to Sebastian Moellers instructions, I downloaded the
> > > system.map-2.2.12 and the libmod-2.2.12.tar.bz2 files from his ftp site,
> > > put them onto a floppy, mounted the floppy from the bash shell, and
> > > copied them into their appropriate places on my Jensen harddisk.
> > > I shut down the system, and started it again with the following answer
> > > to the aboot prompt:
> > >
> > > 0/2.2.12.gz root=/dev/sda4
> > >
> > > The Jensen started booting, got through a few checks with "OK", and then
> > > finally stopped after displaying the following messages:
> > >
> > > modprope: can't locate module lo:0
> > > ....
> > >                                             [OK]
> > > modprobe: can't locate module eth0:0
> > > ...
> > > modprobe: can't locate module eth0:49
> > >                                             [OK]
> > > starting portmapper:
> > >
> > > and then nothing.
> > > I have a feeling that I am very close, but not quite there. Anybody have
> > > any idea here?
> > > thanks in advance,          Jo
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> > > University of Texas                 email: jschamba@physics.utexas.edu
> > > Austin, TX 78712, USA
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Joachim Schambach			Tel: (512) 471-1303
Physics Department, RLM 5.208		FAX: (798) 998-5513
University of Texas			email: jschamba@physics.utexas.edu
Austin, TX 78712, USA