Re: Just plain kooky

[Aaron <aaron greyhour com>]

Have you tried stopping NFS services from starting?

I had a problem (a little later in the boot than this) that was solved when I moved NFS to earlier in the boot process (figured it  might be worth a try)

Aaron
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On Fri, 24 Sep 1999, Paul Dorman wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I have the strangest problem. Never seen or heard of anything like this
> before. I went to shutdown my system earlier today when it halted the
> shutdown process when shutting down the NFS services. There were no
> errors, and it had been working just fine. I had to do something so I
> left it, presuming that it was just some NFS stuff up. Came back an hour
> later to see that nothing had changed.
> 
> I reset the machine and let it reboot. A check was done as part of the
> booting process (because the partitions weren't unmounted properly.
> After a while (it's a 15 gig partition) the partition was passed, and
> the message "mounting root filesystem" came up as usual, terminated with
> an [OK] flag. Then it just stopped as if there was nothing more to do.
> No error messages, just like before. This as you can imagine was a
> source of some minor annoyance.
> 
> So I shutdown the machine and rebooted with Tom's rescue boot disk. From
> there I did a e2fsck of the Linux partition, which had some small errors
> as you get with bad shut downs. Thinking there might be something with
> my config files I went and looked in the etc directory of my Linux
> partition.
> 
> The thing which caught my attention were three mtab entries: - mtab (0
> bytes), mtab~ (about 400 bytes) and mtab~~ (???? 0 bytes). "Aaaahhhh I
> thought, that might be causing my problem." So I cp mtab~ to mtab (after
> looking through it first of course, unmounted the partition, and
> rebooted.
> 
> Alas, the exact same thing happened. Mounted the root file system then
> nothing. SO, went back and booted with Tom's disk, scanned the partition
> again (a ten fricking minute process), went to the etc partition and
> could it be that the mtab situation had returned to the same state. I
> thought this strange, so I fixed it again, rebooted back into Tom's disk
> and checked again. No problem, mtab was as it was meant to be. SO I
> rebooted my machine and quietly hoped that everything would be cool.
> 
> Not so. SAME problem. Therefore, something in my system is magically
> managing to corrupt at least one of my config files. Does anyone have
> any ideas as to where I should be looking. I haven't done anythying to
> my system for a week or so, and I don't run the system as root.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Paul Dorman.
> 
> 
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