This causes lots of trouble because /var/run is never cleaned up if /var is a separate partition. When starting from an unclean reboot, dhcpcd, gpm and others will not start because there are stale .pid files left in /var/run. /etc/init.d/bootmisc contains the lines: depend() { need clock localmount } but this doesn't seem to matter.
I am working on this, just need to resolve a few interesting snags.
Just checking again .. you sure about this ? Works fine this side .. ? You can maybe paste the lines form init ?
Sure thing. This is with baselayout-1.7.1 Gentoo Linux; http://www.gentoo.org Copyright 2001 Gentoo Technologies, Inc.; Distributed under the GPL * Mounting /proc... [ ok ] * Mounting devfs at /dev... [ ok ] * Mounting tmpfs at /dev/shm... [ ok ] * Caching service dependencies... Usage: alsasound {start|stop|restart|status} * Starting devfsd... /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0: p1 /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0: p1 [ ok ] * Activating swap... Adding Swap: 265032k swap-space (priority 1) [ ok ] * Cleaning /var/lock, /var/run... /etc/init.d/runscript.sh: cd: /var/lock: No such file or directory /etc/init.d/runscript.sh: cd: /var/run: No such file or directory /etc/init.d/runscript.sh: /var/run/utmp: No such file or directory [ ok ] * Cleaning /tmp directory... [ ok ] * Checking all filesystems... fsck 1.25 (20-Sep-2001) /dev/hda2: clean, 4648/128768 files, 21654/257040 blocks [ ok ] * Remounting root filesystem read-only (if necessary)... [ ok ] * Checking root filesystem... fsck 1.25 (20-Sep-2001) /dev/hda3: clean, 223764/870912 files, 989064/1739036 blocks [ ok ] * Remounting root filesystem read/write... [ ok ] * Setting system clock to hardware clock [UTC]... Loading /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwerty/us.kmap.gz Loading /usr/share/keymaps/i386/include/windowkeys.inc.gz [ ok ] * Mounting local filesystems... [ ok ] * Mounting USB device filesystem... [ ok ] * Activating (possibly) more swap... [ ok ] * Calculating module dependencies... [ ok ] * Loading module 3c59x... [ ok ] * Bringing lo up... [ ok ] * Initializing random number generator... [ ok ] INIT: Entering runlevel: 3
This is my fstab, if it matters: # <fs> <mountpoint> <type> <opts> <dump/pass> /dev/hda1 none swap pri=1 0 0 /dev/hda3 / ext3 defaults 0 1 /dev/hda2 /var ext3 defaults 0 2 /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro,users 0 0 /dev/hdb1 /mnt/zip auto noauto,rw,users 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy0 auto noauto,rw,users 0 0 //columbia/media /mnt/media smbfs noauto,rw,users,guest,dmask=755,uid=busterb,gid=users 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
There is a problem with some script in /etc/init.d. If you have a close look, you will see that depscan.sh give error output about alsasound. ----------cut------------------- * Caching service dependencies... Usage: alsasound {start|stop|restart|status} * Starting devfsd... ----------cut------------------- All scripts that do not follow the Gentoo rc-script style, should end with a '.sh', like alsasound.sh. Also, get rc-scripts-1.6.6.tbz2 (the latest) and copy at least 'depscan.sh', 'functions.sh' and 'runscripts.sh' from there to /etc/init.d/ replacing the current ones to make sure you have the latest. Lastly: running /etc/init.d/depscan.sh should exit cleanly (with the only output being "* Caching service dependencies...").
Renaming the alsasound init script did it. It seems that depscan.sh does not work correctly if it encounters a script that it does not understand. All is good, I suppose this issue can be closed, unless you want to try making initialization script dependency checking a little more fault-tolerant. By the way, I could not find rc-scripts-1.6.6, only 1.2.5. Did I look in the wrong place (the ibiblio mirror)?
Have already made them so on CVS (more fault tolerant), as it was needed for features I added. As from baselayout-1.7.1, the rc-scripts.tbz2 is kept on cvs, so have a look in /usr/portage/sys-apps/baselayout/files/ , if you ever need it.
