On rebooting my laptop after emerging baselayout-1.8.6.4, it appears the root fs ( ie, / ) is mounted read-only; my /var is located on the same partition as / and is ext3. As a result, when the system enters the default runlevel, I get a series of errors saying that the system cannot link /var/lib/init.d/softscripts/* to /etc/init.d/* [ where * is the services in init.d called by the default runlevel ]. the computer hard locks at this point. I would like to be able to include the actual errors here, but as my system never gets to start any services nothing is logged. this package (baselayout- 1.8.6.4) has since been masked. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge -u baselayout 2. 3. To fix this I had to pass init=/bin/sh to the kernel and mount my partitions by hand. I then had to `emerge /usr/portage/sys-apps/baselayout/baselayout- 1.8.5.8.ebuild`. # emerge info Portage 2.0.47-r10 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.2, glibc-2.3.2-r0) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.21-pre5-gss i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 Mobile CPU 2.00GHz GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/ http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share /config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" USE="x86 oss 3dnow apm avi encode gif jpeg libg++ libwww mikmod mmx mpeg ncurses nls pdflib png quicktime spell truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib gdbm berkdb slang readline arts svga tcltk java guile sdl gpm tcpd pam ssl perl python esd imlib oggvorbis qt kde motif opengl mozilla cdr scanner X gtk cups gnome alsa crypt acpi4linux -gnome-base" COMPILER="gcc3" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" MAKEOPTS="-j2" AUTOCLEAN="yes" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" FEATURES="sandbox ccache"
Attach you /etc/inittab.
Created attachment 9633 [details] inittab as requested
Created attachment 9634 [details] inittab as requested
Your inittab is *not* the one installed by baselayout-1.8.6.4. Please correct this then it should be fixed. Seemant ... saw you masked it again .. sure its not because of the same issues ?
Az, yep I had the same issue :/ My inittab actually was upgraded (I upgraded each file specifically, except for passwd, group, fstab and maybe one other)...
Err, mind pin pointing the problem a bit more ?
az, we need to force update the inittab. on this system, it was not being updated by the ebuild. i just fixed this for the user and they are now on 1.8.6.4. Suggest doing exactly what we do for /etc/conf.d/rc Jay
the inittab update, for some reason it is not working as designed in the ebuild :)
we need to update the way we update these files (/etc/conf.d/rc & /etc/inittab) i am going to rewrite and post. i feel we should just update them without question and give the person rc.old & inittab.old for review. ${inittab} & ${rcconfigd} should probably just be set to /etc/inittab & /etc/conf.d/rc respectively. and we can just force a copy of out rc-scripts-1.4.3.4 to go into place. otherwise with the current scenario, we risk failure.
Created attachment 9639 [details, diff] attaching proposed patch for baselayout 1.8.6.4 this should force update to the 2 files in question... this should ensure that during a build or bootstrap that they are updated. Jay
applied the patch and re-emerged 1.8.6.4; works perfectly.
Created attachment 9640 [details] updated ebuild for 1.8.6.4 w/better checking of /etc/inittab & /etc/conf.d/rc created a new baselayout ebuild that better identifies the new style /etc/inittab & /etc/conf.d/rc so we do not have to needlessly update files already in proper format. Jay
Looks good. Just tweaked a few $ROOT cases, and remove ._cfg* files for those two. In baselayout-1.8.6.4-r1, please test.
Ok, should be fixed.
