After upgrading from baselayout-1.8.6.8-r1 to -1.8.6.10-r1, when I boot my box and enter in bootmisc I get "Cleaning /var/lock, /var/run" and then "Cleaning /tmp directory": at this point the process hangs. If I press CTRL-Canc the boot process goes over with keymap. P.S. with 1.8.6.8-r1 the boot sequence goes without problems but I have this message "xargs too large for..." while with -1.8.6.10-r1 the process hangs but I don't have this message anymore. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Upgrade from baselayout-1.8.6.8-r1 to 1.8.6.10-r1 2. etc-update and so on 3. Boot Actual Results: The process hangs when bootmisc start Expected Results: The boot process should perform bootmisc and then go over I've done diff between old and new bootmisc from /etc/init.d and this the result: 4c4 < # $Header: /home/cvsroot/gentoo-src/rc-scripts/init.d/bootmisc,v 1.33 2003/07/22 21:07:08 azarah Exp $ --- > # $Header: /home/cvsroot/gentoo-src/rc-scripts/init.d/bootmisc,v 1.29 2003/05/12 21:23:05 azarah Exp $ 13c13 < if [ "${BOOT}" = "yes" ] --- > if [ "${SOFTLEVEL}" = "boot" ] 30c30 < if [ -x /sbin/env-update.sh ] --- > if [ -x /sbin/rc-envupdate.sh ] 44c44 < ( find /var/lock -type f -exec rm -f -- {} \; ) --- > ( find /var/lock -type f -print0 | xargs -0 rm -f -- 1>&2 )
It seems I found out the problem. The problem is line 84: "chown root.root /tmp/.{ICE,X11}-unix &>/dev/null", removing it bootmisc doesn't hang and makes exactly all it has to do. I think the problem in this line is command chown with group 'root', but I'm not so sure about it so I let you investigate. I also noticed this: I think this line is superflous because the previous line, line 83: "mkdir -p /tmp/.{ICE,X11}-unix &>/dev/null" create /tmp/ICE-unix and /tmp/X11-unix with owner root.root. Well, tha's all :) Sorry for my english and, if I can, I please you to confirm me if I am right. Byez!
Not sure, it works fine here. The line however is not needed, removed in CVS, thanks.
baselayout 1.11.13 exhibits the very same behaviour in bootmisc on my configuration: a freeze on startup at the "chown 0:0 /tmp/.{ICE,X11}-unix" point. I'm not sure what the cause is maybe the shell interpreter used during the boot doesn't like this syntax (in a bash shell this works fine). Letting the system run a while and calling Sysreq-M triggers the kernel's oom-killer which kills the chown process (as reported on the console). Commenting the "chown..." line solves the problem, using Sysreq-E (terminate all tasks) when stuck allows the init to proceed too. Note: I thought about a borked baselayout or coreutils but reemerging these two didn't solve the problem. emerge info : Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.5-20050130, glibc-2.3.5-r0, 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1600+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [enabled] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.11 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.5 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.18-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer -ffast-math -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer -ffast-math -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distcc distlocks sandbox sfperms strict userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/gentoo/ http://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/ http://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo/" LINGUAS="fr" MAKEOPTS="-j8" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.fr.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow X aalib alsa apm avi bash-completion berkdb bindist bitmap-fonts cjk crypt cups curl dga eds emacs emboss encode foomaticdb gcj gdbm gif gimpprint gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 imagemagick imlib java jikes jpeg junit ldap libcaca libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx motif mozilla mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python quicktime readline samba sdl spell sse ssl svga tcltk tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode vorbis xml2 xmms xprint xv zlib linguas_fr userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS
