I have an elderly Compaq Presario 1020 P120 laptop running Woody with icewm window manager, tetex, emacs, gnumeric, and not much else. One day, out of the blue as far as I can tell, it hangs during the boot process at:
Initializing random number generator so I boot from a rescue CD and put exit 0 at the top of /etc/init.d/urandom. Then it hangs at: Configuring network interfaces: SIOCSIFADDR: No such device eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: no such device SIOCSINETMASK: No such device So from the rescue CD I disable /etc/init.d/networking. Then it hangs at: Cleaning: /tmp /var/lock /var/run Losing patience, I reformat and install the base system, since I have a full backup from when the machine was working. The base system boots just fine, but then I restore from backup with: mount /cdrom ; cd / ; tar -xvzf /cdrom/fullbackup.tar.gz I fix lilo.conf and run lilo for the newer kernel, change fstab to stick with ext2 so that copying .journal from backups won't cause problems, reboot, and the system goes back to hanging at various startup scripts. (Now at netenv, which I had disabled after the backup, then at Cleaning: /tmp /var/lock /var/run again.) Note that I don't use a display manager, I used to use 'startx' to start icewm. This seems very odd to me. Any ideas what might be going on? Or how to go about restoring just configuration from backup, preferably without losing the ability to boot? Otherwise I will just start over from the base system, and maybe restore only a few important files like xf86Config and modules.conf. The computer has a pcmcia network card, cdrom, floppy, sb16 sound, neomagic video driver. Sleep and hibernate never worked properly, I did some remapping of the keyboard. That's about all the configuration I can remember. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
