On Fri, 12 May 2006 15:22:31 +1000 John O'Hagan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, > > When shutting down my etch laptop of late, it stops just short of > power-off with a message along the lines of "No more processes in > this runlevel". I then have to power-off manually. > > I looked in /etc/init.d and noticed that the "halt" script was no > longer a script, but a text file containing configuration for > asterisk. Also, the mountvirtfs script had been replaced by a gif > image! This explained some other boot error messages I had been > getting e.g., about /proc and /sys. > > I'm guessing this was caused by some random filesystem corruption > I've been getting lately as a result of a faulty power-supply in the > laptop, requiring manually running fsck.(It's an ext3 filesystem.) > Even after this I occasionally notice random file substitutions like > the above. > > But my question is, how to fix it? > > So far I've tried reinstalling iniscripts (the package which provides > the missing scripts) but for some reason this fails to replace them, > even with the dodgy ones moved out of the way. > > I was going to try purging initscripts before reinstalling, but was > scared off by some heavy warnings from apt-get. > > Any insights or advice? > > Thanks, > > John > > Did you try 'apt-get install --reinstall initscripts'? -- Liam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
