On Friday 12 May 2006 15:22, John O'Hagan 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 mountvirtfs script had been replaced by a gif image!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. >
> > But my question is, how to fix it? > Thanks to all who replied; I bit the bullet, backed up and purged initscripts - and some very important packages which depend on it , like sysvinit, udev and hal - keeping a note of everything I needed to reinstall, and it all went fine. Fortunately there was no crash before this could happen! -- Thanks again, John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
