On Sun, Jan 30, 2000 at 10:11:15AM -0800, Ron Golan wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, Hal Burgiss wrote:
>
> > Upon rebooting fully updated 6.1 with 2.2.14 kernel, init hangs
> > during rc.sysinit. After much digging and swearing, I find that it
> > hangs at any reference to 'mount -f'. The 'mount -n' actions go
> > without failure. mtab is created (empty) and permissions,
> > attributes, etc appear all to be normal. I've run e2fsck till I'm
> > blue in the face. The first run showed a lot of errors, but none
> > thereafter (using various flags). /dev/hd* all look good. I happen
> > to have the root fs mirrored on a different partition and can get
> > in that way. I have run 'diff' against /bin, /lib, and /sbin and
> > they would all appear to be 100% identical. I have no trouble
> > mounting the screwy partition when I boot from my backup root
> > partition. Cannot find anything that looks even remotely unusual.
> > I have copied 'mount' from the good one to the bad and ugly one. I
> > can get in only with 'init=/bin/sh' to the original /, but have
> > all kinds of problems with mount there too. Trying to shutdown in
> > that scenario, umount acts real screwy and usually hangs.
> >
> > WTF is going on? Any ideas at all would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Might you have accidently not included support for the proc filesystem
> when you recompiled your kernel. Its in the filesystem section.
No, in fact I could not boot any of about 8 different kernels. But
something like this was my first thought since the initial reboot was
due to a new kernel build. Spent much time barking up this tree. The
new kernel would boot the mirrored root partition just fine.
I did now just find the problem. I had just been checking 'ls -l
/etc/mtab'. When I looked for mtab*, there was a slew of things like
'/etc/mtab~1234' which apparently was confusing the bejeezus out of
'mount'. These all had permissions of '-------'. I deleted all these,
and have now exited from mount hell. My rc.sysinit now takes care of
this.
This certainly seems like a nasty bug in mount, or wherever.
--
Hal B
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