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Lumpmoose
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Location: Minneapolis, MN
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 Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 2:34 am Post subject: Bootup freeze at devfsd |
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I'm running the vanilla 2.4.24 kernel. Yesterday, a problem occured after an intentional reboot (necessary on occasion for an unrelated reason to my problem). When booting, Linux goes through the standard dmesg stuff, then when it starts loading the stuff that gets 'OK'ed, it does this:
| Code: | Gentoo Linux; http://www.gentoo.org/
Copyright 2001-2003 blah blah
* Mounting proc at /proc [ ok ]
* Starting devfsd...
Started device management daemon v1.3.25 for /dev |
Then it freezes with a blinking cursor.
The only change I've made that I can recall, is that before the reboot, I stupidly deleted the /service directory. Although daemontools/svscan/etc. needs it, I don't think it's machine-critical. Of course, uptimes.hostingwired.com shows my last reboot as 9 days ago, so I could have screwed up something days ago that I can't recall.
Another thing: this problem first occured under the 2.4.21 kernel. I compiled and ran the 2.4.24 kernel becuase it seemed to be a kernel problem, but nothing changed. I've stripped down the machine of PCI cards and non-hda drives, and shut off extra devices in the BIOS, but it still freezes at that same spot.
I can get into the LiveCD just fine. I checked the /var logs, but didn't see anything useful. I don't really know what to look for though. I also fsck'ed what I could, but most of my drives use ReiserFS, so it couldn't check them. I also re-emerged devfsd in chroot.
Thanks for any help. |
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Lumpmoose
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| Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 11:48 pm Post subject: |
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On the advice of a friend, I tried reemerging sys-apps/baselayout. In the middle of the job, it reached this step:
| Code: | >>> original instance of package unmerged safely.
* Making device nodes (this could take a minute or so...)
* Using generic-i386 to make device nodes...
//sbin/MAKEDEV: warning: can't read /proc/devices
//sbin/MAKEDEV: warning: can't read /proc/devices
//sbin/MAKEDEV: warning: can't read /proc/devices
//sbin/MAKEDEV: warning: can't read /proc/devices
//sbin/MAKEDEV: warning: can't read /proc/devices
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It displayed that warning message a total of 50 times, then printed "* Removing invalid backup copies of critical config files..." and completed the rest of the emerge.
This was while I was chroot'ed into my primary hard drive partition after booting the LiveCD, so I wonder if it never fully mounted /proc/devices. Anywho, after a reboot, it froze again at the same spot: "Started device management daemon". Although I first had to recreate the /proc directory to pass the '* Mounting proc at /proc' step). I'm just wondering if that warning could be indicative of the problem. |
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Aiim
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Joined: 23 Jan 2004
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| Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2004 1:53 am Post subject: Having the exact same problem |
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Hi!
Im having the exact same problem. Did you ever solve it? Would be very grateful to find out how.
Thanks,
Fredrik |
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