Startup sequence broken: need help fixing

chennes · n00b Joined: 28 May 2004 Posts: 5

I'm new to Gentoo and didn't read the instructions carefully enough when using emerge to update my system. Doh! I have consequently borked a large number of system configuration files. I am in the process of rebuilding and am having some trouble figuring out what's going wrong with my boot-sequence. At first, startup appears to be going normally. At some point, however, as it executes scripts in init.d, it begins to spew numerous ": command not found" messages (note that it is NOT printing out said unfound command). It prints them out between various "Starting blah..." statements, but I'm not sure it they are ocurring before, after or during the scripts. My real confusion starts when I manually run /etc/init.d/some_service start: I get no errors. Where are these errors coming from!?

Is there any easy (or sort-of easy) way to blow away the system configuration files in etc and replace them with the default ones? I have not made many modifications to them, and nothing that I can't recreate in 20 minutes if I can just get the system to start normally!

kallamej · Posted: Fri May 28, 2004 10:13 pm Post subject:

Without seeing the errors you get I can only guess that you may have a line in e.g. /etc/rc.conf uncommented that shouldn't be.
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chennes · n00b Joined: 28 May 2004 Posts: 5

You see what I see: 8 lines scroll by between each "Starting..." item, each of which reads ": command not found". Not much info there.

robmoss · Posted: Sat May 29, 2004 12:11 am Post subject:

Boot from a Livecd, do the chroot stuff to get into your Gentoo installation, and re-emerge baselayout (i.e.: "emerge --oneshot baselayout" to ensure it doesn't get incorrectly recorded into your world file).
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chennes · n00b Joined: 28 May 2004 Posts: 5

Unfortunately, that had no effect on the errors. Now I'm even more confused. I think that at this point the easiest way to recover the system is to reinstall it. Oh, well.

pianosaurus · l33t Joined: 19 Apr 2004 Posts: 944 Location: Bash$

Check your "rc-update show" and make sure it's not trying to start something that isn't there.
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curtis119 · Posted: Sun May 30, 2004 1:22 am Post subject:

Don't start over yet! Try an rc-update -s to list what services are being started. delete the ones you don't need: rc-update del <insert> boot/default Any that you want that aren't starting correctly just re-emerge.

Or you could just do an: emerge -e world. This will rebuild the entire system and all your optional packages from scratch.

Either way remember to update all config files after every emerge. Use etc-update or dispatch-conf. dispatch-conf works best for me (it has a rollback feature). If you use it remeber to emerge rcs and edit the /etc/dispatch-conf.conf file.
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curtis119 · Posted: Sun May 30, 2004 1:23 am Post subject:

Just thought of something. Are these errors related to kernel-modules not being loaded? If so add them to your /etc/modules.autoload.d/2.x file.
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chennes · n00b Joined: 28 May 2004 Posts: 5

curtis119 · Posted: Mon May 31, 2004 1:25 am Post subject:

oh, OK. Sorry I couldn't help more.
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ecatmur · Posted: Mon May 31, 2004 1:42 am Post subject:

I think when I last saw this it was because a CR had crept into a system script. Still, if you're reinstalling anyway...
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chennes · n00b Joined: 28 May 2004 Posts: 5

Thanks for all the help -- I just finished the re-install and everything is back to normal. Note to self: next time, RTFM.