strange /var/lib/init.d error

[reasonant]

Hi my gentoo box was running nicely and then for no apparent reason it developed an error at boot time.

It says that it cannot create /var/lib/init.d

I had a look in /var/lib and init.d is there but not really. I can see it with ls but if I try ls -l it says it cannot lstat init.d and I cannot delete the file either it says permission denied - I was the root user - and I could mv/cp/delete the other file in the same directory.

I am using a jfs filesystem and I have tried running fsck.jfs but it does not find any errors.

Any help would be appreciated as I am currently stuck in my windows box.

Cheers

PS This also creates a bunch of errors when I try and shutdown and I have to manually poweroff.

[friez]

i experience this same problem. to fix the problem i edited /etc/rc.conf
and changed it

[reasonant]

Thanks for the help.

Unfortunately I had a look in my /etc/rc.conf file and there are no lines resembling the ones you recommended changing. I tried adding them but it made no difference. This has made me wonder if I have landed up with an old/wrong version of /etc/rc.conf (maybe through careles use of etc-update) - is this a possibility? And if it is where can I get the right version of rc.conf from?

Cheers.

[reasonant]

ADDITIONS:

I think that the file you suggested changing is not actually rc.conf - I did a 'cat /etc/* | grep svc' and saw that in a file somewhere (I don't know how to ger grep to tell me where it found things - is that even possible?) in /etc are the lines

svcmount=yes
svcfstype=tmpfs

So unfortunately for me it appears this not the the problem. I think that I do not like the jfs filesystem and I will probably rebuild the root partition with a reiserfs system (moral: don't try new things).

Cheers

[friez]

oops yes you are right that is not the right file, it should be