What does "INIT: version 2.84 reloading" mean?

[dalek]

I have another machine that I am running over ssh. I went down to where it is and noticed that line on the screen. What is that? Is something wrong? Is it normal?

I have been having a lot of fun getting Gentoo on there and am a bit paranoid about error messages now. Just want to make sure.

I found a thread that I think is about this in the Portugeese forum, I couldn't quite make out what they said. My English is bad enough.

I suspect it is nothing but . . . . . . . .

Thanks.


edit: changed title. Didn't make sense.
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[theBlackDragon]

I think it just means init is switching to another runlevel eg from 5 (graphical) to 3 (console), 0 (shutdown, 6 (reboot).

So I suppose it's quite a normal message, I get it everytime I shutdown/restart my system
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[dalek]

Well, I wasn't switching runlevels though. At the moment it is updating the system, ya know, emerge -uv system. Could that have something to do with it? It was right below the login prompt.

If that install fails, I'm going to a shrink. I'll be too paranoid to install anything till I get help, professional help that is.

Thanks


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[TheCoop]

its just a normal part of the boot process, i get it some of the time but its normally hidden in dmesg. Just ignore it, its perfectly normal
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[dalek]

This is after the system has booted and been running for a while. It was like a hour or so after I booted it. I know it comes up during the boot process but should it do later a good while after the boot process? It actually makes the login prompt go away. I hit return and the login prompt comes back.

My main rig has never done that is one reason I am concerned, that and the fact perl won't compile now. I'm close to putting Mandrake on that old thing. It 's starting to get old now. Install Gentoo, can't/won't install something, start over, repeat again, and again, and again. You get the idea.

Still confused about this thing.


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[Sipi]

If it is not during boot, it means that you just updated some system engine files, which requires to "reboot". E.g. baselayout, or similar packages do this.

Init reloads itself, it should be caused by change in the init binary or in the init files, too.

It is normal behaviour, don't worry.

Sipi

[dalek]

Whew. It just happened that it did update baselayout so that makes sense.

I perl to work too. I put perl in make.conf and re-emerged libperl and perl. Works better now.

Thanks.


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