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Wizumwalt
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 Posted: Sat Sep 02, 2006 12:50 am Post subject: no more processes left in this runlevel ??? |
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Hi all,
My kernel no longer boots because one day I just did a 'rm -rf *' from within the /tmp dir thinking I was clear to go. And so everytime I boot I get the error below. I get prompted for the run level and I enter 5, but any level results in the same error.
I can boot off the livecd and I don't know what else to do other than run fsck's. Any help much appreciated.
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EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 216k freed
INIT: version 2.86 booting
INIT: No inittab file found
Enter runlevel:5
INIT: Entering runlevel: 5
INIT: no more processes left in this runlevel
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anonybosh
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| Posted: Sat Sep 02, 2006 1:04 am Post subject: |
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Looks like you somehow removed your /etc/inittab file?
| Code: | | INIT: No inittab file found |
Heres mine: | Code: | # /etc/inittab: This file describes how the INIT process should set up
# the system in a certain run-level.
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# Author: Miquel van Smoorenburg, <miquels@cistron.nl>
# Modified by: Patrick J. Volkerding, <volkerdi@ftp.cdrom.com>
# Modified by: Daniel Robbins, <drobbins@gentoo.org>
# Modified by: Martin Schlemmer, <azarah@gentoo.org>
#
# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/sys-apps/sysvinit/files/inittab,v 1.5 2005/12/22 02:03:23 vapier Exp $
# Default runlevel.
id:3:initdefault:
# System initialization, mount local filesystems, etc.
si::sysinit:/sbin/rc sysinit
# Further system initialization, brings up the boot runlevel.
rc::bootwait:/sbin/rc boot
l0:0:wait:/sbin/rc shutdown
l1:S1:wait:/sbin/rc single
l2:2:wait:/sbin/rc nonetwork
l3:3:wait:/sbin/rc default
l4:4:wait:/sbin/rc default
l5:5:wait:/sbin/rc default
l6:6:wait:/sbin/rc reboot
#z6:6:respawn:/sbin/sulogin
# TERMINALS
c1:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty1 linux
c2:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty2 linux
c3:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty3 linux
c4:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty4 linux
c5:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty5 linux
c6:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty6 linux
# SERIAL CONSOLES
#s0:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 9600 ttyS0 vt100
#s1:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 9600 ttyS1 vt100
# What to do at the "Three Finger Salute".
ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -r now
# Used by /etc/init.d/xdm to control DM startup.
# Read the comments in /etc/init.d/xdm for more
# info. Do NOT remove, as this will start nothing
# extra at boot if /etc/init.d/xdm is not added
# to the "default" runlevel.
x:a:once:/etc/X11/startDM.sh |
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Wizumwalt
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| Posted: Sat Sep 02, 2006 1:28 am Post subject: |
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Wow, I just noticed my entire /etc is gone except for all the hidden files.
So I guess now my question is, how do I restore the /etc dir only? Note that before I mistakenly removed what I thought was another dir, I had just finished an 'emerge -Du world' ... so ... I guess I basically have to reinstall everything all over again, or at least, mount all my file systems, chroot to it, then run emerge -Du world over again, would that restore things? |
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anonybosh
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| Posted: Sat Sep 02, 2006 3:06 am Post subject: |
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Man, that is a real bugger. | Quote: | | ...mount all my file systems, chroot to it, then run emerge -Du world over again, would that restore things? |
I would guess that that might work, though I am not certain. Maybe there might be an faster (less compile time) way using emerge --config ... |
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