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[ILUG] machine hanging on boot

[ILUG] machine hanging on boot

Padraig Brady padraig.brady at corvil.com
Tue Dec 17 17:05:04 GMT 2002


John P. Looney wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 04:50:24PM +0000, Padraig Brady mentioned:
> 
>>OK init is trying to start at this stage.  Are you sure you haven't a
>>static init with CMOV instructions?  Did you run ldconfig after you
>>updated the glibc?  does init=/bin/sh work OK?  if not does
>>init=/bin/someting_independent_of_glibc work
> 
> init=/bin/bash had the same problem - a hang. I'd have expected loads of
> segv if it was trying to run CMOV enabled code.

Nope a hang is the classic symptom.
Anyway to eliminate glibc try my last suggestion of init=/bin/ash for
e.g. (download busy box and link statically with uclibc).

> After upgrading glibc, ls
> started working again, so RPM seemed to run ldconfig alright.

fair enough.

> init is certainly an i386 binary on redhat though.

I presume dynamic though.

Padraig.




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