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- From: miquels@htsa.aha.nl (Miquel van Smoorenburg)
- Subject: Re: Problems with sysv init sources
- References: <1992Dec15.134909.28520@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 17:52:38 GMT
- Organization: Algemene Hogeschool Amsterdam, Polytechnic Institute
- Keywords: init
- Sender: news@htsa.aha.nl (News Manager)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.175238.18332@htsa.aha.nl>
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- In article <1992Dec15.134909.28520@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> wyvern@gnu.ai.mit.edu (The Wyvern) writes:
- >I recently compiled and installed the sources for the sysv-style init
- >from tsx-11 (plus the patch). It seems to be having problems
- >with runlevels though. If I have initdefault set to, say, 3,
- >and a couple lines like this:
- >
- >rc:3:wait:/etc/rc3
- >xd:3:once:/usr/X386/bin/xdm
- >
- >Init gives me something like:
- >INIT: Warning: No processes for this runlevel
- >INIT: Entering single user mode
- >/ root#
- >So I end up having to have all the entries in my inittab be either
- >boot or bootwait, since those are the only ones which get executed.
- >Right now my inittab looks like this:
- >
- >id:3:initdefault:
- >si::sysinit:/etc/bcheckrc
- >rc::bootwait:/etc/rc
- >r3::bootwait:/etc/rc3
- >xd::boot:/usr/X386/bin/xdm
- >#c1:1234:respawn:/etc/getty 9600 tty1
- >#c2:23:respawn:/etc/getty 9600 tty2
- >#c3:23:respawn:/etc/getty 9600 tty3
- >#c4:23:respawn:/etc/getty 9600 tty4
- >pf::powerwait:/etc/shutdown -f now
- ># init
- >
- >This is highly annoying - it kind of defeats the purpose of an init
- >with runlevels. Does anyone have an idea of what might be wrong?
- >
- >(Incidentally, for those of you who are having trouble with xdm
- > you might try starting it from your inittab rather than your rc or
- > rc.local - for me it only works correctly when put in the inittab
- > as shown above.)
- >
- Yes, I have heard of this problem. I even got a patch for it.
- Here is a message I got concerning this problem:
- --------------------------------------------------------------
-
- From: "Roger T Lashua-1" <lash0002@student.tc.umn.edu>
- Subject: init
- To: miquels@htsa.aha.nl
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 4:22:19 CST
-
- Hi,
-
- I have been using your system-V init for some time now.
- I have recently gotten the 2.0 version. I am very happy to see that
- you have made changes that i have been comsidering doing myself (such
- as using a linked list). There are two things that appear not to work
- properly in version 2.0, though I may be expecting them to function
- differently than they were intended to. The first is: if i boot up and
- the initdefault entry is 2 (tho anything other than s will do it)
- entries for level 2 with an action field of wait or once will not be
- executed. I have changed it so that they will be executed by changing
- the line in StartEmIfNeeded() that was:
- lastlevel = runlevel
- to
- if (sys_level == NORMAL_LEVEL) lastlevel = runlevel
-
- Is that a good way to make it execute the entries or do you see other
- problems?
-
- The second thing is that if initdefault is something other than a
- legitamete level (0123456Sabc) it acts as though the level is fine but
- no processes are defined, and goes single-user. I am not sure what
- should happen but on some other systems i have used it will prompt for
- a runlevel. I think that would be preferable. Anyway, it is easy
- enough to change the behaviour in getinitdefault().
-
- Thanks for making a great init available for linux.
-
-
- tim
- -------------------------------------------------------------------
- I still have to look into this myself, but I posted this anyway
- hoping to solve your problem. I'll wait a week or so and if I don't
- get any more bug reports I'll try to distribute a 2.1 version that
- will hopefully bugfree. You may have noticed that shutdown
- and last also have a little bug [though not serious].
-
- Hope this helps - Mike.
-
-
-
-
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