On Wed, 2002-02-06 at 20:46, Michael Golden wrote: > Hello all, > I was in the middle of playing an entertaining game of > frozen bubbles and for some reason my computer locked > up hard. I don't blame it on the game of course, but I > had to hit the power button to restart because it > wouldn't respond to any other stimuli. Now, it won't > boot fully. I am (well, was) running the latest cooker > as of a day or two ago and haven't rebooted for a > while. The part where it freezes on boot is when > Aurora shows "Running devfsd actions". I meant to > disable Aurora but I guess I didn't get around to > that. I can't tell if it is freezing on that command > or something after that that it doesn't display. I can > get to a read-only terminal by booting using > init=/bin/bash but other than that I cannot access the > system. Is this a problem with something in cooker > that could possibly be fixed if I am able to get > read-write access with a boot disk and then urpmi > --autoselect or is my box just just fubar'd? > You should be able to boot fully with devfs=nomount.
My laptop was stuck tonight after the compose.laticn1.inc line (glancing at the syslog, I feel devfsd has some troubles with the swap). I manage to have it boot with devfs=mount by removing everything in /lib/dev-state. It was full of broken links anyhow. I don't know if that's the correct solution, but it worked for me. =-= kk1
