On Fri, 09 Jan 2004 21:44:20, Magosányi Árpád wrote: > Package: sysvinit > Version: 2.85-9 > Severity: normal > > > This is a headless sparc64 system. > After init is executed, > there is nothing in the console; the last message is > about mounting the root filesystem readonly. > It seems that the system completely hangs. > Kernel command line: root=/dev/sda1 ro -p console=ttyS0 > It may be relevant that I see every kernel message twice > on the console (but once in dmesg) > after and including the following message: > Console: ttyS0 (SU) > > The workaround is to set > #define INITDEBUG 1 > in init.h , and recompile. > > I do not claim that I understand why this solution works, > but it does. > I am interested in figuring out what the actual problem is, > and find a solution to it. I need hypotheses to test and > questions asked well (or the answer, if you have it:).
I bet if you turn off bootlogd in /etc/default/bootlogd (or upgrade to a more recent version of sysvinit/initscripts where this is the default) that the problem will disappear. Bootlogd doesn't work on all systems, that's why it has been turned off in newer versions for now. Mike.
