I've found putting an exit statement in any boottime script causes it to pause.
rc.firewall, if it exists, is called from rc.sysinit, which is pointed to by
/etc/inittab.
Also finding that setting Startup Services in DrakConf only affects
/etc/rc.d/rc3.d. Had to copy those additional symlinks into rc5.d since they
don't get run when booting directly into graphical. Sounds crazy, but this is a
fact. I thought that when booting graphical, it first passed through runlevel3,
but noooo.
Anyone know how to tell NT you have a point-to-point connection?
Anyone know why the system doesn't recognise new fontpaths? (chkfontpath --add)
The path is there, but the system either doesn't recognize it, or worse, locks
up. When you reboot, xfs fails and X crashes for not finding its font server.
Feb 21 10:07:05 hydra PAM_pwdb[729]: (su) session opened for user xfs by (uid=0)
Feb 21 10:07:05 hydra PAM_pwdb[729]: (su) session closed for user xfs
Feb 21 10:07:05 hydra xfs: xfs startup succeeded
Feb 21 10:07:07 hydra xfs: Fatal font server error:
Feb 21 10:07:07 hydra xfs: Element #10 (starting at 0) of font path is bad
or has a bad font: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled"
It doesn't matter which of the system font paths is first, it fails in the
same manner. (bad path or bad font) My procedure worked fine on RedHat6.1.
Could it be a PAM problem? How do I fix it?
Anyone know how to autoupdate M7.0-2? On MandrakeUser it says, "You can keep
your Mandrake-Linux distribution up to date by using the 'MandrakeUpdate' program
installed on your box." But I find no evidence of such a utility...
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William Ahern wrote:
> Nevermind. I figured the problem out. I had an 'exit' statement in my
> rc.firewall, which gets run right after the swapon -a. Anybody know why this
> causes the boot sequence to pause? How is the script run? Running rc.firewall
> manually doesn't cause it to pause...
>
> thanx,
>
> Bill
>
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