most likely this is due to causing a program to run that is not a daemon
program, and you have not put it into the background.
this will cause this effect:
foo
this will not cause this effect:
foo &
bug
On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Eric wrote:
> I was playing around with installing some lin-modem drivers which
> claimed they might work (hey, right on!), and I ran a script which
> inserted a couple lines to the end of rc.local.
>
> Now, after rebooting, the system freezes after the last line of MY doing
> in rc.local (right after an echo command, so I know where it is dying
> at).
>
> I am left with just a cursor, and I can type and see characters on the
> screen, but I have no prompt and I can't "get" anywhere.
>
> How can I boot up (from install cd even) and clean up rc.local and try
> to get Linux back up?
> I have tried at startup:
> 1)Linux root=/dev/fd0 (didn't work, as the floppy I have is a boot disk
> only)
> 2) Linux runlevel=3
>
> Neither one seems to change things. Is there any way I can get a
> session running to clean this up without re-installing? Can I even
> trick the install CD into putting back the stock rc.local? Anything to
> get it up!
>
> Eric
> http://www.dlcwest.com/~jed/re_answer.shtml
>
