Hi list, I'm building my first usermode linux system, using the Gentoo howto.
When I booted linux, it hung(*) because it couldn't find any modules, so I went back and built and installed modules target, mounted the rootfs as loopdevice and copied all of the fresh /lib/modules/x.y.z to /mnt/loop/lib/ modules. Nothing is mentioned about modules in the howto so I just had to second-guess it... (*) I assumed it hung because on the host system I saw many many shells spawned by the usermode system So now the modules are there, but the real problem, the endless spawning of shells, still persists. Like so: [host system] ps ax <snip usual processes> 4890 pts/0 T+ 0:00 linux [/sbin/init] 4896 pts/0 T+ 0:00 linux [/bin/bash] 4904 pts/0 T+ 0:00 linux [/bin/bash] 4914 pts/0 T+ 0:00 linux [/bin/bash] 4926 pts/0 T+ 0:00 linux [/bin/bash] 4932 pts/0 T+ 0:00 linux [/bin/bash] <snip couple of thousand lines...> 25661 pts/0 T+ 0:00 linux [/bin/bash] 25665 pts/0 T+ 0:00 linux [/bin/bash] 25669 pts/0 T+ 0:00 linux [/sbin/init] 25671 pts/0 T+ 0:00 linux [/sbin/init] 25673 pts/0 S+ 0:00 linux [/sbin/agetty] 25676 pts/0 T+ 0:00 linux [/sbin/init] 25678 pts/0 S+ 0:00 linux [/sbin/agetty] Meanwhile, this is what the -unresponsive at this point- uml bootscreen shows: <snip> * Bringing lo up... [ ok ] * Initializing random number generator... [ ok ] INIT: Entering runlevel: 3 * Starting metalog... [ ok ] * Mounting network filesystems... [ ok ] * Starting vixie-cron... [ ok ] * Starting local... [ ok ] And there it hangs, or seems to. Are all those shells normal ? I kind of doubt it. I've made sure to log into the host system while using the -X flag to ssh, so I assume the xterms should be able to open, but I have no way to check for that as the host system has no X installed (nor do I want to install it). Am I nearly there, or is there something really wrong here ? TIA, Maarten -- bash-2.05b$ emerge ncy -- [email protected] mailing list
