Unfortunately, my box is _heavily_ altered from the standard COL, so the upgrade would prolly break alot more than it would fix.
I have discovered something new while working on this. I think 98% of the problem is that none of the runlevel based scripts are running. I'm referring to the stuff in /etc/rc.d/rc5.d. I discovered this, when it boots into what should be runlevel 5, yet syslog, and everything else that is in the rc5.d directory was not running. So, I went and manually started each of the S* scripts. IN so doing, i noticed that there is an "rmnologin" script, that is supposed to delete the /etc/nologin file. Funny the things i never notice until all hell breaks lose. At this point, perhaps the overlying problem is simply that whatever should be running all the runlevel scripts, isn't doing it. So, does anyone know what that is? Perhaps i inadertantly killed the executable bit on whatever it is that runs those scripts? --- Ronnie Gauthier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I had the same self induced behavior on my mandrake box a while back. > I took > the chicken shit way out and used the install disk and chose the > upgrade > option. All fixed. Might work for you. > > On Saturday 09 March 2002 20:50, Net Llama wrote: > > I've gotten myself into one hell of a mess, and i'm dumbfounded on > how > > to fix it. > > Last night, I configured my COL-3.1.1 box to provide remote X logins > > using kdm, as per these instructions: > > http://sxs.sourceforge.net/sxs/remotexkdm.html > > > > Everything was working perfectly. > > > > So, i wake up this morning, and boot up this same box, to come upon > > > ==snip== ===== ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step help: http://netllama.ipfox.com . __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Try FREE Yahoo! Mail - the world's greatest free email! http://mail.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
