At Sun, 02 Jun 2002 22:47:10 +1000, Bill Taylor wrote: > >well then, there's your first list of packages to install: > > > > apt-get install lynx less mc > > > >you currently have a *very* basic install of debian - only the barest > >essentials are installed during the first phase. > > > did this, only got lynx and mc; debconf seems to be tied up, as the > loop is still running on tty1, so less wasn't configured. I'm patiently > working through the pids, hope to find the culprit. > If that fails, I'll rename a file at a time till the loop dies. killing > the pid doesn't work; it just restarts! > I'm pretty sure the cause is, or is in, /usr/sbin/tzsetup -y -g
tzsetup just sets up the timezone. since your loop includes more than that, it must be some other process that calls tzsetup (amongst other things). do a "ps l $pid_of_tzsetup" and have a look at the PPID column. that is the "parent process id". you should be able to walk up the tree until you find whatever is controlling the whole thing. "ps ef" will show the process tree in some funky ascii art. you probably need to add the "ax" options to get it to show *every* process. -- - Gus -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
