Bug 18935

Summary:	/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit is not installed during upgrade
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Need Real Name <ark925>
Component:	initscripts	Assignee:	Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	7.0	CC:	rvokal
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Description Need Real Name 2000-10-12 06:41:41 UTC

After upgrading from RedHat 6.1, the system would not boot into runlevel 3.
Tons of error messages were spewed to the console during various parts of
the init process about the root fs being read only. Further investigation
revealed that rc.sysinit no longer existed, and had been moved to
rc.sysinit.rpmsave. The contents of that file indicated that it was my old
6.1 rc.sysinit, which I had made some small customizations to (I don't know
if that would cause this problem).

Copying the file to rc.sysinit allowed the system to remount the root fs
read-write at the next boot, but the following error was still reported
when starting each service: " "/etc/init.d/functions: No such file or
directory". /etc/init.d was not a symlink to /etc/rc.d/init.d, but rather a
directory containing only the file "cups" (I had installed cups 1.1.4 prior
to the upgrade). Replacing it with a symlink allowed the system to boot
properly.

The system is an i686 SMP.

Comment 1 Michael Fulbright 2000-10-18 21:58:36 UTC

Apparently a problem when the initscripts package is upgraded - reassigning.

Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 2000-10-18 23:20:46 UTC

What does your upgrade.log look like?

It's most likely a problem dealing with that cups package you installed.