From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.2) Gecko/20040308 Description of problem: I installed Fedora Core 1 on a Fujitsu Lifebook (N3010) - dual boot with WinXP, using GRUB - got the latest updates with up2date, configured the system to my likings, and it worked fine... for a couple of days. After a (possibly unrelated) problem with rsync, I halted the machine. The next time I rebooted (to initdefault 3), I get the messages "INIT: version 2.85 booting" "INIT: Entering runlevel: 3" and then straightaway "Fedora Core release 1 (Yarrow)" "Kernel 2.4.22-1.2188.nptl on an i686" "(none) login:" i.e. no services are started at all, but no obvious error messages are generated either. Needless to say I cannot login. Using the Fedora CD-rom to start Linux in rescue mode, all file systems can be mounted, but when doing a "chroot /mnt/sysimage", it tells me "Segmentation fault". It is also not possible to start a single user mode with a minimal shell (init=/bin/bash) -- the system then presents me with a line "INIT: no more processes left in this runlevel" and does nothing more. Control-Alt-Delete in this state yields a "shutdown: warning: cannot open /var/run/shutdown.pid" followed by again a "no more processes left in this runlevel" message without actually shutting down. Exactly the same thing happens independent of the kernel I choose (I have 2.4.22-1.2188 and 2.4.22-1.2155 installed). I thought it might be that the root filesystem is not properly mounted, but I then cannot understand why changes made in the /etc/inittab file made using the rescue mode do change the behavior somehwat. Moreover, with the rescue mode I seem to be able to properly mount all filesystems. It just looks as if the /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit script is not executed for some reason. I also checked to make sure there are actually services to start in the rc.d directories, and those look fine. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): initscripts-7.42.2-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start the machine 2. Boot Linux with GRUB 3. Watch how it doesn't really work. Actual Results: See Description Expected Results: The same sort of result as I had before : nicely booting and running all the services specified in the rc.d directories. Additional info: Here's my /etc/fstab : LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 LABEL=/tmp /tmp ext3 defaults 1 2 LABEL=/usr /usr ext3 defaults 1 2 LABEL=/var /var ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda4 swap swap defaults 0 0
What does 'rpm -V initscripts' say?
Says nothing anymore. In the meantime, I installed Fedora Core 2 instead and that seems to be working fine. When I first tried to do a reinstall with Core 1, there were quite some issues when arriving at the partition part. Disk Druid apparently saw a lot of "Free Space" segments, of 0 MB inbetween each partition. Not possible to change anything about that though, so reformatted the disk, and Core 2 had no problems with the partitioning.
Hm, OK. Please re-open if it comes back.