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From: Norberto BENSA <nbensa@×××.net>
To: Martin Schlemmer <azarah@g.o>, gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] baselayout-1.8.6.4
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2003 08:44:11
Message-Id: 200303230412.19426.nbensa@gmx.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] baselayout-1.8.6.4 by Norberto BENSA
1 On Sunday 23 March 2003 03:04 am, Norberto BENSA wrote:
2 > On Tuesday 18 March 2003 05:28 pm, Martin Schlemmer wrote:
3 > > If any issues, please let me know, or add a bug.
4 >
5 > failed to upgrade /etc/inittab. As a result, my system was unbooteable. I
6
7 And it failed because of this :
8
9 # Replace and backup /etc/inittab (unless already in new format)
10 if [ -f "${ROOT}/${inittab}" ] && \
11 [ -z "$(grep 'si::sysinit:/sbin/rc sysinit' "${ROOT}/${inittab}")" ]
12
13
14 I've had the line '#si::sysinit:/sbin/rc sysinit,' because some time in the
15 past I upgraded to 1.8.6.2 (or something like that,) then downgrade to
16 1.8.5.8 and instead of replacing inittab, I just commented out those lines.
17
18 I guess a workaround could be:
19
20 $(grep '^si::sysinit:/sbin/rc sysinit' "${ROOT}/${inittab}")
21
22
23 But I prefer the ._cfg0000_inittab thingy...
24
25 Regards,
26 Norberto

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Re: [gentoo-dev] baselayout-1.8.6.4 Martin Schlemmer <azarah@g.o>