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On Sun, 2003-03-23 at 09:12, Norberto BENSA wrote: |
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> On Sunday 23 March 2003 03:04 am, Norberto BENSA wrote: |
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> > On Tuesday 18 March 2003 05:28 pm, Martin Schlemmer wrote: |
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> > > If any issues, please let me know, or add a bug. |
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> > failed to upgrade /etc/inittab. As a result, my system was unbooteable. I |
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> And it failed because of this : |
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> # Replace and backup /etc/inittab (unless already in new format) |
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> if [ -f "${ROOT}/${inittab}" ] && \ |
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> [ -z "$(grep 'si::sysinit:/sbin/rc sysinit' "${ROOT}/${inittab}")" ] |
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> I've had the line '#si::sysinit:/sbin/rc sysinit,' because some time in the |
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> past I upgraded to 1.8.6.2 (or something like that,) then downgrade to |
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> 1.8.5.8 and instead of replacing inittab, I just commented out those lines. |
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> I guess a workaround could be: |
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> $(grep '^si::sysinit:/sbin/rc sysinit' "${ROOT}/${inittab}") |
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> But I prefer the ._cfg0000_inittab thingy... |
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Ah, right, thanks will fix. |
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Well, I would prefer the ._cfg0000_inittab thing as well, but I had to |
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do it this way, as many (most?) users do not etc-update when they |
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should. Seems especially when there are quite a few updates =) |
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Regards, |
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Martin Schlemmer |
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Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop/System Team Developer |
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Cape Town, South Africa |