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From: Brandon Low <lostlogic@g.o>
To: "John P. Davis" <zhen@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-dev@g.o, gentoo-core@g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] Help!
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 14:36:02
Message-Id: 20030210142723.GH17098@lostlogicx.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Help! by "John P. Davis"
1 My guess: this is probably caused by an upgrade then downgrade of baselayout from 1.5.x to 1.6.x and back. If you get into the system in single user and make sure that your /etc/is all on 1 version or the other of baselayout (prferably 1.5.x) you should be OK.
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3 That is JUST A GUESS, good luck!
4
5 --B
6
7 On Mon, 02/10/03 at 09:07:49 -0500, John P. Davis wrote:
8 > Hi all -
9 > All that I can say is *arg*.
10 > I was working on my machine last night, and it hard crashed. Upon restart,
11 > it seems that /var/state/init.d/* is invalid (shows processess that are
12 > started (but not really), etc) and therefore I cannot boot and my rootfs
13 > stays ro (annoying). I can get into my system via single user, but that is
14 > worthless thanks to my ro root fs. I tried copying /var/state/init.d from
15 > the livecd into my own /var/state/init.d, but no joy there. Any ideas?
16 >
17 > Cheers,
18 > //zhen
19 > --
20 > John P. Davis
21 > Gentoo Linux, Inc.
22 > Documentation Coordinator
23 > Bugzilla Administrator
24 > http://www.gentoo.org
25 > zhen@g.o
26 >
27 >
28 >
29 > --
30 > gentoo-core@g.o mailing list
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