I think I screwed something up running etc-update

Dave0 · n00b Joined: 12 Dec 2002 Posts: 20

Hi I was wondering if anyone could try to help out a newbie. I did an etc-update and unfortunatly for the first few files I didn't know what I was doing and updated them anyways :oops:

. Now when gentoo is loading up I get a bunch of errors. I cant tell what some of them are because it goes too fast and I cant find any logs that relates to the boot up. But of the few messages I do see it says: Services missing and tells me run ./metalog broken. And this goes on for a few things including modules and clock. And I have to manually load modules each time I reboot because they dont load automatically even though I have it set up in modules.autoload. Also when I try to run ./metalog broken or ./modules broken, it tells me file doesn't exist.

thanks for any help

B_F_Skinner · Posted: Fri Dec 13, 2002 4:32 am Post subject: starters

For starters, you could re-do your metalog:

Dave0 · n00b Joined: 12 Dec 2002 Posts: 20

Thanks for the tips, but it didn't seem to help =(. I don't know why my modules wont autoload either, which is the biggest pain. Does anyone know which file in /etc refers to things started at boot? Perhaps a sym link was broken somewhere? Also unfortunatly dmesg doesn't show the errors I got during boot up. Any other ideas?

aja · Posted: Fri Dec 13, 2002 5:41 am Post subject:

Dave0 · n00b Joined: 12 Dec 2002 Posts: 20

I was looking through the files and I think the problems might be in /etc/init.d Im not sure though but that is where all the files are that are getting errors, such as modules, metalog, clock, etc... Not too sure though what to do.

Dave0 · n00b Joined: 12 Dec 2002 Posts: 20

Hmm perhaps I found it? I was checking out other threads on here and someone had a slightly similar problem. I was just wondering what is in the /etc/conf.d/local.start. Is it supposed to be empty? If not could anyone supply a sample one? If this isn't the cause I have no idea what could be.

Thanks
Dave

rac · Posted: Fri Dec 13, 2002 6:56 am Post subject:

Dave0 · n00b Joined: 12 Dec 2002 Posts: 20

Hmm I guess that file is ok then. I just wish I could see what the error message was when gentoo was booting up. dmesg only gives the info right before to when the error message occurs. Nothing past it.

Perhaps someone can figure something out from this? For some reason when I rebooted, I tried to stop the boot process and thought maybe ctrl+c did something, because I heard it mentioned earlier, it didnt stop anything but for some reason when I did that I didnt get any errors and the modules were actually autoloaded that time. I thought maybe that fixed it but when I rebooted same problem happened, errors, claiming services were missing. But now when I hit ctrl+c, it doesnt boot into gentoo. Dont know what happened the first time to make it work perfectly.

Thanks for any help

TuxFriend · Apprentice Joined: 14 Aug 2002 Posts: 151

/etc/fstab, do you still have the correct mount points?
/etc/modules.autoload, are you missing some modules?

TuxFriend

Dave0 · n00b Joined: 12 Dec 2002 Posts: 20

yeah fstab is good, when I ran etc-update I noticed it overwrote my fstab so I filled it back in the way it should. I have all the modules I want loaded set in modules.autoload but it seems it never gets a chance to load them. I guess I will have to do yet another reinstall if I cant fix it, maybe I should use the vanilla sources this time.

axafluff

To see what error messages you get during the boot-up scripts try pressing ctrl+s to suspend and then ctrl+q to continue. I used this to debug some script dependency problem and it worked when nothing was logged to metalog.