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Siege_72
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 Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 3:22 pm Post subject: [solved] System won't boot -- tmpfs, ramfs, needed! |
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I haven't made any changes to my system recently. When I booted it yesterday , I got the following message during/after udev running:
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mounting devpts at /dev/pts
Gentoo linux requires tmpfs, ramfs, or 2 ramdisks + ext2 compiled into the kernel |
The system gives me the option to hit Ctrl-D to continue (which reboots the system) or enter my root password to go into maintenance mode. I've tried booting in Single User mode, and the problem still pops up.
In maintenance mode, I can't find anything that would be helpful. /proc/filesystems shows that tmpfs and ramfs are usable. Both were compiled into the kernel -- not as modules. Ext2 is compiled in as well. tmpfs is being assigned... here's how it's set in my fstab:
| Code: | | none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 |
I've checked everything in the runlevels, and can't find anything that's a tip off. Nothing in udev seems "off". I can't start any services, because the system isn't even at the "boot" runlevel. I recompiled the kernel to build ramdisks in, and that didn't help either. Booting from an earlier kernel produced the same issue, so I don't think that's the problem (I'm running Gentoo sources 2.6.17-r8 )
Any help or suggestions on what to try next would be appreciated!!
Update: I've tried some other things as well:
* Rolling back to earlier versions of udev. 09 and 094. No luck
* Running memtest86. No bad RAM detected
* Re-running mkswap on my swap partition
SOLUTION I had upgraded to bash 3.2. Downgrading to 3.1 via "emerge =app-shells/bash-3.1_p17" fixed it!
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timeBandit
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| Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 4:21 pm Post subject: |
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Way out on a limb here, but: download Memtest86+ and test your RAM. Maybe you have a dead/dying chip that prevents ramfs/tmpfs from initializing properly...? I admit this is highly unlikely but it's easy to check and I got nothin' else. <shrugs>
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Siege_72
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| Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 8:10 pm Post subject: |
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| timeBandit wrote: | | Way out on a limb here, but: download Memtest86+ and test your RAM. Maybe you have a dead/dying chip that prevents ramfs/tmpfs from initializing properly...? I admit this is highly unlikely but it's easy to check and I got nothin' else. <shrugs> |
I let Memtest run for over 3 hours, and it didn't find anything.  |
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PboY
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| Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 12:21 am Post subject: |
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| same problem here. haven't made changes yesterday.. and today the system doesn't boot giving the same error message. |
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Siege_72
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| Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 12:35 am Post subject: |
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| PboY wrote: | | same problem here. haven't made changes yesterday.. and today the system doesn't boot giving the same error message. |
That's a really odd coincidence... Makes me think it's something more than just my system being unstable. I just ran chkrootkit from the knoppix 5 DVD on my root directory, and but it didn't find anything. |
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Siege_72
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| Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 2:08 am Post subject: Solved! |
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| PboY made the suggestion of downgrading bash to 3.1_p17. That did the trick for me! |
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