INIT: Entering runlevel: 3 --> Frozen machine [SOLVED]

[gustafson]

My machine freezes during boot after yesterday's world update:

The sequence goes something like:

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Starting lo
  loading networking modules for lo
    modules: iproute2 system
      iproute2 provides interface
    Bringing up lo
      127.0.0.1/8
    Adding routes
      127.0.0.0/8
Initializing random number generator
INIT: Entering runlevel: 3

That is where it freezes. I've got verbose output in in /etc/rc, I was hoping for more output, but nothing. Having it start in init level 1 did not help either, it just froze at:

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INIT: Entering runlevel: 1

What could be wrong? There was no kernel upgrade in this time frame, just a emerge -uaDvN world.

Admittedly, I might have messed up a few of the init scripts in /etc/init.d as I was trying to change the boot order... however I didn't change any at the boot runlevel and now there are no init scripts starting by default in the default runlevel, so that can't be it as far as I can tell.

[gustafson]

Answering my own question.

It was a kernel problem. I have a ipw3945 card and the kernel module was downgraded. This broke the boot sequence for who knows what reason. To fix this problem I overwrote the sources (to replace the ieee80211 stuff, unmerged all the ipw3945 stuff, rebuilt the kernel, and reemerged everything ipw3945 from scratch. Now I don't have wireless working anymore, but at least the boot sequence completes correctly.

[doulos447]

Thanks Gustafson, I had been having the same problem and was very near tearing my hair out. I was only able to get it to boot by hitting CTRL-C at just the right time.

[gustafson]

No problem.

Here is the forum I used to get my wireless working again. It appears they have fixed ipw3945d now... though since I was able to get it working using the earlier advice I'm going to leave well enough alone.

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php? ... 80#3840380

[doulos447]

Actually, all I did for the wireless was simply perform a module-rebuild as I do any time I upgrade the kernel. I do have to do a modprobe -r ipw3945 followed by a modprobe ipw3945 to get it working, however. Aside from that annoyance, it seems "ok"