Crash during caching service dependancies

catphish · n00b Joined: 05 Apr 2003 Posts: 33

I have been running a system with no problems for several weeks, however, following an unexplained crash, my system crashes during "caching service dependancies" section of boot. I have tried with two compiled versions of my kernel, with the same effect. No errors are displayed up to the point at which it freezes.

acidreign · Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2003 11:23 pm Post subject: Getting the same thing

Did you get this sorted.. Man.. i feel stupid.
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catphish · n00b Joined: 05 Apr 2003 Posts: 33

no i didn't get it sorted. horrible as it may be i ended up wiping my whole disk and recompiling everything, but go on, tell me how simple fixing it would have been.

sordid · Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2003 11:34 am Post subject:

I have this exact problem at the moment. I've run e2fsck on all my drives and it still hasnt fixed my problem.

I simply don't know what could have gone wrong. It just happened.

catphish · n00b Joined: 05 Apr 2003 Posts: 33

I never got this sorted, somebody suggested renaming the folder where the services are stored, i dont remember where it is off the top of my head, but that didn't work for me

sordid · Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2003 12:31 pm Post subject:

I just tried nuking that folder. It doesn't want to recreate any of the directories that it should when the script is run. I am at a loose end on this one.

sordid · Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2003 12:40 pm Post subject:

it seems to crash on that second gawk command in /sbin/depscan.sh

catphish · n00b Joined: 05 Apr 2003 Posts: 33

I can't be of any more help with this, i gave up with it

acidreign · Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2003 1:31 pm Post subject: Same thing

Amazingly, i had the same thing, I couldnt figure it out.. I rsynced, relayed out the base layout, checked permissions on the directories rmed the directories .init.d or whatever it was.

Basically, had to dd the disk and start again, nobody online on irc seemed to have these problems.

I hope that someone does figure this out, because this really hurt the uptime of the server that I was working on and had lost a clients faith in linux.

Maybe this post will just remain here for historical reasons.
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sordid · Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2003 2:02 pm Post subject:

ok... I'm able to get this far in the script:

i modified /sbin/depscan.sh to include /bin/cat {$svcdir}/depcache

it contains all the init.d dependencys

seems the gawk script just dies when it tries to process this... I might pickup on this tomorrow as it is late here. If anyone has any advice on how to fix this without nuking my setup, please let me know

sordid · Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2003 11:09 pm Post subject:

i get segfaults on rm and chmod and a few other commands i found out. I have no idea why... i think this is whats causing it all to crash.

sordid · Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2003 12:10 am Post subject:

i just found out i got owned and someone has installed a virus or something like that. it changes the filesize of all the binutils stuff

argh...

JonnyRo · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 07 Apr 2003 Posts: 120

Hello,

You said that you got a virus and it messed with your system enough to make the "caching dependencies" fail.

How did you determine that this was the reason that the script was failing. My system is having similar problems.
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JonnyRo · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 07 Apr 2003 Posts: 120

I did an emerge rsync, followed by an emerge -u system.

etc-update caused several boot scripts to be modified, and after that the problem was fixed.

Remember though that if this is the case for you, then you have to make sure that you let etc-update replace the originals with the updates in those cases. I even let it take out make.conf and re-edited it later.
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liryon · n00b Joined: 21 Aug 2003 Posts: 21 Location: Boston, MA

After using gentoo for a few days i too aquired this caching system dependencies halting problem. I backtracked my steps to the lastr time i did anything with the /etc/init.d scripts.

To resolve the problem i deleted the scripts that i might have manually eddited while trying to get something to work. Then i re-emerged those programs. I also found that i had two empty files in the directroy. Given their names i know that i somehow created them. The names were -K and kl which was a switch i was trying to turn on. I didn't purposfully make them, but aparently i fumbled into it. Anyways removing those solved the problem.

Aparently the depscan script file is eassily fouled up. Another thing i discovered which has not appeared here was

# /ect/init.d/deamon-name broken

which should tell you what dependacies, if any, in the given deamon are notr present or functioning. It seems that this symptom is caused by a variety of ailments, and that my be helpful.

JonnyRo · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 07 Apr 2003 Posts: 120

That's a cool command to the service name. I hadnt used broken before.

I recently found out about zap, where you would do:

/etc/init.d/servicename zap

To force the system to mark this service as stopped, useful for killing zombie services that refuse to restart.
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