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Huge problem with baselayout-vserver after update... [message #1816]

Sun, 26 February 2006 16:44

ats2
Messages: 3
Registered: February 2006

Junior Member

Hi,
I'm running gentoo with vserver-sources. I updated my baselayout with baselayout-vserver, then etc-updated everything in init.d (actually, I just kept the hostname et domainname in conf.d as they were).
At reboot, the machine crashed with problems of scripts : could not create 'softscripts' and others... immediately after the hardware boot (at the beginning of gentoo loading).

Well, rebooted with a rescue disk, chrooted and unmerged baselayout-vserver to reinstall the former baselayout (not vserver). I etc-updated again, checking each file (18 this time, 21 the firt time).
I recompiled the kernel too, with the same config file.

Now, the machine loads okay but stops after starting services with the message 'INIT :no more scripts left for this runlevel' and then hangs... I never get to the prompt, and I can't access /var/log/messages or syslog...

What can I do to get back my configuration ?
I fear emerge -e world (took me three days last time). Nothing else ? Crying or Very Sad

Thanks in advance for your help !

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Re: Huge problem with baselayout-vserver after update... [message #1818 is a reply to message #1816]

Sun, 26 February 2006 20:20

kir
Messages: 1645
Registered: August 2005
Location: Moscow, Russia

Senior Member

(1) Are you using OpenVZ or Linux-VServer? This is OpenVZ support forum.

(2) baselayout-vserver is just for the VPSs (guests), not the host system itself. So looks like you made a BIG mistake.

(3) Check basic stuff like /etc/inittab -- initdefault should be set to 3 or 5, there should be some getty lines there etc.

Kir Kolyshkin

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Re: Huge problem with baselayout-vserver after update... [message #1819 is a reply to message #1818]

Sun, 26 February 2006 22:36

ats2
Messages: 3
Registered: February 2006

Junior Member

Oops. Sorry. I just followed the link from front page and asked the question without thinking... I'm using linux-vserver, as you guessed right.

Well, I'll check inittab. Didn't know this baselayout was for guests : I saw it had been merged in another machine I'm copying, so I guessed it was something I had forgotten. Hm, big mistake that is.
Well, I'll try and fix it.

Sorry again for posting in the wrong forum.

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