On Mon, Jan 18, 1999 at 02:15:10PM +0100, Richard van den Berg wrote:
> Hello DECstation fans,
>
> The DECstations here (5000/25 and 133) aren't able to run multi-user
> yet, using the 2.1.131 kernel, when the system normally boots
> and init is starting the last visible execution is the last line
> of /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit, which is an echo, after that the machines
> remains silent, ping-'ing them is possible and the only sign of life I
> can discover.
>
> When rc.sysinit drops into a shell because fstab is missing a line with
> the root filesytem, the machines work fine because they've compiled
> binutils, egcs and there own kernel which runs fine. `ps ax` in this
> shell gives following result:
>
> [root@fortuna /root]# ps ax
> PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND
> 1 ? S 0:00 init bo
> 2 ? SW 0:00 (kflushd)
> 3 ? SWN 0:00 (kswapd)
> 4 ? SW 0:00 (rpciod)
> 5 S2 S 0:00 init bo
> 6 S2 S 0:01 sh /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit
> 15 S2 S 0:01 -bash
> 32 S2 R 0:00 ps ax
>
> And shows 2 init's to my surprise, which might be the cause of the
> problem. But how is it possible that there are 2 init's running?
That might be a compile time debug option for the init which
lets the init fork at startup to make in straceable and debuggable ...
Flo
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