XPost: linux.debian.ports.sparc
From: [email protected]

On Fri, 09 Jan 2004 21:44:20, Magos�nyi �rp�d wrote:

Package: sysvinit
Version: 2.85-9
Severity: normal

This is a headless sparc64 system.
After init is executed,
there is nothing in the console; the last message is
about mounting the root filesystem readonly.
It seems that the system completely hangs.
Kernel command line: root=/dev/sda1 ro -p console=ttyS0
It may be relevant that I see every kernel message twice
on the console (but once in dmesg)
after and including the following message:
Console: ttyS0 (SU)

The workaround is to set
#define INITDEBUG 1
in init.h , and recompile.

I do not claim that I understand why this solution works,
but it does.
I am interested in figuring out what the actual problem is,
and find a solution to it. I need hypotheses to test and
questions asked well (or the answer, if you have it:).

I bet if you turn off bootlogd in /etc/default/bootlogd (or
upgrade to a more recent version of sysvinit/initscripts
where this is the default) that the problem will disappear.

Bootlogd doesn't work on all systems, that's why it has been
turned off in newer versions for now.

Mike.


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