On Mon, Apr 06, 1998 at 11:42:50PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Since hamm was frozen, I started the process of updating my bo system. > I've been running hamm now for a week or so, and using FTP to update all > of my out-of-date packages. Last night I installed some of the new > packages, ( of which the only important one I remember was sysvinit ), and > when I rebooted my system, I was no longer able to open a tty, and thus > even though I logged in, and Linux validated my password, it was unable to > give me a shell. > > After examining the boot messages, and seeing a line that said 'unable to > find /etc/init.d/boot', I booted up from a beautiful little slackware > rescue disk, and saw that my boot was now boot.OLD. > > How do I find out what package did this? > > I assume that whatever package moved my boot to boot.OLD, was intending to > write a new file. Do I need this new boot file? My system seems to be > running fine w/ my old boot. >
Your install is broken by buggy grep 2.1-6. I got the same result but I upgrade a copy of my system :) Get grep 2.1-7 and maybe reinstall all packages by hand (whith: dpkg -i). Mirek -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
