I took my up to date bo distribution (always bleeding edge from ftp updates) and used the latest hamm distribution autoup.sh script and appropriate packages to update libc5-libc6. I then used dselect to suck down all the important packages and had them updated.
When completed, I had a system with dselect claiming that everything was up to date with regard to the hamm (frozen) distribution. I followed the instruction to recreated wtmp and utmp and rebooted the system. I received the following messages (very loose syntax because the logging is not yet active to get a dump of the boot messages): ------ Cannot exec /etc/init.d/boot ... /sbin/SVGATextMode: /usr/sbin/STM_reset does not exist ... Starting scheduler atd: no /usr/sbin/atd ... While opening UTMP file: No such file While opening UTMP file: No such file While opening UTMP file: No such file While opening UTMP file: No such file While opening UTMP file: No such file While opening UTMP file: No such file While opening UTMP file: No such file While opening UTMP file: No such file (none) login: ------- The messages about SVGATextMode and atd just appear to be harmless leftover init.d configs from bo but it concerns me that /etc/init.d/boot is not found (there is an /etc/init.d/boot.OLD) and it appears the showstopper is a problem with UTMP because I cannot log on to my machine anymore. I've booted to my old bo rescue disk and poked around the directories a files a bit and found that indeed for /var/run/utmp is a 0 length file with 644 permissions so I don't see the problem there. It appears a lot has changed in the bootup process so I'm not sure where to begin to sort things out now. Anybody have any suggestions? I am building up a better rescue disk so I have some useful tools like grep to look into this further. Thanks, Matt Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
