>> >> My system is now unusable. Before the holidays, I performed the >> steps in the libc5 to libc6 mini-HOWTO successfully. Today, I >> decided to try to use dselect to upgrade to hamm. dselect dowloaded >> 60+MB from the mirror I pointed to (ftp.cdrom.com). I went through >> a couple of passes of "Install" and then tried "Config" once. >> This went through and eventually config'ed xbase. This restarted >> my xdm server. The problem is that my video card (at times) can >> only start X once. Further attempts to start X lock the machine up >> tight (which is why I moved to xdm in the first place). This was one >> of those times, and the machine locked up (that is not the problem). The >> only solution that I have found to this is to press "reset". I did >> this and then the real probelms started... >> >> The boot started correctly, but then got to this point: >> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly >> INIT: version 2.73 booting >> INIT: Cannot execute "/etc/init.d/boot" >> INIT: Entering runlevel: 2 >> Starting system log daemon: syslogdstart-stop-daemon: nothing in /proc - >> not mounted? >> >> I get many of the "start-stop-daemon" errors. >> >> Later it says: >> while opening UTMP file: No such file or directory. >> >> I also get many of these errors. >> >> If I try to log in as root, I get (using the correct password): >> Unable to change tty /dev/tty1: Bad file descriptor >> >> I have no idea how to correct these problems. I have had this system >> going since early Debian 1.1 days and I am stumped. What do I need to do?
Hi! I had a strange problem couple a weeks a go, that looked similar: /proc or swap partitions would not get mounted, if they were last lines in fstab ... same with .fechmailrc and procmail. I simply moved the lines on top of the list and everything worked. Really strange! This was straight after an upgrade. --j -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .