On 09/03/2019 22:16, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > On 3/9/19 2:42 PM, Pierre Labastie wrote: >> On 09/03/2019 20:55, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >>> On 3/9/19 12:30 PM, Tim Tassonis wrote: >>>> Hi all >>>> >>>> I was just upgrading sysvinit from 288dsf to 2.93 and then noticed that >>>> I >>>> could not properly reboot or even halt the system anymore. >>>> >>>> Does anybody know something about that? As far as I saw, the system >>>> complained about missig /run/initctl, but maybe that's just a symptom? >>>> >>>> I have to add that after a manual stop and restart of the system, >>>> everything >>>> was fine again, so I suppose the error is caused by overwriting the binary >>>> on a running system. >>> >>> For something like that, I would supose you would need to study the source >>> code. In any case since it seems to be working, I wouldn't worry about it. >>> >> >> I hadn't received Tim's original message. I've seen exactly the same >> behavior. >> I do not know what would be a clean way to upgrade. Maybe do a DESTDIR >> install >> (actually make ROOT=/some/where install), then reboot with >> init=/some/where/sbin/init, then move to destination, and reboot again... > > Good point. I note that they don't use DESTDIR but use ROOT as you say above. > > That said, looking at the installed files, the ones that would be needed > during shutdown (or when rebooting) appear to be in /sbin: > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 25560 Mar 9 15:01 halt > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 55752 Mar 9 15:01 init > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 34520 Mar 9 15:01 killall5 > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 20152 Mar 9 15:01 logsave > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 19000 Mar 9 15:01 runlevel > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 40056 Mar 9 15:01 shutdown > > I'm not sure if logsave is needed (it's not used in the LFS scripts). > > Rebooting to init=/bin/bash and moving those files to /sbin and then rebooting > normally would seem to be the easiest way to upgrade. > > A full cp of the riles in the $ROOT directory could then be done before or > after the final reboot. > > Another thing that might work (just speculating) is to do a hard power off > (pull the power plug) after the make install. >
I think that's what Tim meant when saying "manual stop and restart of the system" ;) I did that too (actually, press the reboot button was enough in my case) Pierre -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page Do not top post on this list. A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style
