At 10:12 AM 2/27/2005 +0545, bj wrote: [...]
Hi Ray !
Thank you for the prompt reply.
80 % of the solution worked .
1. I did mount hda5 & hda6 as below .
That looks good. But I still wish you had done what I asked and provided the output of df.
2. After I keyed in the symbolic links as below my commands could find the lib .
I am still puzzled as to why this fix solves the library problem. I wish you had answered my earlier question about where the ncurses5 library is kept on your system.
3 But the sym link to /var did n't work & once I reboot , the system created a /var by itself .The system created /var is mostly empty . If I delete that auto created /var , and reboot , it creates the /var again . The contents I have listed below .
The commands you transcribed below are incomplete and should not work. Not any of them. I asked you to provide the output of "ls -l /" this time around, and you did not. Please do so, along with a correct transcription of the commands you are using to create the symlinks.
4. yes , the system stopped for 5 minutes looking to start the system logger . After it could not find it , the boot process move forward and the normal login prompt did come( not single user but multi user login prompt ) . So you were right , the system didn't hang but just stopped for 5 minutes trying to start the system logger . .
I did mount hda5 & hda6 in the fstab .
Cat /etc/fstab gives the ff
LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda5 /mnt/hda5 ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/hda6 /mnt/hda6 ext3 defaults 1 3
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hda3 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0
0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660
noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
What does "ff" mean? You use it several times.
The symbolic link also worked . After I keyed in the ff :-
cd / ln -s /mnt/hda5/var ln -s /mnt/hda5/tmp ln -s /mnt/hda6/usr ln -s /mnt/hda6/home
As I wrote above, these are incomplete. They should be of the form ln -s /mnt/hda6/usr /usr
It is possible that your current problem arises from nothing more than your entering 3 of the commands correctly and the fourth (the one for /var) incorrectly.
Or you may have entered them too late ... after syslogd has started.
Or you may have removed the actual /usr, /tmp, and /home directories, allowing ln -s to recreate them as symlinks ... but forgotten to remove /var (this *might* be what you mean by "has been created auto" below), which would cause even a correct symlink command to fail.
Or some other init script may be doing something (for example, noticing that /var is absent and creating it) that interferes with your symlink approach.
Or maybe something else. It's hard to say without more detail.
Please, next time, provide the diagnostics I ask for, instead of (or in addition to) the ones you think are interesting.
Once I cd / and give the four link (ln ) commands three work . The result running file command on the links :-
I don't know what this sentence means, specifically the phrase "running file command on the links :-".
usr: symbolic link to /mnt/hda6/usr
tmp: symbolic link to /mnt/hda5/tmp
But the link to var didn't .
It gives no error message. But when I type reboot , it shows that it could not find a file shutdown.pid under /var . Once I reboot , it gives quite few error messages that shows that it could not still find /var.
I assume we are talking about a normal multi-user boot/init here (another thing you may recall my asking you to be specific about in my prior response). In any case, it is impossible to interpret these messages when you tell us neither what they say or when in the boot/init process they appear. For example, are the messages really about /var, or might they be about /var/log ?
It does stop around 5 minutes trying to start the system logger & after 5 minutes , it keep boots successfully.
After I log in I notice a /var directory has been created . This /var has been created auto , as I didn't create it .
The system is auto creating this directory & removing the sym link ,and so it does not find the other needed files in /var.
Why do you think this is happening ?
In addition I would also like to have the command to mount a partition read only such as /usr on a readonly partition.
mount -o remount,ro /dev/whateveritis /usr
is one way. Read the man page for mount for the details.
But remember that in your setup, your /usr directory is *not* its own partition (which is why I used the "somethingorother" above, lacking a real example from your system).
Cheers, bj
When I do ls -lR on the auto created /var , it gives out the ff contents :-
var: total 4 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Feb 27 09:28 lib
var/lib: total 8 -rw------- 1 root root 512 Feb 27 09:28 random-seed drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 27 09:22 rpm
var/lib/rpm: total 308 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8192 Feb 27 09:22 __db.001 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1310720 Feb 27 09:22 __db.002 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 360448 Feb 27 09:22 __db.003 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12288 Feb 27 09:22 Name -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12288 Feb 27 09:22 Packages
OK. As I aked before, I want to see the output of ...
ls -l /
df
find / -name libncurses* (I didn't give the actual command before; I
just asked where libncurses5 was located)
... and all actual error messages (not summaries or paraphrases) that you see.
Also, please provide the output of
ls -l /mnt/hda5
ls -l /mnt/hda6
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