Looks very similar to the error I was getting (spawning too fast ...)
Let me know if you get it corrected.
I am very close to wiping my install and starting from scratch.
So much for upgradeability (which was, after all, the only reason that I
use SuSE!)
Jesse McDonnell wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I hope someone will be able to help me with a system that
> will not boot. I've searched the SuSE Knowledge Base but haven't found
> any pointers. I have LiLO installed on the MBR of hda.
> My SuSE 5.1, kernel 2.0.36 system is installed on hda6.
> After uncompressing the kernel, identifying the hardware,
> and reading /etc/fstab the boot process starts passing
> multiple error messages. Most scroll by too quickly to read
> but they begin with:
>
> "starting sbin/init.d/boot:starting /sbin/swapon:
> no such file or directory"
>
> After mounting hda6 read-only
> the boot hangs permanently at:
>
> "INIT: Id "1" respawning too fast: disabled for five minutes"
> :
> :
> "INIT: Id "6" respawning too fast: disabled for five minutes"
> Powering down is the only way out of the situation.
>
> Fortunately, I didn't wipe my installation (now on hdb) when I
> upgraded my main hard drive some months ago so after booting from
> a rescue disk I was able to edit /etc/conf.lilo and I'm now
> booting to my 2.0.33 system on hdb3.
>
> My setup:
>
> SuSE 5.1 kernel 2.0.36 on hda6(W95 on hda1)
> SuSE 5.1 kernel 2.0.33 on hdb3(W95 on hdb1)
> YaST .97.1
> gcc 2.7.2.1
>
> Everything was working fine until...
> In preparation for upgrading to kernel 2.2.1,I decided
> to install the required versions of the various utilities/programs
> needed by 2.2.1.
>
> Not finding the most recent versions in the various
> SuSE 5.3 directories, (that should have caused me to
> stop right there!), I downloaded and installed rpms
> for kernmod, ppp, binutils,libc5.4.46-2.i386,
> net-tools, sh-utils, sh-libs from the 6.0 and 6.0
> evaluation directories.
>
> YaST issued warnings about conflicts for the binutils and the
> sh-utils package but I continued to install.
> (I know, I know .... I've been kicking myself since then.)
>
> The warnings were:
>
> "/usr/include/ansidecl.h conflicts with file from libc-5.4.33-6"
> and a few other warnings related to man pages and etc/ppp/options
> and etc/ppp/pap-secrets. I'm assuming these latter warnings aren't
> directly related to my booting problem.
>
> In some (but not all) cases YaST prompted me
> to save backups to /var/adm/backup/installation-990217.0
> I've attached this file in the hope that someone can point me to
> the steps to take to rescue my system.
>
> Initially I thought that the problem was
> directly caused by using SuSE 6.0 rpms in a SuSE 5.1
> system - the utilities/libaries might be installed
> in different directories in 6.0.
> >From searching in dejanews and being
> able to read more of the error messages I get when
> trying to boot it seems that the problem may be a
> result of my bash shell becoming *corrupted* in some
> way (maybe by using SuSE 6.0 rpms in a SuSE 5.1 system).
> Immediately after installing the packages and before
> I rebooted I got a number of "no such file or directory"
> error messages when I tried ld -V from the command line
>
> How can I fix the *corrupted* bash shell on my main system
> on hda6, if that is, indeed, the problem? I've compared
> permissions and file sizes for bin/sh, bash, /etc/inittab
> between the working system on hdb3 and the *corrupted*
> hda6 and cannot see anything amiss. Of course, that doesn't
> mean it is not staring me in the face!
>
> Can I use YaST from hdb3 to uninstall packages on hdb6
> or to otherwise fix the system? I mounted /dev/hda6 read-write
> but couldn't run YaST from it.
> If not, is there any way to get back my thrashed configuration
> without reinstalling everything?
> Since adding a new hard drive six months ago,
> I have added a lot of programs - leafnode & knews
> (a great combination), the alsa-driver and utilities,
> XFmail, xforms, x-cd-roast, netscape 3.04 and
> rvplayer 5.0 being the main ones.
> If at all possible, I'd like to save my system.
>
> I'm including the /var/adm/backup/installation-990217.0 file.
> Please excuse the lenght of this post.
> Thanks for reading this far and any suggestions/help you can offer.
>
> Jesse McDonnell
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> ***start of /var/adm/backup/installation-990217.0***
>
> pkgtools ##################################################
>
> Totally installed: 1
>
> INSTALLATION COMPLETE.
>
> Backup: /var/adm/backup
>
> /usr/include/ansidecl.h conflicts with file from libc-5.4.33-6
> error: /root/SuSE221update/binutils.rpm cannot be installed
> Force replacement of files ...
> binutils ##################################################
> ... With warning
>
> Totally installed: 1
> With warning: 1
>
> INSTALLATION COMPLETE.
>
> Backup: /var/adm/backup
>
> Backup: /var/adm/backup/libc-990217-0.tgz
> usr/include/ansidecl.h
> libc ##################################################
>
> Totally installed: 1
>
> INSTALLATION COMPLETE.
>
> Backup: /var/adm/backup
>
> net_tool ##################################################
>
> Totally installed: 1
>
> INSTALLATION COMPLETE.
>
> Backup: /var/adm/backup
>
> sh_utils ##################################################
> package /usr/man/man1/users.1.gz not found in file index
>
> Totally installed: 1
>
> INSTALLATION COMPLETE.
>
> Backup: /var/adm/backup
>
> shlibs ##################################################
>
> Totally installed: 1
>
> INSTALLATION COMPLETE.
>
> Backup: /var/adm/backup
>
> /usr/man/man5/fstab.5.gz conflicts with file from ldpman-1.18-0
> /usr/man/man5/nfs.5.gz conflicts with file from ldpman-1.18-0
> error: /root/SuSE221update/util.rpm cannot be installed
> Force replacement of files ...
> util ##################################################
> ... With warning
>
> Totally installed: 1
> With warning: 1
>
> INSTALLATION COMPLETE.
>
> Backup: /var/adm/backup
>
> Backup: /var/adm/backup/kernmod-990218-0.tgz
> lib/modules/2.0.33/modules.dep
> kernmod ##################################################
>
> Totally installed: 1
>
> INSTALLATION COMPLETE.
>
> Backup: /var/adm/backup
>
> Backup: /var/adm/backup/ppp-990218-0.tgz
> etc/ppp/options
> etc/ppp/pap-secrets
> ppp ##################################################
> warning: /etc/ppp/options saved as /etc/ppp/options.rpmsave
> warning: /etc/ppp/pap-secrets saved as /etc/ppp/pap-secrets.rpmsave
>
> Totally installed: 1
>
> INSTALLATION COMPLETE.
>
> ***end of /var/adm/backup/installation-990217.0***
>
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