Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Problem with booting 1.3.85 | Date | Sat, 13 Apr 1996 12:14:39 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Andrew E. Mileski" <> |
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> > > I just compiled 1.3.85 the other night. Compilation > > > went fine. However, mid-way through the booting process, > > > while executing rc.M, I got the a zillion copies of the > > > following message: > > > > > > INIT: error read initrequest > > Same here for 1.3.84 when doing a shutdown on two 486 hosts, it > > eventually does shutdown without further assistance though. > > > I believe this has something to do with the new fifo structure (named > pipes). I've seen this problem in kernels later than .80 and this was > when the new (original) fifo code was first (again) introduced. I have > yet to hear what the *proper* solution is to this problem.
The problem is the /dev/initctl fifo is opened O_RDONLY. Changing this to O_RDWR in CheckInitFifo (init.c line 1414 in v2.59) fixes this. This fix was posted some time ago.
_OR_ you can just upgrade to the _LATEST_ version of sysinit (2.60 something).
-- Andrew E. Mileski -- mailto:aem@ott.hookup.net http://www.redhat.com/~aem/
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