FC5 crashed

mickeyboa · 09-25-2006, 02:16 PM

While FC5 is booting in comes up with a Error:

/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit: Line 593: /sbin/pidof: File to Large.

Below is the section of rc.sysinit that crash happens.
What file is to Large?

# Now that we have all of our basic modules loaded and the kernel going,
# let's dump the syslog ring somewhere so we can find it later
dmesg -s 131072 > /var/log/dmesg

# create the crash indicator flag to warn on crashes, offer fsck with timeout
(Line 593) touch /.autofsck &> /dev/null

kill -TERM `/sbin/pidof getkey` >/dev/null 2>&1
} &
if strstr "$cmdline" confirm ; then
touch /var/run/confirm
fi
if [ "$PROMPT" != "no" ]; then
/sbin/getkey i && touch /var/run/confirm
fi
wait

# Let rhgb know that we're leaving rc.sysinit
if [ -x /usr/bin/rhgb-client ] && /usr/bin/rhgb-client --ping ; then
/usr/bin/rhgb-client --sysinit
fi

Jim

mickeyboa · 09-25-2006, 02:39 PM

I ran boot in the "Interactive mode" and hit "y" for all funtions
and got through and logged in.

The place the crash occurs is at "Starting Service RPCidmapd"

Jim

PTrenholme · 09-25-2006, 02:44 PM

I'd assume that it refers either to the symlink or the file to which it links. (See below.)

Can you boot in rescue mode from a CD or DVD?

If so, compare the sizes of /sbin/pidof on the CD/DVD with the one in /mnt/sysimage/sbin. On my FC5 system, pidof is just a symlink to killall5, so I's only 8 bytes long.

On my system, I get:

Code:

$ ls -l /sbin/pidof
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Jul  2 20:16 /sbin/pidof -> killall5
$ ls -l /sbin/killall5
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 13560 Feb 13  2006 /sbin/killall5

If the symlink is corrupted, try recreating it using the ln command.

If it's corrupted, I'd also consider running fcsk on the drive, since corruption of a file usually result from HD problems.

mickeyboa · 09-25-2006, 03:25 PM

I went into "Linux Rescue" and umounted all partitions and ran fsck
on partitions and they were clean. / and /home.
I can login if I use "Interactive mode" and get past Service "RPCidmapd"

Jim