INIT: Cannot execute /etc/rc.d/rc.M wtf?
 

Slackware 14.1 64 bit, fairly clean install

Out of the blue, I get this on the console when rebooting:

INIT: Entering runlevel: 3
INIT: cannot execute "/etc/rc.d/rc.M"

If I login and manually execute rc.M, it seems to work and everything in the file runs that I think should run. No errors are displayed, and the last item executes normally. All I did was edit it and add a new section to it, identical to the other sections to auto start a daemon. When I saw this happen, I restored it to where it was before I screwed with it, but I'm still getting this.

"wtf" at this point is a mild understatement.....what could I possibly have done to cause this?

AHAHAHAHAHA did you know that if the first line in the file is:

#!/bin/shsh

It won't execute? How the bloody hell did that get there?

I'm going to go to lunch now and if I happen to pass a bar I probably won't be back.....it's too early in the week for weird things like this....

Have one for me! Looks like something I'd do.... :doh:

Please mark this thread as [SOLVED] so that nobody else will see it and say "hmm, interesting" :-)
Thanks though :D

6 minutes from post until solution, and the smart LQers didn't even have to offer anything; the mere act of posting caused you to find the fix!

THAT'S how good LQ is!

I can't tell you how many times that happens. I spend bloody HOURS on some stupid thing like this, and I finally give up and cry for help on LQ. Ten minutes later, I find the fix.

Maybe if I just took a break and went outside to play for a few minutes the fix would have come to me?