cannot start rc.sysinit help :(

Mr Pink57 · 2010-01-17 07:02:59

I am not sure what I actually did here but I started up my computer last night and it said cannot start my rc.sysinit which from what I have read it what goes thru your initscripts which is a big deal. I have tried to chroot into my system to run pacman -S initscripts but I get a cannot run /bin/bash and am not sure how to fix this.

I am a medium linux user which means I can figure a few things but this kind of stuff is over my head right now.

pink

Last edited by Mr Pink57 (2010-01-18 00:50:42)

x33a · 2010-01-17 11:38:11

you can try to use the rc.sysinit from here:

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=64282

if it works, then after proper boot you can download the initscripts package.

Mr Pink57 · 2010-01-18 01:04:42

Just tried that and I get this:

INIT: cannot execute "/etc/rc.sysinit"
INIT: Entering runlevel: 5
INIT: cannot execute "/etc/rc.multi"
INIT: cannot execute "/bin/sh"
(this part just repeats until it goes to)
INIT: Id "x" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "c5" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "c6" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "c4" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "c1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "c3" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "c2" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: no more processes left in this runlevel

Hope this helps.

pink

Last edited by Mr Pink57 (2010-01-18 01:05:17)

tavianator · 2010-01-18 02:30:21

Seems like your system is more screwed up than you think if it can't execute bash. Rather than chroot, you can do "pacman --root /mnt/wherever -S initscripts" from a livecd. You may have to reinstall bash as well.

Peasantoid · 2010-01-18 02:44:23

Something similar to this cropped up around here a while back...

If you updated bash to 4.x or readline to 6.x without updating the other, you need to do them both.

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Mr Pink57 · 2010-01-18 02:44:47

Just to clarify that I can do a pacman --root /mnt/arch/ -S initscripts and do a pacman --root /mnt/arch -S bash? I would also imagine I would need the core disc for this.

pink

Peasantoid · 2010-01-18 02:46:04

Mr Pink57 wrote:

Just to clarify that I can do a pacman --root /mnt/arch/ -S initscripts and do a pacman --root /mnt/arch -S bash? I would also imagine I would need the core disc for this.
pink

Before you do anything, I suggest running `pacman --root /mnt/arch -Q bash readline` and posting up the output. (this assumes your Arch install is mounted at /mnt/arch, obviously)

If you have internet access, you don't need the core disc.
As for actually installing the packages, I imagine you can just download them (archlinux.org/packages) and then `pacman --root /mnt/arch -U ...`, if the usual `-S ...` doesn't work.

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Mr Pink57 · 2010-01-18 03:01:00

bash 4.0.035-1
readline 6.0.004-1

so this sounds like a problem right now.

EDIT: tried to install bash and readline but they are both up to date from the core CD, I do not have a internet connection to the laptop at the moment.

pink

Last edited by Mr Pink57 (2010-01-18 03:05:52)

Peasantoid · 2010-01-18 03:42:21

Okay, so the bash/readline version mismatch does not appear to be the problem. This is where my knowledge stops being helpful.
*leaves*

Last edited by Peasantoid (2010-01-18 03:42:55)

PirateJonno · 2010-01-18 11:35:07

well if you can't run /bin/bash at all then either it doesn't exist or it's not executable. try ls -l /mnt/point/bin/bash from a liveCD or whatever (replace /mnt/point with the mount point of your hard drive)

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cannot start rc.sysinit help :(

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