FC6 crashed/ rc.sysinit

[Cameron Simpson]

On 29Dec2006 21:06, jim tate <mickeyboa at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
| On bootup  FC6 crashes and locks up box.  
| 
| Error message:  /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit: Line 821  1499 Seg. Fault  rm -f 
| $afile/*   
| 
| Below is the section in rc.sysinit, and line 821 is indicated below, is 
| where crash happens.
| What can I do to fix problem?
| 
| 
| # Clean up /var.  I'd use find, but /usr may not be mounted.
| for afile in /var/lock/* /var/run/* ; do
|    if [ -d "$afile" ]; then
| 
| Line 821       case "$afile" in
|                     */news|*/mon)    ;;
|                     */sudo)        rm -f $afile/*/* ;;
|                     */vmware)    rm -rf $afile/*/* ;;
|                     */samba)    rm -rf $afile/*/* ;;
|                     */screen)    rm -rf $afile/* ;;
|                     */cvs)        rm -rf $afile/* ;;
|                     */dovecot)    rm -f $afile/*/* ;;
|                     */cups)        rm -f $afile/*/* ;;
|                     *)        rm -f $afile/* ;;
|       esac
|    else
|       rm -f $afile
|    fi
| done
| rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db* &> /dev/null
| rm -f /var/gdm/.gdmfifo &> /dev/null

1: Comment out this piece of code. That will let you box boot.
2: Check /var/lock/* and /var/run/* - maybe one of these has many many
   files and the shell is failing the glob expansion (badly)?
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