reboot cycle, no log messages

[Joel Rees]

Okay, I had a little more time this morning, so, ...

On Jan 5, 2010, at 6:11 AM, Joel Rees wrote:

>
> On Jan 3, 2010, at 12:51 AM, Roberto Ragusa wrote:
>
>> Joel Rees wrote:
>>> yum provides libfreebl3.so tells me that nss-softokn-freebl is
>>> installed. Trying an erase to re-install it tells me that most of  
>>> the OS
>>> and most of the apps seem to be dependent on it, one way or  
>>> another. Hmm.
>>
>> Bypass yum.
>>
>>   rpm -V nss-softokn-freebl
>>
>> or/and
>>
>>   rpm -Uhv --replacepkgs --oldpackage nss-softokn-freebl.....rpm
>
> Well, yeah, I'm expecting to use that as a workaround. (Thanks for  
> saving me the trouble of trying to remember the --replacepkgs  
> option. :-)

Ended up using yum reinstall. Didn't change anything.

>> Are you on 32 or 64 bit? If 64, maybe the libs are incomplete.
>
> 32 bit.
>
> Seems odd this hasn't bitten others yet. I'm hoping it doesn't mean  
> the hard disk itself is dying, or that LVM has issues with my setup  
> and is corrupting the file system.

So I checked my command history, and apparently I still thought the  
missing file was libfreeb13.so when I searched for it before, rather  
than libfreebl3.so.  (erk) So it was probably never missing, which is  
comforting to know. Sort of.

Anyway, I ended up commenting all the old file system partitions out  
of /etc/fstab and that allows it to boot. That's okay, because I can  
mount them by hand once I'm logged in, and I probably should copy all  
the files I need in from backup instead of just making them available  
where they were.

But I'm going to file a bug on this, I think. Whatever the reason it  
won't mount the old stuff during boot, it shouldn't try to drop me to  
a shell and then force a reboot because it can't load the file  
necessary to allow me to drop to a shell. I had to boot from a rescue  
install at one point because the reboot cycle would never end.

Joel Rees