[parisc-linux] very odd problem

[Michael Wood]

Hi

On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 01:55:48PM +0200, Albert Strasheim wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I had this same problem on i386 -- I think it's a dependancy
> bug that gets exposed during installation (ppp depending on
> libpcap, I think), which causes some setup scripts to fail
> during installation.
> 
> Look for a start-stop-daemon.REAL file and copy it over your
> start-stop-daemon. I think that should solve the problem. Or
> I'm utterly confused... which is probably more likely. :-)

debootstrap moves start-stop-deamon to start-stop-daemon.REAL
(see /usr/lib/debootstrap/scripts/woody)

It's supposed to move it back again at the end, so maybe it
failed somewhere along the way?

> Regards,
> 
> Albert
> 
> On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Kenneth Westelinck wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > 
> > I've recently installed the test-release of woody on my 712/60. I've also 
> > compiled a recent kernel available from the parisc-linux site. All works 
> > well, except from a very strange problem. The start-stop-daemon call, which 
> > is used throughout the init scripts, doesn't seem to work. So, executing the 
> > 
> > inetd script results in nothing, not even an error. Starting inetd on the 
> > command line (/usr/sbin/inetd) works great. Is there a known bug in the 
> > start-stop-daemon program? Can this be solved, or will I have to rewrite my 
> > init scripts?
> > 
> > Many thanks in advance.
> > 
> > 
> > regards,
> > 
> > Kenneth



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Michael Wood <mwood@its.uct.ac.za>