Re(2): Problem with booting 1.3.85

Patrick.VANDE-WALLE@lux.dg13.cec.be
Thu, 11 Apr 1996 09:05:14 +0200


markc@ion.com.au wrote:
> Patrick.VANDE-WALLE@lux.dg13.cec.be wrote:
>
> > I just compiled 1.3.85 the other night. Compilation
> > went fine. However, mid-way through the booting process,
> > while executing rc.M, I got the a zillion copies of the
> > following message:
> >
> > INIT: error read initrequest
> ...
>
> Same here for 1.3.84 when doing a shutdown on two 486 hosts, it
> eventually does shutdown without further assistance though.

In the meanwhile several people, whom I'd like to thank have pointed
out I should upgrade to sysvinit-2.60 since the behaviour of broken
pipes changed somewhere around 1.3.81.

You can get it from ftp://ftp.cistron.nl//pub/People/miquels/debian

Patrick Vande Walle