[ale] Resolved (almost): Reboot wedging problems after disktransplant

[James P. Kinney III]

You will certainly need to be in runlevel 1 to do this.

rm /tmp
mkdir /tmp
sync
sync
shutdown -h now

On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 11:41, John Mills wrote:
> ALErs -
> 
> On Sat, 21 Jun 2003, John Mills wrote:
> > On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, John Mills wrote:
> > > Boots after power loss now show 'filesystem integrity failure' and
> > > commonly, lost INODES.
> > Reflecting on my problem, it occured to me there was _no_ reason the root
> > partition should be 'fsck'ed when it was mounted if my system boot set up
> > a ramdisk (rdinit), and indeed when I did my latest kernel upgrade I just
> > downloaded the sources, built kernel and modules, and set up a grub.conf
> > entry to boot from the HDD and kernel image.
> 
> A kernel reconfig and rebuild, a bit of automagic from 'make install',
> quite a few bullets in my feet, and I am now booting stably from an
> 'initrd' image. This indeed fixed my problem.
> 
> Except ... I had successfully moved '/tmp' out to '/usr/tmp' and
> soft-linked it as '/tmp', _but_ I'm having troubles moving it back. I
> think the problem is that I need some[thing|where] for the various sockets
> in '/tmp' to go, and I can't seem to achieve this. The symptom is failure
> to start X11.
> 
> Clues for the clueless (and toeless)?
> 
> TIA
>  John Mills
>  john.m.mills at alum.mit.edu
> 
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