[lug] Unable to cleanly reboot

[Michael Deck]

Yeah, I became suspicious of /var too just as I wrote the last note but I 
didn't know why I should be. Now I do. Ok, I have another HDD that I can put 
everything but /export on, then I can mount the old /var as /opt/var and try 
carefully copying stuff over. Just in case, I've done a pg_dumpall so I have 
all the databases in ascii form if I need them. 

On Thursday 18 October 2001 03:54 pm, you wrote:
> Michael Deck wrote:
> > On Thursday 18 October 2001 04:14 pm, you wrote:
> > > On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, D. Stimits wrote:
> > > > For the most part, concentrate your efforts on figuring out if
> > > > something that is running in init 2, and is set to be stopped in init
> > > > 1. Get as much data as you can on processes that should be stopped.
> > > > You might also want to search the /var/log/messages file for anything
> > > > related to those services.
> > >
> > > If you suspect that you have an errant rc script/process have you seen
> > > it before? The one thing that you might want to see is what has been
> > > touched since the change on the system. Use ls -lt to see what is going
> > > on there.
> >
> > What has "changed" is basically everything. I wiped out Mandrake and
> > installed RedHat. What hasn't changed is, I didn't wipe /var (because
> > that has my postgresql databases on it as well as qmail) or /export
> > (because that contains all my shared Samba file systems.)
>
> /var/ contains the subsystem locking files, such as pid monitors, that
> the rc scripts use. This is probably part of the problem, the Mandrake
> ones will not be compatible with RH. While you could have saved your
> PostgreSQL, email, and maybe a few other things, they were not
> guaranteed to be in the same location between RH and Mandrake. The
> /var/lock/ stuff and /var/run/ stuff is a big suspicious ugly wart here.
> Maybe /var/lib/ as well. Since you are missing rpm as well, perhaps the
> rpm database from Mandrake is also left over. If you can do this again,
> I strongly suggest you wipe out anything on /var/ (in terms of
> directories) that do not specifically contain something you must save.
> Even in those cases, I'd suggest you rename the directory to something
> like "pgsql-old", and adjust it after a full install. DB stuff is better
> done with a dump/restore anyway.
>
> D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com
>
> > I do have a laptop with the same KRUD on it, and it is doing just great.
> > Unfortunately there are some differences due to the kind of install.
> >
> > > If you find something then try and run the script via CLI. (i.e.
> > > ./<name_of_script> stop and see what is written to STDERR (if
> > > anything). Dig into the new scripts and run the commands within the
> > > script via command line and see what you get (if anything).
> > >
> > > Good luck,
> > >
> > > Bill
> > >
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