jford wrote:
On Tuesday 18 November 2003 11:40 am, jford wrote:
I leave my system on all night. Since upgrading to FC1, every few days
when I get up, the system is frozen - screensaver is updating the
display but there is no response to anything short of the reset
switch.
The only thing I have found in the log files is cron entries
indicating that everything went fine up until for example 4 am, then
nothing, and an entry in the system log files at that time indicating
desktop init: Trying to re-exec init
Apparently, the last thing my system does each day is run the
cron.daily stuff - something in there causes the problem. I have
executed each script there manually, and they all seem to run
fine. Last night I emptied cron.daily. This morning everything
was fine, no hanging system.
In mail to root (from yesterday, when the system was hung up
in the morning) I find the entries:
Trying to re-exec init
open(/dev/pts/0): No such file or directory (repeated 5 times)
Obviously my system is telling me what's wrong. Anyone out
there able to translate?
Thanks.
Jim Ford
The "re-exe init" is caused by /etc/cron.daily/prelink being run.
It ends by restarting init. You can disable it by renaming
prelink -> prelink~ . The "run-parts" script ignores files that
end in "~". If it no longer freezes, its from the prelink script.
You can also run the script by hand to see if it induces an immediate freeze.
Hope this helps -Bob Arendt
