Hello I have a rh8.0 system that is failing on boot with the following message: Mounting proc filesystem: dup2: Bad file descriptor and puts me in check filesystem mode. All fileysystems fsck cleanly. The system was up for a few months and was turned off by a user which lead to this situation. The 'dup2:.." appears on each attempt to process one of the 'services' file (/etc/init.d/*) during bootup, but since it appears in the mounting of proc (the first message) I was able to track it down to /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit script on the line containing: action $"Mounting proc filesystem: " mount -n -t proc /proc /proc The 'action' is defined in /etc/init.d/functions. I've have tried the command and get the same dup2 error. If I just do the 'mount' part of the command the /proc file system mount with no error. So it appears to be something in action() and I narrowed it down to the initlog(8) command which when I do a: initlog -c ls I get the dup2: Bad file descriptor. But I'm at a dead end. There is no clue in the /etc/initlog.conf file, and no real help in dup2(2) man page, except I'm assumming that error returned is EBADF from dup2, but where is the number of file descriptors defined? Bottom line, has anyone ran into this problem and have a solution? Thanks. ~smbinyon Steve Binyon System Administrator TACCSF (505)853-0368 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
