On December 11, 2003 02:42 pm, Binyon Steve Contr Det 4 AFC2TIG/ASRCC wrote: > 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 Hi, a quick google search for "filesystem: dup2: Bad file descriptor" toped the list with: http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-il@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg30620.html Hope that helps -- Pete Nesbitt, rhce -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
