On 30 Dec 2003 17:46:12 -0500 James Pifer <jamesredhatlist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 17:10, Jason Dixon wrote: > > On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 09:17, James Pifer wrote: > > > I have a Redhat 9 system that I have totally screwed up inittab and > > > runlevel to where it will not boot correctly now. I was trying to > > > change > > > it from default initlevel 5 to 3. Not sure if I didn't give it > > > enough > > > time or what, but now it's hosed. > > > > > > When it boots I get: > > > INIT: /etc/inittab[8]: missing action field > > > (same line repeats with 19,22,30,33,39,42,43, and 51) > > > Cannot execute /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit > > > > According to a diff of your inittab against mine, the only change > > you've > > made is this: > > > > id:1:initdefault: > > > > This forces init to boot single-user. I've never tried this, so I'm > > not > > sure whether to be surprised or not by the error you're seeing. > > Change > > that line to the following and everything should be ok. If not, > > you've > > hosed something else. > > > > id:3:initdefault: > > > > Jason Dixon, RHCE > > DixonGroup Consulting > > http://www.dixongroup.net > > > Yeah, that was the last thing I tried. It was set to 3 before that. Any > idea what would cause the errors I posted since inittab looks ok? > > Thanks, > James If you edit the inittab with an editor that then stores the file with MSDOS line terminators (CR-LF) you'll see that error. Perhaps you've resaved the file now with Unix line terminators (LF) and the problem will disappear. Sean -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
