On Thu, 10 Apr 2003, MW Mike Weiner (5028) wrote: > From: M A Young > No you don't. Use rpm --root /mnt/rootfs ... > > ahhh a good tip, thank you, as well as --dbpath i see. However thats > currently failing, Actually --dbpath doesn't gain you much since --root causes rpm to look for its database in this directory as well. Also make sure glibc and glibc-common are the same version - I know bad things happen if you manage to get yourself in a state where they aren't. > and i am trying to catch the error to debug. On another > note, is there any way around the INIT errors, when i reboot the machine > into runlevel 5 i get: > > INIT: Id '1' respawning too quickly disabled for 5 minutes > INIT: Id '2' respawning too quickly disabled for 5 minutes > INIT: Id '3' respawning too quickly disabled for 5 minutes > INIT: Id '4' respawning too quickly disabled for 5 minutes > INIT: Id '5' respawning too quickly disabled for 5 minutes > INIT: Id '6' respawning too quickly disabled for 5 minutes > INIT: Id 'x' respawning too quickly disabled for 5 minutes > INIT: there are no more processes in this runlevel It sounds like init or the processes it calls are sick for some reason, probably related to the glibc change. Incidentally, I suspect your bug is the same as http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=88456 Michael Young
