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by **Mark Ramo** » Wed, 10 Nov 1999 04:00:00

I booted up my box and several services wouldn't start. xfs
complained about not able to open a socket (therefore X can't start),
gpm just dies with no errors, syslog starts but outputs all errors to
console instead of /var/log/messages, and lpd doesn't start. The
only service with any type of hint is xfs, all others don't output
anything I tried tracing back to what changes have been made and I
couldn't find anything that seemed of importance. All key files in
/etc have not been modified since it was working last (i.e.,
syslog.conf, hosts, lilo.conf, etc) Glancing over the processes
running, nothing but the ones that didn't start *seem* to be running.
I am running RH 6.1 and kernel 2.2.13. I also tried booting into a
2.2.12 kernel and had the same results. Any advice is appreciated!

by **Mark Ramo** » Mon, 15 Nov 1999 04:00:00

On Tue, 09 Nov 1999 22:15:57 -0800, Mark Ramos

>I booted up my box and several services wouldn't start. xfs
>complained about not able to open a socket (therefore X can't start),
>gpm just dies with no errors, syslog starts but outputs all errors to
>console instead of /var/log/messages, and lpd doesn't start. The
>only service with any type of hint is xfs, all others don't output
>anything I tried tracing back to what changes have been made and I
>couldn't find anything that seemed of importance. All key files in
>/etc have not been modified since it was working last (i.e.,
>syslog.conf, hosts, lilo.conf, etc) Glancing over the processes
>running, nothing but the ones that didn't start *seem* to be running.
>I am running RH 6.1 and kernel 2.2.13. I also tried booting into a
>2.2.12 kernel and had the same results. Any advice is appreciated!

I figured out the issue and thought it might help anyone else who has
experienced this. First of all, I must have overlooked conf.modules
in /etc as that was something I modified prior to reboot. Basically,
I compiled the kernel with UNIX pty support as a module. Although
this was not *exactly* the issue, as it has been several weeks since I
built the kernel. But what I overlooked was that when compiling as a
module I needed to add "alias net-pf-1 unix" to the conf.modules. It
seemed to work without it but with errors. So one day I decided to
get rid of that damn error *ing about net-pf-1 by adding "alias
net-pf-1 off". Poof! that screwed it all up. After changing the
conf.modules everything is fine now. But since I got no replies on
this, by email or post, no one must care. Suprising though, I usually
get plenty of help in this group. No big deal but I thought I would
pass this on.

Cheers,

Mark

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