Re: [SLUG] Boot hangs at 'Starting Samba daemons: nmbd smbd'

[Adam Felix Bogacki <afb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Mary,

   I tried typing "Linux init=/bin/sh" at the LILO prompt and it booted
without all the bells & whistles, but when I tried 'vi' or 'apt-get' I 
was told they were
unknown commands. I had thought I might try changing 
'/etc/apt/sources.list' to
testing and deleting and reinstalling samba, or just doing another 
'dist-upgrade'.

I could do a 'find' and 'rm' the samba files but that might be a bit 
unpredictable.
But if 'vi' was not available, what do I use to edit and save files ?

I think I'll sleep on it. After getting 2.6.5 working, I don't wish to 
blow it.

Cheers,

Adam.

> On Mon, May 24, 2004, Adam Felix Bogacki wrote:
>  
>
> > > "rsync daemon not enabled in /etc/default/rsync
> > > Starting Samba daemons: nmbd smbd"
> > >
> > > ... until reboot..
> > >
> > > I have heard something about about rsync being buggy in unstable (if 
> > > that's relevant).
> >    
>
> That looks more like a Samba bug than an rsync bug. All the "rsync
> daemon not enabled in /etc/default/rsync" message means is "I'm not
> starting the rsync daemon because you've told me not to in the file
> /etc/default/rsync".
>
>  
>
> > > Google assumes you can first boot in and then do things as root.
> >    
>
> If you type "Linux init=/bin/sh" at the LILO prompt, does this let you
> boot and log in as root? That should skip the loading of the daemons
> (and of a lot of other things).
>
> If you're not getting a LILO prompt on bootup (just a LILO 22.x message
> and then straight into booting), then I believe you should press "Tab" a
> few times when the LILO message appears.
>
> Alternatively, boot from a rescue disk. Almost every Linux install CD
> doubles as a rescue disk.
>
> -Mary
>