On Thu, 2 Dec 2010, Bluejay Adametz wrote:
> I'm no expert on this, but would doing, after a hung unstallation, this:
>
> /bin/bash --norc -xv /sbin/mkinitrd --allow-missing -f
> /boot/initrd-2.6.18-194.26.1.el5.img 2.6.18-194.26.1.el5
>
> show more precisely where the mkinitrd script is hanging?

here it comes ...


++ awk '/^[ \t]*[^#]/ { if ($2 == "/") { print $1; }}' /etc/fstab
+ rootdev=LABEL=/
+ '[' ext3 == nfs -a x == x ']'
+ '[' LABEL=/ '!=' / -o LABEL=/ '!=' LABEL=/ ']'
++ sed -e 's/^r[ow],//' -e s/,_netdev// -e s/_netdev// -e s/,_rnetdev// -e 
s/_rnetdev// -e 's/,r[ow],$//' -e 's/,r[ow],/,/' -e 's/^r[ow]$/defaults/' 
-e 's/$/,ro/'
++ echo defaults
+ rootopts=defaults,ro
++ resolve_device_name LABEL=/
++ echo nash-resolveDevice LABEL=/
++ /sbin/nash --forcequiet


.. that's it ..
also if i change  in /sbin/mkinitrd

"/sbin/nash --forcequiet" to "/sbin/nash --force"

mysterious ...

 	martin

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