[BusyBox] Busybox/init slepping forever

Schlager Kristian-KSCHLAG1 Kristian.Schlager at motorola.com
Thu Feb 13 20:45:53 UTC 2003


After upgrading from bb 0.52 to 0.60.5 init didn't work properly:
it always stopped with "sleeping forever"
At the moment inittab looks like this:

::sysinit:/etc/rc.S
tty1::respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1
tty2::respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty2

(hashed lines are omitted here)

I got the same result with 

::sysinit:/sbin/mount /dev/root / -o remount,rw
::sysinit:/sbin/mount -a
console::askfirst:/bin/sh

sh is busybox msh

both versions worked with busybox 0.52 and 0.60.0 (which I now use).

I read about the format of the inittab being the cause of the problem - 
but how does it actually need to look like?

Regards

Kristian Schlager
Vienna, Austria



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