Init hanging.... again.
Yan Seiner
yan at seiner.com
Mon Aug 14 01:13:26 UTC 2006
Rob Landley wrote:
> On Wednesday 02 August 2006 9:01 pm, yan wrote:
>
> init is PID 1, which means it needs the environment variable to come from the
> kernel. If you add "CONSOLE=/dev/blah" to your kernel command line it'll set
> it as an environment variable (which is what it does with any argument that a
> device driver doesn't claim.)
>
>
AH! I didn't know that. OK, that helps a lot.
>> I'll
>> look into that tomorrow. In any case, it is not intuitive or obvious
>> that not setting CONSOLE in root's .profile would make init lock up.
>>
>
> Root's .profile won't help here because that's parsed by the shell, and init
> runs before the shell.
>
> I need to fluff up the documentation a bit...
>
I've always wondered if the dialog config interface could contain a Doc
section that brings up the README, INSTALL, FAQ, CHANGELOG, etc. It may
help a lot for people like me... It would be a really good reference
while in the config menu system - and would encourage more use of those
files..... (This isn't specific to busybox; my own highly specialized
build system will have this as soon as I can put it in.... :-) )
--Yan
--Yan
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