[9fans] Re: Hang after "init: starting /bin/rc"

["Joel Salomon" <joelcsalomon@gmail.com>]

On 9/12/06, Joel Salomon <joelcsalomon@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm installing Plan 9 on a Thinkpad T23.  The "Install from CD" option
> works -- I get rio and the install proceeds smoothly -- but on the
> next boot the system hangs after the
> 	init: starting /bin/rc
> message.  I'm getting the same lack of progress if I try the "Live CD"
> option of the boot disc.  This is from an image downloaded an hour or
> so ago, 2006-09-12.

Problem's back.

While the system was running, I uncommented the ip/ipconfig lines in
(/rc)/bin/termrc and my machine was connecting to the network at
school.  When I booted the machine not attached to a network, though,
I got the lines:
	init: starting /bin/rc
(long pause -- at least 30 seconds)
	ndb/dns: can't read my ip address
after which nothing more happens.

Trouble is, the system now hangs (without displaying the ndb/dns
message) even when connected to the network (and after displying the
ndb/dns message if I re-disconnect).  I can't even get into the system
far enough to breadcrumb /bin/termrc and /usr/chesky/lib/profile .

--Joel