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To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
From: Ralph Moritz <ralmoritz@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 11:35:41 +0000
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Subject: [9fans] Init hangs
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Hi 9fans!

I downloaded the ISO image dated 18 Sep 2008. The live CD worked beautifully,
so I decided to install under VMWare Workstation 6. Well done to the guys who
did the new(ish?) installer, IMHO it's a big improvement over the old one.

Anyway, after installing and rebooting, the kernel gets as far as running
init, which prints out

init: starting /bin/rc

and then hangs. I've taken a look at /sys/src/cmd/init.c and found that
this line gets printed from the following code near the bottom of main:

	for(;;){
		print("\ninit: starting /bin/rc\n");
		fexec(rcexec);
		manual = 1;
		cmd = 0;
		sleep(1000);
	}

What could have gone wrong? If exec had failed, an error message would have
been printed. The only thing I can think of is that perhaps /bin/rc is an
invalid image.

Is there a core dump file I can examine to find out what's going wrong? I'm
a noob, so please, put away the lighter and help me out :)

TIA,
Ralph