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2002-05-02 21:23 / hang on boot »
Ooh - I managed to get the OS to hang completely on boot, with the message
"Initializing Network". Single user mode (cmd-c) was a
little more verbose with the actual hang after the
message "Setting host identifier" - this coming from a shell script - /System/Library/StartupItems/Network/Network - where, as it says, it is trying
to convert the ip from dotted form to single integer, through use of
sed and
ifconfig and - ah-ha! head ... the opposite of tail, not
the HEAD that I had just installed through lwp and perl, a
HEAD that had overwritten the original
head because of case-insenstive HFS+. And my not making sure
things were going in /usr/local, of course.
So, get the spanky package manager from GNU OS X, install
the textutils package, and you have the old head back again as
/usr/local/bin/ghead.
I think it was the call to
sysctl -w kern.hostid=${hostid},
with some broken value of hostid, that caused the hang.
