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Topic: MyDSL issue (DSL 4.2.5), Strange problem while booting

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curaga

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Posted: Mar. 24 2008,15:10

Lucky13, it's not because of that. It seems to be a bug in one of the bootscripts, not taking HD-install into account (as it can have extensions installed but deleted)

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Posted: Mar. 24 2008,15:34

Quote (curaga @ Mar. 24 2008,07:10)

Lucky13, it's not because of that. It seems to be a bug in one of the bootscripts, not taking HD-install into account (as it can have extensions installed but deleted)

I agree with that. I've been trying to find which bootsript is causing the problem in order to edit it... but no results so far...

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Posted: Mar. 24 2008,16:30

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Lucky13, it's not because of that. It seems to be a bug in one of the bootscripts, not taking HD-install into account (as it can have extensions installed but deleted)

All the more reason to stop supporting hard drive installs. I know DSL works fine like that, but I still think people who want "Debian-like" systems should use something designed for that whether it's Debian or something like DeLi which is less bloated. Between the xfs/jfs/hfs(+) issues I had with the hotplug script and this kind of thing, it only reinforces the point that DSL should be either nomadic or "normal" and not try to cover every base.

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Posted: Mar. 24 2008,16:34

The directory that you are writing about /tmp/mydsl.installed is normally deleted upon shutdown called from exitcheck.sh.

Therefore if extensions were once used and then later deleted there should be no more references to /tmp/mydsl.installed.

With a frugal or live CD the entire /tmp is on ramdisk and so it is gone upon shutdown.

I would suggest to check that you are running the exit program.

Otherwise manually delete that temporary directory /tmp/mydsl.installed.

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Posted: Mar. 24 2008,16:55

Quote (roberts @ Mar. 24 2008,08:34)

/tmp/mydsl.installed doesn't exist and I always used the exit program

The problem is that when DSL is loading, some script is trying to open those /tmp/mydsl.installed/...

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