This is getting tiresome:
gomer login: root
No utmp entry. You must exec "login" from the lowest level "sh"
This occurs randomly during an initial bootup of Linux 2.0.26 (and earlier
versions) using sysvinit 2.66. When I notice this happening, if I do an
e2fsck of the drive involved (Quantum 1080S on an AHA-2940UW), it will
find several of the following:
gomer:~# e2fsck -n -f /dev/sda
e2fsck 0.5b, 14-Feb-95 for EXT2 FS 0.5a, 95/03/19
Warning! /dev/sda is mounted.
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Deleted inode 8307 has zero dtime.
Set dtime? no
Though fsck -a -A upon bootup says everything is okay. Any ideas what is
dirting my disk? The system is a P120 w/ 64mb ram, 1 1080S Quantum
Fireball for the root partition and a couple of other EIDE (one serves as
a /home mount and DOS/Windows95).
I initally suspected 'reboot' was not properly shutting down so I started
using 'halt' followed by a manual wait period and then hitting the reset
button. Didn't seem to help as its still occurring. I've been having
this problem since maybe the early 2.0.x series of kernels.
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