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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers WARNING - exit init (PID1) died. Post 41038 by BAM on Sunday 28th of September 2003 09:19:06 AM
Old 09-28-2003
Data WARNING - exit init (PID1) died.
Hi,

Today, on one of my SCO machines, i was getting the following:

PANIC : exit cannot exec /etc/init (PID1).

I used two floppy boot/root disks to boot from floppy.
I followed the procedures to restore the files:

/usr/lib/libc.so.1 and /etc/init.

When I reached the part of making sure that both above files are owned and executable by bin, I wanted to use the "chown" command, but this command was not found (not foun error).

So then i proceded without the chown step, umnounted the hard disk, reboot, but this time instead of getting a panic error, i am getting a warning instead:

WARNING - exit init (PID1) died.


Any help would be appreciated, meanwhile i will try to insert the /bin/chown in the floppy root disk to :

cp /mnt/bin/chown . (of course doing that after cd /mnt/bin), maybe this is the step that is still missing.

Thanks.
 

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