[Fedora-livecd-list] /etc/inittab missing

David Both dboth at millennium-technology.com
Tue Nov 13 21:39:09 UTC 2012


The inittab file no longer exists, having been replaced, along with most 
initscripts, by systemd (systemctl command). Any problems you are having are not 
due to missing inittab or initscripts.


On 11/13/2012 02:10 PM, James Heather wrote:
> Anyone else getting this kind of thing?
>
> It looks to be because initscripts didn't get installed. I have no idea
> why that would be happening. (I can send the kickstart file round if
> it's not a general problem, but I'm also installing a few custom RPMs so
> it wouldn't be easy to provide a complete way of reproducing my build.)
>
> James
>
> --------------------
>
>    Installing: probe                        ###################
> [2445/2444]
> akmods-0.4.0-4.fc17.noarch was supposed to be installed but is not!
> wireshark-1.6.10-1.fc17.x86_64 was supposed to be installed but is not!
> cyrus-sasl-2.1.23-31.fc17.x86_64 was supposed to be installed but is
> not!
> rpcbind-0.2.0-19.fc17.x86_64 was supposed to be installed but is not!
> openvpn-2.2.2-7.fc17.x86_64 was supposed to be installed but is not!
> initscripts-9.37.1-1.fc17.x86_64 was supposed to be installed but is
> not!
>
> option --service: invalid service 'sshd'.
> Note: Forwarding request to 'systemctl enable sshd.service'.
> error reading information on service network: No such file or directory
> Note: Forwarding request to 'systemctl disable sshd.service'.
> rm '/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/sshd.service'
> Unmounting directory /var/tmp/imgcreate-LxYJ5U/install_root
> Losetup remove /dev/loop0
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "/usr/bin/livecd-creator", line 221, in <module>
>      sys.exit(main())
>    File "/usr/bin/livecd-creator", line 205, in main
>      creator.configure()
>    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/imgcreate/creator.py", line
> 728, in configure
>      kickstart.XConfig(self._instroot).apply(ksh.xconfig)
>    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/imgcreate/kickstart.py", line
> 244, in apply
>      f = open(self.path("/etc/inittab"), "rw+")
> IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory:
> '/var/tmp/imgcreate-LxYJ5U/install_root/etc/inittab'
> [root at barry ~]#
>
>
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