upgrade busybox 1.0.0 => busybox 1.1.3 : init hang
Jean-Philippe Francois
jp.francois at cynove.com
Thu Jun 29 09:18:28 UTC 2006
> > > Init stops just after printing :
> > > BusyBox v1.1.3 (2006.06.23-12:14+0000) multi-ca
> >
> > Something bad happens in an rc script
> > cp -R /dev/* /tmp/
>
> Does this mean your other init problem is diagnosed, or is this an additional
> problem?
>
That was it :)
> > is not copying special files but reading from them.
> > to satisfy the cp /dev/null <some_file> thing
>
> Yup. I'm looking at that. Yet another test sequencing issue...
>
> > I saw there was a change between 1.0 and 1.1 according to [1]
> > But in [2], it says -R should have the first behaviour (ie making dev
> > nodes)
>
> I can't find a flag other than -R that says to copy special files, but I guess
> you can always go "cp -R /dev/null .", so...
>
> svn 15501 should fix it for you. Either
> http://busybox.net/downloads/patches/svn-15501.patch or tonight's snapshot.
>
I could not apply svn 15501 on top of 1.1.3, so I downloaded and
compiled 06/29 snapshot.
cp -R is working as it should on device file.
Thank you,
JP Francois
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