How to overcome a boot-up endless loop?

[Jon M. Hanson]

Try changing the line to "sleep 1". They way the line is now it's  
trying to wait for 0.1 seconds. Yes, it'll be waiting 10 times as long  
but maybe the problem is something associated with a timer interrupt  
that's causing usleep to fail. By changing it to sleep it should use a  
less fine-grained timer.

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On Aug 28, 2009, at 3:59 PM, Josef Lowder <joe at actionline.com> wrote:

> A few days ago, I posted an inquiry on the subject issue, and the
> problem is still unresolved. Following is the error message that I see
> rapidly repeated on the screen non-stop until I totally power-off the
> computer:
>
> /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit: line 1333: /bin/usleep: Input Output error
>
> Stephen wrote: ... find the file being referenced and see what line
> 1333 contains.
>
> The file rc.sysinit has 1384 lines . I have uploaded that complete
> file at this URL: http://www.vsiq.com/temp/rc.sysinit.txt.  Here are
> the lines surrounding line 1333:
>
> 1329    if [ "$PROMPT" != no ]; then
> 1330        while :; do
> 1331        pid=$(/sbin/pidof getkey)
> 1332        [ -n "$pid" -o -e /var/run/getkey_done ] && break
> 1333        usleep 100000
> 1334        done
> 1335        [ -n "$pid" ] && kill -TERM "$pid" >/dev/null 2>&1
>
> That rc.sysinit file has the same file date and diff indicates that it
> has the same content as the file by the same name on one of my other
> computers that is running the same operating system.
>
> Likewise, the file 'usleep' referred to on line 1333 has the same file
> date and file size as that same file on my other computer running the
> same operating system.  While I realize that 'usleep' is apparently a
> binary file, I uploaded it at this URL as:
> http://www.vsiq.com/temp/usleep.txt (I realize this file should not
> have a .txt suffix, so it needs to be renamed.)
>
> I also uploaded two other files that might contain clues for someone
> more knowledgable than I (which is, of course, just about everybody on
> the plug list).
>
> http://www.vsiq.com/temp/dead.letter.txt
> http://www.vsiq.com/temp/dmesg.txt
>
> Hope someone can help me solve this problem.
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