Re: [Gumstix-users] Boot stuck on "Freeing init memory"

[ptkdb <and...@ya...>]

double check to see that

ls -l /bin/sh

does NOT point to 'dash'.   

On Ubuntu installing new packages, upgrading existing ones, sneezing will
often end up reinstalling 'dash' without warning.



Vitor Ayres wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am having the same problem. I followed the note in the page bellow but
> still stucked! Any other ideas?
> 
> Vitor
> 
> 
> 
> Gabriel Tobon wrote:
>> 
>> Thanks, that did it!
>> 
>> On Fri, 2008-07-18 at 08:12 -0600, Chris Dollar wrote:
>>> I bet you're running Ubuntu and have /bin/sh linked to dash.  See the
>>> note on this page
>>> http://www.gumstix.net/Software/view/Getting-started/Setting-up-a-build-environment/111.html
>>> about that and make sure thats not the case.  That is the only thing
>>> that I've seen that would cause booting to freeze at that spot.
>>> 
>>> Chris
>>> 
>>> On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 6:42 AM, Gabriel Tobon <gt...@fa...>
>>> wrote:
>>> > Hey,
>>> >
>>> > I was wondering if anyone can help me out with this.  I have been
>>> trying
>>> > to flash my verdex xm4-bt for the first time, but after I complete the
>>> > instructions for replacing the file system image on the gumstix.net
>>> > website, the boot gets stuck at "Freeing init memory."  The bootargs
>>> > seemed ok according to what people have posted on the mailing list,
>>> but
>>> > I then added user_debug=0x1f to the bootargs to see if I could figure
>>> > out what was wrong, and it seems to have gotten stuck in an infinite
>>> > loop.  The following lines were printed repeatedly:
>>> >
>>> > Code: e08fa00a e1a00001 e3a070f8 ef000000 (e1a03000)
>>> > [1] init: obsolete system call 00000000.
>>> > Code: e2632000 859fc01c 878a200c ef000000 (e3700a01)
>>> > [1] init: obsolete system call 00000000
>>> >
>>> > It is unresponsive to Ctrl-C and I'm not sure what this signifies. 
>>> I'd
>>> > appreciate any help you can give me.
>>> >
>>> > Many thanks,
>>> >
>>> > Gabe
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
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