/sbin/rc[61]: Error

[Tuncay Ozisik]

Hi All,
I have HP Visualize C200 running HP-UX 10.20.
When I boot the system I can get the following error:
/sbin/rc[61]: ^M: not found
" "
" "
...
It is also indicated in /etc/rc.log. Also /etc/rc.log file consists ;

"/sbin/rc1.d/S320hostname start" FAILED
...
/sb??n/rc1.d/S320hostname[36]: ^M: not found.
" "
" "
...errors.

Then, in start-up progress, Setting Hostname : [FAIL] message.

I make all network configurations and then the system pings outside, FTP works fine etc. But CDE fails to start. The hostname is mercur and I get response from

# hostname
# uname -a

commands.

Can anybody help me about this problem?

Thanks for now.

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

Hi Tuncay,

Check your /etc/rc.config.d/netconf file and look at the syntax of this file.

Also try to set the hostname manually by runnign the command /sbin/init.d/hostname start

-Sri

[harry d brown jr]

What does your /etc/rc.config.d/ directories file look like?

I think you have some bad filenames in there!!!

/etc/rc.config does this:

for CFG_FILE in /etc/rc.config.d/* /etc/TIMEZONE
do
fname=${CFG_FILE##*/} # get file basename
if [ -f $CFG_FILE -a "$fname" != "core" -a "${fname##*[.,~\#]}" = "$fnam
e" ]
then . $CFG_FILE # source a valid config file
fi
done




live free or die
harry

[Mark Greene_1]

on my 10.20 system, line 61 of /sbin/rc is:

. /etc/rc.config

so either you have a carriage return (the ^M) embedded in the /sbin/rc script on that line or the line above, or there is one in the file /etc/rc.config. Do "cat -v /sbin/rc" to see if this is the case. You can remove it with vi, with the "set list" option turned on to see the control-codes.

HTH
mark

[Helen French]

Hi Tuncay:

The first thing I would check is the files under /etc/rc.config.d directory. If you see any unwanted files under this ( may be somebody accidently moved some commands here), then remove it and reboot the system. Boot in single user mode and check this. That may solve the issue.

HTH,
Shiju

[hpuxrox]

Try this,

dos2ux rc > file ; mv file1 rc

This should strip the ^M's out.

[Jeff Schussele]

Hi Tuncay,

The S320hostname script in /sbin/rc1.d is failing.

1)Check that the file that it links to - /sbin/init.d/hostname has not been deleted or corrupted.

2) Check the config file for this script /etc/rc.config.d/hostname has not been deleted or corrupted.


HTH,
Jeff

[ashish nanjiani]

looks like something wrong with the script. Have you tried running the script manually as root as see if you get the same error?

[Pete Randall]

Tuncay,

The easiest way to make sure the hostname is not misconfigured somewhere would be to run
/sbin/set_parms hostname

If that doesn't straighten it out, then you've got other problems.

Pete

[hpuxrox]

First of all, has someone been opening these files via a windows machine? The ^M is the return Character on windows. So if any files are being accessed by Micro$oft applications this can happen.

I suggest fixing the file manualy or with the dos2ux command as posted earlier.

-Yates

[Bill McNAMARA_1]

Check line 36
of
/sb??n/rc1.d/S320hostname
for the ^M error.

dos2ux /sb??n/rc1.d/S320hostname > /tmp/S320hostname

mv /sb??n/rc1.d/S320hostname /S320hostname.old
mv /tmp/S320hostname /sb??n/rc1.d/S320hostname

Later,
Bill

[Wodisch]

Hi,

two points to check:
- somebody seems to have transferred file from a windows machine using "ftp" in ASCII mode to your HP-UX server, never do this (as you get those "^M" at the end of each line)
- maybe somebody tried to keep "backups" of the original files in "/etc/rc.config.d/", again: never do this as ALL files in that directory are used, regardless of filenames!

Just my $0.02,
Wodisch

[Tuncay Ozisik]

Hi everybody,

Yes, you solved the "/sbin/rc[61]:^M: not found" problem, thank you very much. The problem was the /sbin/rc.config.d/netconf and file that is full of ^M. Also, there was some ^M codes in the /etc/hosts file. I used vi editor with the set list option to see this codes. Then, I removed all with the dos2ux utility. After the network setup with SAM, the system started to work normally. I did not touch netconf file on HP-UX server via FTP or any unix editor, how is that possible? Only I transferred once the hosts file from Windows via FTP. Anyway, the problem solved!

Thanks again,
astro

Tuncay Ozisik