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From: Anthony Campbell on 24 May 2010 05:20
On 23 May 2010, Johan Kullstam wrote:
> Anthony Campbell <ac(a)acampbell.org.uk> writes:
>
> > On 23 May 2010, Merciadri Luca wrote:
> >> Hi Mitchell,
> >>
> >> You might add
> >>
> >> ==
> >> |su:S:wait:/sbin/sulogin|
> >> ==
> >>
> >> in /etc/inittab.
> >>
> >>
> >
> > But why was the OP getting the message in the first place? A couple of
> > weeks ago I was also getting it and then it went away as mysteriously as
> > it came.
>
> I don't know why you suddenly started getting it, but it is what you
> have when booting to single-user-mode. The grub menu calls it "recovery
> mode" and you can always get to it with "telinit 1". In my grub menu
> list of kernels, I see the "recovery mode" coming right after the normal
> mode for each kernel. I could see that if the line with normal mode was
> disabled, missing or broken, grub might just skip down to recovery mode
> which gives you the behavior.
>

Yes, I know it's recovery mode but there didn't seem to be any reason
why it was coming up. Pressing Crtrl-D made everything happen normally.
Just one of the mysterious things that happen with computers, I suppose
....


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From: Sven Joachim on 24 May 2010 06:00
On 2010-05-23 06:08 +0200, Mitchell Laks wrote:

> I run debian sid. Sometime ago my system began to give me the message
>
> "Give root password for maintainance
> or type Control_D to continue "
>
> during reboot of the system. It would occur after the boot messages
>
> starting NFS (... etc)
> ...
> starting sessions
> setting console screen modes
> initilizing random number generation
> setting up X server
> setting up ice socket directory
>
> then I would get that cryptic root password mesage stuff mentioned above

Please show the contents of /etc/rcS.d.

> Then,
> if I hit C-d
> the systen continues to boot
> with
>
> some messages about needing to add .conf suffix to some configuration files for kvm or something

These messages come from modprobe and are probably unrelated to your problem.

> then
> INIT: Entering runlevel 2
> starting system log daemon
> etc.
>
> So what is causing my system to need to enter Control D?

I have no idea, but you may want to try

# echo "CONCURRENCY=none" >> /etc/default/rcS

Sven


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From: Tom H on 24 May 2010 06:20
> Mitchell Laks wrote:
>> I run debian sid. Sometime ago my system began to give me the message
>> "Give root password for maintainance
>> or type Control_D to continue "
>> during reboot of the system. It would occur after the boot messages
>> starting NFS (... etc)
>> ...
>> starting sessions
>> setting console screen modes
>> initilizing random number generation
>> setting up X server
>> setting up ice socket directory
>>
>> then I would get that cryptic root password mesage stuff mentioned above
>> then, if I hit C-d the systen continues to boot with some messages about
>> needing to add .conf suffix to some configuration files for kvm or something
>> then
>> INIT: Entering runlevel 2
>> starting system log daemon

What is your default grub menu entry?


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