grep: character class syntax is [[:space:]], not [:space] during boot

[fzoellne]

Hi!

I get the following error :

grep: character class syntax is [[:space:]], not [:space:] during boot of the sheevaplug.
The effect is that it does not boot up full to login so I can not ssh to it.
The only visual on this I get is via the serial console.

Any Idea to fix this?

Frank

[NewIT_James]

Hi Frank,

Could you post a bootlog showing the error and some details of the kernel and OS you are using.

NewITJames

[fzoellne]

ok its a sheevaplug with uboot version 1.1.4 - Marvel 3.4.23

the linux kernel is 2.6.34.6 and its a debian distribution.

How can I upload the screenshot, when I put it as an attachement it says can not acess path ...

[fzoellne]

Anyone any ideas ?

[NewIT_James]

Can you copy/paste the text from the bootlog.

NewITJames

[fzoellne]

I can try, just made a screen shot of it...

[fzoellne]

I just got a scrren shot and I placed it under:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/11984329/sheevabooterror.jpg

The error must occur (i guess) somewher after the network interface is lunched and somewhere before ssh demon is started .

[NewIT_James]

fzoeline,

What I would do is boot to an SD card then have a look at the logs on the Nand.


NewITJames

[fzoellne]

I am booting to an SD card actually.

[NewIT_James]

I am booting to an SD card actually.

In that case boot to the Nand and mount the SD card then have a look at the startup procedure.

What do you have in rc.local?
Have you built the SD card yourself or is it based on one of the NewIT images?

Also found this.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=649995


NewITJames

[fzoellne]

The SD card is based on NewIT, however, propabaly I updated some of teh packages i guess.

I will see what the logs tell me...

[fzoellne]

content of rc.local:

#! /bin/sh
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:          rc.local
# Required-Start:    $remote_fs
# Required-Stop:
# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:
# Short-Description: Run /etc/rc.local if it exist
### END INIT INFO


PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin

. /lib/init/vars.sh
. /lib/lsb/init-functions

do_start() {
        if [ -x /etc/rc.local ]; then
                [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_begin_msg "Running local boot script
s (/etc/rc.local)"
                /etc/rc.local
                ES=$?
                [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_end_msg $ES=$?
                [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_end_msg $ES
                return $ES
        fi
}

case "$1" in
    start)
        do_start
        ;;
    restart|reload|force-reload)
        echo "Error: argument '$1' not supported" >&2
        exit 3
        ;;
    stop)
        ;;
    *)
        echo "Usage: $0 start|stop" >&2
        exit 3
  ;;
esac

[fzoellne]

my version of grep:

/mnt/bin/grep (GNU grep) 2.9
Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by Mike Haertel and others, see <http://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/grep.git/tree/AUTHORS>.

[NewIT_James]

my version of grep from GuiPlug Debian Squeeze and the same from Ubuntu 10.10 on the Efika.

GNU grep 2.6.3

Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.



v2.9 comes from either Wheezy(testing) or Sid(unstable), have you changed your /etc/apt/sources.list ?


NewITJames

[fzoellne]

that might be.  I installed some software and maybe I set those paths. can i reverse grep version ?
maybe that solves the problem ?


however I see that the files were not changed since Feb this year ...

thats the contents of the sources.list:

deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free