Back to the subject of this thread.........
@BarryK @01micko @jamesbond and any other experts of long standing - have you ever seen anything like this? I'd like to report it to the Kernel developers but need some evidence of what the problem is!!!
My latest test involves a build of kernel-6.4.8 with AUFS=no - i.e. overlayfs only
I boot with a ydrv (attached) which comments out some lines in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit so that the boot gets as far as /etc/profile
which is also patched with set -x
and the boot then stops as shown - seemingly at a random shell line 33 ............
Driving me mad!!!
USER=`id -un`
PS1="# "
LOGNAME=$USER
HISTSIZE=1000
HISTFILE="$HOME/.history"
if [ -f /usr/bin/mp ] ; then
EDITOR=mp
elif [ -f /usr/bin/nano ] ; then
EDITOR=nano
else
EDITOR=vi
fi
PAGER=less
INPUTRC=/etc/inputrc
[ -d /usr/share/terminfo ] && export TERMINFO=/usr/share/terminfo