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During boot the system hangs, and the last message while it hangs is: Starting system logger: Can't open or create /var/run/syslogd.pid. Can't write pid.

After a while I discovered that /etc/init/rc.sysinit was corrupted - the first line was:

#!/bin/bsh

instead of:

#!/bin/bash

Why that mistake resulted this result? Why specifically this error?

Halfgaar
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  • Well, `rc.sysinit` performs a variety of system initialization tasks. With a typo in the `#!` line, it wouldn't execute. Take a look at the script, and you'll probably find that something in it is responsible for setting up `/var/run`. For a better answer you would have to provide more information: for example, what distribution (and version) are you running? – larsks Oct 31 '16 at 00:38
  • thank you for your answer, but i understood what the problem was. I realized that since rc.sysinit didnt run properly (it did run cause it set my hostname) mtab was a read-only file, so all the mounts were read only. that is why the system falied to create the file /var/run/syslogd.pid – Liron Cohen Oct 31 '16 at 22:13

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