On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 10:34:42AM -0400, Barry Hawkins wrote: [...] > The state of /dev/null turned out to be this: > > ~# ls -l /dev/null > - -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2004-10-13 14:11 /dev/null > [...]
Just a guess, did you compile/install a vanilla 2.6.8 kernel as root? This kernel had a bad Makefile for ppc that trashes /dev/null during make/make modules_install. So you would have to recreate /dev/null whenever you recompile this kernel. The Makefile has been fixed in the latest 2.6.9 prepatches (since 2.6.9-rc3 I believe). Best regards, Carsten Milling
