-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Carsten Milling wrote: | 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 Carsten, ~ You are exactly right. Thanks for solving that mystery for me.
Regards, - -- Barry Hawkins site: www.alltc.com weblog: www.yepthatsme.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFBb+tL7bZ6kUftWZwRAv0AAKDR2lCILo15cq8CG7J6DZS3QbAusACdHYcG mzO9lmdigalYIqcrgYTUZq8= =siCY -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
