First, a great big "Thanks!" to Karsten (who has helped me before under a different identity long ago) for getting the information about the floppy onto the list. I was going to skip removing the floppy from fstab since I figured it shouldn't make a difference, seeing how it was hard-disk partitions failing to mount. But that fixed it! Oddly, the following also produces a segfault:
ls /dev/fd* For the curious, I have migrated to devfs, and the user with the same problem (sorry I lost the message) seems to have also been using devfs. I use floppies rarely enough that it is a minor nuisance commenting them out. Any attempt to use the floppy also segfaults, so it could still be hardware I guess. It'd be slightly a PITA to try without devfs as I've modified several files to migrate more or less completely over to it. I've been using devfs for a while and this is the first problem I've had with it. I don't think I should post my fstab or error logs since this seems a devfs or hardware problem, but I'd be happy to share via p-mail. Basically just wanted to say thanks, it's pretty much back to normal :-) -- Andrew W. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- http://failsure.net/ http://home.cwru.edu/~agw4/ -- Debian GNU/Linux Georgia State U. CS/Networking UG -- VW bus driver
