On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 09:55:44AM +0000, Stroller wrote: > > On 3 Mar 2010, at 17:14, Willie Wong wrote: > > >On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 04:16:50PM +0000, Stroller wrote: > >> > >>Many thanks for your help, Willie! > >> > >>About 13 items. Is this unlucky? > >> > >>http://linux.stroller.uk.eu.org/fs-corruption-dev.png > >> > > > >Okay, something is screwed up with udev. Is udev started? > > Ah! > > Ok... this is shown as an error when before the "failed to open the > device" message. > > http://linux.stroller.uk.eu.org/fs-corruption.png > > Startin udevd... error getting signalfd
What kernel are you running? You need at least 2.6.22 to have signalfd support, and at least 2.6.27 to have reliable signalfd support. If this is not satisfied, please either downgrade udev or upgrade your kernel. Cheers, W -- Willie W. Wong ww...@math.princeton.edu Data aequatione quotcunque fluentes quantitae involvente fluxiones invenire et vice versa ~~~ I. Newton