kernel panic upgrading from 2.4.27 to 2.6.8 kernel related to initrd and devfs

2007-04-15 Thread steve doerr
Does anyone know how I can get around the following error? VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev hda1 cramfs: wrong magic pivot_root: No such file or directory /sbin/init: 432: cannot open dev/console: No such file Kernal panic: Attempted to kill init! When I ran LILO I got the warning below but

Re: Re: Fwd: DEVFS Or UDEV On 2.6.15-1-686 Kernel

2006-01-20 Thread Debian User Leonard Chatagnier
Leonard Chatagnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Please someone: Do I have to use udev with 2.6.15 kernels? If not, how to get devfsd to work? Lilo had the mount devfs command for linux image in the config file. devfs is no longer supported in the later 2.6 series. I'm not sure

Re: Fwd: DEVFS Or UDEV On 2.6.15-1-686 Kernel

2006-01-19 Thread John L Fjellstad
Leonard Chatagnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Please someone: Do I have to use udev with 2.6.15 >> kernels? If not, how to get devfsd to work? Lilo >> had >> the mount devfs command for linux image in the >> config >> file. devfs is no longer suppor

Fwd: DEVFS Or UDEV On 2.6.15-1-686 Kernel

2006-01-15 Thread Leonard Chatagnier
Forwarded from smpt account as web mail sending was never posted. --- Leonard Chatagnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 07:46:22 -0800 (PST) > From: Leonard Chatagnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: DEVFS Or UDEV On 2.6.15-1-686 Kernel > To: debian-u

Missing /dev/devfs Stops Hcfpcimodem Driver From Installing Correctly

2005-07-21 Thread Debian User Leonard Chatagnier
No response after being posted for three days. Hoping it was just overlooked. Would appreciate any guidance whatsoever. This was posted to Linuxant.com support with reply only that devfs and/or modprobe configuration was causing the problem, not the modem driver. Have read all related

Missing /dev/devfs Stops Hcfpcimodem Driver From Installing Correctly

2005-07-18 Thread Debian User Leonard Chatagnier
Missing devfs file in /dev prevents hcfpci~1.deb from installing without error. Using dpkg -i hcfpci~1.deb to install driver. Reinstalling devfsd didn't help-/dev/devfs is still missing and dpkg -i hcf*~1.deb still gives the same error. Appreciate any help resolving this problem. P

Painlessly removing devfs

2004-11-23 Thread Bradley Alexander
I'm running sid on an Intel box. I have been running devfs for about 5 years. My motherboard is a KT133 with a Southbridge PCI controller and a Promise PDC20265 controller. I have the following drive config: Southbridge controller: hda: Maxtor 6Y120L0, ATA DISK drive hdb: Maxtor 6Y160P0

Re: devfs vs. udev

2004-11-23 Thread Dave Carrigan
dev plugs in to the standard hotplug program and responds to hotplug events by creating or destroying device nodes in /dev, based on policies that you define. > devfs Devfs is a kernel module that implements a filesystem. Modules register with devfs to tell it what devices nodes they need, an

Re: devfs vs. udev

2004-11-22 Thread Paul Johnson
that may or may not be on my computer? > > hotplug Hotplug detects the hardware in your system and inserts the appropriate kernel modules. > udev This is what looks at what drivers are currently loaded and creates the appropriate devices for them. > devfs devfs is udev's older, reta

Re: devfs vs. udev

2004-11-22 Thread Christian Convey
t; There is also a udev presentation given at OLS 2003 available at: <http://www.kroah.com/linux/talks/ols_2003_udev_talk/> Q: How is udev related to devfs? A: udev works entirely in userspace, using /sbin/hotplug calls that the kernel makes whenever a device is added or removed

Re: devfs vs. udev

2004-11-22 Thread Michael Spang
Sean O'Dubhghaill wrote: [snip] - Does hotplug inform udev when a new device connects to the computer? Not sure, but new devices plugged in will cause new dev entries to be made. I think hotplug will just load the relevant modules and udev will sort out devices on its own Package: udev Descrip

Re: devfs vs. udev

2004-11-22 Thread Sean O'Dubhghaill
[snip] > > - Does hotplug inform udev when a new device connects to the computer? Not sure, but new devices plugged in will cause new dev entries to be made. I think hotplug will just load the relevant modules and udev will sort out devices on its own > - Does udev make use of devfs?

devfs vs. udev

2004-11-22 Thread Christian Convey
Hey guys, I'm running Sarge with 2.6.8 kernel. I've got the "udev" package installed. Can anyone help clarify the relationship between any of the following things that may or may not be on my computer? hotplug udev devfs hotplug automount autofs HAL sysfs procfs I know that&#

Re: devfs and NVIDIA drivers

2004-09-24 Thread Eduard Bosma
Hi All! Thanks for clearing it up! I've kicked Devfs out of my kernel and everything is working as it should! Eduard On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 22:28, Paul Johnson wrote: > <#secure method=pgp mode=sign> > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Eduard Bosma

Re: devfs and NVIDIA drivers

2004-09-23 Thread Paul Johnson
<#secure method=pgp mode=sign> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Eduard Bosma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Do I have to EXclude this option? Does that mean that DevFS is obsolete? Devfs is obsolete, yes. udev is the replacement. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Versio

Re: devfs and NVIDIA drivers

2004-09-23 Thread Andrew Schulman
> Do I have to EXclude this option? Does that mean that DevFS is obsolete? Yes, exclude it. That is, if it's checked, uncheck it. Yes, devfs is generally considered to be obsolete; the new favorite is udev. See http://kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/udev-FAQ, and if you

Re: devfs and NVIDIA drivers

2004-09-23 Thread Eduard Bosma
Andrew, Do I have to EXclude this option? Does that mean that DevFS is obsolete? Eduard On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 14:19, Andrew Schulman wrote: > > Which options do I have to exclude in my .kernel config to prevent the > > compiling of devFs? > > In 'make menuconfig&#

Re: devfs and NVIDIA drivers

2004-09-23 Thread Andrew Schulman
> Which options do I have to exclude in my .kernel config to prevent the > compiling of devFs? In 'make menuconfig', File systems -> Pseudo filesystems -> /dev file system support (OBSOLETE). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "uns

devfs and NVIDIA drivers

2004-09-23 Thread Eduard Bosma
Hi All! I'm having a problem with my NVIDIA drivers and DEVFS. When I install the drivers they compile fine and X-windows is working like a charm. But as soon as I shutdown my laptop en reboot, I have to reinstall my drivers. This is a known issue, and I can resolve it by adding the req

Re: devfs -> udev, user mounting etc

2004-09-16 Thread Chris
and if I use a real mount to /mnt then the device pops up as an icon on the desktop. With symlinks to /var/autofs then this doesn't happen (I guess Gnome is watching mtab or similar). However - I rarely use graphical disk browsers - so this is not a real problem. So - from devfs with

Re: devfs -> udev, user mounting etc

2004-09-16 Thread Dave Thayer
On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 09:05:56AM +0200, Chris wrote: > > Dave - you said you were using autofs to mount some of your devices? > You haven't got an example config file you could send? > Recall my /etc/udev/rules.d/local.rules: BUS="usb", SYSFS{product}="JUMPDRIVE", NAME="%k", symlink="jumpdrive

Re: devfs -> udev, user mounting etc

2004-09-16 Thread Chris
;%k", SYMLINK="MobileDisk" This is because when you plug it in the sda1 (or sd?1) device is created too - so - this can keep it's kernel name and get a symlink. >> I also have another card reader (Unomas). That has empty vendor >> and model strings (note -

Re: [Dave Thayer] Re: devfs -> udev, user mounting etc

2004-09-15 Thread Dave Thayer
don't have any multi-function devices, so I'm afraid I can't be of much help here. > I also have another card reader (Unomas). That has empty vendor and > model strings (note - this example from while I still had devfs style > naming). How to match this one with SYSFS{???} ? &g

[Dave Thayer] Re: devfs -> udev, user mounting etc

2004-09-14 Thread Chris Searle
BUS="usb", SYSFS{product}="JUMPDRIVE", NAME="%k", symlink="jumpdrive" Some progress :-) 1) remove all devfs/compat links from rules.d and replace with a udev link in rules (so - from devfs style naming to udev style naming) :-) 2) Create the foll

Re: devfs -> udev, user mounting etc

2004-09-07 Thread Dave Thayer
On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 01:30:23PM +0200, Chris Searle wrote: > > The other question is rights - how to set up user/groups on /dev and > how to get devices to turn up at the same place so that they can be > added to /etc/fstab with "user" option so I don't have to keep > switching to root to moun

devfs -> udev, user mounting etc

2004-09-07 Thread Chris Searle
Debian sid. I was running a 2.4 kernel with devfs/devfsd - I've now got 2.6.7-1-686 kernel with udev installed. devfsd is removed. The setup is working quite well - but a couple of things I don't understand. I have a couple of multifunction card readers - the one I'm currently

Re: why devfs w/ 2.6.x kernel? prob w/ initrd-tools

2004-07-09 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 05:33:21PM -0700, Richard Weil wrote: | What's the rational for building 2.6 series kernels with devfs? Devfs | is deprecated. Backwards compatibility, I imagine. Some people started using devfs with the 2.4 kernels and their system would break without it. Having

why devfs w/ 2.6.x kernel? prob w/ initrd-tools

2004-07-09 Thread Richard Weil
What's the rational for building 2.6 series kernels with devfs? Devfs is deprecated. Simply ignoring it would seem fine, but ... a bug report was filed against initrd-tools because it won't work with root raid on a system on which you're not using devfs. I was glad to see this bug

Re: devfs / noflusd

2004-04-19 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 06:48:06PM -0600, D. Frye wrote: > > After installing sarge on a laptop, I get the error that not all > packages were > setup correctly. > > Looking at it closer, the error is that the kernel is configured with > devfs, > but devfs is not mount

Re: devfs / noflusd

2004-04-18 Thread D. Frye
After installing sarge on a laptop, I get the error that not all packages were setup correctly. Looking at it closer, the error is that the kernel is configured with devfs, but devfs is not mounted anywhere. As a result, noflushd cannot work. There is a reference to the noflushd README which

devfs / noflusd

2004-04-02 Thread Michael Satterwhite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 After installing sarge on a laptop, I get the error that not all packages were setup correctly. Looking at it closer, the error is that the kernel is configured with devfs, but devfs is not mounted anywhere. As a result, noflushd cannot work. There

discover/kudzu + devfs + parport/lp

2004-03-01 Thread Rob French
Hello, I'm running a sid/unstable system with devfs+devfsd and kernel 2.6.3. I've got both kudzu and discover running, with basically their default configurations. I recently switched back to devfs+devfsd from a non-devfs configuration (I had some issues with the non-devfs setup). I&#x

Re: devfs and Linux LVM

2004-01-05 Thread Paul Morgan
d is installed and I can see the devices via > the full devfs path. > >> You are correct that you need to use the >> /dev/ide/... device names for >> LVM. You can use the old device names (/dev/hd??) >> for mount. Probably >> most all non-lvm commands. Certa

Re: devfs and Linux LVM

2004-01-05 Thread ope
> If devfsd is a debian install ("dpkg -l devfsd" will > tell you), it should > be set up fine. > > And, if you can see your devices as /dev/ide/... > then it is all fine. > Yes, devfsd is installed and I can see the devices via the full devfs path. > You ar

Re: devfs and Linux LVM

2004-01-05 Thread Paul Morgan
message is displayed: > > -- > if devfs is compiled into the kernel then it MUST be > mounted on /dev > Otherwise LVM will not be able to locate your Physical > Volumes. You must > also use the full devfs device names in LVM commands > rather than the > shortened dev

Re: devfs and Linux LVM

2004-01-05 Thread ope
Thanks for the response. I will try lvm10 again (I am avoiding lvm2 for the same reason you are). I think the problem may that I don't quite understand what I need to do to set up LVM. When lvm10 is installed this message is displayed: -- if devfs is compiled into the kernel th

Re: devfs and Linux LVM

2004-01-04 Thread Paul Morgan
On Sat, 03 Jan 2004 13:30:06 -0800, ope wrote: I am running sarge (testing) and have been using devfs and lvm10 for nearly 2 years with no problems, either with stock or custom-compiled kernels. However, I don't mix distros, and your problem may be related to that, particularly as it once w

Re: devfs and Linux LVM

2004-01-03 Thread GCS
On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 01:30:06PM -0800, ope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From what I can tell, it really won't matter much if I > get rid of devfs. I wanted to check with everyone > here to see if there were any issues with getting rid > of devfs. Is there anything I

devfs and Linux LVM

2004-01-03 Thread ope
devfs enabled. I would really like to have LVM working so I am trying to figure out what my options are. One option is to recompile the kernel without devfs support. >From what I can tell, it really won't matter much if I get rid of devfs. I wanted to check with everyone here to see if th

Re: Fw: 2.6.0, ppp, devfs

2004-01-01 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 10:07:17PM +0300, Andrey Borzenkov wrote: > On Wednesday 31 December 2003 23:31, Andrew Morton wrote: > > when i modprobe ppp_generic, i get this error in dmesg: > > PPP generic driver version 2.4.2 > > devfs_mk_cdev: could not append to parent for ppp > > failed

DevFS no no ? [was: 2.6 Kernel]

2003-12-03 Thread tvc15plastic
Oops! - that must have been a stupid question. I haven't read anything about that in the Howtos - although maybe I was looking for the wrong thing... Can anyone point me to a howto on getting 2.6 up-and-running without DevFS. ->Or even point out some useful terms etc. to search for.

Re: Bug #220623: LVM and devfs

2003-11-18 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 11:06:23AM -0500, Sven Heinicke wrote: | | To get te the point, how ho I change an i686 3.0r1 system with | proposed-updates and the 2.4.22-2-686-smp kernel to be devfs? I would | be most happy with pointers to Linux general documentation on how to | this. Compile a

Re: USB storage device, devfs, and /dev/scsi/*

2003-11-18 Thread Johannes Zarl
s to > register fine, etc etc, but the mountable device no longer appears in > my devfs /dev/. How can I debug this, what should I look for, what > might be missing? Do you still have the required scsi-drivers in kernel? I once forgot to add scsi-disk-support to my kernel resulting in

Re: USB storage device, devfs, and /dev/scsi/*

2003-11-18 Thread Joachim Fahnenmueller
till seems to > register fine, etc etc, but the mountable device no longer appears in > my devfs /dev/. How can I debug this, what should I look for, what > might be missing? > > Thanks, > Hugo > Kernel modules? usb-storage and related (discussed on this list recently) If not g

Bug #220623: LVM and devfs

2003-11-18 Thread Sven Heinicke
To get te the point, how ho I change an i686 3.0r1 system with proposed-updates and the 2.4.22-2-686-smp kernel to be devfs? I would be most happy with pointers to Linux general documentation on how to this. The story: I was setting up an i686 system with woody that needed a driver I was not

Re: USB storage device, devfs, and /dev/scsi/*

2003-11-17 Thread Monique Y. Herman
s to > register fine, etc etc, but the mountable device no longer appears in > my devfs /dev/. How can I debug this, what should I look for, what > might be missing? > I don't know about the technical side, but what about calling it a "drive" vs. a "disk"? I d

USB storage device, devfs, and /dev/scsi/*

2003-11-17 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
I've got a USB storage device (what should one call these things? I hate calling it a "flash disk" since I feel it's not a disk (disc?) ;) It worked great at one point. However, recently, it still seems to register fine, etc etc, but the mountable device no longer appears in

Re: devfs

2003-11-17 Thread Andrew Schulman
> I thought devfs was going to be mostly removed from the installations. > > This is based on a comment I received once long ago from a Debian > posting that devfs as a whole wasn't working out all that well and has > been removed from the 2.6 kernel. Yes.  devfs has been de

Re: devfs

2003-11-17 Thread John L. Fjellstad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 16 November 2003 21:22, Todd Pytel wrote: > I agree. I only had one or two issues with devfs, and those were really > problems with other applications not being coded to recognize it. I had some problems with devfs in connection wi

Re: devfs

2003-11-16 Thread Todd Pytel
On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 20:19:32 +0100 "John L. Fjellstad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 16 November 2003 12:52, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > Same story I've heard. My experience with it is pretty gwadawful. > > My experience with devfs has been pr

Re: devfs

2003-11-16 Thread John L. Fjellstad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 16 November 2003 12:52, Karsten M. Self wrote: > Same story I've heard. My experience with it is pretty gwadawful. My experience with devfs has been pretty good. It's nice knowing exactly which device is loaded just lookin

Re: devfs

2003-11-16 Thread John L. Fjellstad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 15 November 2003 14:48, Tom Allison wrote: > This is based on a comment I received once long ago from a Debian > posting that devfs as a whole wasn't working out all that well and has > been removed from the 2.6 kernel. I

Re: devfs

2003-11-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 08:48:29AM -0500, Tom Allison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I was doing an installation using whatever disks I can find (stable, > tesitng-installer) and I ran into a problem of something that I recall > once long ago. > > I thought devfs was going to be

devfs

2003-11-15 Thread Tom Allison
I was doing an installation using whatever disks I can find (stable, tesitng-installer) and I ran into a problem of something that I recall once long ago. I thought devfs was going to be mostly removed from the installations. This is based on a comment I received once long ago from a Debian

Re: devfs and lvm

2003-11-04 Thread Benedict Verheyen
> - Original Message - > From: "Manolis Tzanidakis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 1:49 PM > Subject: Re: devfs and lvm > > [20031030] Benedict Verheyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > &

Re: devfs and lvm

2003-11-04 Thread Benedict Verheyen
- Original Message - From: "Manolis Tzanidakis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 1:49 PM Subject: Re: devfs and lvm [20031030] Benedict Verheyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, Hello > currently my s

Re: devfs and lvm

2003-10-30 Thread Manolis Tzanidakis
[20031030] Benedict Verheyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, Hello > currently my server (2.4.21) is running LVM. All partitions are on > LVM except a boot partition. I would like to move to devfs. > Any good documents or howto's out there that explain how to set > th

devfs and lvm

2003-10-30 Thread Benedict Verheyen
Hi, currently my server (2.4.21) is running LVM. All partitions are on LVM except a boot partition. I would like to move to devfs. Any good documents or howto's out there that explain how to set this up. I understand that i will need to install devfsd and that i might have to change the root

Re: DevFS mounting problems (was: Re: Think I need ttyN where N>8)

2003-10-29 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
On Tuesday 28 October 2003 17:30, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: > Yes, it's there! :-) > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> grep devfs /proc/mounts > none /dev devfs rw 0 0 > > > If devfs is in /proc/filesystems, > > Yes, it is there too. Just to let you all know I have solved thi

Re: DevFS mounting problems (was: Re: Think I need ttyN where N>8)

2003-10-28 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
sion > > that mount should know about it if devfs is used. It says that > > mount | grep devfs > > should report something, but for me it doesn't. Which is weird. > > It does seem like devfs is not mounted. > > Maybe it's mounted on boot, and init somehow unmount

Re: DevFS mounting problems (was: Re: Think I need ttyN where N>8)

2003-10-28 Thread Chris Niekel
On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 11:21:50AM +0100, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: > Reading > http://tldp.org/HOWTO/XFree-Local-multi-user-HOWTO/dev_files.html > (which is basically the howto I'm following) I get the impression that > mount should know about it if devfs is used. It says tha

DevFS mounting problems (was: Re: Think I need ttyN where N>8)

2003-10-28 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
Hi and thanks for the response! On Tuesday 28 October 2003 04:23, Jerome R. Acks wrote: > Since you have devfs mounted on /dev, you ought to be able to use > devices in /dev/tts directly rather than compatibility symlinks to > ttyX. Yes. I thought so too. Anyway, you're giving m

Re: add devfs=mount as a kernel command-line boot parameter?

2003-09-12 Thread Andrés Roldán
Dan Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > LILO version 22.5.7.2 says > Warning: '/proc/partitions' does not match '/dev' directory structure. > The kernel was compiled with DEVFS_FS, but 'devfs=mount' was omitted > as a kern

add devfs=mount as a kernel command-line boot parameter?

2003-09-12 Thread Dan Jacobson
LILO version 22.5.7.2 says Warning: '/proc/partitions' does not match '/dev' directory structure. The kernel was compiled with DEVFS_FS, but 'devfs=mount' was omitted as a kernel command-line boot parameter; hence, the '/dev' direct

Re: devfs with 2.6.0-test4 kernel

2003-09-11 Thread Jens Kubieziel
On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 04:39:03PM +0200, Harry Brueckner wrote: > I just switched to a self compiled 2.6.0-test4 kernel with devfs > support turned on and devfsd is running nicely. Now when I boot into > the new 2.6 kernel it starts up but throws tons of messages like > FATAL: Modul

Re: devfs with 2.6.0-test4 kernel

2003-09-10 Thread Danilo Raineri
Harry Brueckner wrote: > Hello, > > I just switched to a self compiled 2.6.0-test4 kernel with devfs support > turned on and devfsd is running nicely. > On my old 2.4.20 kernel I did not use devfs. > > Now when I boot into the new 2.6 kernel it starts up but throws to

Re: devfs with 2.6.0-test4 kernel

2003-09-10 Thread Tom Badran
On Wednesday 10 Sep 2003 15:43, Tom Badran wrote: > On Wednesday 10 Sep 2003 15:39, Harry Brueckner wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I just switched to a self compiled 2.6.0-test4 kernel with devfs support > > turned on and devfsd is running nicely. > > On my old

Re: devfs with 2.6.0-test4 kernel

2003-09-10 Thread Tom Badran
On Wednesday 10 Sep 2003 15:39, Harry Brueckner wrote: > Hello, > > I just switched to a self compiled 2.6.0-test4 kernel with devfs support > turned on and devfsd is running nicely. > On my old 2.4.20 kernel I did not use devfs. > Any ideas what might be wrong? Prehaps you

devfs with 2.6.0-test4 kernel

2003-09-10 Thread Harry Brueckner
Hello, I just switched to a self compiled 2.6.0-test4 kernel with devfs support turned on and devfsd is running nicely. On my old 2.4.20 kernel I did not use devfs. Now when I boot into the new 2.6 kernel it starts up but throws tons of messages like ... FATAL: Module /dev/ttyx0 FATAL: Module

Re: kernel-2.6 and devfs. Can't open xterm or konsole (kde terminal)

2003-09-07 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 04:54:22PM +0200, Anders Ellenshøj Andersen wrote: > I can't open an xterm, not even as root. As regular user there is a lot of > disk activity and then the terminal window fails to open. Did you build in pty support? Xterm and friends care about that. > Please CC me as

kernel-2.6 and devfs. Can't open xterm or konsole (kde terminal)

2003-09-06 Thread Anders Ellenshøj Andersen
I am testing kernel-2.6 on unstable on my Asus A1300 laptop. I have everything up and running except konsole/xterm. I can't open an xterm, not even as root. As regular user there is a lot of disk activity and then the terminal window fails to open. I am using devfs compiled into the kerne

Re: devfs backward compat. problem (solved)

2003-08-29 Thread David Z Maze
Nick Hastings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Todd Pytel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030829 16:11]: >> On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 15:11:00 +0900 >> Nick Hastings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > Any devfs experts know how to fix this line properly? >>

Re: devfs backward compat. problem (solved)

2003-08-29 Thread Nick Hastings
* Todd Pytel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030829 16:11]: > On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 15:11:00 +0900 > Nick Hastings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The last line of > > this file must be malformed. I simply commented it out. > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ 17% cat /e

Re: devfs backward compat. problem (solved)

2003-08-29 Thread Todd Pytel
On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 15:11:00 +0900 Nick Hastings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The last line of > this file must be malformed. I simply commented it out. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ 17% cat /etc/devfs/conf.d/alsa > # device permissions for ALSA sound devices. > REGISTE

Re: devfs backward compat. problem (solved)

2003-08-29 Thread Nick Hastings
running sid with a 2.6.0-test2 kernel with devfs. Yesterday I did a > dist-upgrade and then shut down. The devfsd package was _not_ upgraded. > I'm not sure if it is relevant but initrd-tools was upgraded. > > I rebooted today to find that none of the old style device nodes

devfs backward compat. problem

2003-08-29 Thread hastings
Hi all, firstly please excuse possible line wrap problems and lack of my usual gpg signature. I'm sending this via squirrel mail for reasons described below. I'm running sid with a 2.6.0-test2 kernel with devfs. Yesterday I did a dist-upgrade and then shut down. The devfsd package

Re: PCMCIA Modem, devfs

2003-08-14 Thread Siward
Hi Andreas, you wrote : > The problem I see, as far as I could get, is that > the card is initialized OK, but the /dev/ttySxx -link is not created. how do you know that ? what does dmesg say about it ? if it is as you think, then it is a bug in card driver, if that driver is in Debian,

Re: USB Storage, Digital Camera, devfs, scsi, mounting hotplug

2003-08-14 Thread Andrew Perrin
What's the contents of /proc/usb/*? ap -- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, Darry

Re: USB Storage, Digital Camera, devfs, scsi, mounting hotplug

2003-08-14 Thread Roberto Sanchez
--- Andrew Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > > On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, Darryl Barlow wrote: > > > I am running Debian Unstable with a 2.4.21 kernel, and am trying > unsuccesfully > > to connect my sony cypershot DSC P7 via usb storage. > > > > I won't post logs at this stage. However, syslog

USB Storage, Digital Camera, devfs, scsi, mounting hotplug

2003-08-14 Thread Darryl Barlow
I am running Debian Unstable with a 2.4.21 kernel, and am trying unsuccesfully to connect my sony cypershot DSC P7 via usb storage. I won't post logs at this stage. However, syslog and messages show that the camera is detected and fully recognised. Also, host1 is being created under /dev/scsi

USB Storage, Digital Camera, devfs, scsi, mounting hotplug

2003-08-09 Thread Darryl Barlow
I have found a workable solution, though I think Hotplug in Debian Unstable will need a little work before it makes it to testing. It appears that Hotplug loads sr_mod instead of sd_mod for this device. A simple modprobe sd_mod is sufficient to get it working. Thanks to everyone who replied f

PCMCIA Modem, devfs

2003-07-13 Thread Andreas Fromm
Hi, I'm trying to use a new Xircom Ethernet/Modem PC-Card with my Debian/unstable notebook. The problem I see, as far as I could get, is that the card is initialized OK, but the /dev/ttySxx -link is not created. I tryed the card booting the KNOPPIX-liveCD which recognized it all fine, and afte

Re: Possible bug in devfs package and bugs reporting in general

2003-07-07 Thread Nathan Malmberg
NOT WORK > without properly recompiled kernel. Not only that, it does not give > any clue what exactly is wrong. > ... > > Not necesarilly. Sometimes people need other software that just > happens to need devfs. Just to make a subtle distinction here, I'll point out that the fun

RE: Possible bug in devfs package and bugs reporting in general

2003-07-06 Thread Vesselin Kostadinov
> > apt-get devfs Oops, my mistake. Please read apt-get devfs as apt-get devfsd also all referentces to package devfs should read devfsd. I guess this made my original post a bit unclear. Sorry. ... > > I was thinking that in an ideal world the configuration of > > a

Re: Possible bug in devfs package and bugs reporting in general

2003-07-06 Thread David Z Maze
Vesselin Kostadinov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I had to mess around with few packages, one of them being devfs. It > looked easy: > > apt-get devfs > > So apt downloaded and configured it. I thought I was done with it > and I can concentrate on the other (more impor

Re: Possible bug in devfs package and bugs reporting in general

2003-07-06 Thread Johann Koenig
On Monday July 07, 2003 at 03:30 Vesselin Kostadinov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > apt-get devfs > > So apt downloaded and configured it. I thought I was done with > it and I can concentrate on the other (more important to me) packages. > Not so. After "become-an-expe

Possible bug in devfs package and bugs reporting in general

2003-07-06 Thread Vesselin Kostadinov
Hi, I had to mess around with few packages, one of them being devfs. It looked easy: apt-get devfs So apt downloaded and configured it. I thought I was done with it and I can concentrate on the other (more important to me) packages. Not so. After "become-an-expert-in-devfs" e

RE: devfs newbie questions about mounting

2003-01-27 Thread Narins, Josh
> On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 04:05:52PM +0100, Nicos Gollan wrote: > > On Sunday 26 January 2003 15:32, Dave W wrote: > > > What I _did_ try was > > > > > > mount /dev/scd0 /cdrom > > > > > > and that still fails. I still have scsi emulation and the > like setup so > > > I guess perhaps at least THA

Re: devfs newbie questions about mounting

2003-01-26 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 04:05:52PM +0100, Nicos Gollan wrote: > On Sunday 26 January 2003 15:32, Dave W wrote: > > What I _did_ try was > > > > mount /dev/scd0 /cdrom > > > > and that still fails. I still have scsi emulation and the like setup so > > I guess perhaps at least THAT little bit has cha

Re: devfs newbie questions about mounting

2003-01-26 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Sunday 26 January 2003 15:32, Dave W wrote: > What I _did_ try was > > mount /dev/scd0 /cdrom > > and that still fails. I still have scsi emulation and the like setup so > I guess perhaps at least THAT little bit has changed. Perhaps it's > using sr or sg or one of the other scsi alphabet soup

Re: devfs newbie questions about mounting

2003-01-26 Thread Dave W
On Sun, 2003-01-26 at 00:09, Jerome Acks Jr wrote: > devfsd creates symlinks from old device names to devfs device names. > /dev/hda1 will be a symlink to ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1. Your > /dev/cdrom will be a symlink to /dev/cdroms/cdrom0. > > So "mount /dev/fd0

Re: devfs newbie questions about mounting

2003-01-25 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 10:44:14PM -0500, Dave W wrote: > I've been messing around with devfs in sid, trying to learn my way > around, since this may be the way of the future ... and although > /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target2/lun0/cd makes good SENSE and is pretty easy > to figure

devfs newbie questions about mounting

2003-01-25 Thread Dave W
I've been messing around with devfs in sid, trying to learn my way around, since this may be the way of the future ... and although /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target2/lun0/cd makes good SENSE and is pretty easy to figure out, it's not so quick to type when mounting by hand. I'm used

Re: DEVFS, howto test creation of devices in /dev?

2003-01-25 Thread David Z Maze
"Jameson C. Burt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > For "Device File System", Debian "devfsd" package, > how might I test that "devfsd" properly creates files in /dev? Does your kernel actually have devfs support? I believe the standard Debian

Re: DEVFS, howto test creation of devices in /dev?

2003-01-25 Thread David Dumortier
Hello > For "Device File System", Debian "devfsd" package, > how might I test that "devfsd" properly creates files in /dev? Try hotplug and use usbview to see usb devices. I had same problem, after several tryes it worked (never understand why :-) David Dumortier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: DEVFS, howto test creation of devices in /dev?

2003-01-24 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
package, > so I added to devfsd's configuration file, >/etc/devfs/devfsd.conf > the line, >REGISTER ^v4l/video0$ CFUNCTION GLOBAL symlink v4l/video0 video0 > When starting "camserv", I get the not so specific error message, >(V4L) video_open: No such

DEVFS, howto test creation of devices in /dev?

2003-01-24 Thread Jameson C. Burt
For "Device File System", Debian "devfsd" package, how might I test that "devfsd" properly creates files in /dev? As a particular example, I work with the Debian "camserv" package, so I added to devfsd's configuration file, /etc/devfs/devfsd.conf t

Re: SCSI scanner and devfs

2003-01-09 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 09:27:07AM +0100, Nicos Gollan wrote: > Have a look at /etc/devfs/perms OK, that got permissions set right, now how do I get xsane to realise it's existance? -- .''`. Baloo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian admin and user `

Re: SCSI scanner and devfs

2003-01-09 Thread Nicos Gollan
> between boots? Have a look at /etc/devfs/perms - -- Embedded Linux -- True multitasking! TWO TOASTS AT THE SAME TIME! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+HTJfeOF0+zcVdv8RAivYAKCOvEwzik+Y+FX3Mr3S3H9VpLwhVwCdE3f7 5oOehWyWjZtALFOltYJdqtM= =sxWW -END P

SCSI scanner and devfs

2003-01-08 Thread Paul Johnson
How would I go about making a scanner attached to /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/generic world-readable and world-writable so any user can access it, and preserve permissions between boots? -- .''`. Baloo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - whe

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