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[Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>]

On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 08:08:15PM -0000, Eric Sandall wrote:
> 
> Eric Sandall said:
> > Well, one of my machines switched over fine, the other's having problems,
> > but that may be because I tried switching over manually before trying the
> > init.d spell.  :)
> >
> > Looks good!
> >
> > -sandalle
> 
> Well, maybe I posted too soon.  The machine boots and runs fine, but today
> I tried to cast a spell and it has the same problem as my other machine,
> the md5sum check complains that the files don't match, I tell it to
> continue, it then cannot find ./configure (or any other file it looks
> for), and errors out.  After looking in /usr/src/{blah}, it is empty. 
> However, resurrecting a spell works fine.
> 
> Any ideas why this may be so?

You're not running devfsd. devfs doesn't create the /dev/std[in|out|err]
devices, so all pipes in the shell don't work. I already told rycee
that, so it can be fixed in the merged devfs + simpleinit spells. You
have two options:
- run devfsd, it will create those devices, and give you some nice
  options for creating compatibility devices. It's also the only way to
  get module autoloading work with devfs.
- create the devices yourself in a bootscript:
  -- cd /dev
  -- ln -s /proc/self/fd
  -- ln -s fd/0 stdin
  -- ln -s fd/1 stdout
  -- ln -s fd/2 stderr

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