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  • From: "Eric Sandall" <eric AT sandall.us>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] devices to dev swapover ver 0.2
  • Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 21:38:42 -0000 (Local time zone must be set--see zic manual page)


Arwed von Merkatz said:
> On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 08:08:15PM -0000, Eric Sandall wrote:
>> 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

I was under the impression that mount[.sh] would start devfsd for me. All
my other devices work fine under /dev (with /devices -> /dev).

Perhaps I have 'devfsd=nomount' in my lilo.conf, but I thought I'd removed
that.

-sandalle

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