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["Eric Sandall" <eric AT sandall.us>]

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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