On Sat, 05 Jul 2003 03:52:37 +0100, Adam Williamson wrote: > Here's the current happy fun bugs I have with Cooker: > > still seem to have this devfsd problem that people are experiencing to > various degrees. loop, nvidia, usbmouse and probably some others I don't > know about are not loaded on boot. > > just now, the system's starting freezing at "Finding module > dependencies:" - it sits there and does nothing. I can workaround this > with Alt-SysRq-E, which terminates whatever is freezing the system, and > boot continues, but then the X Font Server fails to initialise properly > (complains about some executable not existing). > > So to boot up I have to pick my kernel, do Alt-SysRq-E when module > dependencies freeze, login to the console, modprobe nvidia and usbmouse, > restart the xfs service and restart the dm service. This is not optimal. > :) > > Any status on these problems, particularly the devfsd one? I'm running > devfsd-1.3.25-30mdk , which seems to be the latest. I note that the > changelog for 29mdk reads "really package /sbin/devfsd-try-modload", but > I don't *have* /sbin/devfsd-try-modload , nor does urpmf find it.
I've seen the same error. Didn't know the workaround though. I don't think it's related to the missing module loading. That works here with the same devfsd (1.3.25-30mdk). Although i dont have /sbin/devfsd-try-modload either. Frej Rasmussen.
