On Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 05:17:43PM +0100, Petter Senften wrote: > Hello! > > I'm new to this list, but after googling for a few hours after a fix to > my problem it seems I have no other option than to try to get some > attention here :) > > My server is a Debian Sarge-box (dist-upgraded from Woody a few months > back). Anyhoo, anytime I use lspci I get the following error: pcilib: > Cannot open /sys/bus/pci/devices > > Also, when the PHP-script "PHPsysinfo" runs it generates the same error > in the Apache Error-log, as well as taking forever to finish the > operation. Both items still list my PCI devices, but after a delay > (which to me is annoying). > > If I go to /sys it's empty, so obviously something is missing. I > wouldn't say that I'm a complete Linux-bewbie, but this problem has me > completely stumped, and as mentioned Google has been of no help this > time. So I'm asking all the experts out there - what can I do to correct > this? > > Kernel running is 2.6.5 Hi Petter, are you using devsf? do you have udev installed and working? check your lilo.conf. /sys is a recent virtual file system that contains info about hardware for udev. if its empty, udev is not setup correctly. HTH =Kevin -- counter.li.org #238656 -- goto counter.li.org and be counted!
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