/dev broken on upgrade to 2.6.9
Hi all! Have got a nasty error on upgrading my kernel, using make-kpkg, to 2.6.9. I didn't change very much, just wanted to take advantage of the updated ACPI code. Specifically, the problem is that /dev is completely broken. It shows up but I can't cd into it (Not a Directory). I seem to be using udev; I couldn't honestly say whether I was using it before, but it is installed (0.046 I think). The errors only start coming up after INIT; it says 'Mounting a tmpfs over /dev...done and Creating initial device nodes...done' but warns that '.udevdb exists on existing /dev'. The errors are all along the lines of not being able to find nodes in /dev, and it asks to go into maintenance mode upon not being able to find /dev/hda3, my root. Funnily enough, it does mount this and I can remount it read-write in the usual way: mount -t ext2 -o remount,rw /dev/hda3 / My first instinct was to rollback to 2.6.8.1 which worked for me. However, since I can't stat /dev/hda, I can't update lilo! I've downloaded gnoppix to help, but doe anyone have any ideas as to how I can get my system working again?? Please ask if I've left out crucial stuff. Many thanks, Matt (on-list) -- M.Sc. Computer Science student Imperial College, London 256a Archway Road, London, N6 5AX tel 07717 204242 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ntfs mount permissions
Hi, I'm trying to mount my windows NTFS partition with this line in my fstab: /dev/hda1 /mnt/winntfs rw,auto,users,exec 0 0 It works fine with this or read-only (ro) option, for root, but I can't get it to stay user-readable. When I mount it as read-only I can't chown/chmod it at all, and when I mount it as read-write I can chown it but upon umounting and remounting it reverts to the original permissions (drwx-- root root). Any ideas? Thanks, Matt -- Selwyn College Cambridge, UK -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kernel 2.6.4 serial ata support - promise 20376
Make sure you have CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL turned on. It's under "SCSI low-level drivers". Had just found it when you e-mailed! Forgot that newer options do not appear if you haven't checked 'Prompt for incomplete/experimental code' at the top. Thanks, Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
kernel 2.6.4 serial ata support - promise 20376
Hi, I have a Promise SATA controller, 20376 (aka the TX2Plus). When I used 2.6.0-test9 there was a lovely option called SATA_PROMISE which I said yes to and everything worked beautifully. However, I can't find this in the SCSI or ATA menus for 2.6.4 or 2.6.5, which I downloaded from the debian kernel-source packages and extracted into /usr/src. Could someone tell me exactly where to find the replacement option, please? As a side-point, why is there not a clearly flagged SATA section? IMO the ATA section should be called ATA/SATA. Having SATA under SCSI is just confusing, even if the system sees these drives in the same way as it sees SCSI drives. Thanks in advance, Matt Kay PS The partition I am trying to access contains al my .ogg files. You feel my pain ;-) -- Cambridge, UK -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: samba mounting and nautilus
do you have the smbfs package installed? No! Have installed it and now mounting works fine with ## mount -t smbfs -o username=foo,password=bar //MATT/public /mnt/laptop Thanks very much! Re nautilus - even with gnome-vfs-extras this still doesn't work. I read elsewhere that this is a known bug that the Gnome devlopers are trying to fix. Presume that for the moment, there is no fix. All the best, Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
samba mounting and nautilus
Hi, I'm running Debian unstable. When I issue the following command: ## mount -t smbfs -o username=foo,password=bar //MATT/public /mnt/laptop I get the generic error message from mount (wrong fstype, bad superblock etc.) The equivalent line in /etc/fstab also gets me nowhere. AFAICT, this should work since ## smbclient //MATT/public works perfectly, prompting me for a password. I've also tried different orderings of the mount syntax. On a (possibly) related issue, does anyone know why browsing smb:// in nautilus doesn't work, and if it will be fixed in 2.6? Many thanks, Matt Kay Cambridge, UK -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
