anyone using devfs?

2000-04-12 Thread Shaun Cloherty
Hello,

Anyone out there using devfs?? I recently patched my kernel
(2.2.14) and configured it to use devfs. I built and installed devfsd,
then rebooted the machine. At startup, the kernel reports than devfs is
mounted on /dev all seems well to this point.

Once init starts, I see messages like this;

:
Cleaning: /tmp /var/lock /var/run
chmod: /dev/tty[p-za-e][0-9a-f]: No such file or directory
chown: /dev/tty[p-za-e][0-9a-f]: No such file or directory
:
:
INIT: Entering runlevel: 2
Starting system log daemon: syslogd  syslogd: /dev/xconsole: No
such
file or directory klogd.
:
:
Starting periodic command scheduler: cron.
INIT: Id 1 respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id 2 respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id 3 respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id 4 respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id 6 respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id 5 respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: no more processes left in this runlevel

sit and wait a while - maybe 5 minutes

INIT: Id 1 respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id 2 respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id 3 respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id 4 respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id 5 respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id 6 respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes

sit and wait a while again

What am I missing here?? My /etc/devfsd.conf file is unchanged from that
which came in the tar archive with devfsd, it appears to be configured
to enable full compatibility mode, is this correct?? 

Any pointers appreciated,

Shaun


Re: anyone using devfs?

2000-04-12 Thread Ben Collins
 
 What am I missing here?? My /etc/devfsd.conf file is unchanged from that
 which came in the tar archive with devfsd, it appears to be configured
 to enable full compatibility mode, is this correct?? 
 

You need to make sure devfsd is started up before anything else. Try
installing this devfsd package I've setup:

ftp://marcus.debian.net/pub/debian/devfsd_1.0-1_i386.deb

Should allow you to boot with no problems.

Ben

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