Re: [expert] Kernel FAILURES!!

2000-08-17 Thread Anton Graham

Submitted 17-Aug-00 by TriOptimum:
 2)I have installed the new kernel 2.4.0test6 with the resierfs patch and
 after the compiling and reboot i have the following FAILURES in the boot
 sequence..3 services fails..and they are USb Kheader and Netfs..and i dunno
 why..

kheader is because your kernel name doesn't have mdk in it and you're using
old initscripts.  You should update them, or failing that simply disable
the service.  (There's a typo in an exit call that is causing the
failure).  Did you compile support for the others (USB and Network
filesystems) into the kernel?  If not, disable those services as well.

 Maybe linux is trying to install the support for that 
 file system.. but i don't have it on my partitions.. i have compiled the ke
 rnel with only
 vfat , dos, msdos, joliet, iso9660, ext2 and resierFs.. that is all that i
 nedd.. no more

You *do* need devpts.  And no, it isn't on your hard drive.  It is a
virtual filesystem that you are trying to mount in /etc/fstab.  You need
this in order to be able to open terms in X.  From the kernel help:

CONFIG_DEVPTS_FS:

You should say Y here if you said Y to "Unix98 PTY support" above.
You'll then get a virtual filesystem which can be mounted on
/dev/pts with "mount -t devpts". This, together with the pseudo
terminal master multiplexer /dev/ptmx, is used for pseudo terminal
support as described in The Open Group's Unix98 standard: in order
to acquire a pseudo terminal, a process opens /dev/ptmx; the number
of the pseudo terminal is then made available to the process and the
pseudo terminal slave can be accessed as /dev/pts/number. What was
traditionally /dev/ttyp2 will then be /dev/pts/2, for example.

The GNU C library glibc 2.1 contains the requisite support for this
mode of operation; you also need client programs that use the Unix98
API.






Re: [expert] Kernel FAILURES!!

2000-08-17 Thread Ellick Chan

On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, TriOptimum wrote:

 2)I have installed the new kernel 2.4.0test6 with the resierfs patch and
 after the compiling and reboot i have the following FAILURES in the boot
 sequence..3 services fails..and they are USb 

USB looks for modules.conf instead of conf.modules now, I found that out
the hard way after doing a 2.4.0test6 install too :)

 Kheader 
Most likely the source for the current running kernel is not in
/usr/src/linux

 and Netfs..and i dunno

Perhaps you forgot to compile support for that?

 why.. and the big problem is i get another error that is exactly that:
 Mounting local filesystem Modprobe: Modprobe: can't locate module devpts

If devfs is enabled, you don't need devpts anymore, as devfs takes care of
those.

 mount: fs type devpts not supported by kernel.. i dunno what that is and how
 to solve (remove) this error. Maybe linux is trying to install the support for that 
 file system.. but i don't have it on my partitions.. i have compiled the kernel with 
only
 vfat , dos, msdos, joliet, iso9660, ext2 and resierFs.. that is all that i nedd.. no 
more
 no less.. Can someone explain me this??? tnks!

Hope this helps, as I'm struggling with a similar problem, except on a
firewire-enabled Sony laptop. That means I need PCMCIA, USb (tablet and
keyboard), ReiserFS, ieee1394, and devfs.

 

-- 
Regards,

Ellick Chan
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Aug 17






[expert] Kernel FAILURES!!

2000-08-17 Thread TriOptimum



2)I have installed the new kernel 2.4.0test6 with the resierfs patch 
andafter the compiling and reboot i have the following FAILURES in the 
bootsequence..3 services fails..and they are USb Kheader and Netfs..and i 
dunnowhy.. and the big problem is i get another error that is exactly 
that:Mounting local filesystem Modprobe: Modprobe: can't locate module 
devptsmount: fs type devpts not supported by kernel.. i dunno what that is 
and howto solve (remove) this error. Maybe linux is trying to install the 
support for that 
file system.. but i don't have it on my partitions.. i have compiled the 
kernel with only
vfat , dos, msdos, joliet, iso9660, ext2 and resierFs.. that is all that i 
nedd.. no more
no less.. Can someone explain me this??? tnks!