Re: system hangs for kernel 2.6.6

2004-06-24 Thread Jules Dubois
On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 00:56:58 +0200, Riccardo Vestrini wrote: [...] installed devfs (bad thing) devfs is a bad thing? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: system hangs for kernel 2.6.6

2004-06-24 Thread Paul Johnson
Jules Dubois [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 00:56:58 +0200, Riccardo Vestrini wrote: [...] installed devfs (bad thing) devfs is a bad thing? Yup, it's been unmaintained for a while now, it died with 2.4. Just use udev instead. -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux. You

Re: system hangs for kernel 2.6.6

2004-06-24 Thread Arthur H. Edwards
To all: Apparently I didn't cc the group. Thanks for all the messages. IN desparation, I did a dist-upgrade. After that the kernel loaded without incident. I hadn't upgraded for about two years (it's a node on a cluster). Thanks again. Art Edwards On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 04:17:25PM -0600,

system hangs for kernel 2.6.6

2004-06-23 Thread Arthur H. Edwards
My system hangs at the message Setting up general console font... Has anyone seen this? Any suggestions would be appreciated. Art -- Art Edwards Senior Research Physicist Air Force Research Laboratory Electronics Foundations Branch KAFB, New Mexico (505) 853-6042 (v) (505) 846-2290 (f) --

Re: system hangs for kernel 2.6.6

2004-06-23 Thread Riccardo Vestrini
Arthur H. Edwards wrote: My system hangs at the message Setting up general console font... Has anyone seen this? Any suggestions would be appreciated. if your kernel hangs at startup the message is coming from the execution of script /etc/init.d/console-screen.sh, you can look at it to see what