Re: [expert] Devfsd

2003-10-27 Thread AAW
On Wednesday, October 22, 2003 03:26 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: I am not a big fan of devfs, and had problems with it under Mandrake 9.0 and 9.1. I see that the upgrade of 9.2 gave me devfsd and I now have mixed devfs and normal entries on my system. Is it possible to uninstall the devfsd

[expert] Devfsd

2003-10-22 Thread Rob Blomquist
I am not a big fan of devfs, and had problems with it under Mandrake 9.0 and 9.1. I see that the upgrade of 9.2 gave me devfsd and I now have mixed devfs and normal entries on my system. Is it possible to uninstall the devfsd package and still run Mandrake? Or have the problems with devfs and

[expert] Devfsd

2003-10-22 Thread Rob Blomquist
I am not a big fan of devfs, and had problems with it under Mandrake 9.0 and 9.1. I see that the upgrade of 9.2 gave me devfsd and I now have mixed devfs and normal entries on my system. Is it possible to uninstall the devfsd package and still run Mandrake? Or have the problems with devfs and

[expert] Devfsd

2003-09-22 Thread Anne Wilson
Whilst troubleshooting my problems with GnomeMeeting, (having been told by the GM list that devfsd was probably the cause of my trouble) I came across this: quote The following addition needed to be added to '/etc/fstab': none /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs defaults 0 0 This line causes usbdevfs to

Re: [expert] Devfsd

2003-09-22 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 22 September 2003 09:42 am, Anne Wilson wrote: Whilst troubleshooting my problems with GnomeMeeting, (having been told by the GM list that devfsd was probably the cause of my trouble) I came across this: quote The following addition needed to be added to '/etc/fstab': none

Re: [expert] Devfsd

2003-09-22 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 22 Sep 2003 7:07 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Monday 22 September 2003 09:42 am, Anne Wilson wrote: Whilst troubleshooting my problems with GnomeMeeting, (having been told by the GM list that devfsd was probably the cause of my trouble) I came across this: quote The

Re: [expert] Devfsd and related issues

2003-09-17 Thread Mike Rambo
On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 14:50, Anne Wilson wrote: I have been struggling with GnomeMeeting for some time now, getting all the help I can from this list, then from the GM mailing list. The end of that conversation was that devsd was the likely problem, and I would need to talk to someone who

Re: [expert] Devfsd and related issues

2003-09-17 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 17 Sep 2003 1:26 pm, Mike Rambo wrote: You're right about devfs - at least in my experience anyway. When I first tried using my Handspring with mdk 8.1 I found then that the only way to get it to work reliably (or sometimes at all) was to disable devfs. I have no idea why Mandrake

[expert] Devfsd and related issues

2003-09-16 Thread Anne Wilson
I have been struggling with GnomeMeeting for some time now, getting all the help I can from this list, then from the GM mailing list. The end of that conversation was that devsd was the likely problem, and I would need to talk to someone who really understands Mandrake's implementation of it.

Re: [expert] Devfsd and related issues

2003-09-16 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 16 September 2003 02:50 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: To hear 'Too bad for you then..' coming from a Mandrake employee is just the pits. Anne I'd have to agree there Anne - unprofessional at best. :-( --

Re: [expert] Devfsd and related issues

2003-09-16 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 12:04, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Tuesday 16 September 2003 02:50 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: To hear 'Too bad for you then..' coming from a Mandrake employee is just the pits. Anne I'd have to agree there Anne - unprofessional at best. :-( Yep, At a little more

[expert] devfsd dropped dead

2003-01-20 Thread Jim C
Tried re-installing the rpm and the update but no dice. When I type service devfsd start I get an error about the ioctl number for /dev/devfsd not being right. Ideas? Is this a waste of time? Seems to work fine without it. Thanks, Jim C. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?

Re: [expert] devfsd and cdrom

2001-09-26 Thread Bjarne Thomsen
My /dev/cdrom had changed (after update to 8.1-RC1) to /dev/cdrom0 - cdroms/cdrom0 It worked again when I edited fstab accordingly. -- Bjarne Dave Kufta wrote: On Tuesday 25 September 2001 06:36 pm, J. C. Woods wrote: Dave Kufta wrote: I am having difficulty mounting my cdrom, cdrom

Re: [expert] devfsd and cdrom

2001-09-26 Thread Bill Thompson
be prepared for this with 8.1. other msgs on this subject suggests using devfs is for adding a new feature for the kde desktop. not nice for non-kde users. bill On Thursday 27 September 2001 02:24, you wrote: My /dev/cdrom had changed (after update to 8.1-RC1) to /dev/cdrom0 - cdroms/cdrom0

[expert] devfsd and cdrom

2001-09-25 Thread Dave Kufta
I am having difficulty mounting my cdrom, cdrom is creative CDRW-6424, when I attempt to mount the cdrom I get the following argument: Today is Tue Sep 25 at 17:50:21. Computer is serving [EMAIL PROTECTED] [/etc]# mount /dev/cdrom mount: /dev/cdrom: unknown device There is a symlink /dev/cdrom

Re: [expert] devfsd and cdrom

2001-09-25 Thread J. C. Woods
Dave Kufta wrote: I am having difficulty mounting my cdrom, cdrom is creative CDRW-6424, when I attempt to mount the cdrom I get the following argument: Today is Tue Sep 25 at 17:50:21. Computer is serving [EMAIL PROTECTED] [/etc]# mount /dev/cdrom mount: /dev/cdrom: unknown device

Re: [expert] devfsd and cdrom

2001-09-25 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Tue, 25 Sep 2001 18:01:03 -0400 Dave Kufta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am having difficulty mounting my cdrom, cdrom is creative CDRW-6424, when I attempt to mount the cdrom I get the following argument: Today is Tue Sep 25 at 17:50:21. Computer is serving [EMAIL PROTECTED] [/etc]#

Re: [expert] devfsd and cdrom

2001-09-25 Thread Dave Kufta
On Tuesday 25 September 2001 06:36 pm, J. C. Woods wrote: Dave Kufta wrote: I am having difficulty mounting my cdrom, cdrom is creative CDRW-6424, when I attempt to mount the cdrom I get the following argument: Today is Tue Sep 25 at 17:50:21. Computer is serving [EMAIL PROTECTED]