Wobbly wrote: > > Had a perfect system until yesterday, running 4.1-STABLE. > > cvsup -g -L 2 stable-supfile (previous cvsup was around a month ago) > > No changes required to kernel config file. > > make buildworld > make buildkernel KERNEL=* > make installkernel KERNEL=* You only have to go back to 20 August. The changes that broke atapi-cd.[ch] were made by SOS on 22 Aug 2000. The cvs log shows $FreeBSD: src/sys/dev/ata/atapi-cd.c,v 1.63 $FreeBSD: src/sys/dev/ata/atapi-cd.h,v 1.19 This was after the date of my kernel.old and my cvsup and rebuild last night. Kent > > single user > > make installworld > mergemaster > reboot > > CDROM's won't mount. > > The mount directory /cd0 as allocated in /etc/fstab... > > /dev/acd0c /cd0 cd9660 ro,noauto > > ...has turned itself into a FILE! Please explain? > > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 0 Jan 1 1970 cd0 > > Check the date out!! > > If I go try & mount my other cdrom drive, /cd1, it returns zero but > won't list anything within the directory. cd /cd1 then umount /cd1 > predictably returns device in use error, so it seems to function but > obviously not well enough to access it. > > So I must reboot. Things revert to normal... > > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jun 21 08:57 cd0 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jun 21 08:57 cd1 -- (I'm GMT +10) > > This time I try mounting /cd1 first with a Windows 2000 CD. Zero result > but still won't list the contents. umount /cd1, bung FreeBSD 4.0 RELEASE > in the drawer then mount /cd1. Zero result but when I... > > bash-2.03# ls /cd1 > /cd1 > Aug 25 23:02:27 /kernel: RRIP without PX field? > Aug 25 23:02:27 /kernel: RRIP without PX field? > > bash-2.03# mount /cd1 > mount /cd1: not a directory > > bash-2.03# umount /cd1 > umount: umount of /cd1 failed: Invalid argument > > bash-2.03# ls -l /cd* > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 0 Jan 1 1970 /cd1 > > /cd0: > > Once again, the directory has become a file stamped with a date from > the dark ages. > > Sorry team - this is not my idea of STABLE. > > Rosco. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message