Custom 2.4.17 kernel freezes new sid box

2002-03-06 Thread Steven Dickenson
Hi Guys, I recentley installed SID on my box by doing a dist-upgrade to a minimum install of woody. I compiled a 2.4.17 kernel using options I've always used before with success. This time, however, when booting with the new kernel, my machine locks cold right before the login prompt. I

Re: Custom 2.4.17 kernel freezes new sid box

2002-03-06 Thread Simon Hepburn
On Wednesday 06 Mar 2002 12:56 pm, Steven Dickenson wrote: I see the init scripts start cron, and right after that it freezes. I have to do a cold reset to bring it back. I can still boot fine with the 2.2.20 kernel that was installed by woody, but I'd like to run a 2.4 series kernel. cron

New sid box.

2002-02-01 Thread Robert L. Harris
Rebuilt my laptop to fix the /var/lib/dpkg/status problem. I install sawfish-gnome and all it's dependancies, xserver-xfree86 and fonts. Enter startx: Get the graphical grey background (normal X without window manager) On the console I get: Audit: Fri Feb 1 07:18:29 2002: 5047 X: client 1

Re: New sid box.

2002-02-01 Thread Kent West
Robert L. Harris wrote: Rebuilt my laptop to fix the /var/lib/dpkg/status problem. I install sawfish-gnome and all it's dependancies, xserver-xfree86 and fonts. Enter startx: Get the graphical grey background (normal X without window manager) On the console I get: Audit: Fri Feb 1 07:18:29

Re: New sid box.

2002-02-01 Thread Robert L. Harris
I'm trying it as a normal user. Somthing I found related, it seems autofs is mounting my homedir as readonly, and a mount command is putting some very odd characters in the options field. The filesystem is exported RW and normal default options. If I mount the filesystem by hand it's fine...