> The subject line is misleading.
The more misleading subject is the more likely messages gets ignored.
I did for several days assume that my drive
> had been somehow damaged, but in the preparation of this message, I
tried to
> burn a CD again, and it actually worked.
>
> I recently downloaded 8.2beta1 for testing.
>
> Following installation, my system froze during the boot process when
> supermount began accessing my drives.
>
Does it hang after "Turning on user and group quotas for local
filesystems:" messages? In this case (if you can reliably reproduce this
problem) could you try the included patch for /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit and
tell if it fixes the problem?
Please, if you report bug, report it with details. Else it is likely
that it simply will be ignored.
> I am using a Toshiba Satellite 3005/S303 which has a modular bay in
which I
> can have either the DVD/CDRW combo drive installed or the Floppy
drive.
> Naturally, I booted with the DVD/CDRW installed.
>
> There needs to either be a workaround to prevent supermount from
locking up
> if the floppy drive is not actually present or an errata to indicate
that
> supermount needs to boot with the floppy drive installed.
>
As you may guess if it happened on everyone's system it had been fixed
long ago. It happens only on some systems. It means that you should take
some steps to debug it. Or at least make a proper report stating when
exactly your system hangs and why do you think it is related to
supermount at all :-)
-andrej
--- /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit.orig Wed Jan 30 21:51:30 2002
+++ /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit Wed Feb 6 19:14:55 2002
@@ -807,6 +807,9 @@
# Mount loopback
action "Mounting loopback filesystems: " mount -a -O loop
+# Reset pam_console permissions
+rm -rf /var/lock/console.lock /var/lock/console/*
+
# Restart devfsd actions now that the filesystems are ready
if [ -c /dev/.devfsd ]; then
if [ -x /sbin/devfsd ]; then
@@ -936,9 +939,8 @@
done
rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*
-# Reset pam_console permissions
-rm -rf /var/lock/console.lock /var/lock/console/*
-[ -x /sbin/pam_console_apply ] && /sbin/pam_console_apply -r
+[ -x /sbin/pam_console_apply -a ! -c /dev/.devfsd ] && \
+ /sbin/pam_console_apply -r
{
# Clean up utmp/wtmp
