Andrej,
This is getting a bit more involved than I planned. First question I
have for you is: do you work for Mandrake? Richard is asking for
details which I don't know . . . the answers can only come from
Mandrake developers. As for responding to your posts, when I hit the reply button (in
Evolution) it tries to send to your return address of
[EMAIL PROTECTED] whcih always bounces back - so I have to post here in
Cooker to reach you!
Below is the response from Richard - he's asking for a bunch of detail I
can't provide (especially about the kernel and patches). Also,
compiling a kernel on a PII/400 with 256 Meg of memory is not the most
fun.
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Mail from Richard:
Well, that's really strange. Could you please move the printk() call
down a few lines, to just before the lines:
if (!devfs_handle)
devfs_handle = devfs_mk_dir (NULL, "discs", NULL);
and also put in a \n at the end of the string, so that it looks like:
printk ("Constructed: \"%s\"\n", dirname + 3 + pos);
Recompile, install and reboot. Can you please send me the boot
messages obtained with the dmesg, rather than copying from your log
files? The output from dmesg is more reliable and doesn't have
extraneous information.
Be prepared that this may take a while to track down. The behaviour is
quite strange. Some questions:
- what compiler and binutils are you using
- exactly which kernel version are you using
- have you applied any patches to the kernel (if so, what are they)
- are you loading any proprietary drivers?
Regards,
Richard..
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Cheers,
R.Fox
On Wed, 2002-02-20 at 07:09, Borsenkow Andrej wrote:
> >
> > Ok - compiled the new kernel with Richard Gooch's recommended patch
> for
> > check.c
> >
> > Rebooted and checked /var/messages
> >
> > Here's the output snip of messages:
> >
>
> Robert, please - send it to devfs list as reply to previous mails. Doing
> it this way makes it impossible to thread discussions. I hope, now, when
> kernel problem is solved, you could just follow Richard direction
> directly, because now he will request you to recompile devfs with
> debugging and enable full debugging :-) And he's right :(
>
> -andrej
