On Tuesday 04 February 2020 15:03:54 David Wright wrote: > On Tue 04 Feb 2020 at 11:48:10 (-0500), Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Tuesday 04 February 2020 08:51:47 Stefan Monnier wrote: > > > >> I bet some of his RT patches caused a mess > > > > > > > > Nope, I just needed to reboot. > > > > > > "Needed to reboot" in this context means "need to work around a > > > bug". I have no idea whether that bug has anything to with the RT > > > patches, but the fact that rebooting avoided the problem is at > > > least no proof that the problem was not caused by the RT patches > > > (nor the opposite). > > > > Uptime is as you point out, dependent on the kernel. One of my > > machines at the farthest reaches of my local net, running wheezy and > > a small metal lathe, copy paste from an ssh login: > > gene@lathe:~$ uname -a > > Linux lathe 3.4-9-rtai-686-pae #1 SMP PREEMPT Debian > > 3.4.55-4linuxcnc i686 GNU/Linux > > gene@lathe:~$ uptime > > 11:09:34 up 167 days, 14:06, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.05 > > [etc etc] > > No idea what uptime has to do with mounting a card. > > But I did wonder why you didn't just try mounting the card in one of > your several machines. > All the others are outside of the house, meaning I'd have to dress for the weather.
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