On Fri, 12 Jul 2002, Trish wrote: > as root: nope. not at the command line, not trying every filesystem > type mentioned in the O'Reilly book. a Mandrake friend suggested > using "auto" as the filesystem type (auto-detect?) and that didn't > work either. :-\
It sounds like you have a device problem... at that point it doesn't matter what filesystem you try. ;) > yeah, i checked that too. /dev/fd0 is a symlink to a file that claims > it's a block device when i use ls -al. however, this did remind me > that there are about a dozen other /dev/fd's with names like 0xxxxx, > and i guess i'll try editing the /etc/fstab entry to all of those in > succession to find out if any of them work. On Mandrake, fd0 is a symlink to /dev/floppy/0. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ls -l /dev/fd0 lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 8 Jul 12 10:54 /dev/fd0 -> floppy/0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ls -l /dev/floppy/0 brw-rw---- 1 ray floppy 2, 0 Dec 31 1969 /dev/floppy/0 Check the major/minor number on /dev/floppy/0 and make sure they're right. Mine is 2, 0, and my floppy works, so i guess that's right, haha. If it's wrong, you can try creating it with mknod. But i think /dev is under the control of devfsd on Mandrake, so i'm not sure if it'll cause devfs any problems. All the other /dev/fd0uxxx files may be for different floppy densities? that's my guess. Editing fstab is only good for automount, which sometimes works and sometimes doesn't, haha. It's best to call the mount/umount commands from the command line. mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy umount /mnt/floppy > Doug Riddle said: > >> 2) I get a Segmentation Fault at the end of shutting down. > > > > Try running fsck and see if you have any issues with your drives. > > "issues"? maybe my drives need psychotherapy ;-) thank you, i'll try > that (fsck, not psychotherapy). Psychotherapy is overrated. :) You need to find out what program is seg faulting, then we can find out why. At what point during the shutdown does it happen? (ie what line immediately precedes the seg fault). later! Ray -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ray DeJean http://www.r-a-y.org Systems Engineer Southeastern Louisiana University IBM Certified Specialist AIX Administration, AIX Support =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
