On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 03:14:58PM +0200, Nadav Har'El wrote: > On Thu, Dec 05, 2002, Dan Kenigsberg wrote about "Re: where did my mouse go?": > > On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 02:41:05PM +0200, Nadav Har'El wrote: > > > > The /dev/mouse symlink is fine, but `ls /dev/psaux' gives me > > > > ls: /dev/psaux: Input/output error > > Could it be that your /dev directory is ruined? ls should never have given > you "Input/output error", even on a bad device file, because it doesn't > try to read the file or open it... > > Try > mknod /tmp/mouse c 10 1 > cat /tmp/mouse > > and see if this mouse device works. If it does, fsck your disk to try > to find any disk errors, and then remove /dev/mouse and recreate with > the above mknod command (you can make /dev/psaux root-owned with permissions > rw-------).
Indeed, it seems that my mouse ate a lot of sectors from my /dev directory, and died from stomach ache. I fsck'ed it, reinstalled dev rpm, and now I am hoping for the best. Dan. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
