On Tue, 3 Feb 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > 1) whether the /proc/partitions and /dev directory structure inconsistency > > could be related to renaming the fstab entry for the CD drive > [snip useful explanations of how devfs is affecting /proc/partitions, and symlinks for the cd]
Can I just say that I agree with all of this, apart from the advice to mount / use devfs. Seems to me that if devfs has never been mounted in the past, adding it to the kernel config now is a bug - it's no longer maintained (certain race conditions are believed to be unfixable, although many people run it without trouble). But see below. As to why the cdrom was not accessible via /dev/cdrom, I've no idea. Two levels of symlinks isn't a problem (look at shared libraries sometime, foo.so -> foo.so.4 -> foo.so.4.0). If you've got strace installed, you could always try strace mount /dev/cdrom 2>trace when you've got a CD in the drive, then look in the trace to work out which of the errors is the one that matters. You might think banging your head against a brick wall is easier and less painful, it depends a bit on what is in the particular trace, some have a lot of error messages for things that you wouldn't normally expect to succeed :) But, turning this around, if /dev/cdrom was pointing to /dev/cdroms/cdrom0, surely at least the installation kernel _was_ using devfs ? In which case, maybe devfs _is_ appropriate to your setup. Perhaps upgrading to Sid broke this. I'd be particularly concerned at the lack of /dev/pts in your fstab, you'll need it if you either access this machine via ssh, or if you open xterms. Ken -- Brighton tops UK Jedi league http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/28/35186.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
