On Wednesday 27 October 2004 10:18, John Layt wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 16:13, Kaj Haulrich wrote:
> > Even in runlevel 3 i can see the process going on
> > (in /var/log/messages). The system connects/disconnects its
> > USB device until hell freezes over or I reboot.
> >
> > As a last resort I re-installed 10.1 CE from scratch, copied
> > nothing back from my backup CDs, updated available rpms and
> > tried anew. Still staring at my runaway box.
> >
> > I have reached the point of considering a switch to some other
> > distro, maybe Fedora or Debian.
>
> Well, at the risk of sounding obvious, I would venture there's
> something up with the kernel v2.6.8 usb drivers and your camera,
> and not anything to do with the desktop or apps. You could try
> installing and booting an earlier kernel, like whatever the last
> one for 10.0 was (2.6.3?), or worse yet try the 2.4 kernel that
> comes with 10.1 . Just install them in addition to the current
> 2.6.8 kernel, reboot into one of them, and see if they behave any
> better.
>
> Or it could be udev, which is new to 10.1 for managing devices in
> place of devfs. You could try reverting to using devfs under the
> 2.6.8 kernel. Just go into the lilo config in mcc and modify the
> boot options to remove the "devfs=nomount" part, reboot and watch
> for the message that udev is disabled due to devfs being used,
> then try your luck. In fact, try this first before you try any
> other kernels, I have a hunch it might work, if it doesn't then
> it definately is kernel usb driver problems.
>
> If none of this works, and even if you decide to change distros,
> please file a bug report with Mandrake so they can fix it for
> other people, including whatever distro you move to :-)
>
Thanks, John. Obviously you are on the right track here. Actually,
my re-install of 10.1 CE was forced by a install of the older
kernel from 10.0 (2.6.3 something) which completely borked my
system beyond recovery : no succes from "rescue" with the install
CDs, MandrakeMove or Knoppix.
After the new install I notice that plugging my camera into the USB
port changes my fstab (???), adding a line :
/dev/sda1 /mnt/camera auto
umask=0022,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,kudzu,codepage=850,noauto,exec,users
0 0
and that line disappears after a reboot. Strange.
So now, I'll follow your advice strictly, gradually performing a
lobectomy to the "append" line in lilo.conf. I am in no way
opposed to mounting things manually.
And I would really hate to switch distro because of this - after all
- minor problem. BTW : how to report a bug to Mandrake ??
Again, thanks for your good input, John.
Kaj Haulrich.
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