Bug#46799: add makedev to notes on running slink with kernel 2.2.x
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: makedev 2.3.1-19, which is on the CD I have, seems to have a bug in it, in that the postinst script creates the devices in / instead of /dev. The makedev package creates devices in the current working directory. This has been the behavior of all makedev packages I know of except for the Debian 1.6 series, now defunct for over a year. Bdale
Bug#46799: add makedev to notes on running slink with kernel 2.2.x
Bdale Garbee writes in message [EMAIL PROTECTED] (20:08:53 Wednesday 6 October 1999): In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: makedev 2.3.1-19, which is on the CD I have, seems to have a bug in it, in that the postinst script creates the devices in / instead of /dev. The makedev package creates devices in the current working directory. This has been the behavior of all makedev packages I know of except for the Debian 1.6 series, now defunct for over a year. Bdale The makedev.postinst script creates a script in /etc/rc.boot/makedev which creates new pty masters and slaves, overwriting the old ones, if ones with old major numbers are found. I believe that the list of old devices didn't have /dev/ in it, so that at reboot, the new devices ended up in /. It's hard for me to double-check now, because I had upgraded makedev by the time I got to sending the bug report. However, I had 128 ptys in /, and the ptys in /dev were still old-style, and I traced the preceding logic when I had the old makedev. I should have been more explicit. But the bug report was against the web site, not makedev, which is fixed in any case now. -- Raj Manandhar ([EMAIL PROTECTED])(256) 922-1512 x2900
Bug#46799: add makedev to notes on running slink with kernel 2.2.x
Package: www.debian.org Version: current On the page http://www.us.debian.org/releases/stable/running-kernel-2.2 there is a list of various potentially problematic packages. makedev should be added to the list, because the kernel pty/ttyp majors changed in 2.2.x (in fact the change seems to be there in 2.0.36, too, but with backwards compatibility). makedev 2.3.1-19, which is on the CD I have, seems to have a bug in it, in that the postinst script creates the devices in / instead of /dev. It looks like this is fixed in the current stable version 2.3.1-23 (which I just FTPed). Unless one has this fixed version, the system doesn't run very well with kernel 2.2.12, since the ptys in /dev have the wrong major. So the bottom line is: one needs a newer makedev. The current stable one works, for example. Perhaps there are similar problems for other packages that made it onto older slink CDs, too, so it might be a good idea to add the FTP site to /etc/apt/sources.list and do an `apt-get update; apt-get upgrade' before trying the 2.2.x kernels. This doesn't help people without Internet access, though. -- Raj Manandhar ([EMAIL PROTECTED])(256) 922-1512 x2900
Bug#46799: add makedev to notes on running slink with kernel 2.2.x
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Raj Manandhar) writes: So the bottom line is: one needs a newer makedev. The current stable one works, for example. Perhaps there are similar problems for other packages that made it onto older slink CDs, too, so it might be a good idea to add the FTP site to /etc/apt/sources.list and do an `apt-get update; apt-get upgrade' before trying the 2.2.x kernels. This doesn't help people without Internet access, though. Yes, but the running slink with kernel 2.2 page *assumes* you are running a fully up-to-date slink. So mentioning 'makedev' explicitly doesn't make sense if it's already fixed in 2.1r3. All you are saying AFAICT is that you want to make sure you're all the way up-to-date. I could add a para to this effect at the top. Would that be sufficient? -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]URL:http://www.onShore.com/
Bug#46799: add makedev to notes on running slink with kernel 2.2.x
Adam Di Carlo writes in message [EMAIL PROTECTED] (14:06:51 6 October 1999): Yes, but the running slink with kernel 2.2 page *assumes* you are running a fully up-to-date slink. So mentioning 'makedev' explicitly doesn't make sense if it's already fixed in 2.1r3. All you are saying AFAICT is that you want to make sure you're all the way up-to-date. I could add a para to this effect at the top. Would that be sufficient? Yes, that would be fine. (The page assumes you are up-to-date, but doesn't actually say that.) Raj
