Bug#499833: [SOLVED] - chccwdev cannot set device offline in Lenny

2010-02-03 Thread Stephen Powell
I finally found the cause of this pesky bug! At some point, an aptitude full-upgrade seemed to fix this problem. But not always. The problem is that I could never come up with a consistent failure scenario. Well, today, I finally did. It turns out that, for me, the failure only occurs when

Bug#499833: [SOLVED] - chccwdev cannot set device offline in Lenny

2010-02-03 Thread Frans Pop
Stephen Powell wrote: I finally found the cause of this pesky bug! At some point, an aptitude full-upgrade seemed to fix this problem. That was probably at times that sysconfig-hardware was broken... A next fixed version of that package would have reintroduced your problem. The problem is

Bug#499833: [SOLVED] - chccwdev cannot set device offline in Lenny

2010-02-03 Thread Stephen Powell
On Wed, 3 Feb 2010 11:53:47 -0500 (EST), Frans Pop wrote: They are not mystery files at all. They are part of sysconfig-hardware and their exact purpose is to bring up devices during system boot! I'm sure that they are no mystery to you, but they *were* a mystery to me until you explained

Bug#499833: [SOLVED] - chccwdev cannot set device offline in Lenny

2010-02-03 Thread Frans Pop
Stephen Powell wrote: So whenever a dynamically linked device showed up using one of the device numbers 0400-0403, sysconfig-hardware was convinced it needed to be brought online immediately! What I don't understand is why, when it is *manually* varied offline *after* being brought online