Re: 2.4.1 segfault when doing "ls /dev/"

2001-02-04 Thread Pierre Rousselet
Pierfrancesco Caci wrote: > Yes I know this. Actually, booting with "devfs=nomount s" is the only > way to update the boot record with lilo and my existing lilo.conf. i can't do that on my box, /dev is only a mount point for devfs. assuming your /dev directory is dirty from something else than

Re: 2.4.1 segfault when doing "ls /dev/"

2001-02-04 Thread Pierfrancesco Caci
:-> "Pierre" == Pierre Rousselet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > /dev is mounted at boot time by the kernel (CONFIG_DEVFS_MOUNT=y). > The system boots and runs without devfsd. You just can't start any > process calling for non-existing device under /dev and not created > by

Re: 2.4.1 segfault when doing "ls /dev/"

2001-02-04 Thread Pierre Rousselet
Pierfrancesco Caci wrote: > I can't see how this can affect performance/funtionality of > devfsd. Can you try to stop the daemon and restart it to see if > continues to work as before ? /dev is mounted at boot time by the kernel (CONFIG_DEVFS_MOUNT=y). The system boots and runs without devfsd.

Re: 2.4.1 segfault when doing "ls /dev/"

2001-02-04 Thread Pierfrancesco Caci
:-> "Pierre" == Pierre Rousselet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Pierfrancesco Caci wrote: >> 48 ?S 0:00 /sbin/devfsd /dev > on my box devfsd has pid 15, it comes just after the [kdaems] > and it works with 2.4.x I can't see how this can affect

Re: 2.4.1 segfault when doing "ls /dev/"

2001-02-04 Thread Pierre Rousselet
Pierfrancesco Caci wrote: >48 ?S 0:00 /sbin/devfsd /dev on my box devfsd has pid 15, it comes just after the [kdaems] 1 ?S 0:04 init 2 ?SW 0:00 [keventd] 3 ?SW 0:00 [kapm-idled] 4 ?SW 0:00 [kswapd] 5 ?

2.4.1 segfault when doing "ls /dev/"

2001-02-04 Thread Pierfrancesco Caci
It happened with 2.4.0, it continues to happen with 2.4.1 too root@penny:~ # ps -ax|grep devfs 48 ?S 0:00 /sbin/devfsd /dev 6300 pts/0S 0:00 grep devfs root@penny:~ # cd /dev root@penny:/dev # ls Segmentation fault root@penny:/dev # ps -ax|grep devfs 6309 pts/0S

2.4.1 segfault when doing ls /dev/

2001-02-04 Thread Pierfrancesco Caci
It happened with 2.4.0, it continues to happen with 2.4.1 too root@penny:~ # ps -ax|grep devfs 48 ?S 0:00 /sbin/devfsd /dev 6300 pts/0S 0:00 grep devfs root@penny:~ # cd /dev root@penny:/dev # ls Segmentation fault root@penny:/dev # ps -ax|grep devfs 6309 pts/0S

Re: 2.4.1 segfault when doing ls /dev/

2001-02-04 Thread Pierre Rousselet
Pierfrancesco Caci wrote: 48 ?S 0:00 /sbin/devfsd /dev on my box devfsd has pid 15, it comes just after the [kdaems] 1 ?S 0:04 init 2 ?SW 0:00 [keventd] 3 ?SW 0:00 [kapm-idled] 4 ?SW 0:00 [kswapd] 5 ?

Re: 2.4.1 segfault when doing ls /dev/

2001-02-04 Thread Pierfrancesco Caci
:- "Pierre" == Pierre Rousselet [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Pierfrancesco Caci wrote: 48 ?S 0:00 /sbin/devfsd /dev on my box devfsd has pid 15, it comes just after the [kdaems] and it works with 2.4.x I can't see how this can affect performance/funtionality of

Re: 2.4.1 segfault when doing ls /dev/

2001-02-04 Thread Pierre Rousselet
Pierfrancesco Caci wrote: I can't see how this can affect performance/funtionality of devfsd. Can you try to stop the daemon and restart it to see if continues to work as before ? /dev is mounted at boot time by the kernel (CONFIG_DEVFS_MOUNT=y). The system boots and runs without devfsd. You

Re: 2.4.1 segfault when doing ls /dev/

2001-02-04 Thread Pierfrancesco Caci
:- "Pierre" == Pierre Rousselet [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: /dev is mounted at boot time by the kernel (CONFIG_DEVFS_MOUNT=y). The system boots and runs without devfsd. You just can't start any process calling for non-existing device under /dev and not created by devfsd. For

Re: 2.4.1 segfault when doing ls /dev/

2001-02-04 Thread Pierre Rousselet
Pierfrancesco Caci wrote: Yes I know this. Actually, booting with "devfs=nomount s" is the only way to update the boot record with lilo and my existing lilo.conf. i can't do that on my box, /dev is only a mount point for devfs. assuming your /dev directory is dirty from something else than