| Art Alexion on 30 Nov 2006 22:00:33 -0000 |
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On Thursday 30 November 2006 12:54, sean finney wrote: > On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 12:25 -0500, Art Alexion wrote: > > I tried this. Hald still stalled and failed, and I still have 48 serial > > ports. > just another shot in the dark, but if udev wasn't mounting it's > temporary filesystem, you might find yourself working on the underlying > flatfile /dev filesystem, which might cause problems with hal (it'd also > explain the large number of non-existant devices). A bad situation grows worse... I gave it a shot installing a new kernel. Instead of a solution, udev messages started pouring through the console at boot up and eventually stalled. I think. I tried other kernels on the grub menu. They were not compatible with the current installation and failed to boot as per the beginning of this thread. I booted from the live/install disc (where hal loaded fine) and did a uname -a I removed all of the kernels and installed only the kernel that was on the Live CD, The live CD used the 386, rather than 686 kernel. Seems the problem persists with the 386 kernel when I install it. I now have only 2.6.15-26-686 and 2.6.15-26-386 installed. There is a 2.6.15-27-686 available, but 2.6.15-26-386 was what was successfully booting the CD. Oh. The presumed "udev stall" may not have been udev at all. I hit <enter> and the system responded so I followed it with <ctrl>c and it reported that it was aborting a check of /dev/hdf1 (which contains about 120 GB or data.) It admonished me to run it manually, so I did with the -C option so that I could tell that things were happening. After that I hit <ctrl>d and it continued to boot (with the many udev messages, and eventually stalled at the hald becoming daemon, as usual. Does this info help at all? Want a copy of dmesg? -- _____________________________________________________________ Art Alexion PGP fingerprint: 52A4 B10C AA73 096F A661 92D2 3B65 8EAC ACC5 BA7A Keyserver: hkp://subkeys.pgp.net The attachment - signature.asc - is my electronic signature; no need for alarm. Info @ http://mysite.verizon.net/art.alexion/encryption/signature.asc.what.html _____________________________________________________________ Attachment:
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