| Art Alexion on 4 Dec 2006 15:16:01 -0000 |
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On Thursday 30 November 2006 21:48, Will Dyson wrote: > On 11/30/06, Art Alexion <art.alexion@verizon.net> wrote: > > 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. > > > > Does this info help at all? Want a copy of dmesg? > > Can't hurt. What I'd really like to see is: > > 1) Dmesg and 'ls /sys/class/tty/ttyS*' from the live cd boot. > 2) The Dmesg from the regular system. I am attaching copies of the regular system dmesg (686 kernel), the hard disk boot of the same version of the 386 kernel, and the cd boot version of the same 386 kernel in a separate message to Will and Sean. If anyone else is interested, I will send off-list copies on request. -- _____________________________________________________________ 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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