| Art Alexion on 4 Dec 2006 17:52:21 -0000 |
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On Monday 04 December 2006 10:11, Art Alexion wrote: > 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. ... and I am going to try this http://tsdgeos.blogspot.com/2006/10/solution-for-kubuntu-355-and-usb-not.html -- _____________________________________________________________ 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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