| Art Alexion on 5 Dec 2006 15:16:55 -0000 |
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On Monday 04 December 2006 13:37, Will Dyson wrote: > Ok. Hard to be 100% sure without the info from /sys/class/tty, but it > looks like in both cases the kernel is detecting the hardware exactly > the same (48 serial ports). Before I reinstall (see below), I'll send you this. I just forgot to do it while booted with the CD. > > Very very puzzling why hald would have a problem in one case and not > another. I noticed just now that you never sent the longer hald strace > log (where you would let it run for the full 6 minutes). I'll send this too. > > If you want to give me login access to your machine, I'd be glad to > poke at it a bit more. Otherwise, I advise you to cut your losses and > reinstall. I think you are right. I don't want to do this because (other than hal) I have spent a lot of time getting this machine set up the way I want it. OTOH, I should do this because there are 3 years of stuff I probably don't need (and that are probably causing the problem, as well as leftovers from 3 dist-upgrades. As I said, I have Dapper installed. I am tempted to see if installing Edgy will fix the problem, but I fear that it will only further obscure it. All of the system and /usr stuff is in a single / partition. I have some data on other physical drives. I am thinking I should try to save the following for restoration: 1. /home 2. /usr/local 3. /opt Another thing that I have to think through is the lan setup. Right now the lan addressing is hard coded in an /etc/hosts file with a corresponding file on the windows machine's hosts. They are routed through an old (probably 10mb/s) hub. This setup, with two NICs on each machine, is the legacy of using the Ubuntu machine as an internet router and firewall. I have since gotten a combo dsl modem/router/hub (which should support 100mb/s) but did not switch over to it for the lan because the hardwares was in place and everything worked fine. I didn't want to create a problem where one did not exist. Further, Verizon supplied the gateway appliance but refused to support using it for a lan. The manufacturer does not support it at all. I can, none the less, set it up for the lan as I have poked around it's configuration system and see how it is done on the gateway. I have to figure out how to change it on the windows machine. Anyway, rather than go through all of this, I am going to send you the strace from the normal boot and 'ls /sys/class/tty*' output from the CD boot and give this one more try. Thanks for your continuing help. -- _____________________________________________________________ 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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