Redhat 7.1, ext2 fs's
AMD k6-2, 230Meg, 20 gig HD
Vanilla 2.4.5 Kernel
Alsa, and Nvidia drivers
devfsd 1.3.11
For the first time since I started using devfs in the 2.2.x release
kernels, I am experiencing problems that seem to be related to it. I
don't know if I have misconfig'd something, but out of about 10
machines, one, my home machine is now having issues w/devfs. After I
boot, everything runs ok, and I login to a console term, it's ok. As
soon as the first PTY is used, everything goes to hell in a handbasket.
/dev stops responding, and any process seeking, opening, or closing
any devices in /dev is immediatly hung. Sometimes after hours the
system will recover. I have had reports of 'Unable to remove vc/xx -
file not found', in my syslog, occasionally I will also see something
related to 'pts/x'. [This error is not verbatim, I apologize, It is at
home, and I have not been able to get a peice of mail out yet. *sigh*
Plus the keyboard died on my FW [argh]].
Also, IF the system comes back, then an 'ls' in the 'dev/pts' directory
finds something like 'm0' - 'm255', or maybe 'b0' - 'b255'. It has
only comeback twice since this all started.
I have two kernels, one I believe DOES have the devpts filesystem
option, the other does not. However, in any case that does not seem to
make a difference.
The only changes that I have recently made was adding some options to my
devfsd.conf to change default ownership on alsa & oss-compatibility
devices. This is a precursor, if it would be usefull, i can post my
.config, devfsd.conf, etc. If I can get the system to remain stable for
long enough, I will remove the rule, and see if it affects the system.
I have also noticed wierdness w/devfsd. It does not always behave
according to what I would expect, and sometimes I think that I must be
using the rules incorrectly in the config file.
I hope this is not too vague.
thanks,
Joshua
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