Joshua M. Schmidlkofer writes:
> 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.
Erm, well, actually, it is. Config files would be useful.
In any case, I'm away for holidays for 2.5 weeks, so if no-one else
can help you by then, repost your message. Stuff sent before that will
probably hit the bit-bucket.
Regards,
Richard....
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