While installing XFS-1.0 on my El Cheapo Intel815-based home computer...
It was a custom install, i selected various X, media, games and
development stuff. Right after that, the system was upgraded to Ximian
Gnome-1.4 (and Evolution-0.10 "of course" ;-))
The complete package list is attached.
The /var/log/dmesg file is attached.
Noticeable stuff:
1. During the first install attempt, when the kernel package was
decompressing, something weird happened:
- the HDD started to make scary noises
- the installer was frozen
- lots of messages regarding some problems with hda (was it "lost
interrupt"? - i don't remember) were running like hell on one of the
consoles
After resetting the system and the installer booted again, it complained
about not being able to find any suitable media to install Linux!
At that point, i was sure all my data was going bye-bye... :-/
Fortunately, i know how to deal with cheap and buggy hardware, so i
powered off the system and waited for 5 minutes (yeah, why are you
laughing? =)). After that, everything was fine.
Now, this is strange, because i had similar problems with a RAID array
on another system (one of the disks was going mad), and i'm pretty sure
it happened at the same place: while decompressing the kernel package,
or very close to that.
Hmmm...
2. While the installed system boots up:
- there are two swapon calls, one of them obviously failing
- after the system is booted, on the first console i can see these two
messages:
devfs: devfs_register(): device already registered: "2"
devfs: devfs_register(): device already registered: "a2"
3. While the installed system shuts down:
- i can see these messages:
Unmounting file systems: umount2: Device or resource busy
umount: /dev: device is busy
4. [removed]
5. Red Hat 7.1 does a very nice trick. If you have a CD-Writer in your
system, it appends "hdc=ide-scsi" to kernel boot parameters, so the
writer is automatically seen as a pseudo-SCSI device, and /dev/cdrom
points to /dev/scd0.
Now, i'm not a big fan of getting everything already done, but it would
be nice to have a similar trick in RH-7.1-XFS. Apparently, the XFS
version doesn't do that. Here's my /etc/fstab:
/dev/hda7 / xfs defaults
1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext2 defaults
1 2
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner
0 0
none /proc proc defaults
0 0
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620
0 0
/dev/hda5 swap swap defaults
0 0
/dev/hda2 /win/winme vfat defaults 1 2
/dev/hda6 /win/win2k_d vfat defaults 1 2
There's nothing pointing to my CD-Writer (which is master on secondary).
Even worse, there's nothing pointing to my CD-ROM (which is slave on
secondary).
6. While downloading (wget blah) the FreeBSD-4.3 ISO image
(150kbytes/sec sustained, on DSL, with pppoe) on the first console, if i
logged into the second text console (ALT-F2) and tried to run "mcedit
blah", mcedit was frozen, nothing happened, i could not kill it with
CTRL-C. I had to log into the third console and run killall mcedit.
Now after the download is finished, mcedit works again in the text
console.
7. [root@pc /root]# cat /var/log/messages | grep devfsd
May 1 15:32:53 pc devfsd[15]: Error making directory
"/dev-state"^IRead-only file system <27>May 1 15:32:53 devfsd[15]:
error making tree for: "/dev-state/log"
May 1 23:03:11 pc devfsd[15]: action_compat: error unlinking:
"vcs2"^INo such file or directory
May 1 23:03:11 pc devfsd[15]: action_compat: error unlinking:
"vcsa2"^INo such file or directory
May 1 23:57:55 pc devfsd[15]: action_compat: error unlinking:
"vcs2"^INo such file or directory
May 1 23:57:55 pc devfsd[15]: action_compat: error unlinking:
"vcsa2"^INo such file or directory
May 2 00:10:00 pc devfsd[15]: action_compat: error unlinking:
"cdrom0"^INo such file or directory
May 2 02:19:17 pc devfsd[15]: action_compat: error unlinking:
"vcs2"^INo such file or directory
May 2 02:19:17 pc devfsd[15]: action_compat: error unlinking:
"vcsa2"^INo such file or directory
May 2 02:28:12 pc devfsd[15]: action_compat: error unlinking:
"vcs2"^INo such file or directory
May 2 02:28:12 pc devfsd[15]: action_compat: error unlinking:
"vcsa2"^INo such file or directory
May 2 02:31:01 pc devfsd[15]: action_compat: error unlinking:
"vcs2"^INo such file or directory
May 2 02:31:01 pc devfsd[15]: action_compat: error unlinking:
"vcsa2"^INo such file or directory
May 2 02:40:00 pc devfsd[15]: action_compat: error unlinking:
"cdrom0"^INo such file or directory
May 2 21:50:00 pc devfsd[15]: action_compat: error unlinking:
"cdrom0"^INo such file or directory
May 2 22:51:28 pc devfsd[15]: action_compat: error unlinking:
"vcs2"^INo such file or directory
May 2 22:51:28 pc devfsd[15]: action_compat: error unlinking:
"vcsa2"^INo such file or directory
May 2 22:55:47 pc devfsd[15]: action_compat: error unlinking:
"vcs2"^INo such file or directory
May 2 22:55:47 pc devfsd[15]: action_compat: error unlinking:
"vcsa2"^INo such file or directory
May 2 23:10:00 pc devfsd[15]: action_compat: error unlinking:
"cdrom0"^INo such file or directory
May 2 23:16:58 pc devfsd[15]: action_compat: error unlinking:
"vcs2"^INo such file or directory
May 2 23:16:58 pc devfsd[15]: action_compat: error unlinking:
"vcsa2"^INo such file or directory
8. I'm running a handful of services, like Postfix, djbdns... So far,
everything seems to be normal.
Well, that's it. Hope it helps.
Time to burn that FreeBSD image... ;-)
Cheers,
--
Florin Andrei
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