Steve Lord schrieb:
>
> > >>If you want, I can provide a more detailed description of the error
> > messages.
> >
> > When booting up for the first time:
> >
> > * several messages: /var/run/wtmp, /var/lock/subsys/kudzu, network,
> > ipchains: No such file or directory
> >
> > * mounting local filesystems: device does not exist ==> several partitions
> > are not mounted.
> >
> > * eth0: failed
> >
> > * Starting system logger ==> takes a LOT of time.
> >
> > Al these problems do NOT occur if I simply install RH 7.1. It only happens
> > if I use XFS 1.0
> >
> > Werner Maes
> > KULeuven
> >
>
> OK, on the initial release we still had a default in xfs which caused
> the rpm database files to get a lot larger than they normally do, this
> caused a higher load on the root filesystem which in turn caused it to
> fill the partition containing /var in some circumstances. If /var
> was also / then you end up with lots of missing files. You can
> tell if this is happening from the install log which gets created.
>
> Try making /var it's own partition, or making your root partition
> larger. You should then probably upgrade to the 1.0.1 kernel rpm (the 2.4.2
> version seems to behave better at the moment), although this is in
> testing still.
>
> The other thing is that devfs is turned on in the 1.0 release, we are
> leaning towards compiling it in, but defaulting to not mounting it
> at startup in the final version of the 1.0.1 rpms. In the meantime,
> the lilo option :
>
> append="devfs=nomount"
>
> Steve
I was having similar problems when installing on a new system. Some
programs just dumped core, after reboot ather progs dumped, other where
missing and so on. rpm -Va told me that lots of files had wrong MD5
sums. I posted to this list but there was just one reply about bad
hardware. Well, it was NOT cheap hardware, DELL Precision WS with i820
Camino Chipset, Promise controller... Well it could be bad hardware
anyway but I felt unsure because I have never had a system wich was
unreliable and I tried really everything and changed every peace of
hardware. /var was big enough.
If you are able to run the system and rpm -Va works, try to run rpm -Va
> file.[#] several times and compare them. Would be interesting to know what
> comes out.
Simon
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