On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 15:41, Net Llama! wrote:
> > The thing that is really confusing me is: why the heck is fstab being
> > eaten and why only fstab? "lsof" on this machine right this moment does
> > not show that fstab is open. Has anyone else had this problem with
> > RedHat9? Does anyone have any other thoughts on why this would be
> > happening?
>
> I think that's a kudzu bug. I've seen the same thing occur on RH-7.3 as
> well on boxes that kudzu didn't get along with.
Hmm, it looks like you're probably right. (I'm normally a Debian guy,
but woody just doesn't work on this laptop, and I'm not an "unstable"
kind of guy...) I'd removed kudzu from running on startup, but it looks
like something called "updfstab" is running from elsewhere in the system
startup on RedHat.
The fact that the file winds up full of nulls made me think it was that
nasty old XFS "issue" mysteriously biting me again.
I will investigate further.
(I'm pretty happy with RedHat so far, except for the lack of "native"
XFS support and despite really weird things it does like this 'updfstab'
thing. I can't wait until there's a 2.6-based RedHat that will _force_
them to have XFS support... :)
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