On Thu, 7 Aug 2003 yocum@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> Betcha a nickel there's an automount process that's in uninterruptable
> sleep, too. 'service autofs restart' will get autofs going again with a
> duplicate process, but the original hung automount will hang around
> until you reboot.
Bet you a euro there aren't ;-)
There are no automount processes, and no automounter at all - it's not
compiled into the kernel.
% fgrep -i auto .config
# Automatically generated by make menuconfig: don't edit
CONFIG_IDEDMA_PCI_AUTO=y
# CONFIG_HPT34X_AUTODMA is not set
CONFIG_IDEDMA_AUTO=y
# CONFIG_AUTOFS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_AUTOFS4_FS is not set
What I'm having difficulty with right now is identifying what the version
number of the kernel patch is. I'm being advised to try "xfs-1.3pre" but
where/how do I get it? I've just downloaded a patch from:
ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/patches/2.4.21-2003-07-07_02%3A01_UTC
But exactly what is this?
I followed the runes to download everything via CVS, but that started to
download an entire 2.4.21 kernel source tree and as I'm not on a
particularly fast link where I am, I couldn't let it finish, alas. I might
be able to do it overnight, then the differences ought to be minimal once
I have the whole thing.
Anyway, I've applied the above patch to a pristine 2.4.21 kernel, which
does appear to support the Promise cards (and the on-board IDE controller)
rebooted and am now hoping for the best...
Thanks,
Gordon
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