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- From: kfogel@occs.cs.oberlin.edu (Karl Fogel)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Install problems (apologies for earlier misdiagnosis and posts)...
- Message-ID: <KFOGEL.92Sep5224606@occs.cs.oberlin.edu>
- Date: 6 Sep 92 03:46:06 GMT
- Sender: news@ctr.columbia.edu (The Daily Lose)
- Distribution: comp.os.linux
- Organization: Oberlin College Computer Science
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- Sorry about all earlier post complaining that X dies and sync
- dumps core (for those who read them) and not being able to mount hda3
- as /usr, etc... here is what I hope is the final description of the
- problem that prevents me from using X and causes sync to core dump in
- /dev. (I noticed this behaviour for the first time today, and it
- seems significant. This is with v0.96c):
-
- I reinstalled for the twenty-second time today, carefully NOT
- mounting /dav/hda3 on /usr, because that (I thought) had caused X
- Windows to hang when brought up. Immediately after the reinstall, the
- very first time I booted from floppy with the hard drive as root (root
- is /dev/hda2), X worked fine (after I reinstalled it, of course) and
- sync did not always dump a core in /dev. Whew! I thought, and decided
- not to mount hda3 and live with the cramped space in hda2 (only 63
- megs). But the next time I booted up, sync started to dump core in
- /dev and X just hangs, requiring a ctl-alt-bckspc to exit.
- Does anyone know of a problem that would not show up until the
- *second* time you boot up Linux? I am going to use hda3 as /usr from
- now on, as I no longer have any reason to think that it is causing the
- problems. Everything except X works now... and sync's core dumping
- (always the same size) worries me a bit, not suprisingly :-) Anyone
- know what's going on?
-
-
- --
-
-
- -Karl Fogel
- kfogel@occs.cs.oberlin.edu
- fogel@antares.mcs.anl.gov
-
- "I'm not lost... I know exactly where I'm not!"
- (Any opinions expressed are completely my own, and not
- necessarily those of Karl Fogel.)
-