0.53.14 problems

[Dean Brown]

Adi Linden wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> It looks like your filesystem isn't extracted. Did you make sure to
> convert binary rpms to packages first?

The filesystem is extracted. 
 
> I am using 0.53.14 myself to build some wireless boxes and I haven't
> encountered any such problems. I've changed the mount -a statement from
> rc.init to rc.sysinit. However, that shouldn't make a difference and
> doesn't affect the minimal system I use for testing. Especially, since the
> mount -a statement didn't exist in the rc.init created by pwlconfig
> 
> Your error messages look like part of the filesystem tree is missing. Take
> a look at the extracted filesystem tree at projects/<your project>/mnt and
> see if projects/<your project>/mnt/lib/modules/2.2.17-full and
> projects/<your project>/mnt/var/run exist...

They do. I can extract the filesystem using either .10 or .14. Making no
other changes, loading with .14 fails, loading with .10 works.
 
> TTYL,
> Adi
> 
> On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, Dean Brown wrote:
> 
> > Adi,
> >       It seems that 0.53.14 is broken!! :^(
> >
> > Taking a configuration that worked correctly under 0.53.10, and updating
> > to 0.53.14 is causing bootup problems. Symptoms are as follows:
> >
> > The error spew is:
> > ----begin----
> > /etc/rc.sysinit: cannot create /var/run/utmp: directory nonexistent
> > INIT: Entering runlevel: 3
> > Setting hostname
> > Bringing up interface lo....
> > modprobe: modprobe: Can't open dependencies file
> > /lib/modules/2.2.17-full/modules.dep (No such file or directory)
> > (the above line is repeated about 16 times)
> > Bringing up interface eth0....
> > Determining IP information for eth0....modprobe: modprobe: Can't open
> > dependencies file /lib/modules/2.2.17-full/modules.dep (No such file or
> > directory)
> > dhcpd[49]: dhcpStart: ioctl SIOCGIFHWADDR: no such device
> >
> > failed....
> > touch: /var/lock/subsys/network: No such file or directory
> > INIT: Id "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> > INIT: Id "2" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> > INIT: Id "3" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> > INIT: Id "4" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> > INIT: no more processes left in this runlevel
> > ----end----
> >
> > The problem is in the 'load filesystem' portion of pwl. If I Extract a
> > filesystem using the 0.53.14 scripts and then load them onto the device
> > with the 0.53.10 versions, the errors don't occur. Loading with the
> > 0.53.14 scripts causes the errors regardless of how the extracted system
> > was created.
> >
> >
> > --
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