Bug#222260: installation-reports: improper CDROM device symlinks
On Fri, 2003-12-26 at 08:04, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> * Jonathan Brandmeyer <jbrandmeyer@earthlink.net> [2003-11-26 17:11]:
> > The installer improperly set up device names for the DVD+/-RW
> > device. It correctly set up ide_scsi emulation for the drive, but
> > did not set up the device names right. /dev/cdrom -> /dev/cdrom0 ->
> > /dev/scd0. But, /dev/scd0 is not where ide_scsi sets up my cdrom.
> > /dev/sr0 is the right place.
>
> /dev/sr0 is normally just an alias for /dev/scd0.
>
> $ ll /dev/sr0
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2003-09-11 16:05 /dev/sr0 -> scd0
>
> Can you confirm this?
No, you're right. I don't remember exactly what led me to this
conclusion. Something wasn't working since apt-get couldn't access my
cdrom drive after reboot, but I don't remember exactly what the symptoms
were anymore. It works now, but I don't remember exactly what I did to
make it work.
> > The system hostname was not established properly. I named my
> > machine "office-linux", but instead it was named "localhost". I'm
> > not actually sure how to fix this. Simply changing /etc/hostname
> > was not the right solution.
>
> This is a known issue. Changing /etc/hostname should work, but it
> might not have recognized this immediately.
After some digging I figured out that an entry also needed to exist in
/etc/hosts for the 127.0.0.1 address corresponding to the machine name
in /etc/hostname.
I apologize for not following up on this report at the time I solved
these issues.
-Jonathan Brandmeyer
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