On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 10:57:12AM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote: > I'm finally catching up on debian mailing list messages that I've been > ignoring for the last couple of weeks... > | Cameron, > [...] > | > It looks to me like the first three characters in the link in > | > /dev/cdroms should have been '../'. In case they get mangled by email, > | > | Well, as it turns out, these symlinks are generated by the kernel itself > | as part of devfs. Can you please verify that this is a reproducible > | error? > It seems to be reproducible on the CD that I'm using (which is a few > weeks old now) - I tried it again this morning which would make it the > third time I've seen it. Perhaps it might be a dodgy burn, but I would > have thought that this would manifest itself in different ways (i.e. not > being able to boot at all). Well, I don't see that I've had any other tests by alpha users with SCSI CD-ROMs to confirm or deny this; so it could be either a dodgy burn, or a kernel problem. > | and I think it would be quite a serious problem if the kernel was > | generating broken devfs symlinks on a regular basis (instead of, say, > | due to a cosmic ray hitting your machine ;). > Yes. I'll try a newer daily image later today and see if that fixes it. > Do the newer builds contain a different kernel? Yes, the latest builds are using a 2.4.24 kernel. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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