Re: [debian-mips] Obscure error: Value too large for defined data type

[Maik Busch <maik.busch@web.de>]

hello,

I think, I have solved the problem. I used another NFS-Server for the
root-filesystem.
I took a PC-Linux-Server instead of the SiliconGraphics-O2. Now it works fine, but

I don't anderstand why!?

Maik

Maik Busch wrote:

> hello,
>
> I have just entered the mailing list, because I want to install Debian on an
> Indy. The architecture is IP22.
> The Indy should be diskless, therefor I have done the following:
> - On an other SilGraphics-O2 I have unpacked the base2_2.2.tgz under /tftpboot.
>   (this machine should provide the root filesystem)
> - Copied the kernel vmlinux-2.4.3 from flo to /tftpboot/boot/
> - sets up a the bootp-server
>
> The base is from ftp.uni-mainz.de and the kernel is from ftp.rfc822.org. Both
> links are from www.debian.org/ports/mips
>
> - The base-system is not automatically configured yet, but after editing
>   fstab, hostname and resolv.conf it seems to work fine. - how can I auto-
>   matically do it? dpkg-reconfigure base-config does not work?!
>
> -----
>
> Now is the problem, that during booting I got the following message:
> run-parts: failed to open directory /etc/rc.boot: Value too large for defined
> datatype.
>
> And dselect stops "select" with the same message:
> dselect: cannot scan updates directory '/var/lib/dpkg/updates': Value too large
> for defined datatype
>
> Both directories are empty and if I touch a hello-file, both (run-parts and
> dselect) complain with another message:
> : Invalid argument
> instead of ": Value too ...".
>
> Can anyone give me a hint?
>
> Thanks
>
> Maik