2.6.1-love3 "Watch the love!"

Wedge_ · Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2004 4:43 pm Post subject:

The loop problem has been encountered by lots of people. AFAIK it's due to some of the patches in 2.6.1-mm1/2, the next release may fix things if it's based on -mm3.
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sawanv · Apprentice Joined: 05 Dec 2002 Posts: 238

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Looks like you are trying to mount the dvd via SCSI.....have you compiled that in? You might want to try mounting via

TheCoop · Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2004 5:14 pm Post subject:

same problem with dvds and love3, can't play them or anything...
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mirko_3 · l33t Joined: 02 Nov 2003 Posts: 605 Location: Birreria

I too have the 'unable to identify cd-rom format' error when trying to mount cds.... audio cds work fine, I guess because they're not mounted. Don't use the cd very much, so don't really know when this started... hope mm3 will fix this, like Wedge said
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mondauge · Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2004 6:16 pm Post subject:

sawanv: No, I use ATAPI with my DVD and CD-Recorder. Nevertheless, I have SCSI support compiled in, because I need it for my USB stick (which hoepfully works, when I get it back :-)

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Jake · Veteran Joined: 31 Jul 2003 Posts: 1132

Would it be worth making a version of love-sources without the mm patches? A few versions ago, mm broke reiser4 for me. Now people are having CD trouble. I'm sure there have been many other mm-related problems. I'm back to using my custom-patched 2.6.1 because of lockups. I can't be sure they're love-related, but I'm not taking any chances. Now I have all the best (IMO) features of love-sources (cfq, runtime-selectable IO scheduler, UDF packet writing, reiser4, and VM swappiness), without the instability of mm. Am I the only one who would like an mm-free version of love-sources?

TheCoop · Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2004 6:54 pm Post subject:

mm-sources form a key part of love-sources. they get released fairly frequently, and any problems in them are sorted by the next release. It doesnt cause many problems having to hang back a love release for a week or two
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i_hate_your_os · Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2004 7:05 pm Post subject:

I don't know about mainline, but 2.6.1-mm3 still has loop problems for me. The wierd thing was, some of my loop devices worked, and others did not. For example, my encrypted swap (which is cryptoloop of a whole partition) worked fine.

I have my /home partition split (using software raid 0) across several volumes which are stored on an MSDOS fs. This allows me to mount the same partition in VMWare/Windows and native linux, without using sketchy raw partition access (I can use hgfs instead under VMWare). Well, these don't work, losetup gets a bad seek error if I run it under strace.

I have my encrypted partition split up in precisely the same way, into MSDOS files. The only difference (except the nubmer of files and their sizes) is that I use cryptoloop for these. Amazingly, these work fine!!!

I can't figure it out. The only thing I can guess is that there is some kind of error which crops up trying to loop devices of particular sizes, like maybe if the device size is modulo the block size it works or something...

Here are the sizes:

neenee · Veteran Joined: 20 Jul 2003 Posts: 1786

i tried 2.6.1 vanilla and there my loop device
works, as well as mounting dvds and cdroms.

(i just had to know for sure)

PrakashP · Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2004 7:29 pm Post subject:

Yup, me too having problems in mounting cd-rom. :evil:

supernova · Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2004 8:19 pm Post subject:

Hi, I have got a very strange problem:
I was playing around with 2.6.1-love2, 2.6.1-love3 and the gentoo-dev-sources 2.6.1, in order to find the best kernel for me.
(By the way: I had the CD/DVD mounting problem in 2.6.1-love3, too, so I reverted to the gentoo-dev-sources)
The result of playing around carelessly was getting my nvidia-kernel dependent of love3 and I can't get rid of it!

Take a look please:

Davin · n00b Joined: 13 May 2003 Posts: 45 Location: United States

Nngh, tough decision here. I like playing with love3, but I also purchased Win4Lin so I could play with it...is there any possibility at all that someone could come up with a modified love3 that will patch against lin4win cleanly?

Wedge_ · Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2004 8:35 pm Post subject:

supernova: open /var/cache/edb/virtuals and look for a line that says something like "virtual/linux-sources sys-kernel/love-sources". Delete that line and see if it helps. It'll probably still want you to install some set of kernel sources though, because nvidia-kernel needs to be built against them. Once you emerge a different set things should be OK again.
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supernova · Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2004 8:39 pm Post subject:

THANK YOU, WEDGE! That did the trick.

You guys are awesome - rock on!

grzewho · l33t Joined: 31 Dec 2002 Posts: 626 Location: /home/g

the cd/cd-rw/dvd mounting doesn`t work for me either

the log says: unable to indentify cd format

mount says: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/dvd, or too many mounted file systems

what am i suppose to do ?
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TheCoop · Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2004 10:09 pm Post subject:

downgrade to 2.6.1-love2, which works fine at the moment, and wait until -love4 or 2.6.2-love1 comes out
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Wedge_ · Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2004 10:14 pm Post subject:

I don't think -love4 is too far away, but it'll depend on when steel300 can get time to work on it.
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Redeeman · l33t Joined: 25 Sep 2003 Posts: 958 Location: Portugal

its already done, just running beta on steels machine, so he can catch some bugs before you get it!

PrakashP · Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2004 11:42 pm Post subject:

We want the Lovin'!

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darkless · n00b Joined: 01 Jan 2004 Posts: 42 Location: Denmark

Actually, you can just patch -R the swappiness patch and then you're good to go.
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neenee · Veteran Joined: 20 Jul 2003 Posts: 1786

i'd like to know where to get the vm swappiness/
nicks' scheduler patches so that i may add them to
the kernel sources i use myself.