O2 recursion issues

wvcslc · n00b Joined: 09 Mar 2008 Posts: 5

I installed Gentoo on my SGI O2 using a stage 3 from: http://dev.gentoo.org/~redhatter/mips/sgi/stages/stage3-mips4-2007.1.tar.bz2
I then skipped the 'compile a kernel' step and instead used the kernel from the 2007.0 install cd by following this page: http://www.bevilacqua.us/?p=245
When I boot I find that recursion does not work, ie:
rm -rf can't remove directories that are not empy,
du always displayes zero
find only every prints the directory

Anyone know why? or how to fix it?

example:
o2 ~ # ls -lh
total 24K
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 260 Mar 9 03:30 a
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15K Mar 8 23:02 b
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.9K Mar 8 23:42 c
o2 ~ # du . -hs
0 .
o2 ~ # echo $?
0
o2 ~ # find .
.
o2 ~ # echo $?
0

Linux o2 2.6.17.10-mipsgit-20060618-ip32r5k #5 Sun Oct 8 15:35:51 UTC 2006 mips64 R5000 V2.1 FPU V1.0 SGI O2 GNU/Linux

eccerr0r · Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2008 4:40 pm Post subject:

I'd look at file system issues first...what filesystem is this?
any messages in dmesg indicating some issues with the filesystem/hard disk?
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Redhatter · Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 1:54 pm Post subject:

Well... I can assure you those stages do work. ;-)

Gentoo 2008.0 just got compiled against them, on mips1, mips3 and mips4.

What filesystem are you using? I've never heard of this problem before.

For what it's worth... I'll soon have 2008.0 stages up. Big-endian MIPS is done... and Little-endian is mostly there (just waiting on MIPS4 stage 3).
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wvcslc · n00b Joined: 09 Mar 2008 Posts: 5

There are no filesystem corruption issues logged when viewing dmesg
The filesystem is: ext3
re-emerging coreutils fails to fix this issue
I 'fixed' this problem by copying rm,find and du from the 2007.0. stage3 tarball and all works ok. So it's not a filesystem issue, just wierd
as long as i'm carefull not to re-emerge coreutils all seems to be working, got x11 / firefox compiling now

Redhatter · Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 12:04 am Post subject:

Well, that is really weird... I'll keep an eye out for the problem when I start testing the stages here.

That said... IIRC portage relies on that recursive behaviour of various tools to operate, so the fact I was able to build 2008.0 stages using that 2007.1 stage 3, would seem to rule out the stage tarball being the problem.

Anyway... as I said, I'll look out for that problem cropping up in my tests here.
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ddc · Guru Joined: 29 Aug 2006 Posts: 521

gosh, I am still waiting for my O2, so i can immediately collaborate
if the machine will be shipped in time, i will: i have to install a fresh gentoo to an O2+, too (and here, i have no sgi machines)

ddc · Guru Joined: 29 Aug 2006 Posts: 521