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stan
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 Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2002 5:36 am Post subject: some problems.... should I be worried? |
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basically emerge gpm gave me a kernel panic: cpu context corrupt...... but then I rebooted and it worked fine. plus I'm getting some issues in the boot about bad format on line xx of /etc/fstab and stuff about mount point 2,1,0 not existing and some local filesystem failed to mount.
now the basic system stats are as follows....
AMD tbird 950
abit kr7a - RAID
128mb DDR pc2100
4gig hdd
slaved 100gig hdd
250watt psu |
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rommel
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| Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2002 6:02 am Post subject: |
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| how bout posting dmesg and your fstab |
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stan
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| Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2002 6:12 am Post subject: |
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dmsg?
/dev/hda1 /boot ext2 noauto,noatime 1 2
/dev/hda3 / ext3 noatime 0 1
/dev/hda2 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
and thats my fstab.... |
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pjp
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| Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2002 6:29 am Post subject: |
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| stan wrote: | dmsg?
/dev/hda1 /boot ext2 noauto,noatime 1 2
/dev/hda3 / ext3 noatime 0 1
/dev/hda2 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
and thats my fstab.... |
dmesg -> 'man dmesg' | Quote: | NAME
dmesg - print or control the kernel ring buffer
SYNOPSIS
dmesg [ -c ] [ -n level ] [ -s bufsize ]
DESCRIPTION
dmesg is used to examine or control the kernel ring
buffer.
The program helps users to print out their bootup mes-
sages. Instead of copying the messages by hand, the user
need only:
dmesg > boot.messages
and mail the boot.messages file to whoever can debug their
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The fstab file looks ok... could you post the exact errors?
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stan
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| Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2002 6:37 am Post subject: |
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ok...
exact errors are as follows......
fsck 1.27 (8-Mar-2002)
WARNING: bad format on line 12 of /etc/fstab
WARNING: bad format on line 14 of /etc/fstab
WARNING: bad format on line 16 of /etc/fstab
/dev/hda3: clean, 53916/480000 files, 188305/959883 blocks
* Remounting root filesystem read/write...
* Checking all filesystems...
fsck 1.27 (8-Mar-2002)
WARNING: bad format on line 12 of /etc/fstab
WARNING: bad format on line 14 of /etc/fstab
WARNING: bad format on line 16 of /etc/fstab
* Mounting local filesystems...
mount: mount point 2 does not exist
mount: mount point 1 does not exist
mount: mount point 0 does not exist
* Some local filesystem failed to mount
every thing before that and after it seems to be normal. |
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rac
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| Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2002 6:40 am Post subject: |
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A shot in the dark: failure to supply the -w switch to nano caused linewrap when editing fstab?
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pjp
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| Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2002 6:47 am Post subject: |
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| rac wrote: | | A shot in the dark: failure to supply the -w switch to nano caused linewrap when editing fstab? |
Good point... my next request was going to be post the entire fstab file so we can see lines 12, 14 and 16.
Wordwrap sounds like the culprit. Ah... to edit in vim 
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stan
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| Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2002 6:49 am Post subject: |
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good job......
thanx for your help.....
I edited fstab with the -w and blamo no more error in the dmesg...
w00t!!
now.... why won't my mouse work?
I've got gpm running and I've run xf86config.......
but it still doesn't work....
what am I missing? |
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pjp
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| Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2002 6:54 am Post subject: |
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What kind of mouse is it? How is your Input Device section configured in /etc/X11/XF86Config?
For example, mine is: | Code: | Section "InputDevice"
# Identifier and driver
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" |
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stan
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| Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2002 6:58 am Post subject: |
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well it's a generic 3 button wheel mouse
and inputdevice setion looks like this:
# Identifier and driver
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "MouseSystems"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse" |
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pjp
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| Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2002 7:01 am Post subject: |
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Not USB by any chance is it? If so, did you compile USB support into the kernel?
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stan
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| Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2002 7:02 am Post subject: |
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| nope.... it's a ps2 mouse. |
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Pavan
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| Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2002 7:03 am Post subject: |
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Try
| Code: | | Option "Protocol" "auto" |
Works quite well for me 
-Pavan |
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Pavan
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| Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2002 7:05 am Post subject: |
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| BTW, are u trying to get the mouse working in the console(since u mentioned gpm) or X? |
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stan
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| Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2002 7:07 am Post subject: |
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either....
it doesn't work at all with anything right now....
I guess that I should also mention that I have just installed gentoo
(like 2 days ago)
and I have never used it before... plus I'm coming into it with a whole 2 months experience on slackware... so if I might be missing any thing I wouldn't be su;rised. |
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Pavan
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| Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2002 8:07 am Post subject: |
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Just check if /dev/mouse points to the correct device.
Since gentoo was my first experience with devfs, I took some time to figure out that I had to edit /etc/devfsd.conf to create the mouse link to my serial port.
IIRC default is ps/2 port. Check it anyway.
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mdpye
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| Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2002 9:12 am Post subject: |
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| stan wrote: | well it's a generic 3 button wheel mouse
and inputdevice setion looks like this:
# Identifier and driver
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "MouseSystems"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse" |
I think you should be using "IMPS/2" as your protocol, not MouseSystems. Try that or "PS/2". However, usually if you get the wrong protocol is just makes your pointer spaz around the screen, or just straight to one corner, rather than disabling it altogether so I'd check that /dev/mouse exists and is correct, or just try specifying "/dev/psaux" directly instead.
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