System hosed AGAIN

Steven Michalske michalsc at email.uc.edu
Wed Jan 29 20:41:39 GMT 2003


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i have build a from scratch install with the 1.2 iso

and it is working fine

its a p 266mmx with 64 mb of ram

hardkrash



On Wednesday 29 January 2003 8:34 pm, Wuss912 wrote:
> Unfortunately there seems to be very little documentation for this
> install
> I'm getting frustrated
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lunar-bounces at lunar-linux.org
> [mailto:lunar-bounces at lunar-linux.org] On Behalf Of Shern, Benjamin J
> Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 5:32 PM
> To: 'This is the primary mailing list for Lunar Linux!'
> Subject: RE: System hosed AGAIN
>
>
> I've had success with 1.2.  I have encountered some packages that
> require some tweaking.  I would wager that the problems you are seeing
> relate to too many compiler optimizations while building the kernel.
>
> Immediately after I got the base packages stabilized I blacklisted the
> core modules to prevent them from being rebuilt. These include - linux,
> grub, lilo, gcc, binutils and a couple others...
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Todd A. Jacobs [mailto:nospam at codegnome.org]
> > Sent: January 29, 2003 6:25 PM
> > To: Lunar Linux
> > Subject: System hosed AGAIN
> >
> >
> > Okay, after the last round of playing lunar update and lin --fix, the
> > system is completely unstable and totally unusable.
> >
> > Filesystems which are reported as rw give errors about being
> > ro when you
> > attempt to do anything. tmpfs partitions can't be deleted or
> > unmounted.
> > Applications give warnings about failures to open sockets
> > (all filesystems
> > act as if they're read-only, remember?), and have library
> > failures, too.
> > Rebooting solves nothing; mounting single user without devfs
> > is likewise
> > useless.
> >
> > I can't even do an "lvu activity" to see what happened last.
> > Lvu is hosed,
> > too.
> >
> > So, it's time to ask the question: has *anyone* else on this
> > list actually
> > tried to install a Lunar 1.2 system from the ISO onto a clean
> > system? And
> > once it was installed, did you attempt to do any mass package
> > additions/upgrades?
> >
> > Unless someone else has done this, and gotten it to work on a real,
> > freshly installed system--not a virtual machine, not an upgrade to a
> > previous release--I'm about ready to toss in the towel here.
> >
> > --
> > "Of course I'm in shape! Round's a shape, isn't it?"
> >
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