System hosed AGAIN

[Kenny Mann]

http://home.swbell.net/kenmann/Lunar-Install.html
I started working on it again last night.
I'm hoping to tranfer it into docbook format.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wuss912 [mailto:Wuss912 at cox.net] 
> Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 7:34 PM
> To: 'This is the primary mailing list for Lunar Linux!'
> Subject: RE: System hosed AGAIN
> 
> 
> 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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