Re: happy happy happy

[Jon Mason <jdmason@us.ibm.com>]

On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 02:39:16PM -0500, Eric S. Johansson wrote:
> Jon Mason wrote:
> 
> >I see the same errors on my gentoo installation running DevFS.  
> 
> it shows errors I'm not comfortable with.  For example, it says is 
> unable to set the system clock yet the time is set correctly.  This 
> messages from the clock init script.
> 
> harvee-xeno init.d # hwclock --show
> hwclock is unable to get I/O port access:  the iopl(3) call failed.
> 
> udev quirk or something more sinister?  in either case, turning off the 
> clock init script should help except for the fact that you can't turn 
> off the clock script without doing more invasive surgery.

Not runnig udev, so it is more generic.  It doesn't seem to affect
anything,

> the next set of errors come from the consolefont script. turning it off 
> makes those errors go away.  I suspect the key mappings error is 
> similarly solvable but I just haven't had the time to dig back into it.
> 
> one other thing I noticed was that when I try to use Reiser FS, I kept 
> getting exceptions from the journaling code.  So I decided to take the 
> cowards way out and switch to ext3.  now the exceptions may have been a 
> fault of my own doing because there is a high probability I did not have 
> my domU filesystem fully set up with udev.  In any case, onward and upward.

I am running without any problems on reiserfs.  I am happy to help you
and provide you with my current setup files, if you like.

-- 
Jon Mason
jdmason@us.ibm.com


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