typo: failed to genetate UUID? what's it?

typo: failed to genetate UUID? what's it?

[Domenico Andreoli]

i suppose this is an error message...

~/devel/reiserfsprogs-3.6.11$ grep genetate . -R
./fsck/super.c:         fsck_log ("rebuild-sb: no uuid found, failed to genetate UUID\n");
./tune/tune.c:              message ("failed to genetate UUID\n");
./mkreiserfs/mkreiserfs.c:          reiserfs_warning (stderr, "failed to genetate UUID\n");

please fix it in 3.6.12

what does it really mean? is something i need to worry? i sometimes receive
it when i'm formatting a new reiserfs partition.

dom

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Re: typo: failed to genetate UUID? what's it?

[Domenico Andreoli]

Domenico Andreoli wrote:
> i suppose this is an error message...
> 
of course it is an error message, but what i really meant is that
this error message has a typo error in it..

dom

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Re: typo: failed to genetate UUID? what's it?

[Vitaly Fertman]

On Tuesday 13 January 2004 17:12, Domenico Andreoli wrote:
> i suppose this is an error message...
>
> ~/devel/reiserfsprogs-3.6.11$ grep genetate . -R
> ./fsck/super.c:         fsck_log ("rebuild-sb: no uuid found, failed to
> genetate UUID\n"); ./tune/tune.c:              message ("failed to genetate
> UUID\n"); ./mkreiserfs/mkreiserfs.c:          reiserfs_warning (stderr,
> "failed to genetate UUID\n");
>
> please fix it in 3.6.12

ah yes, thank you.

> what does it really mean? is something i need to worry? i sometimes receive
> it when i'm formatting a new reiserfs partition.

do you have /dev/urandom? It should have read permissions.


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>
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Thanks,
Vitaly Fertman

Re: typo: failed to genetate UUID? what's it?

[Domenico Andreoli]

Vitaly Fertman wrote:
> On Tuesday 13 January 2004 17:12, Domenico Andreoli wrote:
>> 
>>what does it really mean? is something i need to worry? i sometimes receive
>>it when i'm formatting a new reiserfs partition.
> 
> do you have /dev/urandom? It should have read permissions.
> 
no

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Re: typo: failed to genetate UUID? what's it?

[Hans Reiser]

Domenico Andreoli wrote:

> Vitaly Fertman wrote:
>
>> On Tuesday 13 January 2004 17:12, Domenico Andreoli wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> what does it really mean? is something i need to worry? i sometimes 
>>> receive
>>> it when i'm formatting a new reiserfs partition.
>>
>>
>> do you have /dev/urandom? It should have read permissions.
>>
> no
>
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>
>
Vitaly, if this happens to real users, then you must handle the error 
gracefully and informatively.....

I have no idea whether a significant percentage of them lack 
/dev/urandom, maybe you should ask the list.

-- 
Hans

Re: typo: failed to genetate UUID? what's it?

[Domenico Andreoli]

Hans Reiser wrote:
> Domenico Andreoli wrote:
>> Vitaly Fertman wrote:
>>> On Tuesday 13 January 2004 17:12, Domenico Andreoli wrote:
>>>>
>>>> what does it really mean? is something i need to worry? i sometimes 
>>>> receive
>>>> it when i'm formatting a new reiserfs partition.
>>>
>>> do you have /dev/urandom? It should have read permissions.
>>>
>> no
>>
>>
> Vitaly, if this happens to real users, then you must handle the error 
> gracefully and informatively.....
> 
> I have no idea whether a significant percentage of them lack 
> /dev/urandom, maybe you should ask the list.
> 

i'm getting this error on a very simple initrd image i'm working on,
where only required devices have been copied by hand. now i know that
/dev/urandom is also required :))

thanks
domenico

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Re: typo: failed to genetate UUID? what's it?

[Bennett Todd]

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2004-01-14T08:04:14 Domenico Andreoli:
> i'm getting this error on a very simple initrd image i'm working on,
> where only required devices have been copied by hand. now i know that
> /dev/urandom is also required :))

By one of those amazing coincidences, "very simple initrd" is
something I'm wallowing in with glee just at the moment.

BusyBox built with uClibc is magnificent for "very simple initrd".

If you build your kernel to include devfs, and run busybox's devfsd,
all the normal paths show up in /dev by automagic.

When I switch to 2.6 I believe the corresponding automagic is udev.

-Bennett

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