From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (cthulhu.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.2]) by neteng.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id OAA84532 for ; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:22:44 -0700 (PDT) Return-Path: Received: (from majordomo-owner@localhost) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) id OAA26546 for linux-list; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:21:37 -0700 (PDT) mail_from (owner-linux@relay.engr.sgi.com) Received: from sgi.com (ripple.nashua.sgi.com [169.238.59.194]) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id OAA03501; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:21:31 -0700 (PDT) mail_from (lembree@sgi.com) Message-ID: <35F59FCD.F7A6E459@sgi.com> Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1998 17:21:17 -0400 From: Rob Lembree Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5b1C-SGI [en] (X11; I; IRIX 6.5 IP32) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alex deVries CC: Leon Verrall , SGI Linux Subject: Re: Success at last... References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Alex deVries wrote: > > On Fri, 4 Sep 1998, Leon Verrall wrote: > > > > FInally got rid of the "Warning, unable to open console" message. I think I > > managed it by not letting IRIX anywhere near the tarball of hard hat. > > Downloaded and extracted entirely on Debian Linux. > > This is really weird. Can you explain in greater detail what you changed > to make sure that it worked? I found that IRIX's tar wasn't very careful with modification dates, which I don't think is a problem, but the major and minor IDs of the dev files were all zero -- clearly broken. I haven't experimented, but I believe this to be the failure. -r -- Rob Lembree Strategic Software Organization Silicon Graphics, Inc. http://www.sgi.com One Cabot Road rob@lembree.com Hudson, MA 01749 lembree@sgi.com Phone: 978-567-2141 FAX: 978-567-2341 PGP: 1F EE F8 58 30 F1 B1 20 C5 4F 12 21 AD 0D 6B 29