On Thursday 24 March 2005 05:53 am, Blaisorblade wrote:

> > Try it, it's easy.
> >
> > ./linux rootfstype=hostfs rootflags=/ rw init=/bin/sh
> >
> > If you run it from an xterm, that should work.  If you run it from an ssh
> > session, it probably won't because of the permissions on /dev/console
> > discussed above.
>
> I'm not understanding the difference at the moment...

I just meant that startx (which is root) chmods /dev/console to belong to the 
user who ran X11.  Under a normal text console, /dev/console belongs to root.  
(So sometimes it would refuse to run and sometimes it wouldn't, and it took a 
little while to figure out what was wrong.)

This is not a problem with your patch applied.

> > It does that all the time.  (The id=? bit changes with each run.)
> > Somewhere around here I've got a trace from when I built it with debug
> > symbols, I can get that for you at the same time I try out your patch...
>
> I'd like that a lot, and also your .config - I've never seen that message
> nor I know the users of that kernel internal API (but probably UML itself
> isn't using that).

Well, here's the .config, anyway.  I don't know where the debug trace is at 
the moment, so I'll recompile with debug symbols to try to replicate with 
debug info now.  (It happens a LOT for me, on several different machines.  
Possibly related to using hostfs as root... :)

Rob