Re: [Devil-linux-develop] [0.6Beta1] New release, 4 new problems!

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

Dean Nedelman wrote:
> [Using the 08-23-i586-SMP release...]
> 
> NOTE:  My ISP's mail system is -way- behind schedule (and in fact has been
> down all day).  So, if these problems have been reported before, except my
> apologies.
> 
> --- Problem 1 ----
> Unpacking Configuration
> FAT: bogus logical sector size 0
> VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev 02:00.
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/fd0,
>     or too many mounted file systems
> Journalled Block Device driver loaded
> ext3: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/fd0,
>     or too many mounted file systems
> Unpacking /var
> 
> NOTE: I am using ext2 on my floppy, and had no errors previously for the
> betas. In fact, I had switched to ext from FAT so as to no longer get the
> error about being unable to find an ext2 file system on the floppy! (It used
> to look for ext2 first).

That bug is still open: 
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=759801&group_id=34096&atid=410643
I agree that it is pretty anoying, I don't have a solution yet.

> --- Problem 2 ----
> still getting a grsec error:
> grsec: attempted resource overstep by requesting 92786688 for RLIMIT_STACK
> against limit 8388608 by (pidof:385) UID(0) EUID(0), parent (S05network:373)
> UID(0) EUID(0)
> 
> I -believe- this is related to my dhcpcd.exe script - which uses pidof.

That is really strange.
Can you try it with a "clean" setup? I mean empty floppy and configuring 
the stuff via the setup program.
How much RAM do you have in this machine?

> --- Problem 3 ---
> get the following: (Note: The ethx: Setting... message is standard,
> everything else is NEW!)
> 
> eth0: Setting 100mbps full-duplex based on auto-negotiated partner ability
> 41e1.
> Setting up ROL/F
> Setting up ROL/F
> Setting up ROL/F
> i8253 count too high! resetting..
> Setting up ROL/F
> i8253 count too high! resetting...
> 
> and also:
> 
> eth1: Setting 100mbps full duplex based on auto-negotiated partner ability
> 45e1.
> Setting up ROLF/F
> Setting up ROLF/F
> Setting up ROLF/F
> Setting up ROLF/F
> 
> i8253 count too high! resetting...

SHIT !
@Thomas this is the newly added ROL/F Patch, can you please investigate 
on it?
Otherwise I'll have to remove it.

> --- Comment ---
> o Why are we still running ldconfig and updating module dependencies? I
> thought it was agreed that we would drop those.
> 
> o I See that we have (again) moved a key binary - echo (from /bin/echo to
> /usr/bin/echo).  And before we get into another discussion about why I have
> hardcoded addresses for key executables in my firewall scripts: I suppose it
> is for the same reason that Bruce uses them in -his- firewall scripts!

That's the new coreutils package,
I modified the package so that everything is installed in /bin. It's the 
"core" anyway.
I will look more into problems which could come up with the new package.

cya
   Heiko