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

[Dean N. <di...@ti...>]

Heiko Zuerker wrote:
>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=3
4096&atid=410643
>I agree that it is pretty anoying, I don't have a solution yet.

Not really.  Bug 759801 was when I had a FAT volume and it looked for EXT2
then FAT (and generated an error).  To work around that bug, I had switched
my floppy from FAT to EXT2.  Now, by using EXT2, I'm back to getting a lot
of errors.  (Hmmm, I wonder if I switch back to FAT whether they would go
away? :-) ).

Out of curiosity, doesn't mount -auto "resolve" this problem (though I
haven't actually tried it myself)?  It is supposed to automatically
determine the correct type.

>> --- 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?

I have 64MB of ram.

I'll spend some time tomorrow afternoon with an empty floppy and see what
happens.  I'm presuming that you want me to do a "basic" setup using the
setup machine (network adaptor type, timezone, Bruce's firewall, setup as
DHCP client, etc.)?  (i.e., DON'T setup postfix, DON'T setup my firewall,
DON'T use my dhcpcd.exe file, etc.)

>> --- Comment ---
>> 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.

I would be happy if we simply document when things move.

Thanks.

Dean Nedelman
TimeLord Consulting