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All sorts of problems! Wow, __PROBLEMS__ with setting up Linux? Who'da thought?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Erik Hill)
Mon Nov 6 17:07:40 1995
From: Erik Hill <ehill@empros.com>
To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
Date: Mon, 6 Nov 1995 09:42:51 -0600 (CST)
It is probably becuase I like solving problems that I like Linux so
much. I have had ample opportunity to do so. It's not just Linux, mind
you, that's causing the problems. It simply that Linux actually uses
the whole computer, and problems that were hidden until now (like memory
problems past the first meg) are suddenly showing up :( but that's
neither here nor there.
Anyway. Two intertwined problems that I can't solve.
First -- occasionally, my boot will just freeze. It sometimes freezes
just before the "Adding swapspace" output, and sometimes just after.
When this happenes, my harddrive simply has to be reinstalled from
scratch. Bummer.
Let me tell you about my adventures in trying to solve this problem with
much less drastic measures. I try booting with a boot/root disk
combonation. Only to find that e2fsck is not on the boot/root disks. I
put them there next time I boot. (I use a de-compressed "color" disk
, which I boot with "mount root=/dev/fd0", slow, but it works. I do it
this way so I can add stuff to the disk, like, for example, e2fsck)
I go to the directory that I put e2fsck in, and, lo and behold, it
responds to my "e2fsck" with "not found."
I have tried everything:
#1 I've tried "./e2fsck", I've tried putting it in the bin directory.
#2 I've checked my path. I've check my library dependencies. (ldd)
It's statically linked.
#3 I've tried to execute it with e2fsc*. It responds, (amusingly),
"e2fsck not found" :)
#4 I've check my permissions (always make them 777. I'm the only one
who ever uses the machine!. Group is always root. owner is always
root. I am always logged in as root.)
HELP!!!
Note that other executables execute just fine. Only those I add later,
regardless of what they are (fsck, e2fsck, or whatever else I experiment
with) will fail to execute with the same error "xxxx not found"
Note that I'm hardly a unix expert and certainly not a linux expert.
Also I've noticed that (perhaps this is unrelated, but it often corrupts
my harddrive, so that I have to go through all this garbage) that fvwm
or maybe its X -- often seems to crash. So I have to reboot my computer
hard (with the reboot button) which often causes (see above!) to happen,
and then (just follow down the list) thats me for the next few hours!
reinstalling.
ALSO NOTE. I can easily mount my harddrive partition with the mount
from the bootdisk. I can read and write to it. BUT I CAN'T EXECUTE
ANYTHING FROM IT, just like stuff added to the boot disk. I can't
execute, (for example) e2fsck most of all :(!!!
Erik
