On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:54:38 +0200 Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 2008-07-18 22:43 +0200, celejar wrote: > > > I'm not sure where to start. I'm running Sid. The system has been up > > for several days, with numerous hibernate (suspend to disk) / resume > > cycles. The system is partially up to date (not totally, since I only > > have intermittent net access). Today, I rebooted it, and now it is > > badly borked. I have no idea what the root cause of the problem is, > > and what are merely symptoms, and I don't even know if there's just > > one problem or many. The Debian installation currently has no net > > access, so I'm mailing from Windows, and supplying information from > > memory, so I may be imprecise. > > > > a) /dev/null apparently has the wrong permissions (I think rw-rw----). > > My ordinary user has no access to it, and so lots of stuff complains > > (e.g. on initial shell login, I get an endless stream of permission > > errors for /dev/null, and I need to hit break.) This problem doesn't > > exist for root, probably because root has r/w access to it. > > That's http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=491114. [snipped gory details of my broken system] > All of this might be a consequence of a), so please install a working > version of dmsetup, rebuild your initramfs and reboot. I wound up purging dmsetup, since I couldn't find an earlier version that solved the problem, and -3 doesn't seem to be available for i386 yet. This was doable, since I only need dmsetup for cryptsetup, which I only need for one encrypted fs which I can do without for a few days. My system is indeed now back to normal. [I don't use an initramfs.] Thanks, Sven. You're a lifesaver! > Regards, > Sven Celejar -- mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
