On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 07:10:36PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 02:48:10PM -0600, Nick Welch wrote: > | Just did an install of sarge via the beta debian-installer image, and > | MAKEDEV is telling me this: > | > | /sbin/MAKEDEV: line 1: major_device-mapper=254: command not found > > This looks like it is supposed to be a shell script, and in the shell > script is an assignment line. However, the '-' there can not be part > of a variable name, so the shell thinks that is a command. Which, > naturally, is not found.
I've been looking at the /sbin/MAKEDEV script and have come to the same realization. The loop reads items from /proc/devices, and in that file, we find: Block devices: 1 ramdisk 3 ide0 22 ide1 254 device-mapper Apparently MAKEDEV never expects to see an item with a hyphen in the name. > Somehow your script is incorrect. That script is part of the > 'makedev' package. Try reinstalling that package and see if the > script changes. The latest versions on both sarge and sid seem to be the same, which is the same version I have installed. I just stumbled upon something though - I looked through loaded kernel modules and saw one called "dm_mod" (the "dm" apparently standing for device mapper), which I removed. Now it works! device-mapper disappeared from /proc/devices, and MAKEDEV works like normal. Awesome. :) Now, I wonder exactly whose bug this is... -- Nick Welch aka mackstann | mack @ incise.org | http://incise.org An American's a person who isn't afraid to criticize the president but is always polite to traffic cops. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
