On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 06:17:32PM -0600, Nick Welch wrote: | 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.
Aha! That explains it. I didn't read the logic in my copy, I just
did a quick search for the name to be hard-coded.
| > 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...
I'd say it's MAKDEV's bug in assuming that all kernel device names
follow shell naming rules. A better program would use a data
structure to store the names, rather than making them part of the code
itself. However, sh is not structured enough for that level of
abstraction so I understand why the current design is used.
I recommend that you file a bug against 'makedev' explaining the
this device-mapper thing and how that causes MAKEDEV to fail. At
least then there will be a record of this issue and the maintainer
will be aware of it.
-D
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