--- Day changed --- Log opened Fri Aug 22 00:00:02 2003 00:01 < silug> caker: (really late answer to your question...) the module doesn't appear to work on recent rh8 errata kernels 00:01 < silug> i haven't tried it on the rh9 kernels, but i'd be surprised if it worked 00:02 < caker> silug: you might have to add the one-line ptrace fix to the module skas src before compiling 00:04 -!- ElectricElf [~david@elf.noc.oftc.net] has joined #uml 00:28 -!- desaster [~desaster@dsl-jklgw1o22.dial.inet.fi] has quit [Read error: Connection reset by peer] 00:45 -!- bradley [~bradley@202.83.81.124] has joined #uml 00:45 < bradley> !list 01:30 -!- bradley [~bradley@202.83.81.124] has quit [Quit: using sirc version 2.211+KSIRC/1.2.4] 01:51 -!- Aetherios [~jeff@216.34.207.253] has quit [] 01:54 -!- desaster [~desaster@dsl-jklgw1o22.dial.inet.fi] has joined #uml 02:03 -!- shak [~shak@pc1-hudd2-6-cust166.hudd.cable.ntl.com] has quit [Quit: shak] 02:10 -!- jamiebecker [~jamie@a002.labarts.com] has joined #uml 02:10 < jamiebecker> hi anyone awake here? 02:10 -!- jamiebecker [~jamie@a002.labarts.com] has quit [Client Quit] 02:11 -!- jamiebecker [~jamie@a002.labarts.com] has joined #uml 02:11 < jamiebecker> hi anyone awake here? 02:11 < jamiebecker> whoops ;-) 02:11 < jamiebecker> i'm trying to boot uml with hostfs. seems to work great except that i can't chown anything to a user other than root. 02:11 < jamiebecker> also have other weird issues... 02:24 -!- jamiebecker [~jamie@a002.labarts.com] has quit [Quit: Client exiting] 02:52 < Fede> hi! 02:52 < Fede> I think I'm the onle one awake right now :) 02:55 < green> nope 03:05 -!- rob [~rob@nat.office.legend.net.uk] has quit [Ping timeout: 480 seconds] 03:07 < Fede> hehe 03:22 < BB> morning 03:46 -!- rob [~rob@nat.office.legend.net.uk] has joined #uml 04:13 -!- pirlouit [~peter@duvel.drunkcoders.com] has quit [Quit: Time to frag!] 04:14 -!- Michael2 [~chatzilla@algedi.dur.ac.uk] has joined #uml 04:44 -!- frediz [~frediz@ALyon-209-1-16-164.w81-49.abo.wanadoo.fr] has joined #uml 05:10 -!- rob [~rob@nat.office.legend.net.uk] has quit [Quit: Documentation/DocBook/kernel-locking.tmpl: If you don't see why, please stay the fuck away from my code.] 06:17 -!- mortck [~root@eos.mail4.de] has joined #uml 06:18 < mortck> re all 06:18 < mortck> i am running into some problems with a uml setup 06:19 < mortck> version is 2.4.20-7um 06:19 < mortck> linux hangs with starting cron.d. 06:36 -!- mortck [~root@eos.mail4.de] has left #uml [] 08:12 -!- gump^ [user@81.5.136.90] has joined #uml 08:12 -!- gump [user@81.5.136.90] has quit [Read error: Connection reset by peer] 08:12 -!- gump^ is now known as gump 08:26 -!- spenne [~spenneb@164.21.204.212.sr2.DTM1.ip.versanet.de] has joined #uml 08:46 -!- jax-work [~computer_@148.100.209.96] has joined #uml 08:59 -!- Michael2 [~chatzilla@algedi.dur.ac.uk] has quit [] 09:12 -!- rob [~rob@nat.office.legend.net.uk] has joined #uml 09:54 -!- frediz [~frediz@ALyon-209-1-16-164.w81-49.abo.wanadoo.fr] has quit [Quit: Pw3t] 11:29 -!- Jon [~jon@imhotep.hursley.ibm.com] has quit [Remote host closed the connection] 12:13 -!- Aetherios [~jeff@216.34.207.253] has joined #uml 12:59 -!- mistral [mistral@212.159.71.212] has joined #uml 13:03 -!- rob [~rob@nat.office.legend.net.uk] has quit [Quit: This is the last time I'll ever /part or /quit from this PC! Lets celebrate!] 13:04 -!- gump [user@81.5.136.90] has quit [Read error: Connection reset by peer] 13:11 -!- anon [~anon@200.95.49.4] has joined #uml 13:18 -!- Umler [~anon@200.95.49.4] has quit [Ping timeout: 490 seconds] 13:19 -!- anon [~anon@200.95.49.4] has quit [Quit: Client Exiting] 13:19 -!- Umler [~anon@dsl-200-95-49-4.prodigy.net.mx] has joined #uml 13:19 -!- Umler [~anon@dsl-200-95-49-4.prodigy.net.mx] has quit [Client Quit] 13:30 -!- mistral [mistral@212.159.71.212] has quit [Ping timeout: 490 seconds] 13:31 -!- solarce [~solarce@209-16-139-4.cortland.com] has joined #uml 13:36 -!- Aetherios [~jeff@216.34.207.253] has quit [Read error: Connection reset by peer] 13:43 -!- mortck [~test@pD9E25B22.dip.t-dialin.net] has joined #uml 13:44 < mortck> re all 13:44 < mortck> interesting problem with 2.4.20-7um 13:44 < mortck> starting linux with two ubds 13:45 < mortck> ubd0=root_fs, ubd1=swapfs 13:45 < mortck> ubd1 is defined in /etc/fstab 13:45 < mortck> put the swap does not get activated... 13:46 < mortck> error is: /dev/ubd1 no such device 13:46 < mortck> any ideas? 13:47 < Fede> isn't it /dev/ubd/1 ? 13:48 < mortck> well /dev/ubd0 as rootfs works... 13:48 < Fede> if I don't remember bad in my 2.4.21-6um is as I told you 13:49 < Fede> and I haven't problems activating the swap... 13:49 < mortck> hmm, /dev/ubd/ does not even exist... 13:49 < Fede> may be the devfs driver changed in 2.4.21.. 13:50 < mortck> i am running 2.4.20 ;) 13:50 < mortck> but i had to use /dev/ubd0 even in 2.4.18-20uml 13:50 < Fede> that must be 13:51 < mortck> must be what? 13:53 < Fede> have you tried making the block device at boot time with mknod? (may be in some rc file before mounting the swap) 13:54 < mortck> as far as i can see, it already exists 13:54 < mortck> (none):~# ls -l /dev/ubd1 13:54 < mortck> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 98, 1 Jul 28 2002 /dev/ubd1 13:55 < Fede> I see... 13:55 < mortck> Deactivating swap... swapoff: /dev/ubd1: Invalid argument 13:55 < caker> those minor numbers aren't probabbly what you want 13:55 < caker> try /dev/ubd16 -- that's 13:56 < caker> ubd1 on the command line 13:57 < mortck> never heard that before... 14:00 < mortck> (none):~# cat /etc/fstab 14:00 < mortck> /dev/ubd0 / ext2 defaults 0 1 14:00 < mortck> /dev/ubd16 none swap sw 0 0 14:00 < mortck> proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 14:00 < mortck> same problem 14:01 < caker> what does ls -l /dev/ubd15 show ? 14:01 < mortck> but this is interesting: 14:01 < mortck> (none):~# swapon -a 14:01 < mortck> Swap area shorter than signature indicates 14:01 < mortck> swapon: /dev/ubd16: Invalid argument 14:01 < mortck> (none):~# ls -l /dev/ubd15 14:01 < mortck> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 98, 15 Jul 28 2002 /dev/ubd15 14:10 -!- jamiebecker [~jamie@a002.labarts.com] has joined #uml 14:10 < jamiebecker> hola anyone here? 14:10 < Fede> hola! :) 14:10 < jamiebecker> hehehe ;-) 14:10 < jamiebecker> so is anyone booting from hostfs? 14:11 < Fede> nope... 14:11 < jamiebecker> bummer... 14:11 < jamiebecker> i'm having problems with file ownership. can't chown from within the uml. 14:11 < jamiebecker> this means that a lot of things break. 14:11 < jamiebecker> i think it explains some strangeness with ssh, forexample... 14:12 < Fede> yep 14:12 < mortck> so no idea about the swap trouble? 14:12 < Fede> how did you make the swap? 14:12 < Fede> dd man then mkswap? 14:13 < mortck> Fede: dd if=/dev/zero of=swapfs bs=1k count=$[512*1024] 14:13 < mortck> Fede: /sbin/mkswap swapfs 14:13 < Fede> I see... 14:13 < Fede> it's an strange problem :) 14:13 < mortck> well, i know ;) 14:13 < jamiebecker> should work -- what happened? 14:14 < mortck> jamiebecker: is the rootfs writable? 14:14 < jamiebecker> yeah, that's the weird part. i can touch and rm files all day long. 14:14 < mortck> jamie which version of uml? 14:14 < jamiebecker> think i'm going to get that lara croft jeep... 14:15 < Fede> hehe 14:15 < jamiebecker> lara's not included for the $28k 14:15 * mortck has a wonderful day, his second test box with uml quit working 14:16 < jamiebecker> hey btw why isn't this channel hosted on freenode 14:20 < mortck> duno 14:21 < jamiebecker> ah vell 14:25 < mortck> this is also interesting: 14:25 < mortck> 0<6>Partition check: 14:25 < mortck> ubda: unknown partition table 14:25 < mortck> ubdb: unknown partition table 14:26 < jamiebecker> urgh i keep getting that. what's it mean??? 14:26 < mortck> i do not know 14:26 < jamiebecker> apparently it doesn't matter but not always 14:26 < mortck> jamie what is your uml version? 14:27 < mortck> linux --version 14:27 < mortck> ;) 14:30 < mortck> if it is 2.4.20-7um we have the same problems 14:30 < jamiebecker> sorry 14:30 < jamiebecker> hold on 14:32 < jamiebecker> 2.4.18-17um 14:32 < mortck> hmm 14:33 < jamiebecker> can you mount root? what happens after that? 14:33 < mortck> well, it works... 14:34 < jamiebecker> then i guess it's no big deal. ;-) 14:34 < jamiebecker> it might be expected behaviour 14:34 < jamiebecker> (sorry that's the brit spelling) s/our/or/ 14:34 < mortck> well, i cannot findout why it does not like my swap file 14:35 < jamiebecker> are you passsing it in like ubd4=swapfile 14:35 < jamiebecker> and then mounting /dev/ubd/4 or /dev/ubd4 in /etc/fstab? 14:37 < mortck> i am passing it like /dev/ubd1 14:37 < mortck> err 14:37 < jamiebecker> so you're passing it like ubd1=swapfile? 14:37 < mortck> linux ... ubd1=/home/user/swapfs 14:37 < mortck> i do 14:38 < jamiebecker> what host and what client distro? 14:38 < jamiebecker> cool that should work... 14:38 -!- mistik1 [rasta@ool-44c02046.dyn.optonline.net] has quit [Ping timeout: 501 seconds] 14:38 < mortck> 2.4.20-7uml 14:38 < mortck> debian 14:38 < jamiebecker> and then can you ls -al /dev/ubd* once you boot in? 14:38 < jamiebecker> me too ;-) 14:38 < mortck> well, i can 14:39 < mortck> but swapon -a does not like it... 14:39 < jamiebecker> hmmm 14:39 < jamiebecker> what does fdisk -l /dev/hda report? maybe it's trying to mount real and fake swap? 14:40 < mortck> does not exist 14:40 < jamiebecker> good 14:41 < jamiebecker> ahhh.... 14:41 < jamiebecker> you won't be able to do an fdisk -l /dev/ubda either huh... 14:41 < mortck> does not exist neither 14:42 -!- mistik1 [rasta@68.192.32.70] has joined #uml 14:43 < mortck> someone told me to try /dev/ubd16 because the parameter ubd1 would bei ubd16 inside the uml 14:43 < jamiebecker> no... 14:44 < jamiebecker> are you using devfs? 14:44 < jamiebecker> is proc mounted? 14:44 < jamiebecker> if it's devfs it will be /dev/udb/1, if it's not, it will be /dev/hbd1... 14:44 < jamiebecker> but i don't think your proc is mounted 14:45 < mortck> well it is /dev/ubd0 inside the uml 14:45 < jamiebecker> ok then you're probably not using devfs 14:45 < jamiebecker> debian on both ends? 14:45 < mortck> for sure 14:45 < jamiebecker> do you have devfs=nomount in your command line? 14:45 < mortck> no 14:45 < mortck> should i? 14:45 < jamiebecker> do that... also run the mount command and see if /proc is mounted... 14:46 < mortck> mom 14:50 < mortck> (none):~# mount 14:50 < mortck> /dev/ubd0 on / type ext2 (rw) 14:50 < mortck> proc on /proc type proc (rw) 14:50 < mortck> devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) 14:52 < mortck> (none):~# swapon -a 14:52 < mortck> swapon: /dev/ubd1: No such device 14:53 < mortck> this is my line for linux: 14:53 < mortck> linux ubd0=/home/prax/prax.cow,/home/umlbase/Debian-3.0r0.ext2 ubd1=/home/prax/swapfs umid=prax devfs=nomount mem=192M con=null con0=fd:0,fd:1 14:56 < jamiebecker> hmmm 14:56 < jamiebecker> back 14:57 < jamiebecker> looks fine... 14:57 < jamiebecker> have you considered that swap isn't really necessary within a uml since it can be done by the host? (unless you want different amounts for different umls, perhaps..) 14:59 < jamiebecker> did you do mkswap -f /home/prax/swapfs 15:00 < mortck> no, i did mkswap without the -f 15:01 < jamiebecker> did it work? 15:01 < mortck> well, i did not return an error 15:01 < jamiebecker> you probably normally have to force it, i would think... 15:01 < jamiebecker> try it again with the -f... 15:01 -!- spenne [~spenneb@164.21.204.212.sr2.DTM1.ip.versanet.de] has quit [Quit: Client exiting] 15:01 < jamiebecker> maybe it's just a broken swapfile... 15:02 < mortck> i renewed it two times 15:02 < jamiebecker> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/uml.xml has some good info. gentoo uses devfs, so the /dev/ubd/0 stuff needs to be translated to /dev/ubd0 15:02 < jamiebecker> hmm... 15:02 < jamiebecker> dunno. weird. sorry 15:02 < mortck> i am going to renew it a third time 15:02 < jamiebecker> i'm going to get back to this. work work work all i do is work hehehe 15:02 -!- frediz [~frediz@ALyon-209-1-31-62.w81-249.abo.wanadoo.fr] has joined #uml 15:02 < jamiebecker> ;-) 15:02 < jamiebecker> hi frediz 15:03 < jamiebecker> ok see yall later 15:03 -!- jamiebecker [~jamie@a002.labarts.com] has quit [Quit: Client exiting] 15:03 < mortck> could you tell me something about the solution without a swap file? 15:06 < frediz> goo'vening all 15:09 < mortck> jamiebecker: when i use /dev/ubd16 in the fstab file of the uml host, i do get the result Activating swap. 15:09 < mortck> Swap area shorter than signature indicates 15:10 < mortck> during bootup 15:16 -!- jax-work [~computer_@148.100.209.96] has quit [] 15:27 -!- mistral [mistral@jstevenson.plus.com] has joined #uml 15:33 -!- frediz_ [~frediz@ALyon-209-1-31-62.w81-249.abo.wanadoo.fr] has joined #uml 15:33 -!- frediz [~frediz@ALyon-209-1-31-62.w81-249.abo.wanadoo.fr] has quit [Read error: Connection reset by peer] 15:36 < mortck> jamiebecker: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=196149 15:36 < mortck> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=203528 15:37 < mortck> its a debian bug inside the mkswapfs command 16:00 -!- mortck [~test@pD9E25B22.dip.t-dialin.net] has quit [] 16:05 -!- mistral [mistral@jstevenson.plus.com] has quit [Ping timeout: 501 seconds] 17:35 -!- frediz_ [~frediz@ALyon-209-1-31-62.w81-249.abo.wanadoo.fr] has quit [Quit: dodo] 17:45 -!- coryb [~cory@24.124.36.198] has joined #uml 19:23 -!- yarihm [~yarihm@dclient217-162-211-237.hispeed.ch] has joined #uml 19:23 < yarihm> hi everyone 22:19 -!- david [~d@vidcoulson.com] has quit [Ping timeout: 501 seconds] --- Log closed Sat Aug 23 00:00:01 2003