Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 23:59:36 +0000 From: Dima Dorfman <dima@trit.org> To: Lawrence Farr <bsd-current@epcdirect.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mdconfig Problem Message-ID: <20040211235936.GF5681@trit.org> In-Reply-To: <20040211165140.2C24515809@gunfright.epcdirect.co.uk> References: <001a01c3f02f$d8647fe0$2100000a@o8p3f6> <20040211165140.2C24515809@gunfright.epcdirect.co.uk>
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Lawrence Farr <bsd-current@epcdirect.co.uk> wrote: > I've got an odd error with mdconfig, a script which has been > running on 5.x for months suddenly started giving this error > > mdconfig -a -t vnode -f /usr/ftp/pub/FreeBSD/5.2-20040211/floppies/kern.flp > -u 0 > mdconfig: ioctl(/dev/mdctl): No such file or directory An error that starts with "ioctl(/dev/mdctl)" actually refers to an error during the processing of the ioctl. Opening the control device is reported with "open(/dev/mdctl)". The most obvious reason for the former to fail with ENOENT is that the file you specified using -f does not exist. Hope this helps, Dima.
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