From owner-freebsd-current Fri Apr 26 10:44:35 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA21391 for current-outgoing; Fri, 26 Apr 1996 10:44:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from utgard.bga.com (utgard.bga.com [205.238.129.45]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA21386 for ; Fri, 26 Apr 1996 10:44:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from faulkner@localhost) by utgard.bga.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA00629; Fri, 26 Apr 1996 12:43:49 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199604261743.MAA00629@utgard.bga.com> Subject: Re: Anybody else see these in -current? To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 12:43:48 -0459 (CDT) From: "Boyd R. Faulkner" Cc: current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199604261632.CAA17153@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Apr 27, 96 02:31:45 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25 ME8b] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk According to Bruce Evans: > > > >I get the same sort of messages from the PS/2 mouse driver > >(/sys/i386/isa/psm.c) because it attempts to create devfs nodes each > >time the device is *opened*, and it fails on the second and subsequent > >attempt since the names have already been created. > > Yes, devfs isn't finished yet. Don't use it unless you want to debug it. > > The vn (actually the slice) driver attempts to remove all the devfs nodes > before it re-creates them (it remove and creates everything every time > the device is first-opened), but it apparently fails in some cases. > > Bruce > I tried to use it this morning. I supped current last night. I added a line in /etc/fstab devfs /dev devfs rw 1 1 after /dev/sd1a / ufs rw 1 1 /dev/sd1s1b none swap sw The machine failed to mount my partitions. It even says so. If I mount on /devfs, the devfs mounts fine and the dev entries cited below are seen. What's up? This is my current fstab without the devfs entry. /dev/sd1a / ufs rw 1 1 /dev/sd1s1b none swap sw /dev/sd1s1e /tmp ufs rw 1 2 /dev/sd1s1d /var ufs rw 1 2 /dev/sd1s1f /usr ufs rw 1 2 /dev/sd1s1g /usr/src ufs rw 1 2 /dev/sd1s1h /omni ufs rw 1 2 /dev/sd0s2 /dos/c msdos rw 1 2 /dev/sd0s5 /dos/d msdos rw 1 2 /dev/sd0s6 /dos/e msdos rw 1 2 /dev/sd0s7 /dos/f msdos rw 1 2 /dev/cd0a /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 1 2 /dev/cd1a /cdrom1 cd9660 ro,noauto 1 2 proc /proc procfs rw 1 2 Relevant entries in /devfs 0 brw-r----- 2 root operator 4, 0x00010002 Apr 26 09:05 sd0 0 brw-r----- 2 root operator 4, 0x00030002 Apr 26 04:09 sd0s2 0 brw-r----- 2 root operator 4, 0x00060002 Apr 26 04:09 sd0s5 0 brw-r----- 2 root operator 4, 0x00070002 Apr 26 04:09 sd0s6 0 brw-r----- 2 root operator 4, 0x00080002 Apr 26 04:09 sd0s7 0 brw-r----- 2 root operator 4, 0x0001000a Apr 26 09:05 sd1 0 brw-r----- 2 root operator 4, 8 Apr 26 09:05 sd1a 0 brw-r----- 2 root operator 4, 9 Apr 26 09:05 sd1b 0 brw-r----- 2 root operator 4, 10 Apr 26 09:05 sd1c 0 brw-r----- 2 root operator 4, 11 Apr 26 09:05 sd1d 0 brw-r----- 2 root operator 4, 12 Apr 26 09:05 sd1e 0 brw-r----- 2 root operator 4, 13 Apr 26 09:05 sd1f 0 brw-r----- 2 root operator 4, 14 Apr 26 09:05 sd1g 0 brw-r----- 2 root operator 4, 15 Apr 26 09:05 sd1h 0 brw-r----- 2 root operator 4, 0x0002000a Apr 26 04:06 sd1s1 0 brw-r----- 2 root operator 4, 0x00020008 Apr 26 09:05 sd1s1a 0 brw-r----- 2 root operator 4, 0x00020009 Apr 26 09:05 sd1s1b 0 brw-r----- 2 root operator 4, 0x0002000a Apr 26 09:05 sd1s1c 0 brw-r----- 2 root operator 4, 0x0002000b Apr 26 09:05 sd1s1d 0 brw-r----- 2 root operator 4, 0x0002000c Apr 26 09:05 sd1s1e 0 brw-r----- 2 root operator 4, 0x0002000d Apr 26 09:05 sd1s1f 0 brw-r----- 2 root operator 4, 0x0002000e Apr 26 09:05 sd1s1g 0 brw-r----- 2 root operator 4, 0x0002000f Apr 26 09:05 sd1s1h 0 brw-r----- 2 root operator 4, 0x00010012 Apr 26 09:05 sd2 0 brw-r----- 2 root operator 6, 0 Apr 26 09:05 cd0a 0 brw-r----- 2 root operator 6, 2 Apr 26 09:05 cd0c 0 brw-r----- 2 root operator 6, 8 Apr 26 09:05 cd1a 0 brw-r----- 2 root operator 6, 10 Apr 26 09:05 cd1c -- _____________________________________________________________________________ Boyd Faulkner "The fates lead him who will; faulkner@asgard.bga.com Him who won't, they drag." http://asgard.bga.com/~faulkner Old Roman Saying -- Source: Joseph Campbell _____________________________________________________________________________