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00:00.59pb_florian: ah.  what goes wrong if composite is activated?
00:01.26florianpb_: one problem i found is that it seems to depend on "tslib" instead if "libts" which is in unstable feed.
00:01.27pigeonmorning pb_ florian
00:01.34dc___hrm
00:01.42pb_dc___: sounds bad
00:01.46dc___indeed.
00:01.54pb_florian: oh, whoops.
00:01.58dc___I've been trying to get a working kernel for this epia for about 7 hours :/
00:01.58pigeonyo dc___!
00:02.02dc___hey...
00:02.13pb_pigeon: g'day
00:02.22dc___it seems that something is causing init the stall after the last rc script is run.
00:02.27pb_dc___: oh dear
00:02.34florianpb_: not sure... it died some times randomly... i need to investigate this.
00:02.38dc___any ideas what might cause this, or where the right log file might be?
00:02.38florianhey pigeon
00:02.48dc___pb_: indeed....
00:03.01pb_sounds more like a bug with the scripts, or inittab, rather than the kernel.
00:03.07dc___it boots all okey, then init starts, runs the scrips in /etc/rc2.d
00:03.21dc___then just hangs, without giving a login prompt./
00:03.31dc___but I can still input characters on the keyboard etc..
00:03.34dc___so it's not frozed.
00:03.45pb_do you have magic sysrq enabled?
00:03.51dc___pb_: I've tried another kernel and it boots fine.
00:03.55pb_dc___: ah.
00:03.59dc___pb_: and removed a load of rc scripts
00:04.23pb_hm, very strange
00:05.05dc___pb_: what can i do with sysrq button?
00:06.05pb_dc___: I was going to suggest that you check to see what processes were running, and kill any that seemed hung.
00:06.52dc___ah
00:07.01dc___how might I do that with the help of sysrq?
00:08.39*** join/#gpe dc___ (~dctanner@213.208.61.2)
00:09.02pb_alt-sysrq-t, I think
00:11.35dc___right
00:11.37dc___hrm
00:11.46dc___what can I do with this info. heh.
00:11.52dc___ah rhgit.
00:11.55pb_what does it say?
00:12.27dc___we have am Xprt, rpc.statd, atd, cron and quite a few gettys
00:12.35dc___ah ...hrm.
00:12.52dc___init just gave some info
00:12.59pb_hrm.  well, if you have gettys, you should be able to log in.
00:13.12dc___INIT: Id "1" respawing too fast: disabled for 5 minutes.
00:13.25dc___and then one replaced eith 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6
00:13.29pb_ah, sounds like your gettys are dying off.
00:13.36dc___hrm.
00:13.39pb_maybe the console devices they're trying to start on don't exist.
00:13.44dc___posiible cause...?
00:13.49pb_do you have devfs enabled in the kernel?
00:13.49dc___hrm.
00:14.17dc___hrm, let me chroot from the debian cdrom
00:14.51reenoohmm
00:14.59dc___hey reenoo
00:15.04reenooI have something similar on my laptop
00:15.14reenoohi dc___
00:15.15dc___oh really?
00:15.43reenooI wished I did
00:15.46reenoo:/
00:15.52pb_reenoo: doh
00:16.15reenoogettys ramdomly refuse to start with 2.6.5-rc3-mm4
00:16.37dc___right
00:16.43reenooand the devices do exist (no devfs)
00:16.44dc___this is 2.4.25
00:17.48reenoowith 2.6.[0..4] it takes ages until they respawn (claiming the device was still in use which is not the case)
00:17.49dc___devfs support is enabled
00:18.07pb_try turning it off, or at least set it to not mount on boot
00:18.18pb_or use 'devfs=nomount' or whatever the commandline option is
00:18.38dc___would that do?
00:18.43reenooand bash randomly dies on tty1
00:18.56pb_dc___: no, devfs is too powerful to be restrained by fstab alone
00:19.49dc___evils...
00:19.50dc___right
00:20.21floriangood night...
00:20.27dc___night florian
00:20.30reenoo'night florian
00:20.33pb_florian: night
00:21.27dc___ahha
00:21.46dc___pb_: seems to be okay now.
00:21.56dc___pb_: so I guess one of my drivers is faulty?
00:23.26reenoodc___: actually it's going right back to IBM on monday unless the linux31 or linux-thinkpad guys have suggestions on how to fix the heat issues I have with it
00:23.47pb_dc___: if it was the devfs thing, you probably just need to adjust the pathnames in /etc/inittab to use the devfs names for /dev/tty1 and so on
00:24.38dc___pb_: and what might they be?
00:24.50dc___hehe
00:24.53reenooc1:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty1 linux
00:24.58dc___reenoo: heat sucks
00:25.12pb_dc___: vc/1, vc/2, ...
00:25.47dc___right!
00:26.29reenoodc___: yeah. it easily fries your legs :/
00:27.01dc___reenoo: that's kind of scary
00:27.36dc___*fingers
00:27.37dc___yay
00:29.40reenoodc___: http://www.theshire.org/pipermail/linux31/2004-April/000531.html
00:29.53pb_dc___: heh
00:36.07pb_good-o
00:36.09pb_what is it?
00:36.15dc___drive me crazy
00:36.24dc___thank god it just finished!
00:36.32pb_heh
00:37.46moraydc___: someone tied you down in front of the TV again?
00:38.00dc___moray: yeah. my htpc.
00:39.03reenooI'm off to bed. 'night all
00:39.14pb_reenoo: night
00:39.19moraynight reenoo
00:40.54dc___oh. it's the early hours of the morning on ITV-1
00:41.26dc___god save us, it's 2D tv ...
00:49.33dc___hahaa
00:50.37dc___what a great matrix spoof
00:51.14dc___that had to be the only and funnies bit of 2DTV I've ever seen
00:52.08pb_heh
00:52.27dc___the matrix crashes and they get stuck in windows xp.
00:53.05pb_ah, nasty!
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01:07.38dc___heh, that fan they put in my htpc case for the psu is totaly pointless, the psu is ice cold.
01:10.42pb_yeah, the psu people tend to be quite conservative
01:11.20pb_they probably want to be sure that it doesn't overheat if you operate it in the desert, with loads of hard disks fitted and heavy cpu load.
01:11.21dc___oooh
01:11.36dc___they 'just' updated the via drivers then
01:11.44pb_oh, cool
01:13.08dc___oops. heh. my bad. only the lite drivers :[
01:13.25dc___so much for that exitement
01:13.33pb_ah