From: zlsiial@uts.mcc.ac.uk (A. V. Le Blanc) Subject: Re: Two problems: kermit and filesystem Date: 2 Jul 1992 09:18:42 GMT
In article <1992Jul1.162443@cs.utwente.nl> fijma@cs.utwente.nl (Duco Fijma) writes:
>I am using kernel version 0.96b pl 2, with gcc 2.2.2.
>The root file system grew out of my original mcc 0.95c+ installation.
>
>First: already since 0.96, kermit doesn't work right. Only the first
>character of the commands I type echo to the screen.
>
>Now ''fsck'' prints some messages ''Inode XXXX mode not cleared''.
>I don't exactly know what this means.
>Is this an error in the state of the filesystem and if so, how to solve it?
Pardon me for answering by news instead of E-mail, but there are many
who may be interested in these questions.
I think the problem with kermit is caused by an incompatibility between
the libraries used to compile the stuff I put in the MCC 0.95c+ interim
release and their current implementation in the kernel. The version of
Kermit which I have compiled with the new gcc and libraries works
prefectly well. If you can't wait, you might like to recompile kermit
yourself. If you haven't got the files from elsewhere, you might try
ftp.mcc.ac.uk /pub/misc-unix/ckermit-5a.tar.Z.
For fixing the file system, try 'fsck -sav /dev/hdxxx'. Except for the
root file system, it is best if the device is not mounted at the time.
For the root file system, try not to have any other business going
on at the same time.
-- Owen
LeBlanc@mcc.ac.uk