From: daniel@austin.ibm.com (Daniel Supernaw-Issen) Subject: Re: Bugs with .99pl12 Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1993 16:19:25 GMT
In article <1993Sep6.200921.1@vax.sonoma.edu>, levinson@vax.sonoma.edu writes:
> I have just compiled and put on my system .99pl12 and noticed several problems
> that you may want to know about.
>
> 1) Sometimes when I boot, I cannot use my keyboard. None of the keys do
> anything including the numlock keys. I have to reboot and hope the filesystem
> is not corrupted.
>
This is likely due to you not upgrading your keymaps. The pl12 kernel introduced
new keymaps that were more flexible than the old ones. The big drawback is that
the new kernel panics when it runs into your old keymaps. If you are using a
US keyboard the solution is very simple - delete /etc/kbmap - this will a) stop
the kernel from seeing the old keymaps :) and b) force the kernel to use its
default - the US keymap. If you are using a different keyboard, boot up with an
older kernal, upgrade the keymaps and reboot with pl12.
> I downloaded ext2fsprogs 0.3. When I run e2fsck on my hard disk, it checks,
> then it marks it clean. If I try to run e2fsck again, it says that the
> filesystem is clean and exits. I know this is normal conduct for e2fsck. The
> problem is that when I reboot (using shutdown -r now) the first mount says it
> is mounting an unchecked file system, which leads me to believe that shutdown
> marked it dirty??? then when my e2fsck runs (which I placed in /etc/rc) it
> goes thru the whole kit and kaboodle and checks the filesystem. Anyone know
> why this is and how to correct it? It should only actually check the system if
> it is not marked clean.
This is because the file system must be umounted (or mounted read only ) when
running e2fsck in order for the clean bit to be set.
> Any help would be greatly appreciated. Please respond via private mail if you
> can.
>
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> Eric Levinson
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Hope this helps.
Daniel Supernaw-Issen
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