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Blademan
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 Posted: Mon Jan 20, 2003 6:58 am Post subject: emerge silo-1.2.6 fails Exitcode 2 |
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OK, so I managed to get going. Silo on the emerge system during install fails as follows:
| Code: | dd if=/dev/zero of=first.b bs=4 count=1 seek=127
dd: opening `/dev/zero':No such file or directory
make[1]:**** [first.b] Error 1
make[1]:*** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
strip fd
make[1]:***Waiting for unfinished jobs....
strip ieee32.b
make[1]: Leaving drectory `/var/tmp/portage/silo-1.2.6/worl/silo-1.2.6/first'
make: *** [all] Error 1
!!! Error: sys-apps/silo-1.2.6 failed
!!! Function src_compile, Line 1, Exitcode 2
!!! (no error message) |
My make.conf is:
| Code: | CHOST=sparc-unknown-linux-gnu
CFLAGS="-mcpu=ultrasparc -mtune=ultrasparc -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
or
CFLAGS"-mcpu=v8 -mtune=v9 -O2 -pipe
same CXXFLAGS, or "-O2 -pipe"
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="sparc"
MAKEOPTS="-j3" |
This is on a U60, 868MB ram |
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Kumba
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| Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2003 8:31 pm Post subject: |
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It appears the error is due to your filesystem lacking a zero device, /dev/zero, which is being used by silo.
Run "ls -l /dev" first to see if /dev/zero already exists, and is a "character" device, mode 666 (crw-rw-rw-) with major 1 and minor 5. It should look like this:
| Code: | | crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 5 Dec 31 1969 zero |
If it doesn't exist, you might try executing the following commands to fix it (although devfsd should create /dev/zero)
| Code: | cd /dev
mknod --mode=666 zero c 1 5 |
Run "ls -l" afterwards to see if /dev/zero was successfully created, and then try silo again.
--Kumba
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Blademan
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| Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2003 12:04 am Post subject: |
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Kumba,
Thank you. That seemed to make silo happy and silo-1.2.6 merged.
Should this be submitted to bugs.gentoo? I say that because this was during a clean install. I used:
1.1a iso
1.4_rc2 stage2 tarball
new filesystems
Thanks,
Joe |
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Kumba
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| Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2003 7:12 am Post subject: |
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I dunno, I'd check your kernel configuration. Gentoo uses devfs to populate the /dev directory with a device tree. Check to see if you added the following in your kernel config:
| Code: | [*] /dev file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)
[*] Automatically mount at boot |
By mounting it at boot, the kernel itself should create basic entries like null, zero, and so on. I don't know too much about devfs, so I could be off on this, but that may be the cause of your problem.
--Kumba
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Blademan
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| Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2003 5:20 pm Post subject: |
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| FYI, this is during the initial install. Where/what file should I check the kernel config? |
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Kumba
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| Posted: Wed Jan 29, 2003 7:12 pm Post subject: |
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Hmm, during the initial install?...Odd. I dunno about that. All I know is the kernel, if told to, will mount a partially filled /dev on boot. devfsd fills in the rest of the /dev entries (most are symlinks to devices the kernel already setup). Maybe this is a bug? I installed linux on my sparc system many months ago, and I didn't have a problem then. Of course, at that time, I used a debian netboot image to get everything setup as a chroot environment, and then just straight booted off the drive once all was complete.
--Kumba
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peaceful
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| Posted: Fri May 14, 2004 10:46 pm Post subject: Same Problem |
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I encountered the exact same problem -- no /dev/zero.
This was using a tftp/netboot image from 2004.1.
Creating /dev/zero with the 'mknod' command fixed it -- thanks! (I never would have figured that out). |
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