Re: 2.4.1 segfault when doing "ls /dev/"

From: Pierre Rousselet (pierre.rousselet@wanadoo.fr)
Date: Sun Feb 04 2001 - 12:35:43 EST

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Pierfrancesco Caci wrote:

> Yes I know this. Actually, booting with "devfs=nomount s" is the only
> way to update the boot record with lilo and my existing lilo.conf.

i can't do that on my box, /dev is only a mount point for devfs.

assuming your /dev directory is dirty from something else than devfsd,
could you try this while devfsd is running :
#mkdir /devtest
#mount none -t devfs /devtest
#ls /devtest

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