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Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 11:42:44 -0800
From: Andrew Sharp <andy.sharp@onstor.com>
To: "Larry Scheer" <larry.scheer@onstor.com>
Subject: Re: interesting problem with CF and our production rootfs
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On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 11:30:13 -0800 "Larry Scheer"
<larry.scheer@onstor.com> wrote:

> Just to be clear...
> 
> The pcmciautils package is that for both developers (AKA debug) and
> production root filesystems?

yup.  without it CF events are ignored and so we can't do much of
anything with CF cards.

> And you want pciutils moved to the developer only root fs?

pciutils isn't on there at all right now; yes: only on debug/dev fs.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andy Sharp 
> Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 11:26 AM
> To: Larry Scheer
> Subject: Re: interesting problem with CF and our production rootfs
> 
> Diffing the package lists, I have a few notes.  One note is that I
> noticed how good a job you've done keeping the package list short.
> That's not always easy as I'm sure you know.
> 
> Here are my notes:
> 
> we are installing gawk and mawk packages, we only need mawk.
> 
> pciutils should be in debug rootfs
> 
> we should be able to get rid of 'nano' package; 'vim-tiny' and
> 'vim-common' should be all that's necessary (as well as 'ed') for
> editing.  i'm guessing nano gets pulled in by some initial dependency,
> but then we should be able to axe it.  if it's hard or fiddly, then
> forget it.
> 
> please add the 'pcmciautils' package, which requires 'libsysfs2'
> 
> 
> On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 18:31:18 -0800 "Larry Scheer"
> <larry.scheer@onstor.com> wrote:
> 
> > Right away I thought about our version of libc6. Does your "working"
> > rootfs have our libc6 or the unmodified one?
> > 
> > Do you have any packages installed that our rootfs doesn't have?
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Andy Sharp 
> > Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 6:10 PM
> > To: Larry Scheer
> > Subject: interesting problem with CF and our production rootfs
> > 
> > I originally sent this to larry@onstor.com.  Apparently there is no
> > such thing.  So now I'm resending to your actual email address in
> > the hopes that Exgrunge likes that better.  Sigh.
> > 
> > 
> > Hi Larry,
> > 
> > It seems there is a bug whereby the pccard status interrupt is
> > not being sent/received.  I spent most of my time in the office
> > today isolating it to our production rootfs.  It works as desired
> > with my hand made rootfs which I still have knocking around.
> > 
> > That's as far as I got, but something about our rootfs is not as it
> > should be.  Keep in mind that this is w/o running anything started
> > by pm: I disabled pm so the system boots up but doesn't run pm or
> > any of the stuff that pm runs.  So it runs our init scripts, and
> > whatever all else is different.  I just don't know what the culprit
> > is yet.  If anything springs to mind, let me know.
> > 
> > a
