Hello all, I've successfully compiled and installed a new 2.6.8.1 kernel on my Mandrake 10 Official which installed with 2.6.3. The machine boots ok, with the exception of a few 'FAILURE's in red, (In work at present so I'll post them later) and KDE 3.2 starts fine. The only problem is when I run Konsole it just sits there with the block cursor at the top left of the Konsole window and I don't get a prompt, also when I try to run 'Configure your computer' and it asks for the root password I enter one and it says something like '/bin/su not found, check your path'.

This can't be a modules thing surely? When I do 'make modules' and 'make modules_install' where do they go? Do I need to set a symbolic like for /lib/modules/x.x.x?

BTW. I can get back to my 2.6.3 kernel and Konsole & 'Configure your computer' works fine there. Also once booted into 2.6.8.1 in KDE I do 'ALT-F1' to a terminal prompt that works.

Any ideas anybody, some help please!

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Sep 6 22:53:53 earth syslogd 1.4.1: restart.
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: klogd 1.4.1, log source = /proc/kmsg started.
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: Inspecting /boot/System.map
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: Loaded 32233 symbols from /boot/System.map.
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: Symbols match kernel version 2.6.8.
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: No module symbols loaded - kernel modules not enabled.
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: Linux version 2.6.8.1 (root@earth.cqrdata.com) (gcc version 3.3.2 (Mandrake Linux 10.0 3.3.2-6mdk)) #1 Fri Aug 27 16:06:20 BST 2004
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: 511MB LOWMEM available.
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: DMI 2.2 present.
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: Asus A7N8X v2 detected: BIOS IRQ0 pin2 override will be ignored
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: ACPI: RSDP (v000 Nvidia ) @ 0x000f75e0
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: ACPI: RSDT (v001 Nvidia AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x1fff3000
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: ACPI: FADT (v001 Nvidia AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x1fff3040
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: ACPI: MADT (v001 Nvidia AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x1fff74c0
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: ACPI: DSDT (v001 NVIDIA AWRDACPI 0x00001000 MSFT 0x0100000e) @ 0x00000000
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x4008
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x00] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: Processor #0 6:10 APIC version 16
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x00] high edge lint[0x1])
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: ACPI: Skipping IOAPIC probe due to 'noapic' option.
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: Built 1 zonelists
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=Linux_268-1 ro root=2103 nolapic noapic acpi=on hdg=noprobe devfs=mount resume=/dev/hde6 splash=silent
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: ide_setup: hdg=noprobe
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth partmon: Checking if partitions have enough free diskspace:
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: Memory: 513744k/524224k available (3207k kernel code, 9720k reserved, 925k data, 400k init, 0k highmem)
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2800+ stepping 00
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb490, last bus=2
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: PCI: Using configuration type 1
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: ACPI: Subsystem revision 20040326
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: ACPI: IRQ9 SCI: Edge set to Level Trigger.
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: ACPI: Interpreter enabled
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (00:00)
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: PCI: nForce2 C1 Halt Disconnect fixup
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: SCSI subsystem initialized
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: usbcore: registered new driver hub
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LSMB] enabled at IRQ 4
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:01:0b.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK4] enabled at IRQ 7
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:00.0[A] -> GSI 7 (level, low) -> IRQ 7
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: vesafb: framebuffer at 0xd0000000, mapped to 0xe0808000, size 5120k
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: vesafb: mode is 1280x1024x16, linelength=2560, pages=1
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:e2d0
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: vesafb: scrolling: redraw
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: vesafb: directcolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: NTFS driver 2.1.15 [Flags: R/O].
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: Initializing Cryptographic API
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: ACPI: Processor [CPU0] (supports C1)
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 160x64
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: Real Time Clock Driver v1.12
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: Non-volatile memory driver v1.2
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: agpgart: Detected NVIDIA nForce2 chipset
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 439M
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xe0000000
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: ipmi message handler version v32
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: ipmi device interface version v32
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: IPMI System Interface driver version v32, KCS version v32, SMIC version v32, BT version v32
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: ipmi_si: Trying "kcs" at I/O port 0xca2
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: ipmi_si: Trying "smic" at I/O port 0xca9
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: ipmi_si: Trying "bt" at I/O port 0xe4
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: ipmi_si: Unable to find any System Interface(s)
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: IPMI watchdog driver version v32
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: Using anticipatory io scheduler
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 32000K size 1024 blocksize
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: forcedeth.c: Reverse Engineered nForce ethernet driver. Version 0.28.
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:04.0[A] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: eth0: forcedeth.c: subsystem: 01043:80a7 bound to 0000:00:04.0
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: PPP generic driver version 2.4.2
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: PPP Deflate Compression module registered
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: PPP BSD Compression module registered
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: NFORCE2: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:09.0
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: NFORCE2: chipset revision 162
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: NFORCE2: not 100%% native mode: will probe irqs later
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: NFORCE2: 0000:00:09.0 (rev a2) UDMA133 controller
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hdaMA, hdbMA
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdcMA, hddMA
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: hda: HL-DT-ST RW/DVD GCC-4480B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: hdc: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI, ATAPI FLOPPY drive
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: SiI3112 Serial ATA: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:01:0b.0
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:01:0b.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: SiI3112 Serial ATA: chipset revision 2
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: SiI3112 Serial ATA: 100%% native mode on irq 11
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: ide2: MMIO-DMA , BIOS settings: hdeio, hdfio
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: ide3: MMIO-DMA , BIOS settings: hdgio, hdhio
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: hde: Maxtor 6Y080M0, ATA DISK drive
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: ide2 at 0xe0d90080-0xe0d90087,0xe0d9008a on irq 11
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: hde: max request size: 64KiB
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: hde: 160086528 sectors (81964 MB) w/7936KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: hde: hde1 hde2 < hde5 hde6 hde7 hde8 hde9 hde10 > hde3
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: hda: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:02.2[C] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: ehci_hcd 0000:00:02.2: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: ehci_hcd 0000:00:02.2: irq 10, pci mem e0d92000
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: ehci_hcd 0000:00:02.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: ehci_hcd 0000:00:02.2: USB 2.0 enabled, EHCI 1.00, driver 2004-May-10
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: hub 1-0:1.0: 6 ports detected
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:02.0[A] -> GSI 3 (level, low) -> IRQ 3
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: ohci_hcd 0000:00:02.0: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: ohci_hcd 0000:00:02.0: irq 3, pci mem e0d94000
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: ohci_hcd 0000:00:02.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: hub 2-0:1.0: 3 ports detected
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:02.1[B] -> GSI 7 (level, low) -> IRQ 7
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: ohci_hcd 0000:00:02.1: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller (#2)
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: ohci_hcd 0000:00:02.1: irq 7, pci mem e0d96000
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: ohci_hcd 0000:00:02.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: hub 3-0:1.0: 3 ports detected
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: usbcore: registered new driver usblp
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: v0.13: USB Printer Device Class driver
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: USB Mass Storage support registered.
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: input: PC Speaker
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: input: ImExPS/2 Generic Explorer Mouse on isa0060/serio1
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: i2c /dev entries driver
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: i2c_adapter i2c-0: nForce2 SMBus adapter at 0x5000
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: i2c_adapter i2c-1: nForce2 SMBus adapter at 0x5500
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: usb 1-6: new high speed USB device using address 2
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: Vendor: Generic Model: STORAGE DEVICE Rev: 0125
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: Vendor: Generic Model: STORAGE DEVICE Rev: 0125
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: Attached scsi removable disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 1
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: Vendor: Generic Model: STORAGE DEVICE Rev: 0125
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: Attached scsi removable disk sdc at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 2
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: Vendor: Generic Model: STORAGE DEVICE Rev: 0125
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: Attached scsi removable disk sdd at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 3
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.4 (Mon May 17 14:31:44 2004 UTC).
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:06.0[A] -> GSI 4 (level, low) -> IRQ 4
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 49540 usecs
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: intel8x0: clocking to 47400
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: ALSA device list:
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: #0: Dummy 1
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: #1: MPU-401 UART at 0x330, IRQ 5, bus id MIDI
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: #2: NVidia nForce2 at 0xe8081000, irq 4
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: NET: Registered protocol family 2
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 32Kbytes
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: TCP: Hash tables configured (established 32768 bind 65536)
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: GRE over IPv4 tunneling driver
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: Initializing IPsec netlink socket
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: NET: Registered protocol family 1
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: NET: Registered protocol family 17
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: NET: Registered protocol family 15
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly.
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: Freeing unused kernel memory: 400k freed
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: EXT3 FS on hde3, internal journal
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: Adding 2096440k swap on /dev/hde6. Priority:-1 extents:1
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: EXT3 FS on hde9, internal journal
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: NTFS volume version 3.1.
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: NTFS volume version 3.1.
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: EXT3 FS on hde10, internal journal
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: EXT3 FS on hde7, internal journal
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: EXT3 FS on hde8, internal journal
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth kernel: EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth partmon:
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth rc: Starting partmon: succeeded
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth rpc.lockd: lockdsvc: Function not implemented
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth nfslock: rpc.lockd startup failed
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth rpc.statd[1256]: Version 1.0.6 Starting
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth rpc.statd[1256]: statd running as root. chown /var/lib/nfs/sm to choose different user
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth nfslock: rpc.statd startup succeeded
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth alsactl: No state is present for card Dummy
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth alsactl: No state is present for card UART
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth alsactl: /usr/sbin/alsactl: set_control:805: warning: name mismatch (External Amplifier Power Down/External Amplifier) for control #51
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth sound: Loading mixer settings succeeded
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth random: Initializing random number generator: succeeded
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth xfs: xfs startup succeeded
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth mount: mount: fs type devpts not supported by kernel
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth mount: mount: fs type supermount not supported by kernel
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth mount: mount: fs type supermount not supported by kernel
Sep 6 22:53:53 earth netfs: Mounting other filesystems: failed
Sep 6 22:53:54 earth dm: Starting display manager:
Sep 6 22:53:54 earth dm: Display manager startup succeeded
Sep 6 22:53:54 earth dm: ^[[65G
Sep 6 22:53:54 earth dm:
Sep 6 22:53:54 earth xfs: ignoring font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/drakfont (unreadable)
Sep 6 22:53:54 earth xfs: ignoring font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/drakfont/Type1 (unreadable)
Sep 6 22:53:54 earth xfs: ignoring font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/drakfont/ttf (unreadable)
Sep 6 22:53:54 earth xfs: ignoring font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/pcf_drakfont:unscaled (unreadable)
Sep 6 22:53:54 earth rc: Starting dm: succeeded
Sep 6 22:53:54 earth sshd: Starting sshd:
Sep 6 22:53:55 earth sshd[1426]: Server listening on 0.0.0.0 port 22.
Sep 6 22:53:55 earth sshd: startup succeeded
Sep 6 22:53:55 earth sshd:
Sep 6 22:53:55 earth rc: Starting sshd: succeeded
Sep 6 22:53:46 earth rc.sysinit: Setting default font (lat0-16): succeeded
Sep 6 22:53:46 earth rc.sysinit: Mounting proc filesystem succeeded
Sep 6 22:53:46 earth rc.sysinit: Mounting sysfs on /sys succeeded
Sep 6 22:53:46 earth rc.sysinit: Configuring kernel parameters: succeeded
Sep 6 22:53:46 earth date: Mon Sep 6 22:53:46 BST 2004
Sep 6 22:53:46 earth rc.sysinit: Setting clock (localtime): Mon Sep 6 22:53:46 BST 2004 succeeded
Sep 6 22:53:46 earth rc.sysinit: Loading default keymap succeeded
Sep 6 22:53:46 earth rc.sysinit: Setting hostname earth.cqrdata.com: succeeded
Sep 6 22:53:46 earth fsck: /dev/hde3: clean, 21996/262144 files, 36025/524120 blocks
Sep 6 22:53:46 earth rc.sysinit: Remounting root filesystem in read-write mode: succeeded
Sep 6 22:53:46 earth rc.sysinit: Activating swap partitions: succeeded
Sep 6 22:53:46 earth : Loading module: scsi_hostadapter
Sep 6 22:53:46 earth fsck: /dev/hde9: clean, 682/1749664 files, 75793/3496137 blocks
Sep 6 22:53:46 earth fsck: /dev/hde10: clean, 45/260096 files, 16414/519946 blocks
Sep 6 22:53:46 earth fsck: /dev/hde7: clean, 146007/1048576 files, 634789/2096474 blocks
Sep 6 22:53:46 earth fsck: /dev/hde8: clean, 729/262144 files, 33664/524112 blocks
Sep 6 22:53:46 earth mount: mount: fs type devpts not supported by kernel
Sep 6 22:53:46 earth mount: mount: fs type supermount not supported by kernel
Sep 6 22:53:46 earth mount: mount: fs type supermount not supported by kernel
Sep 6 22:53:46 earth rc.sysinit: Mounting local filesystems: failed
Sep 6 22:53:46 earth rc.sysinit: Mounting loopback filesystems: succeeded
Sep 6 22:53:47 earth loadkeys: Loading /usr/lib/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty/uk.kmap.gz
Sep 6 22:53:47 earth keytable: Loading keymap: uk succeeded
Sep 6 22:53:47 earth loadkeys: Loading /usr/lib/kbd/keymaps/include/compose.latin9.inc.gz
Sep 6 22:53:47 earth keytable: Loading compose keys: compose.latin9.inc succeeded
Sep 6 22:53:47 earth keytable: succeeded
Sep 6 22:53:47 earth rc.sysinit: Enabling swap space: succeeded
Sep 6 22:53:48 earth mandrake_everytime: Starting netprofile: succeeded
Sep 6 22:53:48 earth init: Entering runlevel: 5
Sep 6 22:53:49 earth service_harddrake[991]: ### Program is starting ###
Sep 6 22:53:49 earth service_harddrake[991]: modified file /etc/X11/XF86Config
Sep 6 22:53:49 earth service_harddrake[991]: running: /sbin/modprobe -n floppy
Sep 6 22:53:50 earth service_harddrake[991]: running: /sbin/modprobe -n hid
Sep 6 22:53:50 earth harddrake: succeeded
Sep 6 22:53:50 earth network: Setting network parameters: succeeded
Sep 6 22:53:50 earth network: Bringing up loopback interface: succeeded
Sep 6 22:53:52 earth network: Bringing up interface eth0: succeeded
Sep 6 22:53:52 earth portmap: portmap startup succeeded
Sep 6 22:53:55 earth kernel: mtrr: 0xd0000000,0x1000000 overlaps existing 0xd0000000,0x400000
Sep 6 22:53:55 earth xinetd: xinetd startup succeeded
Sep 6 22:53:56 earth xinetd[1456]: Service ftp: attribute already set: disable [file=/etc/xinetd.d/proftpd-xinetd] [line=16]
Sep 6 22:53:56 earth kernel: atkbd.c: Spurious ACK on isa0060/serio0. Some program, like XFree86, might be trying access hardware directly.
Sep 6 22:53:56 earth kernel: atkbd.c: Spurious ACK on isa0060/serio0. Some program, like XFree86, might be trying access hardware directly.
Sep 6 22:53:56 earth nfs: Starting NFS services: succeeded
Sep 6 22:53:56 earth nfsd[1483]: nfssvc: Function not implemented
Sep 6 22:53:56 earth nfs: rpc.nfsd startup failed
Sep 6 22:53:56 earth nfs: rpc.mountd startup succeeded
Sep 6 22:53:56 earth loadkeys: Loading /usr/lib/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty/uk.kmap.gz
Sep 6 22:53:56 earth keytable: Loading keymap: uk succeeded
Sep 6 22:53:56 earth loadkeys: Loading /usr/lib/kbd/keymaps/include/compose.latin9.inc.gz
Sep 6 22:53:56 earth keytable: Loading compose keys: compose.latin9.inc succeeded
Sep 6 22:53:56 earth keytable: succeeded
Sep 6 22:53:56 earth numlock: Starting numlock:
Sep 6 22:53:56 earth numlock: ^[[65G[^[[1;32m
Sep 6 22:53:56 earth numlock:
Sep 6 22:53:56 earth rc: Starting numlock: succeeded
Sep 6 22:53:56 earth crond[1731]: (CRON) STARTUP (fork ok)
Sep 6 22:53:57 earth crond: crond startup succeeded
Sep 6 22:53:57 earth xinetd[1456]: xinetd Version 2.3.13 started with libwrap options compiled in.
Sep 6 22:53:57 earth xinetd[1456]: Started working: 1 available service
Sep 6 22:53:57 earth smbd[1746]: [2004/09/06 22:53:57, 0] printing/print_cups.c:cups_printer_fn(108)
Sep 6 22:53:57 earth smbd[1746]: Unable to connect to CUPS server localhost - Connection refused
Sep 6 22:53:57 earth smb: smbd startup succeeded
Sep 6 22:53:57 earth smb: nmbd startup succeeded
Sep 6 22:53:58 earth rc: Starting kheader: succeeded
Sep 6 22:53:58 earth devfsd: Starting devfsd daemon: succeeded
Sep 6 22:54:02 earth kernel: cdrom: open failed.
Sep 6 22:54:02 earth last message repeated 19 times
Sep 6 22:54:14 earth kernel: atkbd.c: Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, code 0xd9 on isa0060/serio0).
Sep 6 22:54:14 earth kernel: atkbd.c: Use 'setkeycodes e059 <keycode>' to make it known.
Sep 6 22:54:16 earth login(pam_unix)[1829]: session opened for user mpegler by LOGIN(uid=0)
Sep 6 22:54:16 earth -- mpegler[1829]: LOGIN ON tty1 BY mpegler
Sep 6 22:54:25 earth kernel: atkbd.c: Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, code 0xd9 on isa0060/serio0).
Sep 6 22:54:25 earth kernel: atkbd.c: Use 'setkeycodes e059 <keycode>' to make it known.
Sep 6 22:54:26 earth su(pam_unix)[2135]: session opened for user root by MeMeMe(uid=501)
Sep 6 22:54:31 earth kernel: atkbd.c: Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, code 0xd9 on isa0060/serio0).
Sep 6 22:54:31 earth kernel: atkbd.c: Use 'setkeycodes e059 <keycode>' to make it known.

This is the probably the problem:
Sep 6 22:53:46 earth mount: mount: fs type devpts not supported by kernel

Go back to configuring the kernel and enable devpts support. I think it is under filesystems. Recompile the kernel and reinstall it and see if it works.

AAAaaaahhh, I'm in work now, I'll have to wait a full 8 hours before I can try this.
The suspense is going to kill me.

Thank you very much for your post though quatsch.

If it fixes the problem do I click the affero button under your post?
What sort of awards system is the affero thingy?

Just let me know if it works. That's reward enough

i think quatsch is right:

Sep 6 22:53:46 earth mount: mount: fs type devpts not supported by kernel
Sep 6 22:53:46 earth mount: mount: fs type supermount not supported by kernel
Sep 6 22:53:46 earth mount: mount: fs type supermount not supported by kernel

Personally, i get a devfs error ... but nothing is really a problem because of it ... That said, how do you get supermount support in the kernel, isn't that an MDK specific thing?

Erm, pass, I don't know. It must be in one of the File Systems menus somewhere during make menuconfig.

Is it required?
Is it Mandrake specific (cause I don't really want to start down the route of making Distro specific kernel builds)?
Is it a 'super' version of automount?

God I can't wait to get home and try this.!!

supermount is a mandrake thing. You can get the patch somewhere if you really need it. I personally don't find it to be such a hassle to mount the occasional CD. My experience I've had with supermount was also not that great. Seemed to cause a lot of hangups. I don't know about automount but maybe it's worth trying. There's also a KDE tool that does a pretty good job mounting things automatically. I forget what it's called but it's probably somewhere in the menus.

The supermount errors are not much to worry about. If you don't want to see them, you can do
supermount disable
which changes the /etc/fstab entries (just to be sure, you should backup /etc/fstab before doing this) a little.

apropros devfs (not devpts). It's also something you can enable in the kernel but usually things work fine without it except that the /dev directory will look like a huge mess unless you run udev. It's probably better to enable devfs if the bootup complains about it. Some things might expect it to be there.

Ok, found devfs in Psuedo Filesystems and compiled it into the kernel (it wasn't selected for 2.6.8.1 but it was for 2.6.3) but I've just tried it now and I get:

mount: mount: mount point /dev/pts does not exist

in /var/log/messages, and still no shell prompt in Konsole and I can't run Harddrake because it says 'can't find program 'su', check you path' when I enter the root password.

Aaaarrrggh, I'm going to get a bottle of beer.

How is it over there in the big apple quatsch, my fiance and I were supposed to be there on Friday to stay with her cousin who is a nanny, but she got homesick and came back early leaving us with nowhere to stay. Luckily we hadn't booked the flights so we're going to Ireland instead to visit some other relatives.

Is this it ;File systems --->
Pseudo Filesystems --->[*] /proc file system support[*] /dev file system support (OBSOLETE)[*] Automatically mount at boot[*] Virtual memory file system support (former shm fs)

hmm. what's your /dev directory look like after you boot up. Does it have symlinks called hda1, hda2 etc?

Also do you something like
'running devfs actions' when you boot up (very early on)?

comprookie2000, yes that's the menu I went into to enable devfs, but I
haven't compiled in or moduled 'Virtual memory file system support (former shm fs)'.
Do I need to?

quatsch, I didn't look last nite, but have looked before and my /dev/ did have hde1,
hdc1 etc. in it. Can't check my message at present (back at work) but I'm quite sure
I didn't see 'running devfs actions', just checked the old message file (prior to compiling
in devfs support and it isn't in that one either.

I just want to say thank you all for your help so far, I'd be lost otherwise.

We will sort this I'm sure.

I'm sure about the virtual memory thing but it probably doesn't hurt enabling it.

Also, you should enable 'automatically mount at boot'

Your /dev filesystem will contain things like hde1, hde2, etc. But if devfsd is running, these are symbolink links. you can check if they are symbolic links by checking their property. On a text terminal, the output of will give a trailing @ like: hda2@

BTW, you should be able to switch to a text terminal with
ctrl-alt-F1, thru ctrl-alt-f6 if you need to use the command line. You probably still can't su, though.

I do know that the kind of problem you have occurs when something goes wrong with mounting devpts to /dev/pts so I hope this is all on the right track, at least.

If I do 'alt-ctrl-F1' I get to my text terminal and I get the prompt and can login fine,
I can also su and that works fine there.

Do I have to mount devpts to /dev/pts (in fstab)?

yes, devpts should be mounted to /dev/pts using /etc/fstab. It's too late to do it after you login.

When you do
cat /etc/mtab
does it list a line with /dev/pts? It should if it was mounted properly.

Yep it's there, here are my files:

fstab:
/dev/hde3 / ext3 defaults 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
/dev/hde9 /home ext3 defaults 1 2
none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/hda,fs=udf:iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-15 0 0
none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-15,sync,codepage=850 0 0
/dev/hde1 /mnt/win_c ntfs umask=0,nls=iso8859-15,ro 0 0
/dev/hde5 /mnt/win_d ntfs umask=0,nls=iso8859-15,ro 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hde10 /tmp ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/hde7 /usr ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/hde8 /var ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/hde6 swap swap defaults 0 0

mtab:
/dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part3 / ext3 rw 0 0
none /proc proc rw 0 0
none /dev devfs rw 0 0
none /sys sysfs rw 0 0
/dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part9 /home ext3 rw 0 0
/dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 /mnt/win_c ntfs ro,umask=0,nls=iso8859-15 0 0
/dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part5 /mnt/win_d ntfs ro,umask=0,nls=iso8859-15 0 0
/dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part10 /tmp ext3 rw 0 0
/dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part7 /usr ext3 rw 0 0
/dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part8 /var ext3 rw 0 0
/dev/floppy/0 /mnt/floppy vfat rw 0 0

and my /dev has a file (console / character c-r--r--r device?) called '.devfsd' and lots and lots of symbolic links in it.

I was also told by a visiting 'linux guru!?' that I didn't have 'Unix98 PTY' compiled in, it wasn't selected and I have left it alone so as not to interfere with the help your giving me.

My /var/log/messages now has:

Sep 10 08:29:10 earth mount: mount: mount point /dev/pts does not exist
Sep 10 08:29:10 earth mount: mount: fs type supermount not supported by kernel
Sep 10 08:29:10 earth mount: mount: fs type supermount not supported by kernel
Sep 10 08:29:10 earth rc.sysinit: Mounting local filesystems: failed
Sep 10 08:29:10 earth rc.sysinit: Mounting loopback filesystems: succeeded
Sep 10 08:29:13 earth harddrake: succeeded
Sep 10 08:29:13 earth network: Setting network parameters: succeeded
Sep 10 08:29:14 earth network: Bringing up loopback interface: succeeded
Sep 10 08:29:16 earth network: Bringing up interface eth0: succeeded
Sep 10 08:29:16 earth portmap: portmap startup succeeded
Sep 10 08:29:19 earth kernel: mtrr: 0xd0000000,0x1000000 overlaps existing 0xd0000000,0x400000
Sep 10 08:29:19 earth xinetd: xinetd startup succeeded
Sep 10 08:29:19 earth xinetd[1597]: Service ftp: attribute already set: disable [file=/etc/xinetd.d/proftpd-xinetd] [line=16]
Sep 10 08:29:19 earth kernel: atkbd.c: Spurious ACK on isa0060/serio0. Some program, like XFree86, might be trying access hardware directly.
Sep 10 08:29:19 earth kernel: atkbd.c: Spurious ACK on isa0060/serio0. Some program, like XFree86, might be trying access hardware directly.
Sep 10 08:29:19 earth nfs: Starting NFS services: succeeded
Sep 10 08:29:20 earth nfsd[1624]: nfssvc: Function not implemented
Sep 10 08:29:20 earth nfs: rpc.nfsd startup failed
Sep 10 08:29:20 earth nfs: rpc.mountd startup succeeded
Sep 10 08:29:20 earth loadkeys: Loading /usr/lib/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty/uk.kmap.gz
Sep 10 08:29:20 earth keytable: Loading keymap: uk succeeded
Sep 10 08:29:20 earth loadkeys: Loading /usr/lib/kbd/keymaps/include/compose.latin9.inc.gz
Sep 10 08:29:20 earth keytable: Loading compose keys: compose.latin9.inc succeeded
Sep 10 08:29:20 earth keytable: succeeded
Sep 10 08:29:20 earth numlock: Starting numlock:
Sep 10 08:29:20 earth numlock: ^[[65G[^[[1;32m
Sep 10 08:29:20 earth numlock:
Sep 10 08:29:20 earth rc: Starting numlock: succeeded
Sep 10 08:29:20 earth crond[1872]: (CRON) STARTUP (fork ok)
Sep 10 08:29:20 earth crond: crond startup succeeded
Sep 10 08:29:20 earth xinetd[1597]: xinetd Version 2.3.13 started with libwrap options compiled in.
Sep 10 08:29:20 earth xinetd[1597]: Started working: 1 available service
Sep 10 08:29:21 earth smbd[1887]: [2004/09/10 08:29:21, 0] printing/print_cups.c:cups_printer_fn(108)
Sep 10 08:29:21 earth smbd[1887]: Unable to connect to CUPS server localhost - Connection refused
Sep 10 08:29:21 earth smb: smbd startup succeeded
Sep 10 08:29:22 earth smb: nmbd startup succeeded
Sep 10 08:29:22 earth rc: Starting kheader: succeeded
Sep 10 08:29:22 earth devfsd[525]: Caught SIGHUP
Sep 10 08:29:22 earth devfsd[525]: read config file: "/etc/devfs/conf.d//dvd.conf"
Sep 10 08:29:22 earth devfsd[525]: read config file: "/etc/devfs/conf.d//dynamic.conf"
Sep 10 08:29:22 earth devfsd[525]: read config file: "/etc/devfs/conf.d//rdvd.conf"
Sep 10 08:29:22 earth devfsd[525]: read config file: "/etc/devfs/conf.d//mouse.conf"
Sep 10 08:29:22 earth devfsd[525]: read config file: "/etc/devfsd.conf"
Sep 10 08:29:22 earth devfsd: Running devfsd actions: succeeded
Sep 10 08:29:23 earth perl: drakupdate_fstab called with --auto --add /dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part1
Sep 10 08:29:24 earth perl: drakupdate_fstab called with --auto --add /dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part2
Sep 10 08:29:24 earth perl: drakupdate_fstab called with --auto --add /dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part3
Sep 10 08:29:24 earth perl: drakupdate_fstab called with --auto --add /dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part5
Sep 10 08:29:24 earth perl: drakupdate_fstab called with --auto --add /dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part6
Sep 10 08:29:25 earth perl: drakupdate_fstab called with --auto --add /dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part7
Sep 10 08:29:25 earth perl: drakupdate_fstab called with --auto --add /dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part8
Sep 10 08:29:25 earth perl: drakupdate_fstab called with --auto --add /dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part9
Sep 10 08:29:26 earth perl: drakupdate_fstab called with --auto --add /dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part10
Sep 10 08:30:00 earth CROND[2349]: (mail) CMD (/usr/bin/python -S /usr/lib/mailman/cron/gate_news)
Sep 10 08:30:15 earth kernel: atkbd.c: Unknown key released (translated set 2, code 0x81 on isa0060/serio0).