[WBEL-users] Respin 2 update install lost my flash drives

[Daniel J. Summers]

Mark Jarvis wrote:

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> Daniel J. Summers wrote:
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>> Mark Jarvis wrote:
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>>> First let me say that I'm well aware that save/clean_install/restore 
>>> is the best way to go. But, anyway, I did an upgrade install of 
>>> respin 2, followed by "yum update" which picked up a couple of 
>>> things that I'd forgotten had been included in the previous (clean) 
>>> respin 1 install.
>>
>>
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>> Not that it's any of my business, but why didn't you just "yum 
>> upgrade" to take your box from R1 to R2?  
>
> I had previously tried three times to do a "yum upgrade", but it hung 
> repeatedly each time. I finally just gave it up & decided to wait for 
> respin 2 or WBEL 4, whichever came first.

That's strange - have you gone in and redone your yum.conf file?  UNC
is no longer supporting WBEL - so, if your preferences were set to that
one, that may be one reason.  I'm far from a seasoned Linux guy, but 
I've seen my share of problems...

>> I'm running the R2 kernel now, but I didn't have to reinstall 
>> anything.  (In fact, I usually run "yum upgrade" (with no package 
>> name) every other week or so, as there are always new/fixed packages 
>> popping up.  Occasionally it can't find anything new, but it's rare.
>
> If I'd been doing this right along, the "yum update" wouldn't have 
> been such a major effort & probably wouldn't have had the problem. I 
> HAVE SEEN THE ERROR OF MY WAYS!

I hope you didn't take offense - I wasn't suggesting that what you've 
done isn't right for your needs, just sharing my experiences.  :)

>>
>>> Booted up. Can't mount flash drives. Phooey! Loaded usbview--BTW, 
>>> it's a NEAT tool. Got the following error message:
>>>
>>> "Can not open the file /proc/bus/usb/devices
>>>
>>> Verify that you have USB compiled into your kernel,
>>> have the USB core modules loaded, and have the
>>> usbdevfs filesystem mounted."
>>
>> Did you verify these things?  :)  
>
> Nope. All those things were working before without my having to do 
> anything, other than create mount points and /etc/fstab entries. Now 
> USB is apparently dead in both the new AND the old kernel. So what 
> turned it off?  Is there a config file entry I'm not aware of?

I'm sure there is...  There are *tons* of them that I'm not aware of.  ;)

>> I've never had this experience with USB flash drives (have one, but 
>> haven't tried to get it going under WBEL yet), but I know with other 
>> kernel modules, I had to accomplish the same tasks I did when I 
>> installed, to get the module compiled and linked for *that* 
>> particular kernel.
>>
>> I'll be looking for the solution here - I may try soon to get mine 
>> going.  :)
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> You shouldn't have to DO anything, although the /etc/fstab entries are 
> a little tricky--USB is faked in on top of the SCSI stuff. Here are my 
> fstab entries. (I have a SCSI disk drive, so it's sda1.)
>
> /dev/sdb1     /mnt/usb_hd_1    auto    noauto,rw,umask=0,users   0 0
> /dev/sdc1     /mnt/usb_hd_2    auto    noauto,rw,umask=0,users   0 0
> /dev/sdd1     /mnt/usb_hd_3    auto    noauto,rw,umask=0,users   0 0
>
> FWIW, just about all of the  "live CD" distros I've seen find & mount 
> USB flash drives automagically, as does XP.

Cool - maybe I'll get up the nerve to try to make it work.  I run Linux 
because I wanted to learn how - and, I am a programmer by trade, so 
being told "Oh, you'll have to compile that yourself" doesn't really 
give me any headaches (especially with make being so simple).  But, now 
that my computer *is* set up mostly the way I'd like, I just want to use 
it.  If I think something may mess it up, I'll put it off until I have 
an ample amount of time to work on it.  (Another thing I've learned - if 
the problem looks like it will take 5 minutes, budget 1/2 hour...  ;>  )

> Once again, my point is this: Flash drive support was working, then 
> the upgrade killed it. Howcum?!?!

I wish I had the answer.  Maybe someone else will be able to be
more help than I've been.  :)


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