What happens when uci is not dsl.staffForum: System Topic: What happens when uci is not dsl.staff started by: Juanito Posted by Juanito on Mar. 25 2008,17:01
Another dumb mistake I made the other day (and I'm still figuring out how to make my dsl boot floppy a grub dsl boot floppy...) was to put a symlink to a uci in ../mydsl where the uci itself was root.root instead of dsl.staffOn boot, I got something like this:
All went well until shutdown (I didn't try to use myuci2 so I was not aware it hadn't loaded) when I got something like this:
At this point I could not enter anything, <ctrl-alt-del> brought up the same message and the only option seemed to pull the plug - before the backup has been written... Now I realise this was my own dumb fault, but would it be possible for the mydsl-load on boot to fail more gracefully? Posted by roberts on Mar. 25 2008,18:11
I would say not a typical situation for a user of DSL, if it had been it would have surfaced sooner than 4 years later!While it is always good to try to impove it is not always easy to defend against what a 'developer' or 'hacking', i.e., unusal mods to the system might cause. Posted by mikshaw on Mar. 25 2008,18:32
I don't think this issue is related to file ownership. I just tested it, changing both the ownership and removing read permission, without trouble. Root does the actual mounting, and file permissions/ownership means nothing to root.My guess is that either your file is corrupted or you're having problems reading the filesystem on which the file is stored. Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Mar. 25 2008,20:15
I did run into some negligible problems sometimes - such as trying to load an extension that errors out... only to (eventually) find out that I did a typo. My guess is that it doesn't check for this, nor does it check for many things - possibly to cut down on processing? In this case, it can be easily avoided.Haven't reproduced your steps yet, but I'm not sure why it would stall there. Also, as mikshaw indicated, I remember that the scripts invoke sudo to do the actual system work. Posted by Juanito on Mar. 26 2008,03:41
To get out of the error I replaced the symlink with the actual file. A different ../mydsl symlink to a different uci (but on the same partition as the one that had the problem) still works without problems.As said, perhaps not likely to occur everyday so let's leave it here - thanks. Posted by mikshaw on Mar. 26 2008,08:41
I had a similar problem with a symlink once. I can't remember exactly what the problem was, but I think it related to the path stored in the link. It may have been a relative path, or it may have been slightly different than the path listed in /etc/mtab (/ramdisk/tmp as opposed to /tmp).
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