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Topic: cloop8: no such device, only 8 unc & uci

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Felson

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Posted: Feb. 01 2007,01:18

Just upgraded to 3.2 and I have the same problem.

roberts

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Posted: Feb. 01 2007,01:55

I just loaded up 12 cloops and got bored so I stopped.
What are your system specs? Free displays? Inodes?
I don't think anyone has tested on extremely low ram and what the limiting factors might be.

Felson

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Posted: Feb. 01 2007,16:49

Here is what I can give you right off the bat:
- I am useing a bootable USB key, built using embeded.
- The computer has 512MB ram.
- I load 4 UNCs and 1 UCI at bootup.
- bc.unc (convert from the dsl)
- gtk .unc
- xcalc.unc (Converted from the dsl)
- xtightvnc.unc (custom UNC. It is tightvnc instead of the "realVNC" that comes with DSL. I use it only because I can connect to alternate ports with it.)
- firefox-1.5.0.6.uci

I have been thinking of taking the 4 UNC files, and making 1 out of them, or at least bc, xcalc & xtightvnc. But, even though that is a good idea from the resource point of view, that does't really fix the main issue.

Here is some stuff from Proc that my be usefull.

cpuinfo

Code Sample

processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 15
model : 2
model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.60GHz
stepping : 9
cpu MHz : 2593.568
cache size : 512 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 2
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe cid
bogomips : 5177.34

modules

Code Sample

soundcore 3428 0 (autoclean)
mousedev 3832 0 (unused)
hid 22372 0 (unused)
input 3168 0 [mousedev hid]
unionfs 68800 7
af_packet 13544 0 (autoclean)
ntfs 50944 0 (autoclean)
msdos 4684 0 (autoclean)
nls_iso8859-1 2844 0 (autoclean)
nls_cp437 4348 0 (autoclean)
e100 50508 1
hw_random 2700 0 (unused)
serial 52100 0 (autoclean)
pcmcia_core 39840 0
thermal 6564 0 (unused)
processor 8976 0 [thermal]
fan 1568 0 (unused)
button 2508 0 (unused)
battery 5888 0 (unused)
ac 1824 0 (unused)
rtc 7036 0 (autoclean)
cloop 8740 12
ieee1394 183076 0
usb-storage 61696 1
usb-uhci 21644 0 (unused)
ehci-hcd 16392 0 (unused)
usbcore 57600 1 [hid usb-storage usb-uhci ehci-hcd]
ataraid 6180 0
ide-cd 28512 0
ide-scsi 8816 0

meminfo

Code Sample

total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
Mem: 510271488 127819776 382451712 0 2789376 86188032
Swap: 0 0 0
MemTotal: 498312 kB
MemFree: 373488 kB
MemShared: 0 kB
Buffers: 2724 kB
Cached: 84168 kB
SwapCached: 0 kB
Active: 33856 kB
Inactive: 69900 kB
HighTotal: 0 kB
HighFree: 0 kB
LowTotal: 498312 kB
LowFree: 373488 kB
SwapTotal: 0 kB
SwapFree: 0 kB

Kinda nooobish of me, but I am unsure where to get the free inode count and the free displays. I don't think this system is extreemly low. It is only a couple of years old.

roberts

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Posted: Feb. 01 2007,18:57

"USB Bootable key" is a red flag to me.

What filesystem type? Are you running on fat?
Fat style filesystems do not support Unix permissions well.

Caution must be taken when using pendrives for constructing any kind of extensions.

Also what does fdisk -l display, is partition table not in numerical order? Many times, I see usb pendrives display partition table with partition not ending on proper boundaries.

What happens when you manually try to mount to say cloop60?
This will show if your devices are OK.

What does the "free cloop table", /etc/sysconfig/mydsl, show for position (line) 8?

Finally, it could be a specific unc that is causing your problem.

Felson

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Posted: Feb. 01 2007,20:06

I will answer these as best I can, but My USB key is fat16 as you said, but I am useing a frugal type insatall, so the Key itself is only mounted as /cdrom/

I formated it as a single fat16 partision.but, you are right. It does show boundry errors as well. Never could figure that out, since I used fdisk to make it in the first place.

When I try and mount on cloop60 (or any 8+) I get:
mount: /dev/cloop60: unknown device
So, since my cloop devs are bad, I tried.
> rm /dev/cloop8
> mknod /dev/cloop8 b 240 8
And I get the same error still (with 8 instead of 60 obviously)

Line 8 (and down) of the /etc/sysconfig/mydsl reads "free"

I thought about the UNCs in question before, and tried loading 8 random other unc/uci files with the same effect.

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