[gentoo-dev] Re: ideas/bugs

[Christian Loitsch <gentoo-dev@loitsch.org>]

here some updates:

After some grepping I found the /etc/rc.conf file.
I then made some research on the net to find the best consolefonts, and
read in the french-howto that I should use the iso15-latin9 font.
Couldn't find it :(
On freshmeat.net/kbd somebody mentioned that kbd was more up to date
then console-tools and surprise surprise: kbd has this font (at least I
think it's the right one: lat9w-16).

> * depscan is maybe not called with the right params in the boot-scripts:
>   depscan: Usage depscan ....
Even though it gives this usage-message, the script seems to be executed
without any errors.

> * why do you ask users in you manual to execute depmod, if it is in 1 of
>   your boot-scripts?
it is not a big deal, but at least I did not print the manual, but read
it with less.  And when I rebootet (of course a little bit nervous ;),
it just made me even more nervous to focus on not forgetting to execute
something later on...
> * I guess the best way to avoid "broken" Gentoos because of forgetting
>   the -w option with nano, would be to make an alias right at the
>   beginning.  (like nanow)
I agree with Martin that in that it's better to educate, but let's be
honest, who uses nano?  At least all editors I use normally (ok, that's
only vim ;)  don't have this problem.

> * because of wrong parameters the pcmcia-boot-script failed.  But there
>   was no message.  like [ FAIL ]
hope nobody got this wrong.  The reason the script failed, was that I
moved the modules to another place, because I did not (and still don't)
understand why cardmgr... loaded modules I compiled into the kernel. (
as stars and not as M odules)
Nevertheless there is something wrong with the PCMCIA-package.

1) cardmgr is a daemon and because my machine is sooooo slow, it doesn't
have enough time to load all modules for my network-card.
If I add a sleep 2 inside my net.eth0 everything works fine.
I have _no_ idea how this could easily be fixed.  (unless you let
cardmgr call the right scripts, which of course is correct, but "ugly")
2) the pcmcia "-script" , even though in /etc/runlevels/default, does
not produce a link in /dev/shm/.init.d/started.  There is a directory in
/dev/shm/.init.d/use/pcmcia containing a link to net.eth0 though.
3) obviously because of (2) the pcmcia script is called twice.  Once for
the net.eth0 script and another time after (on the screen even the last
one)
4) the pcmcia-script does not "produce" a green star and no ok.
It also is closed because of sending the term-signal to everyone
and not because of calling pcmcia stop.

Ignore my last untested point! (from the original mail)
Everything is fine.  I did not imagine that the scripts were this
clever, and would insert them into /dev/shm/.init.d/started, even
when called manually.

At the moment I tend to fill out 2 bug-reports:
1) no ok for the pcmcia-script
2) race-condition

Anything else?

Christian