Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2912 mails)

["Carlos E. R." <robin1.listas@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The Tuesday 2005-02-01 at 17:20 -0800, Christopher Carlen wrote:

> > This second script is wrong. There are two mistakes: one is to wrongly
> > report the RO status (because the script is derived from the first one).
> > The other is misleading you to think that the root filesystem is faulty,
> > when it is some other partition.
> > 
> > Ah!
> > 
> > I see it clear, it happened to me as well when I deleted a partition and
> > forgot to remove it from the fstab file. I got the same error as you did.
> 
> 
> Carlos E. R., you are brilliant!!!  Thanks for the reply.  I had almost
> forgotten about this problem, since I got my system working again by putting
> fs_passno=0 for the extra HD.  Once I put it back in the system I think it
> doesn't matter.

I'll put that comment on a golden frame, and show it to prospective 
employers :-p


> I am very happy you thought about the script, and looked at it.  I had
> suspected there was really a bug, since we agree it should not have behaved
> this way.

I like detecting problems. This one I can not solve, I'm not a good script 
programmer. Not even a Linux programmer. But investigating problems is 
like a good game of... whatever.

And to tell you the truth, I have looked at that script several times, but 
I never noticed there were two of them till today. Pure chance.

> 
> So this is actually quite serious.  It should be reported to Suse.

At least a nuisance.

> 
> I would say that responsibility should be mine.

Good, I browse very little, I use a modem :-)

> 
> I will make a note of it.  Unfortunately, now I am deep into experiments with
> DVD burning, for the first time.  Hopefully I won't forget about this issue.

Point them to this thread, they should be reading the list on paid time.

> 
> 
> Good day!

Yap, I'm closing for the day. I was watching a movie and it has just 
finished.

-- 
Cheers,
       Carlos Robinson