/dev/ file overload. Some advice please.

[FailedArtifact]

In my /Dev/ folder.



Anyone else have these types of files? there really bugging me and i have another problem to do with my DVD drive not having DMA turn on. (which won't allow being turned on). But shall i delete most of these 'pty'/'tyy' ones? or what?

Thanks

[coroner]

That does seem like alot of psuedo terminal device files, can you actually state what distribution of Linux you are running and what kernel?

uname -a

Do not delete them, besides that's not the right way to fix this problem. To turn DMA on for your DVD drive, first check the BIOS to make sure it is operating at it's maximum mode. Second, use:

hdparm

To switch the DMA on or off or it's UDMA mode.

All in all though, before we make too many assumptions about what is happenning here, we need your distribution version and kernel version.

Run:

hdparm -I -i /dev/sr0

That will print a list of information about the drive, also like I said about assumptions, sr0 is a 2.6.25 thing give or take, post your kernel version and distribution's release version.

[FailedArtifact]

what distribution of Linux you are running and what kernel?

Linux zerone-desktop 2.6.24-22-generic #1 SMP Mon Nov 24 18:32:42 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
Ubuntu 8.04 Lts

[FailedArtifact]

reason i haven't made this thread directly on the problem of DVD drive because its stop reading, and i need to work out why its not showing.

I just wanted to know firstly why there is so many dupilcated files in Dev for the moment

Thanks for you help Coroner

[coroner]

Run:

dmesg > /tmp/dmesg.txt

Then post the output of that file here.. 2.6.24 should be using udev, not devfs, and what it looks like is devfs. It's possible Ubuntu still uses devfs by default in the generic kernel releases, but I cannot know for sure unless I check. Post the results.

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dmesg > /tmp/dmesg.txt

Part 1

[    0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset
[    0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpu
[    0.000000] Linux version 2.6.24-22-generic (buildd@vernadsky) (gcc version 4.2.3 (Ubuntu 4.2.3-2ubuntu7)) #1 SMP Mon Nov 24 18:32:42 UTC 2008 (Ubuntu 2.6.24-22.45-generic)
[    0.000000] BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
[    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f400 (usable)
[    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 000000000009f400 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
[    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
[    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000003fef0000 (usable)
[    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 000000003fef0000 - 000000003fef3000 (ACPI NVS)
[    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 000000003fef3000 - 000000003ff00000 (ACPI data)
[    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 00000000e0000000 - 00000000f0000000 (reserved)
[    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved)
[    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
[    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
[    0.000000] 126MB HIGHMEM available.
[    0.000000] 896MB LOWMEM available.
[    0.000000] Entering add_active_range(0, 0, 261872) 0 entries of 256 used
[    0.000000] Zone PFN ranges:
[    0.000000]   DMA             0 ->     4096
[    0.000000]   Normal       4096 ->   229376
[    0.000000]   HighMem    229376 ->   261872
[    0.000000] Movable zone start PFN for each node
[    0.000000] early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges
[    0.000000]     0:        0 ->   261872
[    0.000000] On node 0 totalpages: 261872
[    0.000000]   DMA zone: 32 pages used for memmap
[    0.000000]   DMA zone: 0 pages reserved
[    0.000000]   DMA zone: 4064 pages, LIFO batch:0
[    0.000000]   Normal zone: 1760 pages used for memmap
[    0.000000]   Normal zone: 223520 pages, LIFO batch:31
[    0.000000]   HighMem zone: 253 pages used for memmap
[    0.000000]   HighMem zone: 32243 pages, LIFO batch:7
[    0.000000]   Movable zone: 0 pages used for memmap
[    0.000000] DMI 2.3 present.
[    0.000000] ACPI: RSDP signature @ 0xC00F7C10 checksum 0
[    0.000000] ACPI: RSDP 000F7C10, 0014 (r0 RS480 )
[    0.000000] ACPI: RSDT 3FEF3040, 002C (r1 RS480  AWRDACPI 42302E31 AWRD        0)
[    0.000000] ACPI: FACP 3FEF30C0, 0074 (r1 RS480  AWRDACPI 42302E31 AWRD        0)
[    0.000000] ACPI: DSDT 3FEF3180, 3AC5 (r1 RS480  AWRDACPI     1000 MSFT  100000E)
[    0.000000] ACPI: FACS 3FEF0000, 0040
[    0.000000] ACPI: MCFG 3FEF6D80, 003C (r1 RS480  AWRDACPI 42302E31 AWRD        0)
[    0.000000] ATI board detected. Disabling timer routing over 8254.
[    0.000000] ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x4008
[    0.000000] Allocating PCI resources starting at 40000000 (gap: 3ff00000:a0100000)
[    0.000000] swsusp: Registered nosave memory region: 000000000009f000 - 00000000000a0000
[    0.000000] swsusp: Registered nosave memory region: 00000000000a0000 - 00000000000f0000
[    0.000000] swsusp: Registered nosave memory region: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000
[    0.000000] Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on.  Total pages: 259827
[    0.000000] Kernel command line: root=UUID=ffc1b926-ae1b-48e8-8b46-3a8b9a9b56fc ro quiet splash
[    0.000000] Found and enabled local APIC!
[    0.000000] mapped APIC to ffffb000 (fee00000)
[    0.000000] Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
[    0.000000] Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
[    0.000000] Initializing CPU#0
[    0.000000] PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 16384 bytes)
[    0.000000] Detected 2000.122 MHz processor.
[   31.849967] Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
[   31.849970] console [tty0] enabled
[   31.850256] Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
[   31.850586] Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
[   31.870685] Memory: 1026352k/1047488k available (2177k kernel code, 20444k reserved, 1005k data, 368k init, 129984k highmem)
[   31.870692] virtual kernel memory layout:
[   31.870693]     fixmap  : 0xfff4b000 - 0xfffff000   ( 720 kB)
[   31.870694]     pkmap   : 0xff800000 - 0xffc00000   (4096 kB)
[   31.870695]     vmalloc : 0xf8800000 - 0xff7fe000   ( 111 MB)
[   31.870696]     lowmem  : 0xc0000000 - 0xf8000000   ( 896 MB)
[   31.870697]       .init : 0xc0421000 - 0xc047d000   ( 368 kB)
[   31.870699]       .data : 0xc0320704 - 0xc041bdc4   (1005 kB)
[   31.870700]       .text : 0xc0100000 - 0xc0320704   (2177 kB)
[   31.870702] Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
[   31.870733] SLUB: Genslabs=11, HWalign=64, Order=0-1, MinObjects=4, CPUs=1, Nodes=1
[   31.950608] Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 4004.43 BogoMIPS (lpj=8008875)
[   31.950631] Security Framework initialized
[   31.950636] SELinux:  Disabled at boot.
[   31.950649] AppArmor: AppArmor initialized
[   31.950652] Failure registering capabilities with primary security module.
[   31.950659] Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
[   31.950755] Initializing cgroup subsys ns
[   31.950758] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuacct
[   31.950766] CPU: After generic identify, caps: 078bfbff e3d3fbff 00000000 00000000 00000001 00000000 00000001 00000000
[   31.950773] CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
[   31.950775] CPU: L2 Cache: 512K (64 bytes/line)
[   31.950778] CPU: After all inits, caps: 078bfbff e3d3fbff 00000000 00020410 00000001 00000000 00000001 00000000
[   31.950787] Compat vDSO mapped to ffffe000.
[   31.950796] Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
[   31.966818] SMP alternatives: switching to UP code
[   31.967769] Freeing SMP alternatives: 11k freed
[   31.967865] Early unpacking initramfs... done
[   32.271576] ACPI: Core revision 20070126
[   32.271624] ACPI: Looking for DSDT in initramfs... error, file /DSDT.aml not found.
[   32.272573] ACPI: setting ELCR to 0200 (from 0c28)
[   32.303570] CPU0: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ stepping 00
[   32.303577] SMP motherboard not detected.
[   32.409803] Brought up 1 CPUs
[   32.409816] CPU0 attaching sched-domain:
[   32.409819]  domain 0: span 01
[   32.409820]   groups: 01
[   32.409958] net_namespace: 64 bytes
[   32.409962] Booting paravirtualized kernel on bare hardware
[   32.410367] Time: 19:46:54  Date: 12/10/08
[   32.410385] NET: Registered protocol family 16
[   32.410531] EISA bus registered
[   32.410561] ACPI: bus type pci registered
[   32.444010] PCI: PCI BIOS revision 3.00 entry at 0xfa5e0, last bus=2
[   32.444012] PCI: Using configuration type 1
[   32.444015] Setting up standard PCI resources
[   32.447751] ACPI: EC: Look up EC in DSDT
[   32.450517] ACPI: Interpreter enabled
[   32.450519] ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S4 S5)
[   32.450530] ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing
[   32.453425] ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00)
[   32.454780] PCI: Transparent bridge - 0000:00:14.4
[   32.454808] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
[   32.455014] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.P2P_._PRT]
[   32.469554] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 *11)
[   32.469626] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *10 11)
[   32.469698] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11) *0, disabled.
[   32.469769] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 *5 6 7 10 11)
[   32.469838] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs *3 4 5 6 7 10 11)
[   32.469908] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11) *0, disabled.
[   32.469978] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *10 11), disabled.
[   32.470048] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 *11)
[   32.470127] Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
[   32.470148] pnp: PnP ACPI init
[   32.470153] ACPI: bus type pnp registered
[   32.472247] pnpacpi: exceeded the max number of mem resources: 12
[   32.472288] pnp: PnP ACPI: found 13 devices
[   32.472289] ACPI: ACPI bus type pnp unregistered
[   32.472292] PnPBIOS: Disabled by ACPI PNP
[   32.472450] PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
[   32.472452] PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq".  If it helps, post a report
[   32.472459] PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 3 of device 0000:00:00.0
[   32.529575] NET: Registered protocol family 8
[   32.529577] NET: Registered protocol family 20
[   32.529626] AppArmor: AppArmor Filesystem Enabled
[   32.533539] Time: tsc clocksource has been installed.
[   32.541550] system 00:01: ioport range 0x228-0x22f has been reserved
[   32.541552] system 00:01: ioport range 0x40b-0x40b has been reserved
[   32.541555] system 00:01: ioport range 0x4d6-0x4d6 has been reserved
[   32.541557] system 00:01: ioport range 0xc00-0xc01 has been reserved
[   32.541560] system 00:01: ioport range 0xc14-0xc14 has been reserved
[   32.541562] system 00:01: ioport range 0xc50-0xc52 has been reserved
[   32.541564] system 00:01: ioport range 0xc6c-0xc6d has been reserved
[   32.541567] system 00:01: ioport range 0xc6f-0xc6f has been reserved
[   32.541569] system 00:01: ioport range 0xcd4-0xcdf has been reserved
[   32.541572] system 00:01: ioport range 0x4000-0x40fe has been reserved
[   32.541574] system 00:01: ioport range 0x4210-0x4217 has been reserved
[   32.541580] system 00:06: ioport range 0x4d0-0x4d1 has been reserved
[   32.541582] system 00:06: ioport range 0x220-0x225 has been reserved
[   32.541588] system 00:0b: iomem range 0xe0000000-0xefffffff could not be reserved
[   32.541593] system 00:0c: iomem range 0xd9800-0xdbfff has been reserved
[   32.541596] system 00:0c: iomem range 0xf0000-0xf7fff could not be reserved
[   32.541598] system 00:0c: iomem range 0xf8000-0xfbfff could not be reserved
[   32.541601] system 00:0c: iomem range 0xfc000-0xfffff could not be reserved
[   32.541603] system 00:0c: iomem range 0x3ff00000-0x3fffffff has been reserved
[   32.541606] system 00:0c: iomem range 0x3fef0000-0x3fefffff could not be reserved
[   32.541609] system 00:0c: iomem range 0xffff0000-0xffffffff could not be reserved
[   32.541611] system 00:0c: iomem range 0x0-0x9ffff could not be reserved
[   32.541614] system 00:0c: iomem range 0x100000-0x3feeffff could not be reserved
[   32.541616] system 00:0c: iomem range 0x0-0x0 could not be reserved
[   32.541619] system 00:0c: iomem range 0xfec00000-0xfec00fff could not be reserved
[   32.541622] system 00:0c: iomem range 0xfee00000-0xfee00fff could not be reserved
[   32.571872] PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:02.0
[   32.571874]   IO window: e000-efff
[   32.571877]   MEM window: f8000000-fbffffff
[   32.571880]   PREFETCH window: d0000000-dfffffff
[   32.571883] PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:14.4
[   32.571886]   IO window: d000-dfff
[   32.571892]   MEM window: fde00000-fdefffff
[   32.571896]   PREFETCH window: fdd00000-fddfffff
[   32.571909] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:02.0 to 64
[   32.571924] NET: Registered protocol family 2
[   32.609459] IP route cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
[   32.609702] TCP established hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
[   32.610333] TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
[   32.610643] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind 65536)
[   32.610645] TCP reno registered
[   32.621484] checking if image is initramfs... it is
[   33.072538] Switched to high resolution mode on CPU 0
[   33.205309] Freeing initrd memory: 7308k freed
[   33.205749] audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
[   33.205759] audit(1228938415.204:1): initialized
[   33.205870] highmem bounce pool size: 64 pages
[   33.207236] VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
[   33.207291] Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)

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Part 2

[   33.207390] io scheduler noop registered

[   33.207392] io scheduler anticipatory registered

[   33.207394] io scheduler deadline registered

[   33.207406] io scheduler cfq registered (default)

[   33.260149] Boot video device is 0000:01:00.0

[   33.260223] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:02.0 to 64

[   33.260243] assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability

[   33.260264] Allocate Port Service[0000:00:02.0:pcie00]

[   33.260421] isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...

[   33.614388] isapnp: No Plug & Play device found

[   33.638748] Real Time Clock Driver v1.12ac

[   33.638818] Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled

[   33.638959] serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A

[   33.639714] 00:08: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A

[   33.640269] RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 65536K size 1024 blocksize

[   33.640320] input: Macintosh mouse button emulation as /devices/virtual/input/input0

[   33.640385] PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:PS2K] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1

[   33.640387] PNP: PS/2 appears to have AUX port disabled, if this is incorrect please boot with i8042.nopnp

[   33.640844] serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1

[   33.651416] mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice

[   33.651504] EISA: Probing bus 0 at eisa.0

[   33.651524] Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 4

[   33.651544] EISA: Detected 0 cards.

[   33.651546] cpuidle: using governor ladder

[   33.651548] cpuidle: using governor menu

[   33.651615] NET: Registered protocol family 1

[   33.651634] Using IPI No-Shortcut mode

[   33.651657] registered taskstats version 1

[   33.651754]   Magic number: 4:41:799

[   33.651843]   hash matches device ptyr7

[   33.651880] BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 0 devices found

[   33.651882] EDD information not available.

[   33.652073] Freeing unused kernel memory: 368k freed

[   33.652093] Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 801k

[   33.675324] input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /devices/platform/i8042/serio0/input/input1

[   34.845541] fuse init (API version 7.9)

[   34.856739] ACPI: Fan [FAN] (on)

[   34.862352] ACPI: Thermal Zone [THRM] (-127 C)

[   35.290477] SCSI subsystem initialized

[   35.328098] libata version 3.00 loaded.

[   35.339254] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs

[   35.339273] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub

[   35.346925] sata_sil 0000:00:11.0: version 2.3

[   35.347083] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] enabled at IRQ 11

[   35.347086] PCI: setting IRQ 11 as level-triggered

[   35.347091] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:11.0[A] -> Link [LNKH] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11

[   35.358463] usbcore: registered new device driver usb

[   35.364035] scsi0 : sata_sil

[   35.380011] scsi1 : sata_sil

[   35.380059] ata1: SATA max UDMA/100 mmio m512@0xfe02f000 tf 0xfe02f080 irq 11

[   35.380063] ata2: SATA max UDMA/100 mmio m512@0xfe02f000 tf 0xfe02f0c0 irq 11

[   35.388088] ohci_hcd: 2006 August 04 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver

[   35.415935] 8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.28

[   35.523764] Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M

[   35.543630] FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077

[   35.691394] ata1: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)

[   36.002778] ata2: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)

[   36.002938] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] disabled and referenced, BIOS bug

[   36.002975] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] enabled at IRQ 10

[   36.002978] PCI: setting IRQ 10 as level-triggered

[   36.002982] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:12.0[A] -> Link [LNKG] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10

[   36.003055] scsi2 : sata_sil

[   36.003239] scsi3 : sata_sil

[   36.003264] ata3: SATA max UDMA/100 mmio m512@0xfe02e000 tf 0xfe02e080 irq 10

[   36.003268] ata4: SATA max UDMA/100 mmio m512@0xfe02e000 tf 0xfe02e0c0 irq 10

[   36.469884] ata3: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)

[   36.478447] ata3.00: ATA-7: WDC WD2500KS-00MJB0, 02.01C03, max UDMA/133

[   36.478450] ata3.00: 488397168 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 

[   36.486437] ata3.00: configured for UDMA/100

[   36.797225] ata4: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)

[   36.797314] scsi 2:0:0:0: Direct-Access     ATA      WDC WD2500KS-00M 02.0 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5

[   36.799419] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 5

[   36.799422] PCI: setting IRQ 5 as level-triggered

[   36.799427] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:13.0[A] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5

[   36.799439] ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.0: OHCI Host Controller

[   36.799630] ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1

[   36.799647] ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.0: irq 5, io mem 0xfe02d000

[   36.806489] Driver 'sd' needs updating - please use bus_type methods

[   36.806557] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] 488397168 512-byte hardware sectors (250059 MB)

[   36.806566] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off

[   36.806569] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00

[   36.806580] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA

[   36.806615] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] 488397168 512-byte hardware sectors (250059 MB)

[   36.806622] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off

[   36.806624] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00

[   36.806634] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA

[   36.806638]  sda: sda1

[   36.812008] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk

[   36.817353] sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0

[   36.857188] usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice

[   36.857211] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found

[   36.857220] hub 1-0:1.0: 4 ports detected

[   36.960985] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:13.1[A] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5

[   36.960999] ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.1: OHCI Host Controller

[   36.961018] ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2

[   36.961032] ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.1: irq 5, io mem 0xfe02c000

[   37.020849] usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice

[   37.020869] hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found

[   37.020877] hub 2-0:1.0: 4 ports detected

[   37.124860] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:13.2[A] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5

[   37.124873] ehci_hcd 0000:00:13.2: EHCI Host Controller

[   37.124894] ehci_hcd 0000:00:13.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3

[   37.124944] ehci_hcd 0000:00:13.2: irq 5, io mem 0xfe02b000

[   37.264305] usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 2

[   37.276279] ehci_hcd 0000:00:13.2: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004

[   37.276366] usb usb3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice

[   37.276385] hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found

[   37.276389] hub 3-0:1.0: 8 ports detected

[   37.380350] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:08.0[A] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5

[   37.381485] eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xdc00, 00:50:fc:e8:54:b2, IRQ 5

[   37.381487] eth0:  Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8100B/8139D'

[   37.381631] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] enabled at IRQ 3

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Part 3

[   37.381633] PCI: setting IRQ 3 as level-triggered
[   37.381637] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:0b.0[A] -> Link [LNKE] -> GSI 3 (level, low) -> IRQ 3
[   37.382751] eth1: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xda00, 00:01:2e:0b:85:6b, IRQ 3
[   37.382753] eth1:  Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8100B/8139D'
[   37.384187] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 11
[   37.384189] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:09.0[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
[   37.384194] 3c59x: Donald Becker and others.
[   37.384198] 0000:02:09.0: 3Com PCI 3c905C Tornado at f883c000.
[   37.406212] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:14.1[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
[   37.406257] ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:00:14.1 disabled
[   37.409802] 8139cp: 10/100 PCI Ethernet driver v1.3 (Mar 22, 2004)
[   37.412856] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:14.1[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
[   37.413917] scsi4 : pata_atiixp
[   37.420018] scsi5 : pata_atiixp
[   37.420628] ata5: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x1f0 ctl 0x3f6 bmdma 0xf300 irq 14
[   37.420631] ata6: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x170 ctl 0x376 bmdma 0xf308 irq 15
[   37.592425] ata5.00: ATA-6: ST320410A, 3.34, max UDMA/100
[   37.592429] ata5.00: 39102336 sectors, multi 16: LBA 
[   37.592567] ata5.01: ATA-6: SAMSUNG SV2042H, PK100-11, max UDMA/100
[   37.592570] ata5.01: 39865392 sectors, multi 16: LBA 
[   37.608340] ata5.00: configured for UDMA/100
[   37.616236] ata5.01: configured for UDMA/100
[   38.282845] ata6.00: ATAPI: HL-DT-STDVD-ROM GDR8163B, 0L23, max UDMA/33
[   38.282863] ata6.01: ATAPI: SONY    CD-RW  CRX230EE, 2YS3, max UDMA/33
[   38.282873] ata6.00: simplex DMA is claimed by other device, disabling DMA
[   38.282875] ata6.01: simplex DMA is claimed by other device, disabling DMA
[   38.454484] ata6.00: configured for PIO4
[   38.642119] ata6.01: configured for PIO4
[   38.642201] scsi 4:0:0:0: Direct-Access     ATA      ST320410A        3.34 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[   38.642462] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] 39102336 512-byte hardware sectors (20020 MB)
[   38.642471] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[   38.642473] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[   38.642485] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[   38.642520] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] 39102336 512-byte hardware sectors (20020 MB)
[   38.642527] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[   38.642529] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[   38.642540] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[   38.642543]  sdb:<6>usb 3-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4
[   38.669096]  sdb1 sdb2 < sdb5 >
[   38.693203] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk
[   38.693228] sd 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0
[   38.693726] scsi 4:0:1:0: Direct-Access     ATA      SAMSUNG SV2042H  PK10 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[   38.693927] sd 4:0:1:0: [sdc] 39865392 512-byte hardware sectors (20411 MB)
[   38.693935] sd 4:0:1:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off
[   38.693937] sd 4:0:1:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[   38.693948] sd 4:0:1:0: [sdc] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[   38.693974] sd 4:0:1:0: [sdc] 39865392 512-byte hardware sectors (20411 MB)
[   38.693981] sd 4:0:1:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off
[   38.693983] sd 4:0:1:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[   38.693994] sd 4:0:1:0: [sdc] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[   38.693997]  sdc: sdc1
[   38.701028] sd 4:0:1:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI disk
[   38.701049] sd 4:0:1:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
[   38.709150] scsi 5:0:0:0: CD-ROM            HL-DT-ST DVD-ROM GDR8163B 0L23 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[   38.709196] scsi 5:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 5
[   38.710268] scsi 5:0:1:0: CD-ROM            SONY     CD-RW  CRX230EE  2YS3 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[   38.710313] scsi 5:0:1:0: Attached scsi generic sg4 type 5
[   38.715514] Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
[   38.715518] ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
[   38.742115] Driver 'sr' needs updating - please use bus_type methods
[   38.756899] sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 52x/52x cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
[   38.756903] Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
[   38.756946] sr 5:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0
[   38.764486] sr1: scsi3-mmc drive: 52x/52x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
[   38.764528] sr 5:0:1:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr1
[   38.779474] usb 3-3: configuration #1 chosen from 2 choices
[   39.016886] usb 3-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 5
[   39.160210] usb 3-4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[   39.396143] usb 3-5: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 6
[   39.530460] usb 3-5: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[   39.531680] usbcore: registered new interface driver libusual
[   39.535641] Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
[   39.616762] Attempting manual resume
[   39.616765] swsusp: Resume From Partition 8:21
[   39.616767] PM: Checking swsusp image.
[   39.616981] PM: Resume from disk failed.
[   39.648886] kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
[   39.648898] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
[   39.831293] usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 3
[   40.044308] usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[   40.346287] usb 2-1: new low speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 2
[   40.553607] usb 2-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[   40.555666] scsi6 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
[   40.555715] usb-storage: device found at 4
[   40.555716] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
[   40.555733] scsi7 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
[   40.555781] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
[   40.555784] USB Mass Storage support registered.
[   40.555907] usb-storage: device found at 6
[   40.555908] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
[   45.544316] usb-storage: device scan complete
[   45.544434] usb-storage: device scan complete
[   45.544816] scsi 7:0:0:0: Direct-Access     Kingston DataTraveler 2.0 1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
[   45.546043] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdd] 3987456 512-byte hardware sectors (2042 MB)
[   45.546676] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdd] Write Protect is off
[   45.546679] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdd] Mode Sense: 23 00 00 00
[   45.546681] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdd] Assuming drive cache: write through
[   45.546930] scsi 6:0:0:0: Direct-Access     Apple    iPod             1.62 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
[   45.549161] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdd] 3987456 512-byte hardware sectors (2042 MB)
[   45.549791] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdd] Write Protect is off
[   45.549793] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdd] Mode Sense: 23 00 00 00
[   45.549795] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdd] Assuming drive cache: write through
[   45.549797]  sdd: sdd1
[   45.550577] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdd] Attached SCSI removable disk
[   45.550605] sd 7:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg5 type 0
[   45.552404] sd 6:0:0:0: [sde] 1982464 2048-byte hardware sectors (4060 MB)
[   45.553406] sd 6:0:0:0: [sde] Write Protect is off
[   45.553408] sd 6:0:0:0: [sde] Mode Sense: 68 00 00 08
[   45.553410] sd 6:0:0:0: [sde] Assuming drive cache: write through
[   45.555773] sd 6:0:0:0: [sde] 1982464 2048-byte hardware sectors (4060 MB)
[   45.556778] sd 6:0:0:0: [sde] Write Protect is off
[   45.556780] sd 6:0:0:0: [sde] Mode Sense: 68 00 00 08
[   45.556782] sd 6:0:0:0: [sde] Assuming drive cache: write through
[   45.556784]  sde: sde1 sde2
[   45.559667] sd 6:0:0:0: [sde] Attached SCSI removable disk
[   45.559687] sd 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg6 type 0
[   54.600298] spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.
[   56.311021] input: PC Speaker as /devices/platform/pcspkr/input/input2
[   56.510790] Linux agpgart interface v0.102
[   56.647471] parport_pc 00:09: reported by Plug and Play ACPI
[   56.647538] parport0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 7 [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
[   56.722348] pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
[   56.752593] shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4
[   56.961943] input: Power Button (FF) as /devices/virtual/input/input3
[   56.989819] ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
[   56.989869] input: Power Button (CM) as /devices/virtual/input/input4
[   57.021753] ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PWRB]
[   57.026704] piix4_smbus 0000:00:14.0: Found 0000:00:14.0 device
[   57.762363] udev: renamed network interface eth2 to eth0
[   57.772937] eth0:  setting half-duplex.
[   57.789431] udev: renamed network interface eth0_rename to eth2
[   57.816813] eth1: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1
[   57.971626] nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
[   58.438111] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 10
[   58.438116] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:14.5[b] -> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
[   58.640116] usbcore: registered new interface driver hiddev
[   58.643703] input: USB Optical Mouse as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:13.1/usb2/2-1/2-1:1.0/input/input5
[   58.674546] input,hidraw0: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [USB Optical Mouse] on usb-0000:00:13.1-1
[   58.674561] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
[   58.674565] /build/buildd/linux-2.6.24/drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver
[   58.721234] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 11
[   58.721239] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> Link [LNKC] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
[   58.721246] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:01:00.0 to 64
[   58.721451] NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86 Kernel Module  169.12  Thu Feb 14 17:53:07 PST 2008
[   58.908759] input: Wacom Bamboo as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:13.0/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.0/input/input6
[   58.944791] usbcore: registered new interface driver wacom
[   58.944797] /build/buildd/linux-2.6.24/drivers/input/tablet/wacom_sys.c: v1.47:USB Wacom Graphire and Wacom Intuos tablet driver
[   59.048050] NET: Registered protocol family 10
[   59.048252] lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
[   59.048968] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
[   60.714101] lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
[   60.771581] Adding 859436k swap on /dev/sdb5.  Priority:-1 extents:1 across:859436k
[   61.324760] EXT3 FS on sdb1, internal journal
[   63.546386] ip_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
[   63.849809] nf_conntrack version 0.5.0 (16384 buckets, 65536 max)
[   64.655720] No dock devices found.
[   65.051588] powernow-k8: Found 1 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ processors (1 cpu cores) (version 2.20.00)
[   65.051609] ACPI Exception (processor_perflib-0234): AE_NOT_FOUND, Evaluating _PSS [20070126]
[   65.062585] powernow-k8: BIOS error - no PSB or ACPI _PSS objects
[   65.085307] ACPI Exception (processor_perflib-0234): AE_NOT_FOUND, Evaluating _PSS [20070126]

[Prometheum]

Oh my god, you're either an idiot or extremely ill informed. NEVER delete anything in /dev/. EVER. Never delete anything outside of $HOME, unless you are ABSOLUTELY FUCKING CERTAIN you are not screwing anything up.

Try

man hier

for some information on the UNIX filesystem hierarchy.

[coroner]

Next time you post large file output, just use

tags also, it shrinks the text slightly and will not cost three posts.

I see nothing in there showing a reason for the excessive creation of pty device files. What I suggest is, as a test.. since you are using udev and not devfs as far as the kernel is concerned.. run as root:

rm -rf /dev/* ; reboot

Now, what Pr0 said is right, never delete device files in /dev/ unless you have a good reason, in this case if your kernel really is using udev, it will recreate every device file required for anything you have or are running as a service, like secure shell for example.

If you feel like you should backup your /dev/ directory, by all means do so.. but in this case you should have only what you need when you reboot back into the system. Post the output of:

ls /dev/

after you reboot, see what it looks like there..
Ubuntu for some reason may also have it set up in udev rules to create all those devices, why.. I'm not really sure, when on-demand device file creation has been around for a long time now. If we see there is no change after removing every file in /dev/ and rebooting, we can assume there are some funky udev rules set up and can find them using a little scripting from the shell.

[FailedArtifact]

Ok, pre-posting, just cleaned up my original posts (can't fit them into one as it exceeds 12000 words i think. (27000 total).

I guess im

ill informed

... well i wasn't intending on deleting them directly. Just wanted to know why so many.

Just about to do the commands*

[FailedArtifact]

Still a shat load. Ok, well i Think that its not a problem. Now i Think there is a problem that my CD/DVD drives aren't mounting, though ill get back to that once done some research.

Thanks for helping me out Coroner.

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usbdev1.1_ep00

usbdev1.1_ep81

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usbdev2.1_ep81

usbdev2.2_ep00

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usbdev3.1_ep81

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Originally Posted by FailedArtifact

Still a shat load. Ok, well i Think that its not a problem. Now i Think there is a problem that my CD/DVD drives aren't mounting, though ill get back to that once done some research.

Thanks for helping me out Zeusy. :P

Don't worry about /dev being cluttered.

You seem to have four *cdrom*. cdrom and cdrom1, cdrw and dvd.
Are you sure you are trying mounting the right one?

Also, is there some weird permission/s on the files?
There doesn't seem to be any hd* or sd*, but I'm not quite familiar with the 2.6.x.

An ls -all on dev will give us which cdrom points to which drive.
(cdrom and cdrom1 [...] are simply symlinks to the *real* devices).

If for some reason no hd* or sd* shows up, try using single-user mode.
(telinit 1)

[FailedArtifact]

Ok, this looks weird;

total 4
drwxr-xr-x  12 root   root       14620 2008-12-12 07:52 .
drwxr-xr-x  20 root   root        4096 2008-12-07 13:55 ..
crw-rw----+  1 root   audio    14,  12 2008-12-12 07:51 adsp
crw-rw----+  1 root   audio    14,   4 2008-12-12 07:51 audio
drwxr-xr-x   3 root   root          60 2008-12-12 07:51 bus
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root   root           4 2008-12-12 07:51 cdrom -> scd0
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root   root           4 2008-12-12 07:51 cdrom1 -> scd1
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root   root           4 2008-12-12 07:51 cdrw1 -> scd1
crw-------   1 root   dialout   5,   1 2008-12-12 07:52 console
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root   root          11 2008-12-12 07:51 core -> /proc/kcore
drwxr-xr-x   6 root   root         120 2008-12-12 07:51 disk
crw-rw----+  1 root   audio    14,   3 2008-12-12 07:51 dsp
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root   root           4 2008-12-12 07:51 dvd -> scd0
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root   root          13 2008-12-12 07:51 fd -> /proc/self/fd
brw-rw----   1 root   floppy    2,   0 2008-12-12 07:51 fd0
brw-r-----   1 root   disk      2,  84 2008-12-12 07:51 fd0u1040
brw-r-----   1 root   disk      2,  88 2008-12-12 07:51 fd0u1120
brw-r-----   1 root   disk      2,  28 2008-12-12 07:51 fd0u1440
brw-r-----   1 root   disk      2, 124 2008-12-12 07:51 fd0u1600
brw-r-----   1 root   disk      2,  44 2008-12-12 07:51 fd0u1680
brw-r-----   1 root   disk      2,  60 2008-12-12 07:51 fd0u1722
brw-r-----   1 root   disk      2,  76 2008-12-12 07:51 fd0u1743
brw-r-----   1 root   disk      2,  96 2008-12-12 07:51 fd0u1760
brw-r-----   1 root   disk      2, 116 2008-12-12 07:51 fd0u1840
brw-r-----   1 root   disk      2, 100 2008-12-12 07:51 fd0u1920
brw-r-----   1 root   disk      2,  12 2008-12-12 07:51 fd0u360
brw-r-----   1 root   disk      2,  16 2008-12-12 07:51 fd0u720
brw-r-----   1 root   disk      2, 120 2008-12-12 07:51 fd0u800
brw-r-----   1 root   disk      2,  52 2008-12-12 07:51 fd0u820
brw-r-----   1 root   disk      2,  68 2008-12-12 07:51 fd0u830
crw-rw-rw-   1 root   root      1,   7 2008-12-12 07:51 full
crw-rw----   1 root   fuse     10, 229 2008-12-12 07:51 fuse
crw-rw----   1 root   root    253,   0 2008-12-12 07:51 hidraw0
crw-rw----   1 root   root     10, 228 2008-12-12 07:51 hpet
prw-------   1 root   root           0 2008-12-12 07:51 initctl
drwxr-xr-x   3 root   root         100 2008-12-12 07:51 .initramfs
-rw-r--r--   1 root   root           0 2008-12-12 07:51 .initramfs-tools
drwxr-xr-x   4 root   root         340 2008-12-12 07:51 input
crw-r-----   1 root   kmem      1,   2 2008-04-18 20:02 kmem
crw-rw----   1 root   root      1,  11 2008-12-12 07:51 kmsg
srw-rw-rw-   1 root   root           0 2008-12-12 07:51 log
brw-------   1 root   root      7,   0 2008-04-18 20:02 loop0
crw-rw----   1 root   lp        6,   0 2008-12-12 07:51 lp0
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root   root          13 2008-12-12 07:51 MAKEDEV -> /sbin/MAKEDEV
crw-r-----   1 root   kmem      1,   1 2008-12-12 07:51 mem
crw-rw----+  1 root   audio    14,   0 2008-12-12 07:51 mixer
drwxr-xr-x   2 root   root          60 2008-04-18 20:02 net
crw-rw-rw-   1 root   root      1,   3 2008-04-18 20:02 null
crw-rw-rw-   1 root   root    195,   0 2008-12-12 07:51 nvidia0
crw-rw-rw-   1 root   root    195, 255 2008-12-12 07:51 nvidiactl
crw-rw----   1 root   root      1,  12 2008-12-12 07:51 oldmem
crw-rw----   1 lp     scanner  99,   0 2008-12-12 07:51 parport0
crw-r-----   1 root   kmem      1,   4 2008-12-12 07:51 port
crw-------   1 root   root    108,   0 2008-04-18 20:02 ppp
crw-rw----   1 root   root     10,   1 2008-12-12 07:51 psaux
crw-rw-rw-   1 root   dialout   5,   2 2008-12-12 08:45 ptmx
drwxr-xr-x   2 root   root           0 2008-12-12 07:51 pts
crw-rw-rw-   1 root   tty       2, 176 2008-12-12 07:51 ptya0
crw-rw-rw-   1 root   tty       2, 255 2008-12-12 07:51 ptyef
crw-rw-rw-   1 root   tty       2,   0 2008-12-12 07:51 ptyp0
crw-rw-rw-   1 root   tty       2,   1 2008-12-12 07:51 ptyp1
crw-rw-rw-   1 root   tty       2, 174 2008-12-12 07:51 ptyze
crw-rw-rw-   1 root   tty       2, 175 2008-12-12 07:51 ptyzf
brw-rw----   1 root   disk      1,   0 2008-12-12 07:51 ram0
brw-rw----   1 root   disk      1,   1 2008-12-12 07:51 ram1
brw-rw----   1 root   disk      1,  10 2008-12-12 07:51 ram10
brw-rw----   1 root   disk      1,  11 2008-12-12 07:51 ram11
brw-rw----   1 root   disk      1,  12 2008-12-12 07:51 ram12
brw-rw----   1 root   disk      1,  13 2008-12-12 07:51 ram13
brw-rw----   1 root   disk      1,  14 2008-12-12 07:51 ram14
brw-rw----   1 root   disk      1,  15 2008-12-12 07:51 ram15
brw-rw----   1 root   disk      1,   2 2008-12-12 07:51 ram2
brw-rw----   1 root   disk      1,   3 2008-12-12 07:51 ram3
brw-rw----   1 root   disk      1,   4 2008-12-12 07:51 ram4
brw-rw----   1 root   disk      1,   5 2008-12-12 07:51 ram5
brw-rw----   1 root   disk      1,   6 2008-12-12 07:51 ram6
brw-rw----   1 root   disk      1,   7 2008-12-12 07:51 ram7
brw-rw----   1 root   disk      1,   8 2008-12-12 07:51 ram8
brw-rw----   1 root   disk      1,   9 2008-12-12 07:51 ram9
crw-rw-rw-   1 root   root      1,   8 2008-12-12 07:51 random
crw-rw----   1 root   audio    10, 135 2008-12-12 07:51 rtc
brw-rw----+  1 root   cdrom    11,   0 2008-12-12 07:51 scd0
brw-rw----+  1 root   cdrom    11,   1 2008-12-12 07:51 scd1
brw-rw----   1 root   disk      8,   0 2008-12-12 07:51 sda
brw-rw----   1 root   disk      8,   1 2008-12-12 07:51 sda1
brw-rw----   1 root   disk      8,  16 2008-12-12 07:51 sdb
brw-rw----   1 root   disk      8,  17 2008-12-12 07:51 sdb1
brw-rw----   1 root   disk      8,  18 2008-12-12 07:51 sdb2
brw-rw----   1 root   disk      8,  21 2008-12-12 07:51 sdb5
brw-rw----   1 root   disk      8,  32 2008-12-12 07:51 sdc
brw-rw----   1 root   disk      8,  33 2008-12-12 07:51 sdc1
brw-rw----   1 root   disk      8,  48 2008-12-12 07:51 sdd
brw-rw----   1 root   disk      8,  49 2008-12-12 07:51 sdd1
brw-rw----   1 root   disk      8,  64 2008-12-12 07:51 sde
brw-rw----   1 root   disk      8,  65 2008-12-12 07:51 sde1
brw-rw----   1 root   disk      8,  66 2008-12-12 07:51 sde2
crw-rw----+  1 root   audio    14,   1 2008-12-12 07:51 sequencer
crw-rw----+  1 root   audio    14,   8 2008-12-12 07:51 sequencer2
crw-rw----   1 root   disk     21,   0 2008-12-12 07:51 sg0
crw-rw----   1 root   disk     21,   1 2008-12-12 07:51 sg1
crw-rw----   1 root   disk     21,   2 2008-12-12 07:51 sg2
crw-rw----   1 root   cdrom    21,   3 2008-12-12 07:51 sg3
crw-rw----   1 root   cdrom    21,   4 2008-12-12 07:51 sg4
crw-rw----   1 root   disk     21,   5 2008-12-12 07:51 sg5
crw-rw----   1 root   disk     21,   6 2008-12-12 07:51 sg6
drwxrwxrwt   2 root   root          60 2008-12-12 07:52 shm
crw-rw----   1 root   root     10, 231 2008-12-12 07:51 snapshot
drwxr-xr-x   2 root   root         160 2008-12-12 07:51 snd
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root   root          24 2008-12-12 07:51 sndstat -> /proc/asound/oss/sndstat
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root   root           4 2008-12-12 07:51 sr0 -> scd0
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root   root           4 2008-12-12 07:51 sr1 -> scd1
drwxr-xr-x   3 root   root          60 2008-12-12 07:51 .static
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root   root          15 2008-12-12 07:51 stderr -> /proc/self/fd/2
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root   root          15 2008-12-12 07:51 stdin -> /proc/self/fd/0
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root   root          15 2008-12-12 07:51 stdout -> /proc/self/fd/1
crw-rw-rw-   1 root   dialout   5,   0 2008-12-12 08:39 tty
crw-rw----   1 root   root      4,   0 2008-12-12 07:51 tty0
crw-------   1 root   root      4,   1 2008-12-12 07:52 tty1
crw-rw----   1 root   dialout   4,  10 2008-12-12 07:51 tty10
crw-rw----   1 root   dialout   4,  11 2008-12-12 07:51 tty11
crw-rw-rw-   1 root   tty       3, 255 2008-12-12 07:51 ttyef
crw-rw-rw-   1 root   tty       3,   0 2008-12-12 07:51 ttyp0
crw-rw-rw-   1 root   tty       3,   1 2008-12-12 07:51 ttyp1
crw-rw-rw-   1 root   tty       3,   2 2008-12-12 07:51 ttyp2
crw-rw-rw-   1 root   tty       3,  47 2008-12-12 07:51 ttyrf
crw-rw-rw-   1 root   tty       3,  48 2008-12-12 07:51 ttys0
crw-rw----   1 root   dialout   4,  64 2008-12-12 07:51 ttyS0
crw-rw-rw-   1 root   tty       3,  49 2008-12-12 07:51 ttys1
crw-rw----   1 root   dialout   4,  65 2008-12-12 07:51 ttyS1
crw-rw-rw-   1 root   tty       3,  50 2008-12-12 07:51 ttys2
crw-rw----   1 root   dialout   4,  66 2008-12-12 07:51 ttyS2
crw-rw-rw-   1 root   tty       3,  51 2008-12-12 07:51 ttys3
crw-rw----   1 root   dialout   4,  67 2008-12-12 07:51 ttyS3
crw-rw-rw-   1 root   tty       3,  52 2008-12-12 07:51 ttys4
crw-rw-rw-   1 root   tty       3, 175 2008-12-12 07:51 ttyzf
drwxr-xr-x   6 root   root         140 2008-12-12 08:39 .udev
crw-rw-rw-   1 root   root      1,   9 2008-12-12 07:51 urandom
crw-rw----   1 root   root    254,   0 2008-12-12 07:51 usbdev1.1_ep00
crw-rw----   1 root   root    254,   1 2008-12-12 07:51 usbdev1.1_ep81
crw-rw----   1 root   root    254,  15 2008-12-12 07:51 usbdev1.3_ep00
crw-rw----   1 root   root    254,  16 2008-12-12 07:51 usbdev1.3_ep81
crw-rw----   1 root   root    254,   2 2008-12-12 07:51 usbdev2.1_ep00
crw-rw----   1 root   root    254,   3 2008-12-12 07:51 usbdev2.1_ep81
crw-rw----   1 root   root    254,  17 2008-12-12 07:51 usbdev2.2_ep00
crw-rw----   1 root   root    254,  18 2008-12-12 07:51 usbdev2.2_ep81
crw-rw----   1 root   root    254,   4 2008-12-12 07:51 usbdev3.1_ep00
crw-rw----   1 root   root    254,   5 2008-12-12 07:51 usbdev3.1_ep81
crw-rw----   1 root   root    254,   6 2008-12-12 07:51 usbdev3.4_ep00
crw-rw----   1 root   root    254,   8 2008-12-12 07:51 usbdev3.4_ep02
crw-rw----   1 root   root    254,   7 2008-12-12 07:51 usbdev3.4_ep83
crw-rw----   1 root   root    254,   9 2008-12-12 07:51 usbdev3.5_ep00
crw-rw----   1 root   root    254,  10 2008-12-12 07:51 usbdev3.5_ep81
crw-rw----   1 root   root    254,  11 2008-12-12 07:51 usbdev3.5_ep82
crw-rw----   1 root   root    254,  12 2008-12-12 07:51 usbdev3.6_ep00
crw-rw----   1 root   root    254,  14 2008-12-12 07:51 usbdev3.6_ep02
crw-rw----   1 root   root    254,  13 2008-12-12 07:51 usbdev3.6_ep81
crw-rw----   1 root   root      7,   0 2008-12-12 07:51 vcs
crw-rw----   1 root   root      7,   1 2008-12-12 07:52 vcs1
crw-rw----   1 root   root      7,   2 2008-12-12 07:51 vcs2
crw-rw----   1 root   root      7,   3 2008-12-12 07:51 vcs3
crw-rw----   1 root   root      7,   4 2008-12-12 07:51 vcs4
crw-rw----   1 root   root      7,   5 2008-12-12 07:51 vcs5
crw-rw----   1 root   root      7,   6 2008-12-12 07:51 vcs6
crw-rw----   1 root   root      7,   7 2008-12-12 07:51 vcs7
crw-rw----   1 root   root      7,   8 2008-12-12 07:51 vcs8
crw-rw----   1 root   root      7, 128 2008-12-12 07:51 vcsa
crw-rw----   1 root   root      7, 129 2008-12-12 07:52 vcsa1
crw-rw----   1 root   root      7, 130 2008-12-12 07:51 vcsa2
crw-rw----   1 root   root      7, 131 2008-12-12 07:51 vcsa3
crw-rw----   1 root   root      7, 132 2008-12-12 07:51 vcsa4
crw-rw----   1 root   root      7, 133 2008-12-12 07:51 vcsa5
crw-rw----   1 root   root      7, 134 2008-12-12 07:51 vcsa6
crw-rw----   1 root   root      7, 135 2008-12-12 07:51 vcsa7
crw-rw----   1 root   root      7, 136 2008-12-12 07:51 vcsa8
prw-r-----   1 syslog adm            0 2008-12-12 08:40 xconsole
crw-rw-rw-   1 root   root      1,   5 2008-12-12 07:51 zero

Had to delete some of the files names with multiple numbers, but tryied to keep all the unique ones. (to fit in post)

I tried telinit 1, then came up with a screen, i didn't know what to do then, so i resumed, but now both my 2 hard drives have now dismounted... (Though i haven't restarted yet to find out if it is perminant)

Originally Posted by FailedArtifact

Ok, this looks weird;

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Had to delete some of the files names with multiple numbers, but tryied to keep all the unique ones. (to fit in post)

I tried telinit 1, then came up with a screen, i didn't know what to do then, so i resumed, but now both my 2 hard drives have now dismounted... (Though i haven't restarted yet to find out if it is perminant)

Ah, just reboot, you'll be taken back to the normal run level.
Read /etc/inittab .

Use /dev/dvd for the dvd drive, and cdrwl for the cd-only drive.
Therefore the command is `mount -t iso9660 drive /mount/point`.
If it doesn't work it will most likely print some error, you know what to do.

[FailedArtifact]

Cheers Zeusy, Ill give it a after the weekend, im going away.

[coroner]

If you're having trouble with DMA on your drives, use hdparm to switch it, to make this permanent, putting it in /etc/rc.d/rc.local will change the drive parameters everytime the machine boots. First chek your drives with hdparm -Ii though to make sure it isn't already set.

[PirateJoe]

I think this is normal. At least in all the systems I've used there's been at least as many /dev/ files. Here's the contents of mine right now:

XOR                 ptycb  ptys3  ptyxb     tty22  ttyc3  ttyrb  ttyx3

agpgart             ptycc  ptys4  ptyxc     tty23  ttyc4  ttyrc  ttyx4

audio               ptycd  ptys5  ptyxd     tty24  ttyc5  ttyrd  ttyx5

bus                 ptyce  ptys6  ptyxe     tty25  ttyc6  ttyre  ttyx6

cdrom               ptycf  ptys7  ptyxf     tty26  ttyc7  ttyrf  ttyx7

console             ptyd0  ptys8  ptyy0     tty27  ttyc8  ttys0  ttyx8

core                ptyd1  ptys9  ptyy1     tty28  ttyc9  ttys1  ttyx9

cpu                 ptyd2  ptysa  ptyy2     tty29  ttyca  ttys2  ttyxa

cpu_dma_latency     ptyd3  ptysb  ptyy3     tty3   ttycb  ttys3  ttyxb

device-mapper       ptyd4  ptysc  ptyy4     tty30  ttycc  ttys4  ttyxc

disk                ptyd5  ptysd  ptyy5     tty31  ttycd  ttys5  ttyxd

dri                 ptyd6  ptyse  ptyy6     tty32  ttyce  ttys6  ttyxe

dsp                 ptyd7  ptysf  ptyy7     tty33  ttycf  ttys7  ttyxf

fb                  ptyd8  ptyt0  ptyy8     tty34  ttyd0  ttys8  ttyy0

fb0                 ptyd9  ptyt1  ptyy9     tty35  ttyd1  ttys9  ttyy1

fb1                 ptyda  ptyt2  ptyya     tty36  ttyd2  ttysa  ttyy2

fd                  ptydb  ptyt3  ptyyb     tty37  ttyd3  ttysb  ttyy3

full                ptydc  ptyt4  ptyyc     tty38  ttyd4  ttysc  ttyy4

hda                 ptydd  ptyt5  ptyyd     tty39  ttyd5  ttysd  ttyy5

hpet                ptyde  ptyt6  ptyye     tty4   ttyd6  ttyse  ttyy6

initctl             ptydf  ptyt7  ptyyf     tty40  ttyd7  ttysf  ttyy7

input               ptye0  ptyt8  ptyz0     tty41  ttyd8  ttyt0  ttyy8

kmem                ptye1  ptyt9  ptyz1     tty42  ttyd9  ttyt1  ttyy9

kmsg                ptye2  ptyta  ptyz2     tty43  ttyda  ttyt2  ttyya

log                 ptye3  ptytb  ptyz3     tty44  ttydb  ttyt3  ttyyb

loop                ptye4  ptytc  ptyz4     tty45  ttydc  ttyt4  ttyyc

loop0               ptye5  ptytd  ptyz5     tty46  ttydd  ttyt5  ttyyd

loop1               ptye6  ptyte  ptyz6     tty47  ttyde  ttyt6  ttyye

loop2               ptye7  ptytf  ptyz7     tty48  ttydf  ttyt7  ttyyf

loop3               ptye8  ptyu0  ptyz8     tty49  ttye0  ttyt8  ttyz0

loop4               ptye9  ptyu1  ptyz9     tty5   ttye1  ttyt9  ttyz1

loop5               ptyea  ptyu2  ptyza     tty50  ttye2  ttyta  ttyz2

loop6               ptyeb  ptyu3  ptyzb     tty51  ttye3  ttytb  ttyz3

loop7               ptyec  ptyu4  ptyzc     tty52  ttye4  ttytc  ttyz4

mapper              ptyed  ptyu5  ptyzd     tty53  ttye5  ttytd  ttyz5

mem                 ptyee  ptyu6  ptyze     tty54  ttye6  ttyte  ttyz6

mixer               ptyef  ptyu7  ptyzf     tty55  ttye7  ttytf  ttyz7

net                 ptyp0  ptyu8  ram       tty56  ttye8  ttyu0  ttyz8

network_latency     ptyp1  ptyu9  ram0      tty57  ttye9  ttyu1  ttyz9

network_throughput  ptyp2  ptyua  ram1      tty58  ttyea  ttyu2  ttyza

null                ptyp3  ptyub  ram10     tty59  ttyeb  ttyu3  ttyzb

port                ptyp4  ptyuc  ram11     tty6   ttyec  ttyu4  ttyzc

psaux               ptyp5  ptyud  ram12     tty60  ttyed  ttyu5  ttyzd

ptmx                ptyp6  ptyue  ram13     tty61  ttyee  ttyu6  ttyze

pts                 ptyp7  ptyuf  ram14     tty62  ttyef  ttyu7  ttyzf

ptya0               ptyp8  ptyv0  ram15     tty63  ttyp0  ttyu8  urandom

ptya1               ptyp9  ptyv1  ram2      tty7   ttyp1  ttyu9  usbdev1.1_ep00

ptya2               ptypa  ptyv2  ram3      tty8   ttyp2  ttyua  usbdev1.1_ep81

ptya3               ptypb  ptyv3  ram4      tty9   ttyp3  ttyub  usbdev1.2_ep00

ptya4               ptypc  ptyv4  ram5      ttyS0  ttyp4  ttyuc  usbdev1.2_ep83

ptya5               ptypd  ptyv5  ram6      ttyS1  ttyp5  ttyud  usbdev2.1_ep00

ptya6               ptype  ptyv6  ram7      ttyS2  ttyp6  ttyue  usbdev2.1_ep81

ptya7               ptypf  ptyv7  ram8      ttyS3  ttyp7  ttyuf  usbdev3.1_ep00

ptya8               ptyq0  ptyv8  ram9      ttya0  ttyp8  ttyv0  usbdev3.1_ep81

ptya9               ptyq1  ptyv9  ramdisk   ttya1  ttyp9  ttyv1  usbdev4.1_ep00

ptyaa               ptyq2  ptyva  random    ttya2  ttypa  ttyv2  usbdev4.1_ep81

ptyab               ptyq3  ptyvb  raw       ttya3  ttypb  ttyv3  usbdev5.1_ep00

ptyac               ptyq4  ptyvc  raw1394   ttya4  ttypc  ttyv4  usbdev5.1_ep81

ptyad               ptyq5  ptyvd  rd        ttya5  ttypd  ttyv5  usbdev6.1_ep00

ptyae               ptyq6  ptyve  root      ttya6  ttype  ttyv6  usbdev6.1_ep81

ptyaf               ptyq7  ptyvf  rtc       ttya7  ttypf  ttyv7  usbdev7.1_ep00

ptyb0               ptyq8  ptyw0  sda       ttya8  ttyq0  ttyv8  usbdev7.1_ep81

ptyb1               ptyq9  ptyw1  sda1      ttya9  ttyq1  ttyv9  vcs

ptyb2               ptyqa  ptyw2  sda2      ttyaa  ttyq2  ttyva  vcs1

ptyb3               ptyqb  ptyw3  sda3      ttyab  ttyq3  ttyvb  vcs12

ptyb4               ptyqc  ptyw4  sg0       ttyac  ttyq4  ttyvc  vcs2

ptyb5               ptyqd  ptyw5  shm       ttyad  ttyq5  ttyvd  vcs3

ptyb6               ptyqe  ptyw6  snapshot  ttyae  ttyq6  ttyve  vcs4

ptyb7               ptyqf  ptyw7  snd       ttyaf  ttyq7  ttyvf  vcs5

ptyb8               ptyr0  ptyw8  stderr    ttyb0  ttyq8  ttyw0  vcs6

ptyb9               ptyr1  ptyw9  stdin     ttyb1  ttyq9  ttyw1  vcs7

ptyba               ptyr2  ptywa  stdout    ttyb2  ttyqa  ttyw2  vcsa

ptybb               ptyr3  ptywb  tty       ttyb3  ttyqb  ttyw3  vcsa1

ptybc               ptyr4  ptywc  tty0      ttyb4  ttyqc  ttyw4  vcsa12

ptybd               ptyr5  ptywd  tty1      ttyb5  ttyqd  ttyw5  vcsa2

ptybe               ptyr6  ptywe  tty10     ttyb6  ttyqe  ttyw6  vcsa3

ptybf               ptyr7  ptywf  tty11     ttyb7  ttyqf  ttyw7  vcsa4

ptyc0               ptyr8  ptyx0  tty12     ttyb8  ttyr0  ttyw8  vcsa5

ptyc1               ptyr9  ptyx1  tty13     ttyb9  ttyr1  ttyw9  vcsa6

ptyc2               ptyra  ptyx2  tty14     ttyba  ttyr2  ttywa  vcsa7

ptyc3               ptyrb  ptyx3  tty15     ttybb  ttyr3  ttywb  zero

ptyc4               ptyrc  ptyx4  tty16     ttybc  ttyr4  ttywc

ptyc5               ptyrd  ptyx5  tty17     ttybd  ttyr5  ttywd

ptyc6               ptyre  ptyx6  tty18     ttybe  ttyr6  ttywe

ptyc7               ptyrf  ptyx7  tty19     ttybf  ttyr7  ttywf

ptyc8               ptys0  ptyx8  tty2      ttyc0  ttyr8  ttyx0

ptyc9               ptys1  ptyx9  tty20     ttyc1  ttyr9  ttyx1

ptyca               ptys2  ptyxa  tty21     ttyc2  ttyra  ttyx2

[coroner]

It may have been normal with devfs, that's fucking archaic, we use udev now, which create devices on demand. Come on guys, upgrade your kernels to something in the 1980's range at least. I know you guys are running Ubuntu and Gentoo with broken ass flags.

Mine definitely does not look like that:

[coroner@localhost ~]$ ls /dev
0:0:0:0 event5 mem ram2 sg0 tty2 tty40 tty61 usbdev2.2_ep82 vcs3
2-4 fb mice ram3 sg1 tty20 tty41 tty62 usbdev3.1_ep00 vcs4
3:0:0:0 fd mixer ram4 shm tty21 tty42 tty63 usbdev3.1_ep81 vcs5
agpgart full mouse0 ram5 snapshot tty22 tty43 tty7 usbdev4.1_ep00 vcs6
audio fuse net ram6 snd tty23 tty44 tty8 usbdev4.1_ep81 vcsa
bsg gpmctl network_latency ram7 sr0 tty24 tty45 tty9 usbdev5.1_ep00 vcsa1
bus hpet network_throughput ram8 stderr tty25 tty46 ttyS0 usbdev5.1_ep81 vcsa2
cdrom input null ram9 stdin tty26 tty47 ttyS1 usbdev6.1_ep00 vcsa3
cdrw kmsg nvram ramdisk stdout tty27 tty48 ttyS2 usbdev6.1_ep81 vcsa4
console loop0 oldmem random systty tty28 tty49 ttyS3 usbdev7.1_ep00 vcsa5
core loop1 port raw tty tty29 tty5 urandom usbdev7.1_ep81 vcsa6
cpu_dma_latency loop2 ppp rawctl tty0 tty3 tty50 usb1 usbmon0 video
device-mapper loop3 ptmx root tty1 tty30 tty51 usb2 usbmon1 video0
disk loop4 pts rtc tty10 tty31 tty52 usb3 usbmon2 watchdog
dri loop5 ram rtc0 tty11 tty32 tty53 usb4 usbmon3 XOR
dsp loop6 ram0 scd0 tty12 tty33 tty54 usb5 usbmon4 zero
dvd loop7 ram1 sda tty13 tty34 tty55 usb6 usbmon5
dvdrw lp0 ram10 sda1 tty14 tty35 tty56 usb7 usbmon6
event0 lp1 ram11 sda2 tty15 tty36 tty57 usbdev1.1_ep00 usbmon7
event1 lp2 ram12 sda3 tty16 tty37 tty58 usbdev1.1_ep81 v4l
event2 lp3 ram13 sda4 tty17 tty38 tty59 usbdev2.1_ep00 vcs
event3 MAKEDEV ram14 sequencer tty18 tty39 tty6 usbdev2.1_ep81 vcs1
event4 mapper ram15 sequencer2 tty19 tty4 tty60 usbdev2.2_ep00 vcs2
[coroner@localhost ~]$

/dev/pts/0 is also the only pseudo terminal file I have, which is the one I'm running commands in.

[FailedArtifact]

So which Kernel uses udev's then? I was thinking about switching to Fedora.. but very much like ubuntu...

[coroner]

Run this:

cat /etc/udev/rules.d/* | grep pty

I really can't say what's up with your machine bro, it is probably normal for distributions still trying to properly implement udev.

With respect to DMA on the CD/DVD ROM drives, it may be related to the ATA driver that is used.

In the past (and still in some linux distros), PATA disk drives got to be /dev/hd* while SATA & SCSI devices were /dev/sd*. Starting in Linux 2.6.2something, it became possible to use a new ATA driver that made both PATA & SATA devices show up as /dev/sd* (or /dev/scd*). Ubuntu started loading this driver by default some time after v. 6.06.

In any case, I've noticed problems with this driver, PATA devices, and hdparm before.

To fix this, you can find out the module name and add it to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist and then hope that your computer can find and load the correct drive for your particular ide chipset at boot time. You could also compile your own kernel and make sure that you don't compile in that driver. Depending on if your root drive is SATA or PATA, you may need to edit your /boot/grub/menu.lst to make sure that you pass the correct name of your root drive to the kernel at boot time.

If you do find that you need to have to set hdparm parameters and they don't get saved over reboots, you can put the command in your rc.local. You should also have a file called /etc/hdparm.conf where you can set the proper options. Ubuntu should be set-up to execute hdparm when you're going into runlevel 1 or 2 and draw the config options from that file. It's a slightly more elegant way to handle things.

As far as your /dev/ directory goes, I wouldn't worry about it. It's not actually taking up any space on your drive.

[FailedArtifact]

Originally Posted by zeusy

Ah, just reboot, you'll be taken back to the normal run level.
Read /etc/inittab .

Use /dev/dvd for the dvd drive, and cdrwl for the cd-only drive.
Therefore the command is `mount -t iso9660 drive /mount/point`.
If it doesn't work it will most likely print some error, you know what to do.

When I try mounting, all I get is

Mount: no medium found

Run this:

cat /etc/udev/rules.d/* | grep pty

I really can't say what's up with your machine bro, it is probably normal for distributions still trying to properly implement udev.

I got this output.

# pty devices

SUBSYSTEM=="tty", KERNEL=="pty*",	GROUP="tty", MODE="0666"

# fill empty serial number

# do not use empty address

Im going to reinstall another linux distro... I think i have done too much previously which could have damaged something. So a fresh install will allow me to have another attempt.

[coroner]

Try Fedora 10. It's really nice, and regardless if you like GUI shit or not, Fedora provides the best of both worlds, nice GUI shit and of course if you're running without X, you still have a base Linux system.

If not Fedora, try Slackware.

[FailedArtifact]

Cheers coroner! Im giving Fedora a chance now.