Bug 122270 – cat /proc/fb produces no results, on udev 84, kernel 2.6.15-r2

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Adam J. Bravo 2006-02-09 09:15:55 UTC]

Short system desc:

Kernel 		2.6.15-r2
GCC 		3.4.5
udev		84
baselayout	1.11.14-r3

Blade 1000	SMP, 2x900
Graphics	Elite 3D (AFB: ... type 35 DAC 10)


Problem:

	cat /proc/fb 

produces no output, which then causes the /etc/init.d/afbinit script to fail since it relies on this to figure out where to install the 
microcode.  With no output from the cat command, /usr/sbin/rc.afb dies silently but never loads the code (but leaves afbinit saying 
"[OK]").

I don't know enough about how the "cat /proc/fb" gets its info to know if this is a bug, or if its a snafu on the part of my system 
config (which it may well be).  I've worked around the problem by hardwiring the /usr/sbin/rc.afb script to work on my system, so it's 
not too much of an issue for me, but if its a new bug which is gonna start popping up in future versions of udev or something, figured 
I'd give a heads up.




emerge --info

Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14
Portage 2.1_pre4-r1 (default-linux/sparc/sparc64/2006.0, gcc-3.4.5, glibc-2.3.5-r3, 2.6.15-gentoo-r2 sparc64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.15-gentoo-r2 sparc64 sun4u
ccache version 2.4 [enabled]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2-r1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1-r1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r4
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="sparc ~sparc"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="sparc-unknown-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=ultrasparc3 -mtune=ultrasparc3 -pipe -mvis"
CHOST="sparc-unknown-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=ultrasparc3 -mtune=ultrasparc3 -pipe -mvis"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig ccache confcache distlocks fetch-parallel parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="sparc X X* avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cups dlloader dvd eds encode esd fbcon foomaticdb fortran gcc64 gdbm gif gstreamer gtk gtk2 imlib javascript jpeg kde libwww mad mikmod motif mozilla mpeg ncurses nls nptl nptlonly opengl oss pam pcntl pdflib perl png posix python readline sdl ssl tcpd threads truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts xml xv zlib elibc_glibc kernel_linux userland_GNU"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

[Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2006-02-09 09:20:14 UTC]

Attach (don't paste) your kernel .config and reopen then.

[Comment 2 Adam J. Bravo 2006-02-10 17:43:09 UTC]

Created attachment 79479 [details]
.config 2.6.15-gentoo-r2 kernel

[Comment 3 Adam J. Bravo 2006-02-11 04:45:25 UTC]

Attached my .coonfig, hope that helps.

[Comment 4 Greg Kroah-Hartman (RETIRED) 2006-02-11 13:13:57 UTC]

udev has nothing to do with this...

[Comment 5 Greg Kroah-Hartman (RETIRED) 2006-03-13 15:47:53 UTC]

marking invalid as it has nothing to do with udev.