worked yesterday, broken today...

Did something change real recently in, say, the h3600 sleeve modules,
or the reiserfs modules, or the Intimate installer... as I reported
few days ago, back then my setup worked, now it doesn't...

What I do is:
(1) I have task-bootstrap.tar.gz from Sep 29, (still there,
    ftp://familiar.handhelds.org/familiar/feeds/unstable/install/H3600/)
    that I unpack and inject our WLAN settings and various other small
config stuff
(2) I repackage the directorynto a jffs2 image
(3) Flash it in
(4) Run another script that installs task-complete et alia

Everything up to this point works just fine as it did yesterday... but
the following
steps result in a mangled iPAQ:

(5) Install reiserfs-module, reiserfs-modules-2.4.7-rmk3-np1-devfs,
    backpaq-modules-2.4.7-rmk3-np1-devfs
(6) Get and run the Intimate beta-installer
(7) Do the needed edits: ttySA0 in inittab and securetty, mtdblock/2 in
fstab,
    h3600_generic_sleeve in linuxrc.intimate.
(8) Using ipaqbb patch the linuxargs to point to mtdblock/2.

The result is that the microdrive seems once again have gone bye-bye:

[...snip...]
INIT: version 2.78 booting
Mounting local filesystems...
warning: can't open /etc/mtab: No such file or directory
ramfs on /mnt/ramfs type ramfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=0622)
Calculating module dependencies... depmod: Can't open
/lib/modules/2.4.7-rmk3-np
1-devfs/modules.dep for writing
done.
Loading modules: apm modprobe: Can't open dependencies file
/lib/modules/2.4.7-r
mk3-np1-devfs/modules.dep (No such file or directory)
h3600_ts modprobe: Can't open dependencies file
/lib/modules/2.4.7-rmk3-np1-devf
s/modules.dep (No such file or directory)
sa1100-rtc modprobe: Can't open dependencies file
/lib/modules/2.4.7-rmk3-np1-de
vfs/modules.dep (No such file or directory)
h3600-sleeve modprobe: Can't open dependencies file
/lib/modules/2.4.7-rmk3-np1-
devfs/modules.dep (No such file or directory)
h3600_generic_sleeve modprobe: Can't open dependencies file
/lib/modules/2.4.7-r
mk3-np1-devfs/modules.dep (No such file or directory)
bitsy-uda1341 modprobe: Can't open dependencies file
/lib/modules/2.4.7-rmk3-np1
-devfs/modules.dep (No such file or directory)
h3600_backpaq modprobe: Can't open dependencies file
/lib/modules/2.4.7-rmk3-np1
-devfs/modules.dep (No such file or directory)

modprobe: Can't open dependencies file
/lib/modules/2.4.7-rmk3-np1-devfs/modules
.dep (No such file or directory)
Setting the System Clock using the Hardware Clock as reference...
Cannot access the Hardware Clock via any known method.
Use the --debug option to see the details of our search for an access
method.
INIT: Entering runlevel: 2
Configuring network interfaces: /etc/network/ifstate: No such file or
directory
done.
Starting PCMCIA services:touch: creating `/var/run/pcmcia-scheme': No
such file
or directory
 modulesLinux Kernel Card Services 3.1.22
  options: [pm]
SA-1100 PCMCIA (CS release 3.1.22)
sa1100_bitsy_common_pcmcia_get_irq_info
sa1100_bitsy_common_pcmcia_get_irq_info
sa1100: initialization complete
 cardmgr.
cardmgr[67]: starting, version is 3.1.20
cardmgr[67]: no sockets found!
cardmgr[67]: exiting
Starting OpenBSD Secure Shell server: sshderror: Could not load host
key: /etc/s
sh/ssh_host_key: No such file or directory
Disabling protocol version 1
error: Could not load DSA host key: /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key
Disabling protocol version 2
sshd: no hostkeys available -- exiting.
sshd: no hostkeys available -- exiting.

.
Starting X...
bad ioctl: Invalid argument
_XSERVTransSocketUNIXCreateListener: mkdir(/tmp/.X11-unix) failed, errno
= 2
_XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: failed to create listener for
local

Fatal server error:
Failed to establish all listening sockets
xset: unable to open display ":0.0"
BaseDisplay::BaseDisplay: connection to X server failed.
xset: unable to open display ":0.0"
xrdb: No such file or directory
xrdb: Can't open display ':0.0'
xrdb: No such file or directory
xrdb: Can't open display ':0.0'

familiar login:
Received on Wed Oct 10 14:36:12 2001