Help, please. Error: "Could not connect with /usr/etc/fam

[Hansolo]

Hi Guys,

Newbee here.
A while ago I bought an SGI Indy Workstation.
I was messing around with it and for some reason (I don't remember why!)
I messed up some file and now I get this message
"Filemanager Fatal Error. Could not connect with /usr/etc/fam"
and can't do anything anymore.
I did some research and tried to correct the problem, but to no avail.
For some reason the system can't connect to the File Alteration Monitor.
I don't have a floppy drive. I don't have an external SCSI CD Rom drive.
I do have a parallel zip drive and ethernet.

What can I do to maybe correct the corrupted file or something else.
Any suggestions would be much appreciated.

Cheers
Han

 

[Elf]

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[Hansolo]

Hi!

It's difficult to diagnose things like this remotely, but I think the general advice would be to reinstall IRIX if this is a show stopper for you.

There are a few network install options for reinstallation without a CD-ROM drive:

• https://github.com/unxmaal/booterizer
• https://forums.sgi.sh/index.php?threads/howto-irix-network-install-using-ubuntu.109/

Thanks Elf!
I will definitely try that!

Cheers
Han

 

[Jacques]

I have this every time I do a fresh install. Have you checked fam is started and enabled in inetd.conf? Should be near the bottom.... sgi_fam/1-2 ... etc ...? If it's commented out uncomment it. Restart completely or restart networking.

 

[Hansolo]

I have this every time I do a fresh install. Have you checked fam is started and enabled in inetd.conf? Should be near the bottom.... sgi_fam/1-2 ... etc ...? If it's commented out uncomment it. Restart completely or restart networking.

I tried to edit the intetd.conf file in console. But I don't know how to do this in console. Can you tell me how, please? I attached a screen dump of my syslog.

Cheers
Han

 

[Hansolo]

I checked if the fam was started and it was and did some more checks but I got a fail at the port mapper. Some blog tells me to debug a line in the inetd.conf file like so: sgi_fam/1-2 stream rpc/tcp wait root ?/usr/etc/fam fam -d. But I don't know how to open edit and safe a file in console.

Cheers
Han

 

[Hansolo]

By the way, I also tried a network install of a new system, but could not get a ethernet connection going between my mac and the indy.

 

[Elf]

Edit: With apologies, I no longer wish to have involvement with SGUG or SGI communities in general,
and have also chosen to remove all of my content. Many things have changed since I co-founded, named, and ultimately
then left SGUG. There are many good people around, to whom I apologize for frustrating by removing these things, and
also many petty people that over the years whittled down both the enjoyment as well as sense of obligation I used to
feel to anyone else regarding what was ultimately just a hobby. Unfortunately one of the latter now writes the rules
and so it is time for me to take my things and go.

This message will replace all of my previous forum posts because deleting threads that I started would have removed
other peoples' posts.

 

[Hansolo]

Thanks Elf!
I'll see what I can do, using these.

Cheers
Han

 

[massiverobot]

Thanks Elf!
I will definitely try that!

Cheers
Han

THere is lots of real-time support in the discord for booterizer if you take that path.

 

[Hansolo]

THere is lots of real-time support in the discord for booterizer if you take that path.

Thanks. I'll keep that in mind.

 

[Hansolo]

When checking the FAM all steps went as should, until I got to this command:
# rpcinfo -p | grep fam
It didn't give any return feedback.
This means: FAM is not registered with the portmapper.
So the client applications can NOT connect to specific ports for the services they need.

How can I solve this problem?