Subject: Complete kernel crash [Was: Re: dpkg failure trying to changeownership of a symlink ...]
From: Nikhil Nair (nn201@cus.cam.ac.uk)
Date: Wed Oct 18 2000 - 09:38:06 PDT
Hi,
Ian, thanks for your help. I had dpkg 1.4.0.31 and libc6.1 2.1.3-10, so
both newer than the lchown change (that happened at dpkg 1.4.0.25,
according to the changelog).
My kernel was ancient: 2.0.34. So I grabbed the source for 2.2.17pre6
from the source directory, built it and rebooted - and got a complete and
utter crash.
Any ideas? I'm afraid I used to be competent at this sort of thing, but
I'm long out of practice. My milo is from kernel 2.0.30, which could be a
problem - could it? I didn't apply any patches at all - I just took the
.orig.tar.gz file; could that be the trouble? (I take it there aren't any
separate alpha patches any more ...).
This is what happened: when I did a shutdown -r, it crashed when jumping
to the kernel. When rebooting through milo, milo kept rerunning itself,
and I never got to the kernel ...
Oh, my 2.0.34 kernel with new dpkg/libc is also doing some very odd
things, like the date is 1970, and I've been getting lots of messages
starting `<sc' (but that isn't dpkg/libc, as I've been getting them for a
while ...).
Any help here much appreciated ...
Thanks,
Nikhil.
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