2.6.1 kernel question

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Do, den 22.01.2004 schrieb Alan um 03:22:
> On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 03:25, Alan wrote:
> > On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 02:00, Dave Jones wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 04:34, Alan wrote:
> > > > I am encountering a problem where lsmod hangs.
> > > > 
> > > > What version of modutils should I be running for the 2.6.1 kernel under
> > > > Fedora 1?
> > > 
> > > Probably the version from the development tree is your best bet.
> > > (currently 2.5.26-2). Or the ones from Arjan's page at
> > > people.redhat.com/arjanv (which is a few revisions behind right now).
> > 
> > I just tried that.  Does not work.  Something is not functioning as it
> > should.  I am going to run strace and a few other things and see if I
> > can narrow it down as to cause.
> 
> Well, I found out what went wrong. Not certain what caused it.
> 
> /proc was no longer functional!  (Not certain why. Maybe this system
> needs a /proctologist.)

This is just because /proc is no longer used for system states in kernel
2.6. Absolutely normal and no error on your system. Maybe you should
read the kernel documentation to know all changes.

> I have updated to the devel tree for most of the system tools.  It seems
> to work now.  I will see if I can reproduce the problem.

Alexander


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