Re: [suse-sparc] Kernel 2.4.20

From: Nick Thompson (nthompso_at_cae.wisc.edu)
Date: Fri Dec 13 2002 - 06:01:59 CET

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    Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 00:01:59 -0500 (EST)
    From: "Nick Thompson" <nthompso@cae.wisc.edu>
    Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] Kernel 2.4.20
    

    Did you compile this kernel yourself? Or is it a 'boxed' kernel?

    Are your NFS / mount packages from the same distro as your Suse or are
    some components updated?

    Is NFS a module or built into your kernel?

    Corrupted root partition?

    I'm guessing now :)

    Jurzitza, Dieter said:
    > Dear listmembers,
    > today I had an unexpected system crash - unfortunately I cannot give
    > more than this information. The system froze entirely, the last messages
    > in /var/log/warn:
    >
    > Dec 12 09:59:11 oekalux08 kernel: RPC: garbage, exit EIO
    > Dec 12 09:59:11 oekalux08 kernel: nfs_read_super: get root_inode failed
    > Dec 12 09:59:11 oekalux08 kernel: nfs warning: mount version older than
    > kernel
    > Dec 12 10:08:31 oekalux08 kernel: Unable to handle kernel request at
    > virtual address 0000000000010000
    >
    > Then the reboot starts again. Other messages are:
    >
    > Error reading kernel symbols - Cannot allocate memory
    >
    > and
    > kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
    >
    > The letter might be caused by the fact that the root - fs has not been
    > mounted at that time. There are other messages I would not assume to be
    > of significance this time. Any ideas? Help is highly appreciated. I have
    > a feeling that there is somethin out of order with nfs. I use a Ultra 60
    > with dual processor.
    >
    > Many thanks in advance,
    >
    > take care
    >
    >
    >
    > Dieter Jurzitza
    >
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    >> -----Original Message-----
    >> From: Jurzitza, Dieter [mailto:JurzitzaD@becker.de]
    >> Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 7:44 AM
    >> To: suse-sparc@suse.com
    >> Subject: [suse-sparc] NCPFS
    >>
    >>
    >> Dear listmembers,
    >> FYI/To whom it might concern: if anyone of you might want to
    >> try to use
    >> ncpfs on Novell on a 64 Bit Ultra Sparc (maybe this holds
    >> true for other
    >> systems, too), you *should* upgrade to kernel 2.4.20 & ncpfs-2.0.0.19.
    >> Otherwise things will fail.
    >> -> get vanilla 2.4.20,
    >> -> get ncpfs-src-rpm from the SuSE 8.1 distribution
    >> and you will be capable to work as you might expect it to. In
    >> addition,
    >> there are several useful hints with regard to the basic
    >> ncpfs-configuration
    >> that come along with the 8.1-src-distribution
    >> Take care
    >>
    >>
    >> Dieter Jurzitza
    >>
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    >>
    >> Dr.-Ing. Dieter Jurzitza
    >> Manager Hardware Systems
    >> ESI
    >>
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    >> Becker-Göring Str. 16
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