Re: Some tools are segfaulting with a new kernel
On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 01:10:19PM +0200, Jan-Hendrik Palic wrote:
> Hi Guido, hi all...
>
> On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 09:36:25AM +0200, Guido Guenther wrote:
> >On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 10:14:30PM +0200, Jan-Hendrik Palic wrote:
> >> palic@Feathers:~$ ls
> >> segmentationfault
> >> palic@Feathers:~$
> >search for "sysmips" in the oss.sgi.com archive.
> >>
> >> The second thing is, when I boot the old kernel vmlinux-2.4.3.ecoff,
> >> andrun depmod -a : I got this :
> >>
> >> .
> >> .
> >> .
> >> depmod: local symbol sl_alloc with index 55 exceeds local_symtab_size 11
> >[..snip..]
> >This was a binutils problem. It's fixed since quiet some time now.
> >Modules work fine when built with recent binutils.
>
> hmmmm I had installed the current binutils from sid (i dist-ugrade my
> indy- box ervery day :) )
>
> I just compiled the binutils by debuild and I'll see this day ...
You misunderstood me. Your kernel was compiled with too old binutils.
Just upgrading binutils yields you nothing. You can just try the
kernel-image from the archive for now.
-- Guido
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