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Re: 2.4.5-pre3-benh and 604-MP segfaults



I don't have any of these problems with this kernel on my dual
processor machine.  Syslogd works fine, and so does man.  Do you
have some bad memory maybe?  Your /var/log/messages as included here
looks totally normal, as if someone was running shutdown or
something.

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Christoph Ewering wrote:
> 
> Hello!
> 
> I´m trying to get a 2.4.5 kernel to run on a 7300 / 604 MP Mac for a week.
> 
> Just synced from penguinppc the linux-2.4-benh-kernel and compiled it.
> 
> The kernel got hung during syslogd startup and prints something about
> seg-fault in /etc.../rc
> 
> But since today it goes on and boots to the login-prompt.
> 
> This is what /var/log/messages has to say:
> ...
> Jun 12 11:23:28 multimac kernel: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
> Jun 12 11:23:28 multimac kernel: Freeing unused kernel memory: 288k init
> 4k chrp 36k prep
> Jun 12 11:23:28 multimac kernel: Adding Swap: 233464k swap-space
> (priority -1)
> Jun 12 11:43:27 multimac -- MARK --
> Jun 12 12:03:27 multimac -- MARK --
> Jun 12 12:23:27 multimac -- MARK --
> Jun 12 12:43:27 multimac -- MARK --
> Jun 12 13:03:27 multimac -- MARK --
> Jun 12 13:23:28 multimac -- MARK --
> Jun 12 13:43:28 multimac -- MARK --
> Jun 12 14:03:28 multimac -- MARK --
> Jun 12 14:23:28 multimac -- MARK --
> Jun 12 14:43:28 multimac -- MARK --
> Jun 12 15:03:28 multimac -- MARK --
> Jun 12 15:23:28 multimac -- MARK --
> Jun 12 15:43:28 multimac -- MARK --
> Jun 12 16:03:28 multimac -- MARK --
> Jun 12 16:23:28 multimac -- MARK --
> Jun 12 16:31:32 multimac Font Server[172]: terminating
> Jun 12 16:31:33 multimac kernel: Kernel logging (proc) stopped.
> Jun 12 16:31:33 multimac kernel: Kernel log daemon terminating.
> Jun 12 16:31:33 multimac exiting on signal 15
> 
> Someone knows what this is? (BTW the time above is not correct, do not
> know why, the time in MacOS is correct and timezone is also correct)
> Startup of syslogd hangs for about 5 minutes, seg-faults and than goes on.
> Why does the syslogd crashes?
> 
> I have a kernel 2.4.2 running but with broken hfs-support so I want to
> compile a new kernel
> 
> Just tried "man date" and got "Reformatting date(1), please wait..." for ever.
> 
> Looks that there is something broken with SMP and 2.4.5



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