Re: Kernel error - should I be worried ?
On Sun, Mar 12, 2000 at 05:20:07PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 12, 2000 at 03:20:32PM -0700, Mahesh Padmanabhan wrote:
> > Here is the error that I get (modified snippet from boot
> > message below).
> >
> > I upgraded from a base slink distribution to potato. The upgrade
> > process indicated that I should get rid of portmapper from the
> > startup files manually. I did that but still this message won't
> > go away.
> >
> > I am not even sure that portmapper causes this.
>
> This comes from /etc/init.d/network trying to setup things for the
> loopback network device (lo). You can ignore it, or comment out the lo
> related lines in that file.
Oh, forgot to also mention that this is because 2.2.x kernels do not
require these commands, and 2.0.x did. It is not a serious error, and does
not affect the machine at all.
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