Re: Kernel error - should I be worried ?
Thanks for the solution. I disabled network inside init.d and the error
went away.
Mahesh
On Sun, Mar 12, 2000 at 05:33:53PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote:
> 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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