Re: 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:[email protected]]
>> Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 7:44 AM
>> To: [email protected]
>> 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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