Gentoo Archives: gentoo-server

From: Collin Starkweather <collin.starkweather@××××××××××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Cc: gentoo-server@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-server] Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.4.22-gentoo-r5 safe to use despite oops?
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 22:01:15
Message-Id: 1074549399.9849.1055.camel@localhost
1 On Sun, 2004-01-18 at 22:49, Eric Paynter wrote:
2 > Collin Starkweather said:
3 > > I'm getting a kernel oops from gentoo-sources kernel
4 > > 2.4.22-gentoo-r5.
5 >
6 > There are two versions of r5. The first had an oops. If you synced
7 > before Friday, try re-sync, re-emerge, and re-build the kernel and
8 > see if it fixes it.
9
10 Thanks to everyone who replied. The new version works just great.
11
12 The process was
13
14 # back up your /usr/src/linux-2.4.22-gentoo-rc5/.config
15 rm /usr/portage/distfiles/gentoo-sources-2.4.22-r5.patch.bz2
16 # next step not strictly necessary but made me feel much better
17 rm -rf /usr/src/linux-2.4.22-gentoo-rc5
18 # cp the .config back to /usr/src/linux-2.4.22-gentoo-rc5
19 emerge gentoo-sources
20 cd /usr/src/linux-2.4.22-gentoo-rc5
21 make dep && make bzImage modules modules_install
22
23 -Collin
24
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27 Collin Starkweather, Ph.D. collin.starkweather@××××××××××××××××××.com
28 University of Colorado Department of Economics
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