Linux-Hams archive - June 1997: Re: xd700 and Linux 2.1.42

Re: xd700 and Linux 2.1.42

Tomi Manninen (terhi.victor@logonet.com)
Mon, 9 Jun 1997 12:09:35 +0300 (EETDST)


On Sun, 8 Jun 1997, Jonathan Naylor wrote:

> On Sat, 7 Jun 1997, Dave Stewart wrote:

> > I noted with interest that free is broken in 2.1.41+, due to a different
> > structure for /proc/meminfo

[...]

> > There are no errors logged anywhere to indicate where the problem is... I'm
> > suspicious of changes in the /proc filesystem, since that seems to be the
> > only place where changes took place from 2.1.40 to 2.1.42
> >
> > Thoughts?
>
> Whatever the problem is, it isn't that.

Not having tested this I can not of course be sure but I remember Petteri
OH1MMA saying that he had a similar problem (xfbb lockup right after
connection) when he ran XFBB in an chrooted environment. Providing a copy
of /proc/meminfo in the chrooted environment solved the problem (or so I
understood). So could the problem really be this after all?

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