Linux-Hams archive - June 1997: Re: xd700 and Linux 2.1.42
Re: xd700 and Linux 2.1.42
Jean-Paul ROUBELAT (dxt@relay.tunkki.fi)
Mon, 9 Jun 1997 10:39:53 +0100
>Date: Fri, 06 Jun 1997 19:51:33
>To: dfokpgt@beverlycorp.com
>From: Jean-Paul ROUBELAT <piw@tilden-coil.com>
>Subject: Re: xd700 and Linux 2.1.42
>
>At 12:09 09/06/1997 +0300, you wrote:
>>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?
Yes, it could be something like this. If the avalaible memory indication is
too low, the system may not work, waiting for some more memory. So if the
/proc/meminfo has changed, this could be the problem.
>>--
>>---Tomi Manninen / prbqj@vlaanderen.be / OH2BNS @ OH2RBI.FIN.EU---
>>
>>
>
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