Linux-Hams archive - February 1999: kernel 2.2.0 stinks!

kernel 2.2.0 stinks!

Karl F. Larsen (uuhtdb@netcracker.org)
Fri, 5 Feb 1999 19:50:38 -0700 (MST)

For 3 days I have been trying to get the new and much wanted new
kernel. This evening after knowing the ax25-utils will not work with the
kernel I decided to for-go those and see what else works.

I loged on as root and typed startx and to my horror it never came
up! I did a Ctrl-Alt-F1 and among other things I saw it say over and over
and over..."unable to open socket for local".

So I reset lilo and I'm back with 2.0.36 and will stay here. I
will fix my laptop and delete 2.2.0 from it.

It's clear the kernel workers never tried 2.2.0 on a Red Hat 5.2
loaded Linux. Nor have they tried it with the ax25-utils. Since I can't
even get X windows loaded there is no telling what else failed...:-(

So, for those who have yet to try the new 13 mbyte when a tar.gz
kernel be warned. It doesn't work very well.

Best wishes

- Karl F. Larsen, ont@nextra.ro (505) 524-3303 -