> At 11:15 AM 9/28/2000 -0500, you wrote:
> > > At 09:53 AM 9/28/2000 -0500, you wrote:
> > > >Steve Lord wrote:
> >Hmm, I am not sure what the kernel had to do with login problems - I take it
> >a redhat supplied kernel does not give you this grief.
>
> It appears proc is not being mounted
>
> this is the command in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit
> action "Mounting proc filesystem: " mount -n -t proc /proc /proc
> This is the same on a redhat 6.1 box
>
> After that it goes into a downwards spiral because there is no proc and the
> init can't write it's parameters in there. Is this something which was on
> the buglist for test5? It would make a great candidate.
>
> I recompiled the kernel with kgcc (gcc 2.91.66 indeed) and it compiles
> everything without problems. This is indeed a oneline fix.
> Still no difference in boot behaviour.
>
> And oh, because of this /proc maddness you can't boot single user....
> bummer.
>
> Bye
>
> --
> Seth
> "Have you gone mad?"
> "Well, yes, but that's beyond the scope of this email."
All I can say at the moment is that I run XFS kernels everyday on a redhat
6.2 system. We have duplicated this exact behavior, and should have a
solution shortly - there is nothing special about /proc in our kernel.
We should figure this one out soon.
Steve
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