I could send you an "rpm -q -a" of a fresh 7.1 install which you could sort and
diff with yours. Might narrow it down.
Greg
On 13-Jul-01 Paul D. Smith wrote:
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> %% Nico De Ranter <nico@sonycom.com> writes:
>
> ndr> Ok, to be totaly honest: I tried installing a fresh Redhat 7.1
> ndr> system first but couldn't get the 2.4.2-2 kernel to compile.
> ndr> Then I installed a Debian system (running "testing"), copied the
> ndr> source tree from the Redhat box and managed to get it compiled.
> ndr> Unfortunately the system isn't stable at all so I'll try again
> ndr> next week with a fresh Redhat 7.1 installation (unfortunately I
> ndr> don't like Redhat at all :-( ).
>
> I've heard from someone at Cisco who has a RH 6.2 system that he
> upgraded to run the 2.4.2-2 kernel (but didn't install the full RH 7.1
> system), and sees the same problem I am.
>
> There's some utility or library somewhere which is different between the
> official 7.1 dists and the ones we're using, that is not happy. I just
> wish I know where to start looking.
>
> It's not a compiler issue, because I actually installed the RH 7.2
> kernel RPM and booted their pre-built kernel (my system was a bit
> whacked because my network card wouldn't come up initially, etc.) but I
> had the same problem with that.
>
> ndr> What problems are you having with setview? Currently we are
> ndr> having problems with some views (not all of them!), when I do ct
> ndr> setview the command just blocks. After a reboot everything is
> ndr> fine for a while :-(.
>
> Exactly, except on my system setview _NEVER_ works. Every time you run
> it, it hangs. I've described this in earlier messages, but basically I
> can do anything I want as long as I don't setview: I can mount VOBs,
> start views, use view-extended names to edit files (check out/check
> in/unco blah blah blah--so I know MVFS is working).
>
> As soon as I try to setview, the shell it invokes hard-hangs and can't
> be killed.
>
> If I keep trying to do this with different shells, I start getting
> kernel error messages in dmesg; looks like the filesystem structures are
> screwed up and trying to dereference NULL pointers or s'thing.
>
> I've dropped back to my 2.2.16-22 kernel, which works fine in this same
> system [but no NFSv3 :( ], and I've ordered a copy of the RH 7.1 CDs
> from CheapBytes; when they get here I'll try to see if I can figure out
> what's wrong.
>
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