Re: [webmin-l] Urgent Help Needed - Kernel Issues

[John H. <web...@ew...>]

Vern wrote:

>In case anyone is interested it has to do multiprocessing which I don't even have so 
>disabling it does nothing. It's been working for over a year and all of a sudden... 
>sometimes I hate computers! Anyway, that is resolved.
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Ahh.. OK.. so Fedora 'thought' it found a second processor which you do 
not have. Seems this is happening on several particular systems lately. 
The smp of course stands for multi-processor. Set grub (or lilo if 
you're using that)  to boot from the

Fedora Core (2.6.12-1.1378_FC3)

kernel. Then, under software packages, search for kernel and remove any kernels with the smp. I don't know exactly why this is happening. File a bug report on the Fedora site.

Things are getting more complicated in the Linux world. Seems there is a move to support just about everything that comes along and that's not an easy undertaking. At the same time, older hardware 'work-arounds' seem to be getting dumped from things like Anaconda. I think we've been from the almost nothing is supported era of the early 90s, to the almost anything works era of the 00s and are moving into the time when moving forward is also moving backwards with regards to hardware. The pendulum swings!

John Hinton

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>From: John Hinton <web...@ew...> 
>To: web...@li... 
>Sent: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 15:35:16 -0400 
>Subject: Re: [webmin-l] Urgent Help Needed - Kernel Issues
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>>Vern wrote: 
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>>>I am having troubles rebooting my system. Can anyone tell me what the 
>>>difference is between: 
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>>>    * Core (2.6.12-1.1378_FC3smp) and 
>>>    * Fedora Core (2.6.12-1.1378_FC3) 
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>>>When I reboot my system and I try to go into any of the kernals that 
>>>have smp on them I can never get back up. It seems that when it gets 
>>>to the ProFTP server starting I get a bunch of crap on the screen like 
>>>traffic and it never gets past that. But if I boot without the smp it 
>>>goes in. 
>>>
>>>Vern 
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>>In grub, under kernel options, try 
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>>ro root=LABEL=/ apm=off noapic rhgb quiet 
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>>That fixed it for me on kernel 2.6.9-22.ELsmp running CentOS 4.2. 
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>>There's lots of flags available for boot up options. Mine died much 
>>earlier in the boot.. just after expanding kernel or some such. If you 
>>do think it is traffic, you could unplug the network cable to see if it 
>>is external. 
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>>Good luck! 
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>>John Hinton 
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