Re: 2.5.70-mm2

[Boszormenyi Zoltan (zboszor@freemail.hu)]

Andrew Morton wrote:

> Boszormenyi Zoltan <zboszor@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am testing it now with your two extra patches.
> > I started vmware but I don't notice it now. Everything is snappy.
> > The system is a RH9 with upgrades. The latest errata kernel still
> > stops for seconds sometimes and vmware (and rsync between two drives
> > for that matter) makes a noticable performance impact. With .70-mm2,
> > I can still work on other things and not wait for other things to
> > finish first.
> >    
>
> OK, thanks.
>
>  
>
> > However there are problems: Basically, the autoload fails.
> > My eth0/eth1 (both use 8139too) are down.
> > The iptables modules do not load so the iptables service is failing.
> > When I modprobe the needed modules, the things start working.
> >    
>
> Make sure that you've correctly enabled the "Kernel Module Loader" in the
> "Loadable Mudule Support" menu.

From my .config, you can see it was enabled.

> And read the readme file in mudule-init-tools carefully.  You need to build
> the /etc/modprobe.conf file with all the aliases in it.  It takes a bit of
> fiddling, but demand-modloading does work.

OK, I read it's FAQ, and the answer for the first question helped.
Attached is a small patch against RH9 /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit.
This solved most of my problems.

> > E.g. named can be started after I modprobe capabilities. I brought up
> > named for example because the kernel logs messages for this one:
> >
> > process `rndc' is using obsolete setsockopt SO_BSDCOMPAT
> > process `named' is using obsolete setsockopt SO_BSDCOMPAT
> >    
>
> That's OK.  It's just the kernel spamming the application developers ;)

OK. :-) However, "modprobe capability" is still not automatic.
What is the alias line for capability? I can't figure it out myself.
Perhaps it's not supported configuring capability
(aka CONFIG_SECURITY_CAPABILITIES) as a module?
It's definitely allowed...

> This is a bug in rpm.  It can be worked around with:
>
> 	alias rpm='LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5 rpm'
>  

Thanks for the answers.

Best regards,
Zoltán


--- rc.sysinit~	2003-05-30 10:45:01.000000000 +0200
+++ rc.sysinit	2003-05-30 10:45:01.000000000 +0200
@@ -357,7 +357,7 @@
     IN_INITLOG=
 fi
 
-if ! LC_ALL=C grep -iq nomodules /proc/cmdline 2>/dev/null && [ -f /proc/ksyms ]; then
+if ! LC_ALL=C grep -iq nomodules /proc/cmdline 2>/dev/null && [ -f /proc/modules ]; then
     USEMODULES=y
 fi