RE: Some weirdness with 2.2.6 (and 2.2.6-ac1)

David B. Rees (dbr@spoke.nols.com)
Mon, 19 Apr 1999 11:40:43 -0700 (PDT)


On 19-Apr-99 David B. Rees wrote:

I've been doing a bit more testing, and I can also get the below message to
happen if I put `make oldconfig` into a loop with 2.2.5. It takes from 2-4
iterations for this to happen. I can get this message to appear on two
different machines running 2.2.6, the things in common with these machines are
egcs-1.1.2, glibc-2.1pre1 and binutils-2.9.1.0.23. I'm trying a compile right
now with gcc-2.7.2.3, we'll see if that makes a difference.

> 2. I got a few "no child processes" messages in both 2.2.6 2.2.6-ac1
>
> These happenned while running various shell scripts. One of them was in the
> middle of a `make oldconfig`, the other was in the middle of running the
> ./configure script for ssh. Again, going back to 2.2.5 hasn't produced these
> messages. Up until I booted 2.2.6, 2.2.5 was looking very good, uptime of
> 20 days, no weirdness at all.

Still no clue with the wtmp/utmp tty weirdness I reported with 2.2.6, though.

-Dave

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