[3161] in RedHat Linux List
RE: Kernel Upgrading!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Myers)
Thu Nov 7 11:42:52 1996
Date: Thu, 07 Nov 1996 11:40:26 -0500
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From: Jeff Myers <jmyers@southcom.net>
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Please excuse if this is basic stuff. I just installed
Redhat (completely) last week.
Are their no kernel-upgrade.rpms?
Since the new rpm is supposed to use dependencies,
wouldn't this be the "safe" way to avoid this very
problem?
Again...humble apologies...newbie at large.
>
>p.s.: If you are using modules with the 2.1.7 kernel then make certain
>that you have at least the 5.4.9 version of libc.so. (The last time that
>I checked, 5.4.10 was the current one.) This library is in the 'private'
>directories on tsx-11.mit.edu and sunsite.unc.edu as they are not
>"officially" released.
>
>If you attempt to use libc.so.5.4.7 with the 2.1.7 kernel then you will
>find that insmod will fail with some very strange error numbers.
>
>This is not a problem with the 2.0 series kernels.
>
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