Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 20 Jun 1997 23:40:22 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Richard B. Johnson" <> | Subject | Version 2.1.43 |
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I built 2.1.43 on my SMP machine. There are some file-system problems! I think I remember reading about this in the mail. They may have been fixed in a pre-patch...but ftp.kernel.org is down.
The problem I found was that, upon boot my startup script clears /tmp by executing:
rm -r /tmp mkdir /tmp chmod 777 /tmp
Note that this was a shortcut because "X" makes a subdirectory in "/tmp" and its size grows.
This seems to be a very __BAD__ thing to do with the new kernel! The result is a unusable "file" called /tmp with some strange attributes! It can't be removed, but it can be unlinked.
Subsequent reboot with the 2.1.42 kernel, and a e2fsck fixes the mess with the previous contents of /tmp linked to lost+found.
So, for now I'm sticking with 2.1.42
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