Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 15 May 1996 21:30:43 +0100 (BST) | From | Bryn Paul Arnold Jones <> | Subject | Re: INIT: error reading initrequest - need help! |
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On Wed, 15 May 1996, Mick Ghazey wrote:
> INIT: error reading initrequest > > That's the error I get when shutting down the system. An uncountable > number of screens are filled with that error. Occasionally, I can see > other messages but they go by too fast to read. >
The handling of FIFO's changed, get a more up to date SysVInit package (see below) ....
> Also, on startup pidof gives me various error messages. The all seem > to be something like "pidof: can't open /proc/125/cmdline" and > "pidof: can't read /proc/125/stat". >
.... and procps package, look in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/Changes, that should help.
> Can anyone make any sense of this or help me find a way to track it > down? > > This all started after installing the pre-release kernel. I'm not > using modules but kerneld is enabled. I should also mention that iBCS > complains about running on a different kernel than it was compiled > on. But I don't know where to find the source to iBCS! I can't find > any reference to it in man pages, apropos, etc. >
I'm not sure, but do you use it ? There's no point upgrading if you don't, but I think you can find it in tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/ALPHA/iBCS, or it could be in /pub/linux/BETA/... I'm not sure which.
> Thanks > > Mick > Bryn -- PGP key pass phrase forgotten, \ Overload -- core meltdown sequence again :( | initiated. / This space is intentionally left | blank, apart from this text ;-) \____________________________________
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