Re: Warning at Startup


Subject: Re: Warning at Startup
From: Bob Rogers (rogers-netatalk@rgrjr.dyndns.org)
Date: Wed Feb 21 2001 - 13:06:06 EST


   From: Basil Hussain <basil.hussain@specialreserve.net>
   Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 17:35:38 +0000

   Hi,

> I didn't see this "kmem-grow: called nonatomically" thing when I
> installed the Red Hat 2.2.17 upgrade recently. But then, I never saw it
> on 2.2.16 (but I was running 2.2.16-3, so that may have been before the
> bug was introduced).

   Could you test to confirm this? If you can find a convenient moment to
   perform the procedure in my bug report to check (see URL below), that'd be a
   great help!

   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25379

   Basically, just stop Netatalk, remove the AppleTalk module from the kernel,
   re-insert it and re-start Netatalk. The warning only occurs upon loading of
   the kernel module, y'see.

Just tried it; it comes back up without the error. (Though if loading
the module is all that is necessary to trigger this, then rebooting
after the kernel upgrade should have been a sufficient test.)

   BTW, have you experienced any troubles at all with the 2.2.17 kernel? I want
   to upgrade my servers if it cures the small Netatalk problem, but I'm
   slightly suspicious as to it's quality - aren't odd-numbered kernel releases
   supposed to be testing releases? Or is it just the secondary version number?

Just the second number; the third number is to distinguish different
2.2.x (or whatever) releases, and just defines the sequence.

                                        -- Bob



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