[PLUG] Kernel 2.4.21 anyone?

Shahms King shahms at shahms.com
Tue Jun 17 13:10:02 UTC 2003


On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 13:04, Dan Young wrote:
> Shahms King wrote:
> 
> > Dan, I wouldn't be surprised to find that it wasn't either unless the
> > ck6 patches include the NPTL stuff.  A fairly sizeable portion of RedHat
> > 9 expects NPTL and behaves . . . oddly, if at all, without it.
> 
> I suspect you're right. The ck patches don't include NPTL. I gave that 
> some thought when I set it up, then promptly forgot about it once things 
> _seemed_ to be working. As I said, it was fine for about a day w/ just 
> me doing "normal user stuff". Do you know what specifically breaks w/o 
> an NPTL kernel?
> 
> -Dan Young
> -Parkrose School District

I have heard reports that the Berkeley DB packages need it and I believe
it, given that I've had a number of issues with RPM when running a
non-RH kernel on my (mostly)RH9 laptop.  Beyond that, I only know of
"general flakiness"

-- 
Shahms King <shahms at shahms.com>





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