What do all these error messages mean?

Fri, 5 Jul 2002 11:16:59 +0200

Hi Stefan,

It means that the symbols are already properly included in the modules. I'm
no programmer but as I understand it, the symbols tell the kernel where
these low level commands came from and what to do with them.  This insures
that if, between kernel versions some important subroutine gets changed,
that something screwy doesn't happen. Someone please correct me if that's
wrong.

I just noticed that you are using kernel version 2.4.18-0.8a but mol seems
to be trying to load 2.4.9 (your 1st email).  

Try:

ls  /usr/lib/mol/0.9.63/modules/2.4.18-0.8a

Does it exist?

I remember reading somewhere that startmol -a allows for SMALL mismatches
between the kernel and module versions. Maybe 2.4.9 and 2.4.18-0.8a is too
big a jump.

But before you try recompiling anything, try changing the HFS section in
your /etc/molrc to something like:

#this will boot from your Mac OS 9 disk
blkdev: 	/dev/hda10 	-rw
blkdev: 	/dev/hda11 	-rw
blkdev: 	/dev/hda12 	-rw
blkdev: 	/dev/hda13 	-rw

and comment out the following lines:
#blkdev: 	/dev/sda 
#blkdev: 	/dev/hdb 
#blkdev: 	/dev/sdb 

If you switch the order of the lines:

blkdev: 	/dev/hda11 	-rw
blkdev: 	/dev/hda10 	-rw

then mol will boot from your NET UTI partition.

John

> -----Original Message-----
> Date: Wed, 03 Jul 2002 12:57:59 -0800
> From: Stefan Hakenberg <stefan@stefanhakenberg.com>
> To: mol-general@lists.maconlinux.org
> Subject: Re: What do all these error messages mean?
> Reply-To: mol-general@lists.maconlinux.org
> 
> Hello John,
> Thank you very much for your advice!
> I did not compile the src rpm myself. (I wouldn't even know how to do 
> that.)  I downloaded them as .ppc.rpm and then, after uninstalling the 
> previous rpms, I did rpm -ivh mol*.rpm
> 
> I ran the script that you sent out in order to test if the modules got 
> built wit or without symbols (What does that mean anyway?).  I ran it 
> once for the module 2.4.9 and once for the module 2.4.18.  These are the 
> results:
> 
> [root@3-98-237-24-cable stefan]# nm 
> /usr/lib/mol/0.9.63/modules/2.4.9/sheep_net.
> o
> 00001080 t Letext
>           U __cli
>           U __copy_tofrom_user
>           U __kfree_skb
> 00000000 ? __module_kernel_version
>           U __pollwait
>           U dev_mc_add
>           U dev_mc_delete
>           U dev_queue_xmit
>           U dev_remove_pack
> 00000000 s eth_addr
> [root@3-98-237-24-cable stefan]#
> [root@3-98-237-24-cable stefan]# nm 
> /usr/lib/mol/0.9.63/modules/2.4.18/sheep_net
> .o
> 00001080 t Letext
>           U __cli_Re45078fb
>           U __copy_tofrom_user_Re410a3dd
>           U __kfree_skb_R2bf22720
> 00000000 ? __module_kernel_version
>           U dev_queue_xmit_R0191eafb
>  
>           U skb_copy_R79cdef2e
>           U skb_over_panic_Rc84f3f7c
>           U skb_under_panic_R83f9b459
> 
> Does this tell you something?
> 
> Again, thanks for the help!!
> 
> Stefan
> 
>  
> 
> 
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