Error starting mol-0.9.70-1

[Bill Fink]

Hi Steve,

On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Steve Fishman wrote:

> I am running Yellow Dog Linux 3.01 on an iMac G3 500. Mol-0.9.69 runs nicely 
> on my system.
> 
> I downloaded and sucessfully rebuilt the .src.rpm of mol-kmods for my 
> running kernel. It rebuilds properly and spits out the rpm to 
> /usr/src/rpm/RPMS/ppc.
> 
> Before I installed the 2 0.9.70 rpms I did an rpm -e on mol and mol-kmods 
> 0.9.69 versions. They were sucessfully removed. I also deleted the /etc/mol 
> directory. Yes. I backed it up.
> 
> I installed mol-0.9.70-1.ppc.rpm and mol-kmods-0.9.70-1.ppc.rpm without any 
> error. All dependencies were met.
> 
> I have 9.2.2 installed on an existing partition to test against.
> 
> I get the following error when I do a #startmol --test.
> 
> [root@imac root]# startmol --test
> /usr/lib/mol/0.9.70/bin/mol: /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0: no version information 
> available (required by /usr/lib/mol/0.9.70/bin/mol)
> Mac-on-Linux 0.9.70-vnd-vnd [Mar 21 2004 00:58]
> Copyright (C) 1997-2004 Samuel Rydh
> Starting MOL session 0
> /usr/lib/mol/0.9.70/bin/modload: line 156: test: too many arguments
> Failed to extract the MOL device number
> 
> uname -a shows Linux imac 2.4.22-2g #1 Tue Dec 2 22:48:31 MST 2003 ppc ppc 
> ppc GNU/Linux
> 
> gcc -v shows gcc version 3.2.2 20030217 (Yellow Dog Linux 3.0 3.2.2-2a)
> 
> Any ideas?

I ran into the same problem.  I believe in my case it was caused by
having old MOL modules already loaded on my system from an earlier
MOL version, since after a reboot everything started working fine
for me.

						-Bill