[KLUG Members] 2.4.22 On The Verge

[Bruce Smith]

> > Did you get the RH RPM's running on something anyway (without LVM)?
> 
> I don't have anything that doesn't use LVM, except in VMware, and I
> don't think VMware is self-hosting. :)

I installed the 2.6-test4 RPM on my laptop and gave it a try. 
(non LVM)   I also upgraded all the other packages in 
  http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/2.5/RPMS.kernel/

Upon boot there were a ton of errors about USB.  Testing shows my USB
mouse worked in X, but usb-storage does NOT work (w/USB memory stick).
Log seems to show that hotplug is not working.

There are also a ton of errors about the floppy module when checking for
new hardware (no floppy drive on my laptop).

Then there is an error that it can't mount my reiserfs partition -
reiserfs not supported in this kernel (non critical, so it continued).

XF86 fired up fine.  (going back to original XF86 Nvidia driver, not 
the custom one downloaded from nvidia.com)

Gnome couldn't load the (APM) battery applet.

I played a wav file, and was pleasantly surprised to see my former
2.4-ALSA setup worked fine, without anything extra needed by 2.6.
(the only good thing I found)

Then I tried running vmware-config.pl ... LOL!  :-)
It hangs trying to UNLOAD VMware (making sure it's not running).
According to "ps", it's hanging on a "modprobe -r parport_pc".
No problem, I'll just kill the modprobe and let it continue.
Well, "kill" doesn't work, either does "kill -9"!  
In fact, after that, a "lsmod" hangs cannot be killed with a "-9"!
After that, shutdown fails and requires a power-off.

Then I went into my laptop's BIOS.  The parallel port was turned off, so
I turned it back on and tried again.  Then vmware-config.pl worked as
expected - it didn't hang and aborted trying to compile modules.  :-)
(error in structures with missing members)

Not looking good!  :-)    I'll bring it tonight if you want to see.


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Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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