Hi, Ian, thanks for your help. I had dpkg 1.4.0.31 and libc6.1 2.1.3-10, so both newer than the lchown change (that happened at dpkg 1.4.0.25, according to the changelog).
My kernel was ancient: 2.0.34. So I grabbed the source for 2.2.17pre6 from the source directory, built it and rebooted - and got a complete and utter crash. Any ideas? I'm afraid I used to be competent at this sort of thing, but I'm long out of practice. My milo is from kernel 2.0.30, which could be a problem - could it? I didn't apply any patches at all - I just took the .orig.tar.gz file; could that be the trouble? (I take it there aren't any separate alpha patches any more ...). This is what happened: when I did a shutdown -r, it crashed when jumping to the kernel. When rebooting through milo, milo kept rerunning itself, and I never got to the kernel ... Oh, my 2.0.34 kernel with new dpkg/libc is also doing some very odd things, like the date is 1970, and I've been getting lots of messages starting `<sc' (but that isn't dpkg/libc, as I've been getting them for a while ...). Any help here much appreciated ... Thanks, Nikhil. +--------------------------------+---------------------------------+ | Nikhil Nair | | | Department of Chemistry | Tel.: +44 1223 336350 (lab) | | University Chemical Laboratory | +44 1223 368353 (home) | | Lensfield Road | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Cambridge | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | CB2 1EW | | | England | | +--------------------------------+---------------------------------+
