-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...
> I'm trying out the new 2.4 kernel on my Potato box. I upgrade > modutils to the version currently in Woody (2.4.1). Works real nice > except for a slight problem I ran into. I can't mount the System V IP > shared memory on /dev/shm at bootup. I get this error message: > > shmem fs invalid option > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock or none, > or too many mounted file systems > > I said YES to 'General setup'->'System V IPC' and NO to 'File > systems'->'/dev file system support' when running 'make menuconfig' > > I added this line to /etc/fstab as the > linux-2.4.0/Documentation/Changes says to: > > none /dev/shm shm defaults 0 0 Well my workstation says: shm /var/shm shm defaults 0 0 ^^^ Don't worry about /var/shm vs /dev/shm - it's just a mountpoint and will work fine either way. > I created a directory /dev/shm with permissions 755. The 2.4 docs > don't say to, but didn't say not to. A mistake? It won't matter - the permissions on /dev/shm will be changed to 1777 by the kernel. > The kernel boots and even though it can't mount this virtual filesystem, > everything else seems to work--so far. The shm filesystem is needed for stuff that uses shared memory segmets (ie apache, samba, etc) to work. > Can't believe how much faster the machine boots and runs compared to > 2.2.18!! Nice work Linus and all the other kernel developers!! Yea, I noticed that too. I see you haven't tried to push on it yet. You'll get blown away by the results of some speed trials with dbench compared to 2.2.x:) But it seems a bit slow compared to 2.4.0-prerelease. Maybe it's just me. > Can someone tell me where I went wrong. I tried searching the 'net > for a clue to no avail. I'm sure it's something stupidly simple I'm > overlooking. Can anyone point it out? Thanks for the help. - -- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG fingerprint: 9BF9 D84C 37D0 4FA7 1F2D 7E5E FD94 D264 50DE 1CFC GPG key id: 50DE1CFC GPG public key: http://tux.creighton.edu/~pbrutsch/gpg-public-key.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6XVb8/ZTSZFDeHPwRAliwAJ943l6aBnG/vbrkXBGFnVbXAPA32wCg21g9 M1iF+bv4bcCKadqAJDNMhmU= =80Hd -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
