Greetings; I have this line in my /etc/modprobe.conf: options dm-mod major=238
And I had a fsckup while building 2.6.24-rc2 cuz I thought it needed to be based on 2.6.23.1 that has made 2.6.24-rc2 the only kernel that will boot without a panic, killing init message. I can survive that, but amanda (tar) went bonkers last night and tried to do a level 0 on everything, which is about 50GB, but its virtual tape size is only 11GB. The last time this happened that line above fixed the device mapper to a stable address at a major of 238 which tar was happy with. An ls -l of /dev/mapper: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /]# ls -l /dev/mapper total 0 crw------- 1 root root 10, 62 Nov 6 23:40 control brw-rw---- 1 root disk 238, 0 Nov 6 23:40 VolGroup00-LogVol00 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 238, 1 Nov 6 23:40 VolGroup00-LogVol01 So that hasn't changed, so what did? Amanda itself hasn't been changed in several months, running the 20070727 snapshot of amanda-2.5.2p1 all this time. Tar was updated by smart or yumex 2 or 3 days back, so it worked correctly after the update. That leaves something in 2.6.24-rc2. I didn't build rc1. Other than that, rc2 seems stable. But auditd failed to start in the bootup sequence. I think that's minor and may predate this particular kernel. However, selinux did a relabel before it booted, could that be the cause? -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) An adequate bootstrap is a contradiction in terms. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/