Re: 20031021 snapshot install has glitches

From: Kris Kennaway <kris_at_obsecurity.org>
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 14:52:12 -0700
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 11:47:32PM +0200, Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai wrote:
> -On [20031021 20:52], Kris Kennaway (kris_at_obsecurity.org) wrote:
> >On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 07:10:30PM +0200, Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai wrote:
> >> You cannot set the root password as passwd dumps core on a signal 12.
> >
> >This indicates you're not running the right kernel.
> 
> It's the kernel on the floppy images provided by the snapshot server, so
> if it is not the right kernel then that might be a problem on the
> snapshot server then.
> 
> Or were you hinting at something else?

Can you provide more details, e.g. a copy of the kernel boot messages?
Signal 12 is "syscall not supported", which means something is badly
wrong with the kernel that was booted on the machine (e.g. it is a 4.x
kernel).

Kris

Received on Tue Oct 21 2003 - 12:52:17 UTC

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