From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266549AbUBFVR3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Feb 2004 16:17:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265665AbUBFVRY (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Feb 2004 16:17:24 -0500 Received: from chaos.analogic.com ([204.178.40.224]:4736 "EHLO chaos.analogic.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266635AbUBFVQY (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Feb 2004 16:16:24 -0500 Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 16:16:32 -0500 (EST) From: "Richard B. Johnson" X-X-Sender: root@chaos Reply-To: root@chaos.analogic.com To: Linux kernel Subject: FATAL: Kernel too old Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Who decides that the kernel is too old? Can't log-in over the network on a machine that has a lot of uptime. Telnet to the mail-server does work, though. It's just that shells don't seem to work anymore!!! Script started on Fri Feb 6 15:44:32 2004 # rlogin -l johnson quark ATAL: kernel too old # rlogin -l johnson quark ATAL: kernel too old # telnet quark Trying 10.106.100.200... Connected to quark.analogic.com. Escape character is '^]'. FATAL: kernel too old Connection closed by foreign host. # ping quark 64 bytes from 10.106.100.200 icmp-seq:0 ttl:64 time(ms):3.53 lost:0 64 bytes from 10.106.100.200 icmp-seq:1 ttl:64 time(ms):0.25 lost:0 Aborted! # rsh quark ATAL: kernel too old # # telnet quark 25 Trying 10.106.100.200... Connected to quark.analogic.com. Escape character is '^]'. 220 quark.analogic.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.11.0.Beta3/8.12.0.A; Fri, 6 Feb 2004 15:51:27 -0500 ^] telnet> quit Connection closed. It wouldn't let me log in at the console either, got the "init spawing too fast..." message. Nothing in the logs. It's a generic RH with the Linux-2.4.18-14 that it came with, never been hacked and used as an internal mail-forwarding machine. It's been up since, probably last April. I couldn't find that "FATAL:" string in /bin/bash, in any /lib/libc* files, nor in vmlinux. It's in /bin/rpm and in /bin/ash.static. These are not used to log-in (I hope). It's also in a bunch of /sbin files, never used to log in (like e2fsck). I crashed it and it rebooted fine, little fsck activity, with nothing in any logs that shows there was any problem whatsoever. Cheers, Dick Johnson Penguin : Linux version 2.4.24 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips). Note 96.31% of all statistics are fiction.