Rodd Clarkson wrote:
On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 21:33 -0400, Jim Cornette wrote:
Same problem noted here. I also observed that these errors referenced
kernel versions that I no longer have on this system. The error seems to
be related to kernel-devel because the errors included an uninstalled
kernel, however the devel packages ae never removed.
kernel-devel-2.6.11-1.1236_FC4 - error referenced
kernel-devel-2.6.11-1.1238_FC4 - need to manually remove
kernel-devel-2.6.11-1.1240_FC4
kernel-devel-2.6.11-1.1251_FC4
vs.
rpm -q kernel
kernel-2.6.11-1.1240_FC4
kernel-2.6.11-1.1251_FC4
Mmm, I've got the matching kernel and kernel-devel packages installed.
Now I think about it, this mmap error isn't to do with the kernel but
with kernel-devel. The errors occur when kernel-devel is installed, not
kernel.
This makes me wonder if it hasn't got something to do with the 'magic'
kernel-devel uses to try and keep the amount of similar files down so as
to keep the install size smaller. As I understand it, kernel-devel
hardlinks same files so that they are only installed once (rather than
for each package). This is part of the reason why installing and
removing kernel-devel takes a little longer (it had to check if the
hardlink is the last instance, and thus if it needs to be removed.) I
could be wrong about all this, but I remember it being discussed a
little while back and think it's pretty close to what happens.
R.
I removed the unused kernel-devel packages and then compiled the vmware
modules using /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl.
I did not get the lockup that I had when I had kernel-devel versions on
the system, but no associated kernels to match up to the unassociated
devel packages.
Anyway, both the hardlink problem and mmap did seem to take forever.
Since carrying a slew of kernels on a system is a rarity, doing away
with the hardlink concept and reverting to independent files seems to be
a better approach. Compiling modules seems to be safer with kernel to
kernel-devel purity, since the purpose for the devel package is to add
newer and hopefully better differences to the system.
MMAP does take forever, especially for the first kernel-devel removal.
The second removal did not seem to take as long to remove. I removed
1236 first (long delay) and then 1238 which seemed to complete quickly.
Jim
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