hi, it seems that i remember reading that the 2.4.5 kernald has some bugs, this is a distant memory so i might not be correct on this. randy On Mon, 11 Feb 2002, Charles Hallenbeck wrote: > Hi people - > > I wrote a complicated description of my latest puzzler yesterday, > and today I have more information but no solution yet. > > The errors occur when initiating or terminating a dialup (with > ppp-go and ppp-off) and seem to refer to a "tdb" database. The > errors either say "tdb_store failed: success" or "tdb_store > failed: corrupt database" They are issued amongst the normal > messages from the ppp-go and ppp-off messages, and now that I am > once again using my external modem, they do not seem to adversely > affect the system (knock on wood). > > I am now wondering about another possible cause of these > messages. A few days ago I upgraded my kernel from the default > Slackware 8.0 version 2.2.19 to the 2.4.5 kernel which Slackware > supplies as an alternative and an entry point into the 2.4.X > series. But I did not reinstall the system, only the kernel and > modules. I am wondering what other people's experiences might > have been upgrading from the 2.2.X to the 2.4.X kernels on an > existing system. The ppp drivers seem much more sophisticated in > the new series with somewhat different choices available in > kernel configuration, which makes me wonder if there might be > something I have overlooked. > > I have scoured the docs and howtos and find only very scant > mention of the "tdb" database now used by PPP, but no detail at > all about where it is, what might corrupt it, or why it might not > be being used correctly. I have written to the maintainer of pppd > for Linux, whose email address no longer works! Wonderful. > > Before turning to a standard Linux support list, I thought I > would give you folks one more chance to bail me out with some > timely wisdom. I need it badly! > > Chuck > > > Visit me now at http://www.valstar.net/~hallenbeck > The Moon is New > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
