Hi Maciej, "Maciej W. Rozycki" writes: >On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Carsten Langgaard wrote: > >> Have the kernel fix made it into the CVS. >> If not, could you please resent it. > > I do not consider it clean enough for inclusion into the official kernel >at this stage. It works, though. > > When appropriately cleaned up, I'll submit it to Linus as it's not >MIPS-specific and affects all systems -- mmap() fails equally badly on an >i386, for example. No time to work on the patch at the moment, sorry. I applied this patch to a 2.4.2 CVS checkout, and indeed, the crashing rpm problem vanished. Thanks Maciej! Regards, Karel.