On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 05:38:29PM -0400, Dave Blackburn wrote: > I've stumbled on the following apparent bugs in Kernel 2.4.2. > I'm not sure the best place to post this so I decided > to ask here. > > Perhaps this bug is already known. > Is there a place I can look? The changelogs on kernelnewbies.org would certainly give you a clue. > I'm under the impression that there is no official > bug tracking database in place for the kernel. > Is this correct? There are. For vendor supplied kernels use your vendors bug tracking system. For kernels you downloaded for ftp.##.kernel.org, it's called the linux-kernel mailing list (see REPORTING-BUGS). > An ELF file executes with kernel 2.2.14 (RH6.2) but fails to > execute with kernel 2.4.2 (RH7.1). > > Bug 1: > "No such file or directory" is reported although the file exists. > If the 2.4 loader dislikes the file content, an appropriate > error message should be provided. The error message is a userland problem. More specifically, it is printed by glibc. > Bug2: > The file fails to execute under Kernel 2.4.2. > The file is quite old. > However, if feasable, old ELF files should continue > working. AFAIK linux still uses the same ELF format as with the introduction of ELF six years ago. > I can ftp the ELF file if someone would like to > investigate this further. Not neccessary, I think you stumbled over a library problem. Run "ldd" over your binary and see what libraries it wants to use. In most cases installing a package with old libraries solves the problem. The easiest way is of course to recompile the packages against the new libraries. > With some encouragement and suggestions, I would be > willing to look deeper into these bugs. > I have disk space for another bootable partition. Well, there were some ELF loader bugs fixed in linux-2.4.11-pre3 and 2.4.10-ac5, but that were certainly not the bugs you described. Erik -- J.A.K. (Erik) Mouw, Information and Communication Theory Group, Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Information Technology and Systems, Delft University of Technology, PO BOX 5031, 2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands Phone: +31-15-2783635 Fax: +31-15-2781843 Email: J.A.K.Mouw@its.tudelft.nl WWW: http://www-ict.its.tudelft.nl/~erik/ - Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ IRC Channel: irc.openprojects.net / #kernelnewbies Web Page: http://www.kernelnewbies.org/
