On Thursday 14 October 2004 16:43, t capacci wrote: > i am running a debian sid, i've compiled a kernel 2.6.8.1 and when i reboot > i get the following message kernel panic rtnetlink_init: cannot initialize > rtnetlink. This points to the fact that the kernel netlink socket creation failed. Could you check up if there are any more error/warning messages before this one? > Welle as a newbie, i dont know what to do i can't boot anymore on my system > except with a boot disk. Put some printk's net/netlink/af_netlink.c:netlink_kernel_create() (which is called from rtnetlink_init() which gave you the message above) and try to see where it is failing -- Regards, Kiran Kumar Immidi -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
