Kernel too old?

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damonkohler · Post by **damonkohler** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 12:58 am

I did some searching on the forums and turned up empty handed. I just rebooted and got the message:

...
Freeing unused kernel memory: 76k freed
FATAL: kernel too old
Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!

Not sure what I've done wrong?

nybbles · Post by **nybbles** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 1:20 am

You could probably start with telling us which kernel version

cyrillic · Post by **cyrillic** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 1:42 am

Just guessing, but a 2.4.x kernel is too old to run an NPTL system.

damonkohler · Post by **damonkohler** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 2:17 am

Sorry, kernel version would help

2.4.28-r5

I feel like such a noob... I do remember adding in POSIX. That's what's done it then?

damonkohler · Post by **damonkohler** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 4:20 am

Thanks for the help guys. I had put NPTL on there... So now I've put a - infront of it in my USE variable in /etc/make.conf, then did an emerge system and it said everythong was up to date... So I recompiled the kernel, and that didn't help heh... What do I have to do to get NPTL?

[UK]Superdude · Post by **[UK]Superdude** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 8:08 am

Recompile glibc with -nptl in your use flags. That should fix the problem.

Or you could always try a 2.6 kernel. The process to shift to the new kernel is quite painless really.

damonkohler · Post by **damonkohler** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 1:23 pm

Ok, thanks

Maybe I'll go with the new kernel. Suppose I just need to run through the install procedure again and check on the differences there are when using the new kernel. I know I need to at least compile in the PCMCIA support.