On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 09:59:58AM -0400, Jack Howarth wrote: > I just upgraded my G4/AGP from 256M to 512M ram. I had 255M swap > (which I have now increased to 1.2G of swap). I am finding that with > 512M I get random hangs on the swapon -a in my rc.sysinit. This > is with either 255M or 1.2G of swap and with either all the ram > or mem=256M. This problem never occurred when I had less ram. > I am using the current Linux 2.4.4pre1 kernel from bitkeeper. > I am currently using the stock rawhide srpms on my machine. > Someone said that I should switch to Debian because it was > the only distro with a properly working utils-linux. Do you know > where I can get the ppc specific patches Debian has applied to > utils-linux to resolve this issue. Thanks in advance.
Try http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/u/util-linux/ get the .diff.gz and the .orig.tar.gz. (The .dsc has the PGP signatured md5 hashes, and the package info). The multiple available versions are from the multiple releases of Debian: stable, testing, and unstable. Also, some archs are at different versions than others. The powerpc binary packages are version 2.10s-2 (stable), and 2.11a-2 (unstable and testing). Most other archs are at 2.11b-2. To get the source for the powerpc Debian package that's current, grab the 2.11a tarball and 2.11a-2 diff. (the -2 is the debian package version, the 2.11a is the upstream version.) -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Plautus, 200 BCE
