I don't have any of these problems with this kernel on my dual processor machine. Syslogd works fine, and so does man. Do you have some bad memory maybe? Your /var/log/messages as included here looks totally normal, as if someone was running shutdown or something.
a Christoph Ewering wrote: > > Hello! > > I´m trying to get a 2.4.5 kernel to run on a 7300 / 604 MP Mac for a week. > > Just synced from penguinppc the linux-2.4-benh-kernel and compiled it. > > The kernel got hung during syslogd startup and prints something about > seg-fault in /etc.../rc > > But since today it goes on and boots to the login-prompt. > > This is what /var/log/messages has to say: > ... > Jun 12 11:23:28 multimac kernel: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. > Jun 12 11:23:28 multimac kernel: Freeing unused kernel memory: 288k init > 4k chrp 36k prep > Jun 12 11:23:28 multimac kernel: Adding Swap: 233464k swap-space > (priority -1) > Jun 12 11:43:27 multimac -- MARK -- > Jun 12 12:03:27 multimac -- MARK -- > Jun 12 12:23:27 multimac -- MARK -- > Jun 12 12:43:27 multimac -- MARK -- > Jun 12 13:03:27 multimac -- MARK -- > Jun 12 13:23:28 multimac -- MARK -- > Jun 12 13:43:28 multimac -- MARK -- > Jun 12 14:03:28 multimac -- MARK -- > Jun 12 14:23:28 multimac -- MARK -- > Jun 12 14:43:28 multimac -- MARK -- > Jun 12 15:03:28 multimac -- MARK -- > Jun 12 15:23:28 multimac -- MARK -- > Jun 12 15:43:28 multimac -- MARK -- > Jun 12 16:03:28 multimac -- MARK -- > Jun 12 16:23:28 multimac -- MARK -- > Jun 12 16:31:32 multimac Font Server[172]: terminating > Jun 12 16:31:33 multimac kernel: Kernel logging (proc) stopped. > Jun 12 16:31:33 multimac kernel: Kernel log daemon terminating. > Jun 12 16:31:33 multimac exiting on signal 15 > > Someone knows what this is? (BTW the time above is not correct, do not > know why, the time in MacOS is correct and timezone is also correct) > Startup of syslogd hangs for about 5 minutes, seg-faults and than goes on. > Why does the syslogd crashes? > > I have a kernel 2.4.2 running but with broken hfs-support so I want to > compile a new kernel > > Just tried "man date" and got "Reformatting date(1), please wait..." for ever. > > Looks that there is something broken with SMP and 2.4.5
