> I've not yet read the patch, and likely I won't before you generate it with > -u.
I was sleepy :) I'm sending it again. I added some text from an email Henrik Nordstrom sent. I checked out the XML sources from SF.net but faq.xml doesn't seem to be the source of faq.html. Regards. -- Homepage : http://geocities.com/arhuaco The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool. -- Richard Feynman.
--- faq.html 2005-02-23 12:29:30.000000000 -0500 +++ faq.new.html 2005-09-17 00:34:42.549717334 -0500 @@ -536,6 +536,56 @@ uml_utilities from the source distribution. </blockquote> +<a name="kernel Panic, cannot set up thread-local storage"/><table width="100%" bgcolor="#e0e0e0"> + <tr> + <td> + <b> + <font color="black">kernel Panic, cannot set up thread-local storage</font> + </b> + </td> + </tr> + </table> +<blockquote> +The boot looks like this: +<pre> + cannot set up thread-local storage: cannot set up LDT for thread-local storage + Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! +</pre> +Your UML kernel doesn't support Native Posix Thread Library (NPTL) and the binaries +you're running are being dynamically linked to it. Try running in SKAS3 mode first. +You might be able to avoid the kernel panic setting the +<a href="http://people.redhat.com/drepper/assumekernel.html";>LD_ASSUME_KERNEL</a> environment +variable in the command line. +<pre><font color="black"> +./linux init=/bin/sh LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1 +</font></pre> +<br><br> +Many commands are very restrictive about what is preserved in the environment +when starting child processes, so relying on LD_ASSUME_KERNEL to be globally +set for all processes in the whole system is generally not a good idea. +It's very hard to guarantee. Thus it's better to move the NPTL libraries away. +<ul> +<li> <font color="black"># mount root_fs mnt-uml/ -o loop</font> +<li> <font color="black"># mv mnt-uml/lib/tls mnt-uml/lib/tls.away</font> +<li> <font color="black"># umount mnt-uml</font> +</ul> +If you're running Debian, you might prefer to use dpkg-divert. +<pre><font color="black"> + # export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1 + # mount root_fs mnt-uml/ -o loop + # chroot mnt-uml + # mkdir /lib/tls.off + # cd /lib/tls + # for f in *; + do + dpkg-divert --divert --local --rename --divert /lib/tls.off/$f --add /lib/tls/$f; + done + # exit + # umount mnt-uml + # unset LD_ASSUME_KERNEL +</font></pre> +</blockquote> + <a name="Any other panic, hang, or strange behavior"/><table width="100%" bgcolor="#e0e0e0"> <tr> <td>
