19 Aug
2003
19 Aug
'03
3:38 a.m.
On Tuesday 19 August 2003 03:03, Paul Arnott wrote:
Unfortunately the machine I am trying to install ser
on is headless (i.e.
an appliance) which makes compiles very difficult and I don't have any
other RH 7.0 machine available to recompile on. So does anyone have RH 7.0
binaries or RPMs that have been recompiled to fix the following problem?
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--------------------------------- Desc: ser won't run on linux kernels <2.4
(fails with EINVAL when intializing the shared memory)
BugId: n/a
Ser version: 0.8.8, 0.8.9, 0.8.10
Workaround: Upgrade to a 2.4.* kernel (older kernels don't support shared
mmaping of /dev/zero ) or recompile ser with SYSV shm instead
of mmap (remove -DSHM_MMAP from Makefile.defs)
CVS status: n/a
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The RH 7.0 RPMs at the download site seem to have this problem (must have
just been compiled without testing?).
You are right, the 7.0 RPMs were created on a RH 7.0 with 2.4 kernel (sorry
about that). But as SYSV shm is a performance penalty, i would suggest to
upgrade your kernel or use a newer RH release (with 2.4 available).
I guess we do not have any box with a <2.4 kernel available any more, so we
will probably do not support this for the future.
Regards
Nils