RedHat released a new Kernel today. I can't get into up2date right now,
but I am downloading the RPMs. Will I be safe doing a rpm -i kernel and
rpm -U kernel-source, or is there something more that up2date will do?

Jesse

On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 13:03, Trevor Lauder wrote:
> I would try booting with the other kernel and see if that fixes the
> problem.  From the logs you sent it stated:
> 
> Feb  4 08:35:30 localhost kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer
> dereference at virtual address 00000960
> 
> For the kernel to panic like that and if it logs an error about a NULL
> pointer then there is most likely something wrong with the kernel... ie
> something isn't being initialized properly which is why it's saying it's
> NULL
> 
> Cheers,
> 
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> Jesse Kline said:
> > On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 12:54, Mark Lane wrote:
> >
> >> This won't happen to be Red Hat 8, would it? Has syslogd been crashing
> >> as well.
> >
> > It is RedHat 8.0. Would a syslog crash look something like this:
> > Feb  3 10:38:25Feb  3 12:25:11 localhost syslogd 1.4.1: restart.?
> >
> >> By any chance are you running redhat's 2.4.18-19.8 kernel? I know that
> >>  before I re-installed Red Hat, I wasn't having these problems and the
> >> only  real difference that I can pin down is the update to 2.4.18-19.8
> >> from  2.4.18-19.7.
> >
> > Yes, these are the kernels that I have installed:
> > kernel-2.4.18-14
> > kernel-2.4.18-19.8.0
> > I am booting with the 2.4.18-19.8.0 kernel. What would you suggest I do?
> > Boot with the old kernel, or install the 8.1 beta maybe?
> >
> > Thank you,
> >
> > Jesse
> 
> 

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