On Wed, Mar 31, 1999 at 01:30:13PM -0500, Steve Dunham wrote: > > Can you try this new patch I have (sparc32-chown.dpatch) and build on > > the sparc 20? I've tries building this against 2.2.5 headers from vger > > cvs and still had the same problems, so this is either not a kernel > > issue or it's one that isn't fixed. > > This isn't the problem. modprobe is locking up. Whenever a module is > autoloaded, the system locks up. The last thing modprobe does is: > > SYS_66( > > Which should be a 'vfork()'. I'm not entirely sure what is going > wrong here. In the kernel vfork calls exactly the same code as fork > (although the entry code is different in sparc64). I would suspect a > kernel problem, but the older version of libc works.
That's isn't a direct problem then since my LX has modules disabled. > I'll add your patch to a fresh tree and try rebuilding. Ok.
