Further clarification. I had forgotten that I'd used MandrakeUpdate to pull and install the latest security fixes. This includes a new kernel (2.4.8-34).
Unfortiunately it looks as if the install of the kernel RPM has screwed things up. The previous kernel (still running) is 2.4.8-26, but the 2.4.8-26.1mdk directory in /lib/modules has disappeared. A reboot would seem the obvious answer, but /boot/initrd.img is now a link to a non-existent initrd-2.4.8-26mdk.img and there is no equivalent file for the new version. Which means I daren't reboot. I am about to try a forced install of the pervious kernel version (having to download the rpm from a mirror). But there would appear to be a basic problem with the kernel rpm (unless I'm missing something very obvious), which is that it only seems to do half the work and leaves the system in a somewhat flakey state. Am I missing something? I'm trying to fit all this in between teaching classes, so I rarely get more than a few minutes to think about it at a time, so if I am missing something incredibly obvious, please someone put me out of my misery and everybody else accept my apologies... -- |Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept. | Music does not have to be understood| |Camosun College, Victoria, BC, Canada| It has to be listened to. | |email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |phone: +1 250 370 4452 | Hermann Scherchen. |
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