On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 11:47:32PM +0200, Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai wrote: > -On [20031021 20:52], Kris Kennaway ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 07:10:30PM +0200, Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai wrote: > >> You cannot set the root password as passwd dumps core on a signal 12. > > > >This indicates you're not running the right kernel. > > It's the kernel on the floppy images provided by the snapshot server, so > if it is not the right kernel then that might be a problem on the > snapshot server then. > > Or were you hinting at something else?
Can you provide more details, e.g. a copy of the kernel boot messages? Signal 12 is "syscall not supported", which means something is badly wrong with the kernel that was booted on the machine (e.g. it is a 4.x kernel). Kris
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