On 08-Feb-99 Richard Adams wrote:
> According to Pollywog: While burning my CPU.
>>
>>
>> On 07-Feb-99 Tom Savage wrote:
>> > My questions are:
>> > 1. Was the "Cannot find map file" a problem that should have been fixed or
>> > just
>> > ignored?
>> >
>> > 2. Should I have created the above link to solve this problem?
>> >
>> > 3. Is this a Red Hat/Linux feature or bug?
>>
>> I think it is a bug, one that I had problems with in Caldera OpenLinux 1.1
>> but
>> not in 1.3. Have you recompiled your kernel? Make sure that when you do
>> this, you copy /usr/src/linux/System.map to /
>> There should be a System.map in the root directory ( / directory, not /root
>> directory).
>
> Not all distributions place System.map into the "/" (root) directory.
> Redhat has its default as /boot when its being installed.
>
> People using Redhat have possably seen this and ask, why is it then that when
> i make a new kernel it gets automaticly copied to "/". The answer to that is
> change /usr/src/linux/Makefile from;
>
>#INSTALL_PATH=/boot
> to
> INSTALL_PATH=/boot
>
> Bug no, there's no need to copy the System.map from /usr/src/linux to /boot
> as the syslog daemon looks into /usr/src/linux if it cant find it in /boot
> or "/"
>
> An example from my messages file;
>
> Feb 2 13:23:42 pa3gcu syslogd 1.3-3: restart.
> Feb 2 13:23:43 pa3gcu kernel: klogd 1.3-3, log source = /proc/kmsg started.
> Feb 2 13:23:43 pa3gcu kernel: Loaded 3192 symbols from
> /usr/src/linux/System.map.
>
>
> The origanal message suggested that the user had deleted the symbolic link
> or the System.map file which was installed when the distribution was loaded,
> furhter more it suggests that he has no System.map in /usr/src/linux which
> also suggests that he has not compiled a kernel, or he deleted that file as
> well.
>
In the original message I said that I could not find the file "System.map"
anywhere. So I made a link in /boot called System.map linked to
System.map-2.0.36-0.7 . After that everything was ok.
It look like this:
[root@tim-annex2-port1 /boot]# ls -l Sys*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Feb 7 10:54 System.map ->
System.map-2.0.36-0.7
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 105911 Oct 13 22:41 System.map-2.0.36-0.7
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Date: 08-Feb-99
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