May I suggest as a workaround, displaying an error message rather than crashing the machine and scaring the crap out of the admin?
I just ran into this on a Sarge machine, except that I can't even boot the system: device-mapper: 4.1.0-ioctl (2003-12-10) initialised: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Can't expand LV: Snapshot support missing from kernel? 2 logical volume(s) in volume group "main" now active pivot_root: No sKernel panic: Attempted to kill init! uch file or dire ctory /sbin/init: 432: cannot open dev/console: No such file -- Sam Morris http://robots.org.uk/ PGP key id 5EA01078 3412 EA18 1277 354B 991B C869 B219 7FDB 5EA0 1078 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]