John Kuhn wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 08:18:33AM +0200, Vitux wrote: > > John Kuhn wrote: > > > > > > My experiance was that 2.2.13 is the latest stable kernel that you > > > can run on slink without updating any other packages. Kernel 2.2.14 > > > would require installing a newer procps (2.0.3 or later). > > > > > > John > > > > > > -- > > Not in my experience. I got the kernel-source for 2.2.14 > > from kernel.org and did a "manual" compile/install (if that > > makes any difference, I can't say). > > I've had no trouble whatsoever and the system is rock stable > > (except from occasional hardware-related stuff ;-) > > > > Vitux > > I did a "manual" compile/install of 2.2.14. The kernel itself did > work fine. I found that "ps", "top" and friends from procps 1.2.9-3 > did not work correctly with the new kernel. Checking > /usr/src/linux/Documentation/Changes I found that procps 2.0.3 or > newer is required for kernel 2.2.14. The Changes file for 2.2.13 > indicated that procps 1.2.9 would work with this version. Since > I consider procps an essential package, I had two choices at this > point. I could have compiled a new version of procps or moved back > to kernel 2.2.13. Neither is difficult, but for now I chose to > use kernel 2.2.13. > > John > > -- Very strange, I'm running 2.2.14 and procps 1.2.9-3, with top and ps functioning as usual. Can't recall doing anything spicey during my kernel-install (seriously doubt it; still a relative kernel-newbie). Looking through my boot-messages, there is one strangeness, though probably unrelated: "process accounting" fails w/ "not available". "Process accounting" belongs to the acct package, which I can't remove?! Regards
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