Uname borked on ??-Release...

[Joshua Isom]

On Mar 4, 2008, at 2:14 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote:

> Kevin Kinsey wrote:
>> Kris Kennaway wrote:
>>> Kevin Kinsey wrote:
>>>
>>> What about strings /boot/kernel/kernel | grep 6.2-RELEASE?
>>>
>>> Kris
>> As I would expect, it returns nothing at all.
>
> Your problem makes no sense then :)  The kern.osrelease returns a 
> string compiled into the kernel (see conf/newvers.sh), so if it 
> returns 6.2-RELEASE then that string must be present.
>
> Kris

So, have you checked to make sure your uname is accurate and not just 
an echoing shell script of sorts?  You never know, maybe someone 
hijacked your uname before you upgraded and the hijacked version wasn't 
written properly(which is odd since it's BSD licensed, where if it were 
GPL they'd have to release the code for their evil uname so can't use a 
GPL version).

You could try greping over the entire filesystem for 6.2-RELEASE to 
find out where it could be coming from.  Depending on the setup of your 
system, you could try zeroing all the spare blocks(I imagine `dd 
if=/dev/zero of=zero` would do the trick) and then seeing if the 
string's from some really hidden file.

So many ways to have fun, but I don't want to be in your shoes.