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Doug White dwhite at gumbysoft.com
Thu Jul 3 15:48:46 PDT 2003


On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Steve Ansell wrote:

> It was 4.8 Stable at around the beginning of June before I rebuilt.
>
> >> mount: getmntinfo: Unknown error: 0
>
> >I wonder if this is a busted mount binary, or you didn't upgrade kernel +
> >world. Can you boot with the old kernel (kernel.old) successfully?
>
> It was a fresh world and kernel, I was thinking it must be the kernel, as I have
> an old 4.6 Release CD and mount from that also gives the same error.
>
> I no longer have the old kernel, I should have kept it like I usually do, it
> gave errors with ps and top with size missmatches, the only things that dont
> work now are mount, df (unless you specify a directory) and umount.
>
> So I'm assuming you don't have the same prob?

ps/top size mismatches are another sign of improper upgrades, or not using
loader.

You might try rebuilding again, but don't use -j and make sure the install
succeeds.

Also for giggles try going into /sys/boot and doing 'make && make
install' to upgrade loader & friends.

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