Re: OOPS at boot in 2.4.17-rc[12] (kernel BUG at slab.c:815) maybe devfs

[Richard Gooch]

Gregor Suhr writes:
> >
> >
> >
> >Now this is useful information! I see what's caused this: the second
> >mount of devfs (because you're using initrd) is creating the
> >devfsd_event slab cache again, which is a bug. I've appended a patch
> >which fixes this. Please test it out and let me know how it goes.
> >
> I applied the patch to 2.4.17 and it seems to work well (the system came 
> up).

Great.

> Do you have an idea how I can solve the err. -17 error or may i realy 
> ignore it?

I've added a section to the devfs FAQ to answer this.
http://www.atnf.csiro.au/~rgooch/linux/docs/devfs.html

				Regards,

					Richard....
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