I asked this earlier, but our mail-server was down and I think it
didn't get posted.
I upgraded to potato on my home-machine about a week or so ago and a
couple of days ago compiled and installed the 2.2.17pre20 kernel
source that comes with the 2.2 CD's.
All seems fine (the upgrade was very smooth), but I've been watching
the logs sort of closely in case of problems. I've been
puzzled/disturbed by a couple of things, which I hope somebody can
help me with.
[1] The single most puzzling to me is this (in daemon.log and in
syslog):
Sep 1 23:03:26 debian init: Trying to re-exec init
I thought init was run only at boot time and when changing
run-levels. What could bring about an attempt to restart it when the
system is up but idling? Is this terminally strange, or have I
misunderstood something?
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[2] And then there's a more familiar kind of moan:
Sep 3 01:33:30 debian init: Switching to runlevel: 0
Sep 3 01:33:36 debian modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module binfmt-0000
Sep 3 01:33:36 debian modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module binfmt-0000
Sep 3 10:54:39 debian modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module binfmt-0000
Sep 3 10:54:39 debian modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module binfmt-0000
I have `noauto' set in /etc/modules and all module-names there are
commented out. If I've understood correctly, that means that kerneld
should exit right away and shouldn't attempt to load any modules.
There is no /lib/modules/boot . I don't really understand where
modprobe or insmod gets called in the boot-init process. I've tried to
find out what the binfmt-0000 module is exactly by looking in the
Documentation directory of the kernel-source tree, but with no luck. I
suppose it must be one of the features for letting you invoke some
kind of binary or other?
This seems to do no harm, but I'd like to understand it better.
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And there's:
Sep 3 20:27:31 debian kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd...
Sep 3 20:27:59 debian last message repeated 2 times
Sep 3 20:28:18 debian kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd...
Sep 3 20:29:41 debian last message repeated 3 times
Sep 3 20:30:38 debian kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd...
Sep 3 20:32:14 debian kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd...
Sep 3 20:32:21 debian kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd...
which I don't like the look of. I think this corresponds to one user
connecting to the Hotmail server using Netscape. Sigh ....
I'd be very grateful for any information or advice,
Jim
