Re: kmod problem returned

Richard Gooch (Richard.Gooch@atnf.CSIRO.AU)
Thu, 23 Jul 1998 22:36:56 +1000


Edward S. Marshall writes:
> On Wed, 22 Jul 1998, Spirilis wrote:
> > <root>:/root# kmod: waitpid(1748,NULL,0) failed, returning -512.
> > Plus a kmod error when I started lpd, JUST like the previous incident a week or
> > two ago... a patch was posted but apparantly wasn't assimilated into the
> > mainstream kernel.
>
> I've been getting this since moving to devfs. It seems to occur when the
> ppp module is unloaded.

I don't think it's a problem with devfs per se. Rather, I think using
devfs may be exposing an existing bug.

Regards,

Richard....

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