From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Nov 26 14:29:27 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA02004 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 26 Nov 1996 14:29:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA01945 for ; Tue, 26 Nov 1996 14:29:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from gvr.win.tue.nl (root@gvr.win.tue.nl [131.155.210.19]) by who.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.11) with ESMTP id MAA13381 for ; Tue, 26 Nov 1996 12:50:46 -0800 (PST) Received: (from guido@localhost) by gvr.win.tue.nl (8.8.2 with smtp patch/8.8.2) id VAA18493; Tue, 26 Nov 1996 21:49:20 +0100 (MET) From: Guido van Rooij Message-Id: <199611262049.VAA18493@gvr.win.tue.nl> Subject: Re: A simple way to crash your system. In-Reply-To: <199611252014.VAA18142@uriah.heep.sax.de> from J Wunsch at "Nov 25, 96 09:14:37 pm" To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 21:49:20 +0100 (MET) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, kjk1@ukc.ac.uk X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk J Wunsch wrote: > As K.J.Koster wrote: > > > Altough I am speculating here, I think this has to do with the fact that > > I do not have msdosfs compiled in with the kernel. After installing a > > different kernel, I asked the system to modload msdosfs, with the above > > result. > > Running a kernel with the wrong LKMs is known to cause you grey hairs. > I'm often falling into this trap, but the other way around: by > rebooting a new kernel without rebuilding and reinstalling the LKMs > first. Can't we built in some way of detecting that an lkm is for the wrong kernel? If things are so dependant, why not take the uname -a string as an identifier.... -Guido