Pat,
Referencing our first exchange of 3-16, I tried your suggestion of setting the kernel variable. It still locks up. I remind that my Linux install was an autopilot plain vanilla install of RH 9.0. I ran "uname" to expose the exact version number of my release (= 2.4.20-8). So I tried exporting that. No luck.
Help!
Jeff Goodwin
Jeff,
How *exactly* is it failing? Also, what *exactly* did you do to establish the kernel version value?
Pat
(4/2/04 3:30 PST)
Pat,
I did the original OIL install while logged in as root. Install went to completion without error. Note that the downloaded OI rpm package was downloaded to "/root" and rpm was run on the package from there, ie, /root. I don't know whether that matters in any way, but I'm trying to be complete.
In answer to your query about deriving the version, I ran "uname -a" in a terminal window and got this result:
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.4.20-8 #1 Thu Mar 13 17:54:28 EST 2003 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
Finally, you inquired about the exact sequence of events in my attempting to boot OIL. From a terminal window within the GNOME GUI, I type "oinsight", hit enter, then get the demo expiration date warning, clicked OK, then the warning clears and the system just sits there.
LATE-BREAKING NEWS: just for the helluvit, I switched GUIs from GNOME to KDE via "switchdesk" and a re-login. Guess what? OIL booted normally! So, it had to do with some GNOME setting or lack of setting. If you want to continue the investigation, I'm willing. Let me know.
Thank you for your time.
Jeff
Jeff,
How *exactly* did you set the LD_KERNEL_VERSION variable?
Pat
Pat,
In answer to your question, 2 answers. When I experienced the boot failure over GNOME, I tried each of these in successive order (neither worked; each boot attempt failed in the same manner):
export LD_KERNEL_VERSION=2.4.1export LD_KERNEL_VERSION=2.4.20-8After, switching GUIs to KDE, I did the same two "exports", one at a time of course. The export of "2.4.1" worked, but the "2.4.20-8" failed.
Jeff