[plug] Segmentation fault

[Lathiat]

boot from a rescue disk and reinstate your 2_19 and then recompile your kernel
make sure you install the modules and system.map from your 2.17 kernel
not the new one
At 12:54 PM 26/08/01 +0800, you wrote:
>Peter Wright wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 12:10:01PM +0800, Clinton Butler wrote:
> > > This morning we had a power failure and my Debian box was on... it was
> > > then turned off by lack of power. The system now refuses to run 'lilo'
> > > (as I have just switched the kernel back to 2.2.19_pre17 seeing as it was
> > > nice) and comes up with "Segmentation fualt" and puts me back to the 
> prompt.
> >
> > Um. Let me see if I've got this straight:
> >
> > 1. Before power failure you were running a Debian Linux box with 
> <unspecified>
> > kernel which seemed to be mostly working okay?
> >
>
><unspecified> = recompiled 2.2.19 (compiled by me and I realised I didn't need
>what I put in there.. and it was buggy)
>
> >
> > 2. You had a power failure and thus your system went down without a proper
> > shutdown.
> >
> > 3. When you rebooted you went through the usual exciting process of
> > watching with great interest as your disk partition(s) got fscked to make
> > sure they're okay.
> >
> > 4. You finished booting, logged in and your system seemed okay, until...
> >
>
>bingo
>
> >
> > 5. ...you decided to go back to using the 2.2.19_pre17 kernel instead of
> > the <unspecified> kernel you were using previously.
>
>see 1
>
> >
> >
> > 6. You went through <unspecified> steps to switch back to 2.2.19_pre17 
> (which
> > I presume included modifying /etc/lilo.conf), then you tried to run
> > /sbin/lilo (which reads /etc/lilo.conf and updates the boot block) and you
> > got a segmentation fault.
>
>bingo. I just changed the default boot kernel
>
> >
> >
> > Is that pretty much it? Have I/you missed anything?
> >
>
>missed nothing
>
> >
> > > I have no idea what this is... and it seems bad to me.
> >
> > Seems bad to me too. :)
> >
>
>bugger
>
> >
> > >      _.._    _    Clinton Butler
>
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