[WBEL-users] Custom kernel issues (X-server crashes)

[Kirby C. Bohling]

On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 03:52:35PM +0200, Samuel Plachel wrote:
> I switched to WBEL from Fedora Core 2 only a week or so ago - and I have
> to say, I really, really like it; the only problem I have is that I
> cannot get a custom kernel to work properly. I got the sources via YUM
> but had to use a vanilla kernel instead because I need software suspend
> (and those patches cannot be aplied to patched sources as the original
> WBEL ones). So I copied the .config of the original sources.
> 
> I experienced various problems then because I never compiled a 2.4
> kernel before (I did SOME 2.6 on FC2 though); now I got everything fixed
> except for a very strange thing: X doesn't start any more - the only
> (and I really looked close ;)) message I get is:
> 
> XIO:	fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server :0.0
> 	after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
> 
> There is NO warning or error in /var/log/XFree.0.log however so I'm
> really stuck here. My video card is a Intel I815 which seems to use i810
> driver on my /working/ kernel according to lsmod.
> 
> Help, suggestions or whatever would be appreciated a lot!

Your problem is that the libraries on WBEL expect the kernel to
support NPTL (The new POSIX Threading library).  I know that William
Hooper has posted the fix a number of times.  Essentially, you
rename a library, and you'll stop using NPTL, and all will be well
in the world.

I'm fairly sure you move /lib/tls to /lib/tls-dontuse

Search for mv /lib/tls 
http://www.jackhollow.co.uk/wbel_samsungx05.html

The only problem with this, is that you have to fiddle with the
/lib/tls directory when you update glibc if I remember correctly.

However, RedHat makes a lot of fixes in their kernel, and well,
you are probably much better off to run the RHEL kernel.

	Kirby


> 
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