Etay: looks like name resolving is not working ok on my machine. I'm getting 'host not
found' when running host on my machine name. The name is configured in /etc/hosts
and 'files' is set first in nsswitch.conf. Looks like the resolver is bypassing the hosts file
and goes directly to the DNS server of my ISP.

 

Etay: I updated my kernel tree using:

git pull rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git

(is that the correct way to pull Linus tree?)

and got the following errors on compilation:

[cl@amber linux-2.6]$ ARCH=um make
make[1]: `arch/um/sys-i386/util/mk_sc' is up to date.
  CHK     arch/um/include/uml-config.h
  UPD     arch/um/include/uml-config.h
  CHK     include/linux/version.h
  UPD     include/linux/version.h
  SPLIT   include/linux/autoconf.h -> include/config/*
gcc -Wall -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -ffreestanding -O2     -fomit-frame-pointer -g -fprofile-arcs -ftest-coverage -D__arch_um__ -DSUBARCH=\"i386\" -Iarch/um/include  -I/home/cl/kernel/linux-2.6/arch/um/kernel/tt/include  -I/home/cl/kernel/linux-2.6/arch/um/kernel/skas/include -Dvmap=kernel_vmap -Din6addr_loopback=kernel_in6addr_loopback -Derrno=kernel_errno -Dsigprocmask=kernel_sigprocmask -fno-unit-at-a-time -U__i386__ -Ui386 -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wno-pointer-sign  -nostdinc -isystem /usr/lib/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/4.0.1/include -D__KERNEL__ -Iinclude  -S -o arch/um/kernel-offsets.s arch/um/sys-i386/kernel-offsets.c
In file included from include/asm/thread_info.h:17,
                 from include/linux/thread_info.h:21,
                 from include/linux/spinlock.h:53,
                 from include/linux/capability.h:45,
                 from include/linux/sched.h:7,
                 from arch/um/sys-i386/kernel-offsets.c:3:
include/asm/processor.h:69: error: 'CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT' undeclared here (not in a function)
include/asm/processor.h:69: error: requested alignment is not a constant
In file included from include/linux/sched.h:12,
                 from arch/um/sys-i386/kernel-offsets.c:3:
include/linux/jiffies.h:27:5: warning: "CONFIG_HZ" is not defined
include/linux/jiffies.h:29:7: warning: "CONFIG_HZ" is not defined

Thanks a lot for your help,

-Etay