From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: by oss.sgi.com id ; Mon, 30 Oct 2000 14:18:22 -0800 Received: from gateway-490.mvista.com ([63.192.220.206]:27891 "EHLO hermes.mvista.com") by oss.sgi.com with ESMTP id ; Mon, 30 Oct 2000 14:18:07 -0800 Received: from mvista.com (IDENT:ppopov@zeus.mvista.com [10.0.0.112]) by hermes.mvista.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e9UMGM317669; Mon, 30 Oct 2000 14:16:22 -0800 Message-ID: <39FDF26A.196F5D1B@mvista.com> Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 14:12:58 -0800 From: Pete Popov Organization: Monta Vista Software X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12-20b i586) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ralf Baechle CC: "linux-mips@oss.sgi.com" Subject: Re: FATAL: cannot determine library version References: <39F9B924.97AF7A4@mvista.com> <20001028151809.A7138@bacchus.dhis.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Return-Path: X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips-outgoing Ralf Baechle wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 10:19:32AM -0700, Pete Popov wrote: > > > I've got a big endian kernel running for a new embedded board, and it > > mounts the root fs over nfs. I'm using the simple-0.2b packages as the > > root fs. At some point after /bin/sh is loaded, I get the following > > error: > > > > FATAL: cannot determine library version > > > > The same root file system is fine on my Indigo2. > > Seems your kernel is foobared. On startup libc is trying to determine > the kernel version but both using uname and /proc/sys/kernel/osrelease > fail for some reason. Thanks, that helped. uname wasn't called at all -- only /proc/sys/kernel/osrelease was being opened. However, I did not have CONFIG_SYSCTL enabled in my .config file. Pete