From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267632AbUHMWvs (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Aug 2004 18:51:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267648AbUHMWvs (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Aug 2004 18:51:48 -0400 Received: from mustang.oldcity.dca.net ([216.158.38.3]:22488 "HELO mustang.oldcity.dca.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S267632AbUHMWvn (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Aug 2004 18:51:43 -0400 Subject: Re: [solved] binfmt_misc trouble with kernel 2.6.7 From: Lee Revell To: Anand Buddhdev Cc: linux-kernel In-Reply-To: <411D41DD.1080005@celtelplus.com> References: <411CF503.40202@celtelplus.com> <411D41DD.1080005@celtelplus.com> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1092437540.803.22.camel@mindpipe> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 18:52:21 -0400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2004-08-13 at 18:34, Anand Buddhdev wrote: > Anand Buddhdev wrote: > Geoffrey Leach from the Fedora list provided a hint to the solution. > There's no bug. I just have to add: > > none /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc binfmt_misc defaults 0 0 > > to my /etc/fstab, and then the /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc directory > becomes writable, with a register and a status file in it. Sorry to have > bothered you all. That is certainly a Fedora bug if they update a kernel package that requires userland configs to be updated and then don't update those configs. This seems to be a common pattern with Fedora, the kernel packages change way faster than the userland tools and they are fast and loose about not updating userland. To be perfectly honest I switched to Debian partially for this reason. Do they really claim this is not a bug? Lee