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Subject: Re: Race condition in module load causing undefined symbols
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Pozsár Balázs wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 02:23:04PM -0400, Prarit Bhargava wrote:
> 
>>The second fix, and again you must do this if you're developing 2.6.12, is 
>>to *update the mkinitrd package* which has a new version of /bin/sh.
> 
> 
> This sounds insane to me. I am using bash in my initrd, does this mean 
> that every shell and whatever has to be updated? Exactly what 
> modifications has to be made?
> 
> 

If you're using bash, I would suggest starting with an update of the bash package.

It's interesting to note that Steve also needed to update his udev package. 
Steve, IIRC you were using Fedora 3/4?

P.