From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andy Whitcroft Subject: Re: 2.6.24-rc2-mm1 -- strange apparent network failures Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2007 13:57:00 +0000 Message-ID: <20071117135640.GA22058@shadowen.org> References: <20071113175906.497a1a6a.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20071115100209.GB2513@shadowen.org> <200711152028.29734.kjwinchester@gmail.com> <20071115164441.67a8e2df.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <473E794A.4060107@kernel.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Andrew Morton , Kevin Winchester , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com To: Andrew Morgan Return-path: Received: from hellhawk.shadowen.org ([80.68.90.175]:1848 "EHLO hellhawk.shadowen.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752826AbXKQN5b (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Nov 2007 08:57:31 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <473E794A.4060107@kernel.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 09:16:58PM -0800, Andrew Morgan wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > > This warning is just saying that you might want to reconsider > recompiling your dhclient with a newer libcap - which has native support > for 64-bit capabilities. This is supposed to be informative, and not be > associated with any particular error. > > - From your comments, you believe that this patch causes something in your > boot process to fail. Can you supply some detail about the version of > dhclient you are using? I'd like to understand exactly what it is doing > (via libcap). > > Thanks The machine which show this problem for me are using static network configurations, so I don't know if libcap is still in the mix there. I've just compared the boot logs from a successful and unsuccessful boot on this kernel, and I don't see that particular message, nor do I see any significant differences overall. Perlexed. -apw