<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD><TITLE></TITLE> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2180" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=194410423-24012006>Thanks, but that looks okay to me.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=194410423-24012006></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=194410423-24012006>Not working:</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=194410423-24012006></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=194410423-24012006>rpm -ql kernel-smp-2.6.9-22.0.2.EL |grep boot</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>/boot/System.map-2.6.9-22.0.2.ELsmp<BR>/boot/config-2.6.9-22.0.2.ELsmp<BR>/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-22.0.2.ELsmp<BR>/lib/modules/2.6.9-22.0.2.ELsmp/kernel/drivers/mtd/redboot.ko</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=194410423-24012006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Working:</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=194410423-24012006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=194410423-24012006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>rpm -ql kernel-smp-2.6.9-22.0.1.EL |grep boot</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT color=#0000ff size=2>/boot/System.map-2.6.9-22.0.1.ELsmp<BR>/boot/config-2.6.9-22.0.1.ELsmp<BR>/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-22.0.1.ELsmp<BR>/lib/modules/2.6.9-22.0.1.ELsmp/kernel/drivers/mtd/redboot.ko<BR></FONT><BR></DIV><FONT color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></FONT> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=194410423-24012006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Any ideas?</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=194410423-24012006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=194410423-24012006></SPAN> </DIV><BR> <DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left> <HR tabIndex=-1> <FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> linux-lvm-bounces@redhat.com [mailto:linux-lvm-bounces@redhat.com] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Jonathan E Brassow<BR><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, January 24, 2006 5:49 PM<BR><B>To:</B> LVM general discussion and development<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [linux-lvm] file descriptor 3 left open<BR></FONT><BR></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV>IIRC, these are merely informative messages saying that, "Hey, the person who called me forgot to close some of their file descriptors, like they were suppose to. But don't worry, I'll close them for you." </DIV><BR> <DIV>That would have been too long though, so I think they chose a more cryptic message. </DIV><BR> <DIV>As far as your kernel installation problem, I'm not sure what's wrong there... </DIV><BR> <DIV>You could 'rpm -q kernel' (or rpm -qa | grep kernel) to see if it is installed. If it is, you could 'rpm -ql kernel-<the version> | grep boot' to see if the image was correctly installed... </DIV><BR> <DIV>brassow </DIV><BR> <DIV>On Jan 24, 2006, at 3:55 PM, Kapadia, Nayan U. wrote: </DIV><BR> <BLOCKQUOTE> <DIV><FONT face=Arial><SMALL>I keep seeing "file descriptor 3 left open" at boot after the initrd is loaded. The systems boots to the 2.6.9-22.0.1 kernel and works fine. I have ran fsck against all filesystems however the error messages still appears. I noticed that when I run system-config-lvm these errors are more predominant. </SMALL></FONT> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial><SMALL>File descriptor 13 left open</SMALL></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial><SMALL>File descriptor 3 left open</SMALL></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial><SMALL>File descriptor 4 left open</SMALL></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial><SMALL>File descriptor 8 left open</SMALL></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial><SMALL>File descriptor 9 left open</SMALL></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial><SMALL>File descriptor 10 left open</SMALL></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial><SMALL>File descriptor 11 left open</SMALL></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial><SMALL>File descriptor 12 left open</SMALL></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial><SMALL>File descriptor 13 left open</SMALL></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial><SMALL>File descriptor 3 left open</SMALL></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial><SMALL>File descriptor 4 left open</SMALL></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial><SMALL>File descriptor 8 left open</SMALL></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial><SMALL>File descriptor 9 left open</SMALL></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial><SMALL>File descriptor 10 left open</SMALL></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial><SMALL>File descriptor 11 left open</SMALL></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial><SMALL>File descriptor 12 left open</SMALL></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial><SMALL>File descriptor 13 left open</SMALL></FONT> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial><SMALL>I recently installed the new kernel 2.6.9-22.0.2 but the system does not find kernel at boot. I think the file descriptor messages are a symptom to some greater problem. Please help.</SMALL></FONT> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial><SMALL>thank you!</SMALL></FONT> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial><SMALL>Nayan</SMALL></FONT> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial><SMALL></SMALL></FONT> </DIV> <DIV>_______________________________________________ </DIV> <DIV>linux-lvm mailing list </DIV> <DIV>linux-lvm@redhat.com </DIV> <DIV>https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm </DIV> <DIV>read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>