current kernels in rawhide?

Tom Diehl tdiehl at rogueind.com
Sat Jun 5 15:05:16 UTC 2004


On Sat, 5 Jun 2004, Mike Chambers wrote:

> On Sat, 2004-06-05 at 16:31 +0200, Michael Neef wrote:
> >  > [root at scooby RPMS]# rpm -ivh kernel-2.6.6-1.422.i686.rpm
> >  > Preparing...                ###########################################
> >  > [100%]
> >  >   1:kernel                 ###########################################
> >  > [100%]
> >  > memlock: Cannot allocate memory
> >  > Couldn't lock into memory, exiting.
> >  > mkinitrd failed
> > 
> > Doing
> > 
> > ulimit -l unlimited
> > 
> > before starting the rpm worked for me.
> 
> Yep, someone wrote me off-list and I got it to work.  Wonder why this is
> needed for this kernel vesion?

IIRC Someone from Red Hat (Dave Jones I think) said it is a bug and will be
fixed. It is after all rawhide!! :-)

Tom





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