Problems with F7: Wrong kernel type, prelink pegs my CPU
Gilbert Sebenste
sebenste at weather3.admin.niu.edu
Wed Jul 25 05:43:58 UTC 2007
Hi Sam,
> To make the default change permanent, edit /boot/grub/grub.conf, and change
> the default= setting. The first menu entry in Grub's boot menu is default=0,
> the second menu entry is default=1, and so on. Set default accordingly. Take
> care editing the grub.conf file, an accidental typo may have rather
> unfortunate results.
Right on. I remembered that after I sent out my email.
>> Second, a program called "prelink" pegs my CPU. Is it necessary, and if
>> not, how do I turn it off besides doing a kill -9 on it?
>
> That shouldn't happen. Run 'rpm -e prelink', but this should really be
> investigated further. prelink shouldn't be hogging the CPU, like that. Before
> nuking prelink, wait for eat to start eating the CPU, find its pid, then do
> "ls /proc/$PID/fd". Wait a few seconds, and do it again. See if there are any
> changes. You might have a corrupted binary somewhere that prelink is choking
> on. Prelinking is good, you want to try to keep it around.
Maybe a buggy kernel? They just released a new one. I'll see how it goes.
Thanks for the help to all who have replied so far!
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