rebuilding kernel issue

[ali999]

i have dupatch the lead member of the tru cluster box with kit 6 and now its looping when rebuilding kernel

*** PERFORMING KERNEL BUILD ***
/usr/sbin/doconfig: /dev/null: file already exists
/usr/sbin/doconfig: errs: file already exists
/usr/sbin/doconfig: /dev/null: file already exists
Working....Wed Jan 23 22:27:26 EST 2002
Working....Wed Jan 23 22:29:26 EST 2002
Working....Wed Jan 23 22:31:28 EST 2002
Working....Wed Jan 23 22:33:29 EST 2002

any ideas?

[Danny Petterson - DK]

Hi!

I dont know what you mean about looping - it restarts and starts building the kernel over and over again?

Anyway, try to boot using genvmunix, and then rebuild the kernel manually.

Greetings
Danny

[Ann Majeske]

Maybe the /dev/null device on your system was accidentally replaced with a real file?

[Rob Leadbeater]

Hi,

Yes I've seen this before. If I remember correctly it was because the CDSL (Cluster Dependant Symbolic Link) for /vmunix had been broken...

Hope this helps,

Regards,

Rob

[Rob Leadbeater]

Hi,

I didn't remember correctly... The problem was actually down to an invalid hardware database.

Cheers,

Rob

[Martin Moore]

Check root's .profile and /etc/profile for a trap command that traps signal 15. If it exists, comment it out, log in again, and try to build the kernel.

Martin