dmesg error

[brian_31]

dmesg
can't read kernel memory

any one seen this error

Thanks

brian

[Mridul Shrivastava]

I am not sure but may be you are having this problem because /etc/dmesg does not have an executable permission.

To resolve your problem, assign the following permissions to /etc/dmesg -> /usr/sbin/dmesg:

lrwxr-xr-t

[brian_31]

still the same error

Thanks

brian

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Do an ls -l /dev/kmem and answer your own question. Also, don't be tempted to allow read access to /dev/kmem to all users because it is potentially a huge security leak as this is the actual kernal memory image. Writing to /dev/kmem is extremely hazardous as it alters the running kernel (in fact, that is how some of the "untuneable" tunables are changed).

[brian_31]

$ ls -l /dev/kmem
crw-r----- 1 bin sys 3 0x000001 Nov 14 2000 /dev/kmem

thx

brian

[Jeff Schussele]

Hi Brian,

Have you applied kernel parameter changes, relinked & not yet rebooted?
This is the msg you'll get if so.

Rgds,
Jeff

[brian_31]

i checked and the kernel changes are not pending

thx

brian

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Brian:

As I posted in your duplicate thread, if you're not running as 'root' then this is the error you'll get.

As Clay suggested, look at the permissions of your '/dev/kmem'.

Regards!

...JRF...