dmesg problem - "cant get kernel namelist"

[W L Wong]

Hello everyone,
We recently experienced some disk failures on our box which generated errors in dmesg/syslog.

The faulty disk has been replaced and we are in the process of rebuilding the filesystems but now when we run dmesg it gives the following message :

# dmesg
Jul 29 16:53
Can't get kernel namelist

Checked /var/adm/messages and it shows the same message as well.

syslog looks clean - what does the dmesg message mean?

Thanks.

[Steve Steel]

Hi

Guess you have a stripped kernel which was generated with LDOPTS="-s" set and will not then do some things

Make sure it is unset and regenerate kernel


Steve Steel

[W L Wong]

Thanks for the reply Steve.

During the filessytem rebuild all the affected VGs were deactivated and this gave rise to the weird dmesg message - any ideas why?

Once the VGs were activated then the namelist message was no longer in dmesg.

[Steve Steel · Accepted solution]

Hi


Probably /stand was not available then


Steve Steel

[W L Wong]

Blimey, silly me. Thanks Steve! Closing the thread.

[W L Wong]

See above for solution.