Kenn Humborg wrote:
>> > Hi,
> > In case anybody else is having a similar problem, I seem to have
> > solved my one.
> > The factor involved seems to be that after I recompiled the
> > kernel for another
> > issue smbfs stopped working even though I was NOT actually using
> > this new kernel!
> > After I installed the new kernel and booted with it I had no problems.
> >
> > Just as a matter of interest, does anybody know what could have
> > been the root
> > of this problem ?
>> Were the two kernels the same version? Did you do a modules_install
> when you recompiled? If so, then you probably overwrote your smbfs.o
> with an incompatible one.
Yes the 2 kernels were the same version.
It was a few weeks ago since I recompiled the kernel, but I think that
I did indeed do a modules_install. But I do not think that I changed
anything about smbfs.
So this kind of behaviour means that you cannot have 2 different
configurations of the same kernel installed ?
Thanks,
Con
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