netdev - Re: 2.6.24-rc2-mm1 -- strange apparent network failures

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Message-ID: <20071117135640.GA22058@shadowen.org>
Date:	Sat, 17 Nov 2007 13:57:00 +0000
From:	Andy Whitcroft <apw@...dowen.org>
To:	Andrew Morgan <morgan@...nel.org>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Kevin Winchester <kjwinchester@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	kamalesh@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: 2.6.24-rc2-mm1 -- strange apparent network failures

On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 09:16:58PM -0800, Andrew Morgan wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1
> 
> Hi,
> 
> This warning is just saying that you might want to reconsider
> recompiling your dhclient with a newer libcap - which has native support
> for 64-bit capabilities. This is supposed to be informative, and not be
> associated with any particular error.
> 
> - From your comments, you believe that this patch causes something in your
> boot process to fail. Can you supply some detail about the version of
> dhclient you are using? I'd like to understand exactly what it is doing
> (via libcap).
> 
> Thanks

The machine which show this problem for me are using static network
configurations, so I don't know if libcap is still in the mix there.

I've just compared the boot logs from a successful and unsuccessful boot
on this kernel, and I don't see that particular message, nor do I see
any significant differences overall.

Perlexed.

-apw
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