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1. Muhammad (peace be upon him) as a Trustworthy (and Honest).

2009-11-24T20:03:53Z

1. Muhammad (peace be upon him) as a Trustworthy (and Honest).
From Muhammad's Sayings:
-Abu Huraira (may Allah be pleased with him) reported: The messenger
of Allah (PBUH) said: "The signs of a hypocrite are three: 1. Whenever
he speaks, he tells a lie. 2. Whenever he promises, he always breaks
it (his promise). 3. If you trust him, he proves to be dishonest. (If

Re: How can I thoroughly debug these types of errors?

2009-11-24T13:27:14Z

2.6.19 is... ancient system? I'm running latest Java on older than
that!
I've got a kernel 2.6.16 / libc 2.3.6 running the latest
Java 1.6:
... $ uname -a
Linux ... 2.6.16.33 #1 SMP Fri Mar 30 04:13:58 BST 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
... $ java -version
java version "1.6.0_17"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_17-b04)

Re: howto apply 2.6.x.y on 2.6.x

2009-11-23T00:45:29Z

Am 19.11.2009 09:15 schrieb lovecreatesbea...@gmai1.c0m:
The patch-kernel script is not the optimal tool for that.
You'd normally just do:
bzcat patch-2.6.26.1.bz2 | ( cd linux-2.6.26 ; patch -p1 )
If you absolutely want to do it with patch-kernel, have a
look at the usage text at the beginning of the script.

Re: gmake upgrade fails - please suggest remedy

2009-11-22T18:12:29Z

There are two basic possibilites here:
1. The shell tries to reduce the time needed to start a
command by caching the paths of 'recently invoked' commands in
order to avoid the need to do a path search everytime. It is
conceivable that you shell is running the old command because
the location is still cached. This can be checked with 'hash'

Re: gmake upgrade fails - please suggest remedy

2009-11-22T05:56:50Z

You need to run the version of gmake you installed, not the one from
before.
DS

gmake upgrade fails - please suggest remedy

2009-11-22T04:38:16Z

Could some Linux guru please help ? I am running RedHat 2.6.9-34.EL. I
am trying to build OpenWrt Kamikaze-8.09 on my machine. Whwn I tried
compiling it, I got an error message that I needed gmake 8.1 or above.
I downloaded the gzip file, unzipped and went through the steps of ./
configure, make, make check and make install and everything worked

Re: where to get kernel to build a custom one

2009-11-20T18:49:26Z

I would suggest that you download the kernel from Debian. You could simply
use 'apt-get source linux-image-...' to get the sources. Build those,
install the resulting packages and reboot. If it works, you can start your
modifications. You can also download the sources from upstream, but in
general I would prefer going with the flow of Debian. If you think about

Re: where to get kernel to build a custom one

2009-11-20T10:33:36Z

[...]
My suggestion would be to stay close behind the kernel.org releases,
eg use the highest-numbered minor version of the second most recent
kernel. This would be 2.6.31.x now. That's a conservative approach
which has worked mostly well for me for some years.
I have encountered exactly two issues so far: A 2.6 release from some

Re: where to get kernel to build a custom one

2009-11-20T09:41:50Z

Thaks for reply.
Sorry for my awful English.
Suppose I'm not submitting code, modules or drivers to linux kernel
right now (hope I will do it soon), and just going to make minor
changes in vfs (ie. some ../fs/*.c) for my own use.
I'm using Debian Lenny (503), and `uname -r` is 2.6.26-2-686. Do I
download a copy of kernel source from debian.org which produced /

Re: where to get kernel to build a custom one

2009-11-20T07:54:34Z

If you're afraid of breaking your system, try one that is close to what you
are currently running. That way, chances are lower that things suddenly stop
working.
This sentence doesn't parse here. Guessing what you mean, I can say that the
one from kernel.org will probably not have changes that were made to the

where to get kernel to build a custom one

2009-11-20T01:51:09Z

From kernel.org, or the one of the distribution (manufacturer) which
I'm currently using? If the one from kernel.org, will the
modifications to kernel source by by the distro lose and introduce
problems or bugs ever fixed by the distro?
Debian shows in his handbook[1] in sec4.4 and 4.5 that both are ok.

Re: W^X in Linux?

2009-11-19T22:03:57Z

On Nov 9, 8:49 am, "Non scrivetemi"
Linux has a similar feature, and does it more efficiently. Remember,
the main reason Linus wrote Linux was because he wanted to play with
the MMU. Linux also has very fast context switches which makes it
much easier to use the MMU for W^X protection and beyond.

Re: howto apply 2.6.x.y on 2.6.x

2009-11-19T08:49:50Z

On Nov 19, 4:21 pm, "lovecreatesbea...@gmai1.c0m"
I tried it, and it works. But don't know why patch-kernel can't do the
patching.
$ pwd
/home/jhl/working/tmp/linux-2. 6.26
$ bzip2 -dc ../patch-2.6.26.1.bz2 | patch -p1
..
$ bzip2 -dc ../patch-2.6.26.1.bz2 | patch -p1 -R
..
$

Re: howto apply 2.6.x.y on 2.6.x

2009-11-19T08:21:18Z

On Nov 19, 4:15 pm, "lovecreatesbea...@gmai1.c0m"
can it be done by patch command on command line other than `patch-
kernel'. linux-2.6.26/README says patch `2.6.x.y' can be directly
applied to kernel `2.6.x':
" Unlike patches for the 2.6.x kernels, patches for the 2.6.x.y
kernels
(also known as the -stable kernels) are not incremental but instead

howto apply 2.6.x.y on 2.6.x

2009-11-19T08:15:39Z

can I apply patch-2.6.26.1.bz2 on kernel linux-2.6.26? I failed to do
so with patch-kernel utility.
$ ls
linux-2.6.26 patch-2.6.26.1 patch-2.6.26.1.bz2
$ linux-2.6.26/scripts/patch-ker nel linux-2.6.26 patch-2.6.26.1
Current kernel version is 2.6.26 ( Rotary Wombat)
cannot find patch file: patch-2.6.27