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[phil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Phil Shrimpton)]

> From: Christopher D. Reimer [mailto:creimer@xxxxxxxxx]

Hi,

> The easiest way is probably to do a "make mrproper" in /usr/src/linux and
> roll your own kernel.  If you believe that your kernel source
> tree has been
> compromised, delete the /usr/src/linux, re-install the source
> tree from the
> 6.3 cd, and roll a kernel.

Should /usr/src/linux be a symlink to the current kernel source, or should
it be a 'real' directory containing the current kernel source?

Cheers

Phil

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Phil Shrimpton" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <suse-linux-e@xxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2000 10:38 PM
> Subject: [SLE] Half a kernel (was Stuttering WAV files in KDE)
>
>
> > Hi
> >
> > > I  wrote:
> > >
> > > > I have just started trying to use WAV files in KDE and the play but
> very
> > > > 'stuttered', it plays a brief part of the WAV and then there is
> > > about half a
> > > > second silence, then the next part of the WAV is played
> >
> > Thanks to all the help so far.  I was investigating the suggestions and
> made
> > a discovery.  I had recently upgraded from 6.1 to 6.3, and as everything
> > seamed to be working (NIC, Modem etc, CD Player etc.)  I
> assumed that the
> > upgrade was successful.  But after trying to change the IRQ of my sound
> > card, I noticed that for some reason I was using the latest
> kernel modules
> > (2.2.13), but for some reason the kernel was still version
> 2.2.5.  Further
> > investigation of the install log showed that on several occasions the
> > upgrade had an error...
> >
> > "rmdir /usr/src/linux cannot remove symlink" (or something like that)
> >
> > A quick look at /usr/src/linux revealed it was not a symlink, but a real
> > directory containing 2.2.5.  So I reckon it recompiled that version
> instead
> > of the new version.
> >
> > I am not sure if this is the cause of the sound card problem,
> but it needs
> > to be sorted out.
> >
> > What is the easiest way to fix this?
> >
> > I thought of deleting the 'real' /usr/src/linux, and replacing it with a
> > symlink to /usr/src/linux-2.2.13, then rolling my own kernel..
> >
> > Or could I just re-do the update from the 6.3 CDs...
> >
> > Any suggestions?
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Phil
> >
> >
> >
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