Cannot find system map file

Brian Witowski brianw
Mon May 17 11:28:16 PDT 2004


The problem is the file doesn't exist in either of those locations.
Strange.

Brian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-users-admin at linux-sxs.org
> [mailto:linux-users-admin at linux-sxs.org]On Behalf Of Mike Andrew
> Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2002 12:32 PM
> To: linux-users at linux-sxs.org
> Subject: Re: Cannot find system map file
>
>
> Jerry McBride wrote:
>
> >
> > It's not required for running your linux computer. However, it will shut
> > up that error message.
> >
>
> It is, afaik, only used during kernel oops tracing.
>
> Someone recently gave an *excellent* description of the various
> System.map's,
> plural, their order of precedence, and where the kernel would
> look for them. It
> will be in the archives. However, a good quick'n dirty to get over this
> continuing irritation is to simply
>
> cd /boot
> rm System.map
> ln -s /usr/src/linux/System.map System.map
>
> This presupposes that any kernels you build will be at the above
> location. The
> rev level being irrelevant.
>
>
>
>
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