FATAL: kernel too old

[Bernhard Fischer]

On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 02:47:04PM +0200, HAMMER Cédric Ext ROSI/DPS wrote:
>
>Hello all,
> 
>I got a problem while tryin' to install busybox on RHEL 3.
>I've been looking for a rpm to install this the easiest way, and it's seems it's finally not ... I've found three of em, which I tested, and sent me the same error message:
>- busybox-1.6.1-2.fc8.i386.rpm
>- busybox-1.2.0-4.i386.rpm
>- busybox-1.01-3.i386.rpm
> 
>(The 0.60.5 version is workin', but I need the rpm applet, which is not implemented in this version  ...)
> 
>The message is:
># busybox
>FATAL: kernel too old
>Segmentation fault
>
>I've also tried to compile the 1.7.1 version, but got an error with taskset
> 
>miscutils/taskset.c: In function `taskset_main':
>miscutils/taskset.c:78: warning: passing arg 2 of `sched_getaffinity' makes pointer from integer without a cast
>miscutils/taskset.c:78: too many arguments to function `sched_getaffinity'
>miscutils/taskset.c:86: warning: passing arg 2 of `sched_setaffinity' makes pointer from integer without a cast
>miscutils/taskset.c:86: too many arguments to function `sched_setaffinity'
>make[1]: *** [miscutils/taskset.o] Error 1
>make: *** [miscutils] Error 2
>
>Anyone could help please ?

http://busybox.net/FAQ.html
and
http://busybox.net/FAQ.html#build

RHEL3 is not supported by redhat anymore, so you should update your OS.
After that, if you don't need taskset, perhaps it would be a bright idea
to turn it off (but sheesh, that's a secret ;). How to do that is
explained in the html pages referenced above.

HTH,