> > I noticed, though, that leaving out the SysV IPC options prevents the
> > machine from rebooting: 'reboot' hangs when trying to sync disks, and
> > 'shutdown -r now' shuts down the machine but fails to reboot.
> 
> News to me!  _HOWEVER_, if you don't compile a kernel with COMPAT_12
> defined, you will have the problem you describe.  I suggest that you do a
> `make clean' and recompile the kernel from scratch after adding this
> option to your kernel config.

The kernel in question was built from 1.2 release sources. :)
-current doesn't build (as sup'ed two days ago); I suppose the fixes
announced on current-users have not made it to my local mirror, yet.

        hauke

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