Group: linux.debian.ports.sparc · Group Profile
Author: Dave BarnettDave Barnett Date: Jun 16, 2008 19:40
Brian:
Thanks for the comments. Stock kernel.
Apparently, someone found and fixed this, as tonight an updated version
of the bind9 package ( 1:9.5.0.dfsg-3) was available, plus removing the
daemontools, daemontools-run, and djbdns, fixed the problem.
Cheers,
Dave
brian m. carlson wrote: > On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 10:32:40PM -0400, Dave Barnett wrote:
>> After installation, the daemon tries to start, but prints out:
>> Starting domain name service...: bindnamed: syscall(capset) failed:
>> Invalid argument: please ensure that the capset kernel module is
>> loaded. see insmod(8)
>>
>> There doesn't appear to be a "capset" module. I found a comment from
>> my searching about a "capability" module, but that module does not
>> appear to be available.
>
> Did you compile your own kernel? If you did, did you enable
> CONFIG_SECURITY_CAPABILITIES and CONFIG_SECURITY_FILE_CAPABILITIES? If
> you're using the Debian kernel, those should be built in.
>
> capset is the system call to set capabilities (see capabilties(7) and
> capset(2)). Obviously those won't work if you don't have capabilities
> enabled.
>
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