Hey Dice how's stuff?

I've been trying to help him with this in PM but I don't have a 64 bit Processor, or Mandriva installed so it was a bit hard for me. I recommended to him that he use Uname to check his Kernel version with -a and he was playing with Uname for other info and got worried as I would have when it came back with unkown.

This was because he wanted to recompile his Kernel and do some other stuff so I told him about the command to get info.

I remember when I was a Linux newbie and something didn't work I'd freak out and reinstall.

So far my recommendation was to join a Mandriva list so he could talk to them about it there and get more help than what I could give him.

I'm running SUSE 9.3 Professional on this machine and all of the commands worked fine for me so I didn't know what to do as I couldn't get the same error at all.

If that's a bug a lot of distros seem to have HM, I don't think you should worry much. You may want to ask again on the list if they have fixed it yet though.

I have SUSE, Slackware, and Free BSD here and none of th em seem to be affected by it.

From what I understand you may want to check out what I said in PM, which is SlamD. Someone told me it was a Slackware port to 64 bit. Not official, but I've heard good things about it on a Slackware list I'm on.