Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: inet error 16 on shutdown
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From: philip@pch.home.cs.vu.nl (Philip Homburg)
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 11:03:20 +0200
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In article <VdCl7.673$iH4.48390@ozemail.com.au>,
Christopher Bootland <bootland@ozemail.com.au> wrote:
>Hi,
>     I get the following error message from the inet server on shutdown:
>
>    inet: error 16 on registering ethernet devices

Is it repeatable?

>Can anyone tell me what causes this?

This error is part of the initialization of inet. I don't know why it is
called during a shutdown. Either inet was not initialized when you shut down
the system, or somehow it jumps to the wrong location.




					Philip Homburg
