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If your cron daemon crashes after startup.

And you get the following message in your logfiles, the /etc/cron.d directory is missing.

(CRON) STARTUP (fork ok)
(CRON) STAT FAILED (/etc/cron.d)

Create the /etc/cron.d directory and start the cron daemon!

Why you should read the kernel changelog? - You have to read it, when you use an 2.6.16 vanilla kernel on a native sarge.

When you don't have any problems with LVM (lvm2) and the kernel.

In the Kernel ChangeLog there are nice informations like this:

If you're using lvm2, for this patch to work correctly you should update to lvm2 version 2.02.01 or later and device-mapper version 1.02.02 or later.

If I had read this, I would have had no problems with LVM and kernel 2.6.16!

Note for me: Fly over kernel changelog for every new kernel!