I have successfully compiled and installed many kernels prior to 1.03. However, I'm having problems getting it to work this time. I started from the beta 11d source tree, and applied each of the patches in order until it was patched to 1.03. Compiled fine, and the kernel boots. However, when the player starts, It goes through several startup messages before getting stuck on

"Starting poll thread failed"

It then drops to a bash prompt.

What's going on here? I tried re-applying the 1.03 upgrade and then uploading the kernel, same effect, so that means it's something wrong with the kernel rather than something on my hard disk or in my init that is screwing things up... None of my patches failed or reported errors, and the kernel seems to be valid. It just causes the player to not run properly. What is the poll thread, and what about my kernel could cause that thread to fail to start? Thanks in advance for any help.