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On Sun, 2011-03-20 at 09:50 +0100, Roman Zilka wrote: |
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> By the way, why not gentoo-sources-2.6.36-r5? I hope you have a good |
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> reason to run a system as ancient as that. Your system is swarming with |
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> widely known security holes. |
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Yes, I have a good reason for this, and I'll be responsible for security |
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on the box, which I'm well able to do. Security, and the relative |
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antiquity of the portage tree are not issues for which I'm seeking |
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advice, so your observations are totally beside the point, and not |
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particularly welcome. I'm well aware of both issues. |
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The challenge here is to get the system to boot with the newer kernel |
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and version of udev which I cited in my previous post. |
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/etc/fstab has been edited several times, as I noted in my post. The |
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kernel, udev and /etc/fstab have been now been reverted, as I also noted, so |
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I could get the desktop working. Considering that, posting any of the |
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information you've asked for would probably be useless. |
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Roman, if you don't have any useful insights based on the information I |
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already posted, then please don't post on thread and leave it to others |
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who may. |
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Having said this, I'll ask you one question: |
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> Also, by upgrading to a little less ancient versions than 2.6.29 |
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> you won't have the same situation like now boomerang back at you in the |
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> near future. |
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Can you cite a source or sources for this assertion? Is there a known |
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problem with kernel 2.6.29, or the portage tree which spec'd that |
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kernel? Is there any discussion, bug report, or anything that you can |
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cite noting that this was a known problem at one point and addressed at |
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a later date? |
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In almost every case, I've found that people who lecture me online about |
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my system admin practices don't really have a handle on the issue about |
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which I'm writing. Please prove me wrong :-) |
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