Gentoo Archives: gentoo-hardened

From: Paige Thompson <erratic@×××××.ws>
To: gentoo-hardened@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-hardened] 2.6.25-hardened-r4 hangs?
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 02:50:51
Message-Id: 48D707FC.1040603@devel.ws
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-hardened] 2.6.25-hardened-r4 hangs? by Gordon Malm
1 Gordon Malm wrote:
2 > On Sunday, September 21, 2008 05:27:21 Alex Efros wrote:
3 >
4 >> Hi!
5 >>
6 >> In several days after upgrade to 2.6.25-hardened-r4 my workstation hangs.
7 >> That was 100% hang - system was not accessible from network, no
8 >> information in logs or on console (usual X desktop was on monitor).
9 >>
10 >> That time I was on vacation, so I noticed this and rebooted system several
11 >> days later. After that in about a day it hangs again.
12 >>
13 >> I've booted previous kernel 2.6.24-hardened-r3 for now, and also noticed
14 >> newer 2.6.25-hardened-r7 was released in last weeks.
15 >>
16 >>
17 >
18 > As I am sure you are aware, there is quite a lot of changes between "minor"
19 > kernel series; in this case 2.6.24 -> 2.6.25.
20 >
21 >
22 >> Is anybody experienced similar troubles with 2.6.25-hardened-r4?
23 >>
24 >
25 > I haven't, nor has anyone reported any such issues (via IRC, e-mail, ML or
26 > bugzilla) with any 2.6.25 release.
27 >
28 >
29 >> Is anybody aware about any stability fixes between 2.6.25-hardened-r4 and
30 >> 2.6.25-hardened-r7 which may be related to this issue?
31 >>
32 >
33 > There are many fixes between 2.6.25-r4 and 2.6.25-r7. However, without
34 > knowing the specifics of your hardware and lockup issues it is impossible to
35 > guess if any of the fixes would relate to your specific setup/scenario.
36 >
37 >
38 >> P.S. I'll keep system running using 2.6.24-hardened-r3 for next few days.
39 >> If it will hangs anyway - then it will mean I've hardware issues and
40 >> latests kernels is ok.
41 >>
42 >
43 > If you have not developed a hardware issue and 2.6.25-r7 displays the same
44 > issue, I'd suggest filing a bug with all the relevant info available. Please
45 > provide a minimum of emerge --info, lspci output, and your kernel config.
46 >
47 > Good luck.
48 >
49 > Gordon Malm
50 >
51 >
52 http://cia.vc/stats/author/gengor
53 Gengor is da man running the hardened sources show I think, he's the one
54 who gave me the same advice I gave you.