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From: Graham Murray <graham@×××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What's the story with 2.6.35 kernel?
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 06:27:11
Message-Id: 87sk1gpzia.fsf@newton.gmurray.org.uk
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] What's the story with 2.6.35 kernel? by Ajai Khattri
1 Ajai Khattri <ajai@××××.net> writes:
2
3 > I upgraded several machines and some failed to boot 2.6.35, they just
4 > hang after grub starts loading the kernel. Some of these I managed to
5 > fix by comparing kernel configs with working machines, others dont
6 > work at all.
7 >
8 > The worst case is one where Ive upgraded udev to the latest which only
9 > works with kernels 2.6.25 or higher, and the last working kernel on
10 > that machine is 2.6.24 (grr!). Wondering if I can download a binary
11 > package of udev-149 from somewhere (or can I build it on another
12 > machine in a sandbox and package it with quickpkg?). Im kind of under
13 > pressure to fix this box but dont have udev-149 on any other machine
14 > available :-(
15 >
16 > That'll teach me to upgrade to the latest and greatest too fast...
17
18 I think that you may be suffering from bug
19 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=334269