Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] (sort of) strange things after upgrading the kernel

[Francisco Ares]

2012/10/12 Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>

> Francisco Ares wrote:
> > Hi, All
> >
> > I have upgraded the kernel to gentoo-sources 3.4.9 and, for instance,
> > k3b to 2.0.2, and it says there is no optical devices. But "cdrecord
> > --scanbus" shows them all (a IDE dvd reader and a SATA dvd writer).
> >
> > Most probably I have missed something, because I like to do some
> > customizations to the kernel configuration, but all SATA hard disks
> > are working, flash drives, and all the rest of the hardware goes ok.
> >
> > I did not try to burn any DVD, but the players do OK with any of the
> > devices, so it is not a permission problem (I still have to correct
> > this, to make it persistent, but the k3b problem remains). It might be
> > related to some other thing, the desktop widget that used to show all
> > the disks' partitions, does not show anything any more, although "df"
> > shows everything just as expected.
> >
> > Funny, isn't it?
> >
> > Any ideas, please?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Francisco
> >
> > P.S.: attached follows the ".config" for this kernel
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > "If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then
> > you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and
> > I have one idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have
> > two ideas." - George Bernard Shaw
>
>
> Have you went back to the old kernel to test it again?  If it does the
> same with the old kernel, it's likely not the kernel.  If it works like
> it used to then it is the kernel.
>
> That said, it is weird and I have ran into this sort of thing in the
> past.  Something works fine then breaks or acts weird with a newer
> kernel.  Usually I just stick with the old kernel until a couple
> releases goes by and then try again.  They fix stuff pretty fast.
>
> Dale
>
> :-)  :-)
>
> --
> I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or
> how you interpreted my words!
>
>
>

Thanks for your reply, Dale.

Yes, everything works as expected when using the old kernel.

I decided to re-emerge some base libraries, and nothing worked, until I
remembered to re-emerge udev. After the build, it announced two wrong lines
in the new kernel "config" file:

CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED=y
CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2=y

After correcting them and building the kernel again, now everything is back
to normal.

Thanks again
Francisco


-- 
"If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you
and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have
one idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas."
- George Bernard Shaw