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2009/7/9 Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@××××××××××××××××.de>: |
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> Hi, |
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> I just want to warn everybody about the 2.6.30 kernel |
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> (gentoo-sources-2.6.30-r2) |
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> First, it seems to run fine on modern hardware with SATA drives |
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> (AMD64 in my case) |
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> BUT, on two old machines with SMP and IDE drivers (different |
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> controllers) the kernel randomly hangs and what is worse, |
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> it has destroyed a filesystem in such a way that even fsck |
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> (from a rescue cd with an 2.6.29 kernel) hangs. |
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> I had to make a pristine filesystem on that partition. |
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> There are some reports on the kernel mailing list and the |
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> kernel bug tracker which talk about similar problems |
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> on some hardware. |
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> If some has more news (e.g. on how to fix that) |
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> I'd be very interested. |
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> Thanks, |
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> Helmut. |
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Thanks for the warning Helmut. I am still trying to get the 2.6.29 to |
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work on my old laptop and was hoping that the 2.6.30 would offer a |
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fix, but from what you are saying it may be a retrograde step in old |
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hardware like mine. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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