I know nobody has been holding their breath for this report, after all, these old Core 2 Duo "Conroe" aren't even identified by Intel as CPUs with speculative execution flaws that they're NOT going to fix! But Google does index our list, so for the benefit of others...
After a significant amount of testing, I found good evidence that the Firefox-55 crashes on some Yahoo.com/finance pages, and that error message, were _not_ caused by the 4.14.134 patch to an LFS-8.1 system on a Conroe. I purged that system and started fresh with a clean install of my 8.1 "distro". With my "pio" package manager (which _does_ work) I cleanly removed its 4.14.62 default kernel and incrementally patched with .98. Firefox seemed stable. So I did it again with .134, and again Firefox seems stable. I didn't find out that _did_ cause the crashes, but again pio proved the X, GTK, Firefox chain had not been corrupted. Perhaps something in my user configuration? So, in short and for the benefit of anybody else making old kit work, more testing showed my suspicions were wrong, and 4.14.134 does seem to work. Later patches are _not_ incompatible with these old CPUs. -- Paul Rogers paulgrog...@fastmail.fm Rogers' Second Law: "Everything you do communicates." (I do not personally endorse any additions after this line. TANSTAAFL :-) -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
