Package: linux-image-k7 Version: 2.6.12-10 Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system
After updating udev a reboot resulted in a unusable system because rivafb was being loaded by udev/coldplug. rivafb is not usable, especially not when being compiled with debugging enabled. Result was a system that only printed panning related debugging messages. To revive the system i had to boot into emergency mode (using -b, using the grub recovery boot was not successful. I doubt a normal user would have known what to do.) and delete rivafb. Now udev was correctly using nvidiafb, which worked. And the bottomline is: * Don't compile any modules with debugging support enabled. (If you like you can provide a kernel-modules-dbg package.) In almost all cases the debugging options are only useful to kernel developers anyway. * Don't compile rivafb: it was never really usable and except for old riva cards nvidiafb is the better choice anyway (but that is arguably a bug in udev/coldplug). Regards, Dominik -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (800, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-k7 Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages linux-image-k7 depends on: ii linux-image-2.6-k7 2.6.12-10 Linux kernel 2.6 image on AMD K7 m linux-image-k7 recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
