retitle 723081 more broken kernels need to be blacklisted (interruptible hangs) severity 723081 important thanks
On Mon, 16 Sep 2013, Nick Lewycky wrote: > Setting up amd64-microcode (2.20131007.1+really20130710.1) ... > Using per-core interface to update microcode on online processors... > > it hangs, for over an hour before I killed it. ... > Kernel: Linux 3.5.2 (SMP w/32 CPU cores; PREEMPT) If you're going to use custom kernels on your box, please base them on the latest kernel in one of the longterm branches: 3.4 or 3.10 (currently: 3.4.62 or 3.10.12). Anyway, please look here: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=716917 It lists a workaround to unwedge the package installation, but you really need a kernel upgrade. 3.5.2 is so broken it is not funny, you should be using at least 3.5.7, and that would still be quite buggy. If you really want to be sure it is your kernel that is broken, try this (run it as root). BEWARE, it will hang the shell if your kernel is broken: find /sys/devices/system/cpu -noleaf -type f -path '/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/microcode/reload' | while read i ; do echo -n 1 >"$i" || true ; done It should hang in a broken kernel (interrupt it with ^C, you may need to press it several times as you have 32 cores...). Meanwhile, it looks like I will have to add more kernels to the blacklist... the AMD microcode driver is broken on a lot of kernels, proof that nobody was using it in the first place. Argh! -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
