On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 04:32, Dennis Robertson wrote: > On Tue, 9 Dec 2003 09:41 am, Øyvind Stegard wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I just upgraded to the 2.4.20-gentoo-r9 kernel (from -r8), and it > > suddenly OOps'ed (segfault caused by error in inode.c) when unmounting a > > partition before reboot. This made me a bit suspicious, since I used the > > exact same config as with -r8, and kernels from these series have never > > crashed with my current config+hardware, before. (I usually start up > > menuconfig in new kernel dir and load my old config, then verify every > > option after that, so this should be OK, and seems to work well). I > > haven't been able to reproduce any crashes, though. Just wondering if > > anybody else has experienced problems with this latest gentoo-sources > > release. > > Yes, I certainly am. I get random hangs during boot (it would not complete a > fsck twice, hung at module deps and again starting X) and I have sound > problems. Alsa-driver, -libs and -utils refused to compile complaining of an > unknown sound card snd-intel8x0. I installed alsa from source and now amixer > refuses to save settings. I can unmute and get sound to work but sound is > muted on reboot. Also kmail is very temperamental logging on to the mail > server and downloads mail very jerkily. > I am not impressed and am interested in recommendations for other versions of > gentoo with the security patch.
xfs-sources-2.4.20-r4 has the fix, but no low latency gentoo-sources-2.4.22-r1 has the fix, but seems to have other 'issues' on my system. > Also, how does one dispose of an unwanted > kernel? Is it simply emerge -C? > Thanks. -- ______________________________________________________________________ Guy Van Sanden http://unixmafia.port5.com Registered Linux user #249404 - September 1997 ______________________________________________________________________ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
