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From: William Kenworthy <billk@iinet.net.au>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] *** WARNING : 2.6.30 kernel hangs and destroys filesystems on old hardware
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:48:59 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1247219339.1159.1.camel@rattus> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <tkrat.bb741beebcc7a224@igpm.rwth-aachen.de>

Was there any oops evident (in dmesg) and reiserfs involved? This is
whats biting me at the moment on 2 systems with 2.6.29/30.

BilLK

On Thu, 2009-07-09 at 13:13 +0200, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just want to warn everybody about the 2.6.30 kernel 
> (gentoo-sources-2.6.30-r2)
> 
> First, it seems to run fine on modern hardware with SATA drives
> (AMD64 in my case)
> 
> BUT, on two old machines with SMP and IDE drivers (different
> controllers) the kernel randomly hangs and what is worse,
> it has destroyed a filesystem in such a way that even fsck
> (from a rescue cd with an 2.6.29 kernel) hangs.
> I had to make a pristine filesystem on that partition.
> 
> There are some reports on the kernel mailing list and the
> kernel bug tracker which talk about similar problems
> on some hardware.
> 
> If some has more news (e.g. on how to fix that)
> I'd be very interested.
> Thanks,
> Helmut.
> 
-- 
William Kenworthy <billk@iinet.net.au>
Home in Perth!




  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-07-10  9:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-09 11:13 [gentoo-user] *** WARNING : 2.6.30 kernel hangs and destroys filesystems on old hardware Helmut Jarausch
2009-07-09 11:26 ` Mick
2009-07-10  8:16   ` Keith Dart
2009-07-10  9:48 ` William Kenworthy [this message]
2009-07-11  4:05   ` Walter Dnes

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