From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MPCj6-0004kO-AE for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 09:49:08 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 97FEBE02D0; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 09:49:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out3.iinet.net.au (outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out3.iinet.net.au [203.59.1.148]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB2A4E02D0 for ; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 09:49:05 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApoEAPOqVkp8qdxr/2dsb2JhbADQJIQIBYE6 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.42,377,1243785600"; d="scan'208";a="474660387" Received: from unknown (HELO moriah.localdomain) ([124.169.220.107]) by outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out3.iinet.net.au with ESMTP; 10 Jul 2009 17:49:02 +0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moriah.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 541311857AAF for ; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:49:02 +0800 (WST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at localdomain Received: from moriah.localdomain ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (moriah.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 1ExoI-1Czxc5 for ; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:48:59 +0800 (WST) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (rattus [192.168.1.2]) by moriah.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 736F218C846D for ; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:48:59 +0800 (WST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] *** WARNING : 2.6.30 kernel hangs and destroys filesystems on old hardware From: William Kenworthy To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Home in Perth! Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:48:59 +0800 Message-Id: <1247219339.1159.1.camel@rattus> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.26.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: af9ed1eb-53c8-4b62-b96e-79ea543b31c6 X-Archives-Hash: 2954c1b9dc3e25ea53f51569e1129c37 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 Home in Perth!