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 1MOrlL-0007Sy-7q for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 09 Jul 2009 11:26:03 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8D614E01DC; Thu, 9 Jul 2009 11:26:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-fx0-f211.google.com (mail-fx0-f211.google.com [209.85.220.211]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FD09E01DC for ; Thu, 9 Jul 2009 11:26:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm7 with SMTP id 7so77632fxm.34 for ; Thu, 09 Jul 2009 04:26:00 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=n80dW3wZuanPuh9Qm5i7vBT0JZWiFtc36sq+a7e1+io=; b=DnHZdOOyBXrMXQaBHTY7wEMsR5qCTq5bWNRGVFKgNVQ3o+Ew6342BJ/1Yw9bOaBFbV Q+FcSJHOHNwLrQYmmOdSANsw3Ostk2qbOX9vzyROcvQhVumfG7A1vBhxpziBoCDy4mw4 nLTvtHdK+qGvbq9m/73DiGWY+udBcwzsRcH9w= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=l+JtOPm8x8lzGSqVTlOA/IuqOiN3FzLL0CsXhjtP92+77xvcpGW4CQDeYnXH2+z5Ga L5YYbAYcdlQsBmRpw6/6C9T6NkCwCNKAFmuGaQMtgGZZyeh3Ra9uG0oQrIvPoNIZaxC5 bE+vPvx0SYmLywW3l52eAmhouGBHBgi8CRS28= 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 Received: by 10.204.117.20 with SMTP id o20mr657284bkq.1.1247138760625; Thu, 09 Jul 2009 04:26:00 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 12:26:00 +0100 Message-ID: <358eca8f0907090426v526e0907s18d7a2e7bf52efca@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] *** WARNING : 2.6.30 kernel hangs and destroys filesystems on old hardware From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 34f68845-627e-4745-b46c-1c0c8c325db1 X-Archives-Hash: 4752bc245dabe498b73cecc4683696db 2009/7/9 Helmut Jarausch : > 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. Thanks for the warning Helmut. I am still trying to get the 2.6.29 to work on my old laptop and was hoping that the 2.6.30 would offer a fix, but from what you are saying it may be a retrograde step in old hardware like mine. -- Regards, Mick