Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] (sort of) strange things after upgrading the kernel

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Francisco Ares wrote:
> Hi, All
>
> I have upgraded the kernel to gentoo-sources 3.4.9 and, for instance,
> k3b to 2.0.2, and it says there is no optical devices. But "cdrecord
> --scanbus" shows them all (a IDE dvd reader and a SATA dvd writer).
>
> Most probably I have missed something, because I like to do some
> customizations to the kernel configuration, but all SATA hard disks
> are working, flash drives, and all the rest of the hardware goes ok.
>
> I did not try to burn any DVD, but the players do OK with any of the
> devices, so it is not a permission problem (I still have to correct
> this, to make it persistent, but the k3b problem remains). It might be
> related to some other thing, the desktop widget that used to show all
> the disks' partitions, does not show anything any more, although "df"
> shows everything just as expected.
>
> Funny, isn't it?
>
> Any ideas, please?
>
> Thanks
> Francisco
>
> P.S.: attached follows the ".config" for this kernel
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Have you went back to the old kernel to test it again?  If it does the
same with the old kernel, it's likely not the kernel.  If it works like
it used to then it is the kernel. 

That said, it is weird and I have ran into this sort of thing in the
past.  Something works fine then breaks or acts weird with a newer
kernel.  Usually I just stick with the old kernel until a couple
releases goes by and then try again.  They fix stuff pretty fast. 

Dale

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