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From: Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] *** WARNING : 2.6.30 kernel hangs and destroys filesystems on old hardware
Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2009 13:13:26 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <tkrat.bb741beebcc7a224@igpm.rwth-aachen.de> (raw)

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.

-- 
Helmut Jarausch

Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik
RWTH - Aachen University
D 52056 Aachen, Germany



             reply	other threads:[~2009-07-09 11:13 UTC|newest]

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

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