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 1MOrZV-0004of-Mw for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 09 Jul 2009 11:13:49 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B54A1E0321; Thu, 9 Jul 2009 11:13:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mta-1.ms.rz.rwth-aachen.de (mta-1.ms.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.7.72]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89EFAE0321 for ; Thu, 9 Jul 2009 11:13:47 +0000 (UTC) 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 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: INLINE Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=us-ascii Received: from ironport-out-1.rz.rwth-aachen.de ([134.130.5.40]) by mta-1.ms.rz.RWTH-Aachen.de (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-7.04 (built Sep 26 2008)) with ESMTP id <0KMI0080RHUZE120@mta-1.ms.rz.RWTH-Aachen.de> for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 09 Jul 2009 13:13:47 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.42,373,1243807200"; d="scan'208";a="18453034" Received: from relay-2.ms.rz.rwth-aachen.de (HELO relay.rwth-aachen.de) ([134.130.7.75]) by ironport-in-1.rz.rwth-aachen.de with ESMTP; Thu, 09 Jul 2009 13:13:47 +0200 Received: from numa-i.igpm.rwth-aachen.de (numa-i.igpm.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.161.252]) by relay.rwth-aachen.de (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8/1) with ESMTP id n69BDkZg005777 for ; Thu, 09 Jul 2009 13:13:46 +0200 (CEST) Received: by numa-i.igpm.rwth-aachen.de (Postfix, from userid 230) id 5722710681C; Thu, 09 Jul 2009 13:13:27 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2009 13:13:26 +0200 (CEST) From: Helmut Jarausch Subject: [gentoo-user] *** WARNING : 2.6.30 kernel hangs and destroys filesystems on old hardware To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Message-id: X-Archives-Salt: 02924b73-abdc-4a4b-8b20-f5345b19497b X-Archives-Hash: de1c6200b75f8d3427856ce258000f58 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