On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 12:35 AM, Frank Hale <frankhale@gmail.com> wrote:
I was using the testing kernel 2.6.32 without an issue but then when the kernel went to core my system would no longer boot. It would start to boot half way then just go dead. I don't have any error messages to post because the screen went blank. Grub was working fine as far as I can tell. I had to use the Arch live CD to revert kernels back to an earlier version. Has anyone been having issues with the stable kernel 2.6.32? Like I said, 2.6.32 from testing worked fine.
Uh ? It is the same package that moves from testing to core. The move cannot break anything. When you use testing, and a package gets moved, you cannot even notice it, because pacman -Su won't do anything : you already have the latest packages. Maybe you want to be a bit more specific about which version exactly you were using ? If you don't know, you can check pacman logs. The changes to kernel26 can be seen here : http://repos.archlinux.org/wsvn/packages/kernel26/trunk/?op=log&rev=0&isdir=1 There has apparently been one revision for each stable kernel release so : 2.6.32-1 2.6.32.1-1 2.6.32.2-1 2.6.32.2 contains 5 radeon patches : http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.32.2 If you can actually confirm that this is what broke your setup, this narrows down the issue extremely. The list of changes between 2.6.31 and 2.6.32 is likely awfully huge.