Am Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:54:16 -0700 schrieb Steve Holmes <steve.holmes88@gmail.com>:
Hey, has anyone been experiencing any problems with the newest kernel26 package from Arch? this would be 2.6.32.2. After upgrading to it, my machine starts to boot but then dies. When I downgrade to kernel26-2.6.31.6, all works fine again. I'm a totally blind guy so haven't had a chance to get anyone to look at the screen for me but one thing sure, no messages get logged to /var/log/syslog or messages. Just thought I would check to see if I'm not alone with these kernel problems. For now, I'm gonna have to downgrade my kernel once again so at least my machine will work again.
If you, too, don't use [testing] and get kernel panics then this is because there is at least one important package update which is needed by kernel26 2.6.32.2-2 missing in [core]. I guess it's mkinitcpio. If you update your system to [testing] then it works again. So the packages which are currently in [testing] urgently need to be moved to [core] or kernel26 2.6.32.2-2 urgently needs to be moved back to [testing] until the other packages are moved to [core], too. I think the first option is the better one. This should be done before more users, who are using the stable repos, get serious problems. See my bug report at http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/17649 and my e-mail "[arch-general] Kernel panic with kernel26 2.6.32.2-2 from [core]". Greetings, Heiko