[arch-general] Kernel 2.6.32

Ng Oon-Ee ngoonee at gmail.com
Tue Dec 22 04:39:51 EST 2009


On Tue, 2009-12-22 at 09:49 +0100, Xavier wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 12:35 AM, Frank Hale <frankhale at 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.

Something's been bugging me about this email, and I just realized,
2.6.32 hasn't moved to core yet!



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