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[Debathena] #165: 2.6.26 kernel does not get along with Dell 760
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Wed Mar 25 12:41:10 2009
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Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:40:58 -0000
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#165: 2.6.26 kernel does not get along with Dell 760 Hardware---------------------+------------------------------------------------------
Reporter: wdc | Owner:
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: critical | Component: dotfiles
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---------------------+------------------------------------------------------ Symptom:
Boot Intrepid, or a variety of 2.6.26-based systems and see infinite
spewage of errors.
This is apparently a recently discovered bug with a trivial patch.
See:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=512617
The patch being:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.28.y.git;a=commitdiff;h=1de5b0854623d30d01d72cd4ea323eb5f39d1f16
We should probably make sure this patch is in Jaunty, and gets an SRU into
Intrepid, and possibly Hardy. The lack of this patch renders the system
essentially unusable. When you reboot as the final phase of the install
it looks like your system is hung with constant and un-interruptable spew.
The seeming only way to get round it is to power cycle the machine.
This spewage seems to run in the background of a seemingly fine system
causing tremendous slowness, and filling up the disk with log output.
So this is a biggie folks!
-- Ticket URL: <http://debathena.mit.edu/trac/ticket/165>Debathena <http://debathena.mit.edu/>MIT Debian-Athena Project
