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Re: Potential release blocker
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Sun Jul 31 21:58:14 2011
Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2011 21:58:07 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
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False alarm. It looked like a kernel bug (as described by
Geoff), but in fact turns out to be two packages not getting along with
each other when installed in a specific manner. We believe we have a
workaround, which I'm testing now.
-Jon
On Sun, 31 Jul 2011, Jonathan Reed wrote:
> It has been suggested that the issues described in Trac #975 are due to
> a kernel bug serious enough to potentially prevent the release (and thus
> leave us sticking with Lucid for another year).
>
> Feedback is welcome and encouraged, though confirmation is required to
> verify that this in fact the issue we're seeing. Possible workarounds
> include building our own kernel or getting a backport in place, but it's
> unclear that can happen in bounded time.
>
> -Jon
