final kernel biult
Dave Jones
davej at redhat.com
Mon May 28 04:05:08 UTC 2007
On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 08:48:08PM -0700, Michael Thomas wrote:
> Dave Jones wrote:
> > On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 06:45:56PM -0700, Michael Thomas wrote:
> >
> > > > > for me, 3168.
> > > > > maxcpus=1 works for later later kernels (3194, 3201)
> > > > >
> > > > > For posterity, see also:
> > > > > http://bugzilla.redhat.com/241249
> > > >
> > > > Trying to spot a pattern here is hard. Because so far, it seems to be all Dell
> > > > users, but not all Dell core-duo laptops seem to be affected.
> > > > My precision M65 for instance is fine.
> > >
> > > Apparently the problem is not even consistent across models. My
> > > Precision M65 is affected. Booting with maxcpus=1 fixes it.
> >
> > Argh!
> > Can people seeing this problem try out kernel-2.6.21-1.3206.fc7
> > from http://people.redhat.com/davej/kernels/Fedora/fc7/
>
> I didn't see that build at the url you gave
Ah, I need to teach my mirroring script how to cope with freezes :)
> , but I grabbed the 3206
> build from koji. build 3206 boots just fine for me now, while 3194
> continues to hang.
Ok, that's good to know. That narrows it down to something in 2.6.21.2
I'm still not entirely sure *which* patch in that update caused the
problem, so I'll do a few more builds to try and narrow things down
further.
Thanks for testing.
Dave
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