Trying to install rawhide: madness and where do we hope to go ?

[Daniel Veillard]

On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 10:22:36PM +1000, Rodd Clarkson wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 07:26 -0400, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 12:28:46PM +0200, Matthias Saou wrote:
> > > Daniel Veillard wrote :
> > > >   Then reboot ... 2.6.13-1.1538_FC5 still fails to boot all process forked
> > > > by init just seems to crash, but booting the old 2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 works.
> > > > Half a day later I still don't have a setup to test inotify or recent Xen.
> > > 
> > > Current Rawhide kernels are broken. See Dave's earlier email to the list :
> > 
> >   Can't basic bootup of kernels on i386 uniproc machine be tested before
> > pushed to rawhide, channels, mirrors and users ?
> 
> This kernel has only been half broken.  For many it has been working,
> for others it hasn't.

  So I'm just being unlucky there ? that's possible, 2.6.13-1.1542_FC5 
fixes it as I tested which is a good point.

> Dave's had a little difficulty rebasing to 2.6.13, but given the amount
> of effort he puts in I wouldn't even think of blaming him for not
> testing the kernel on all the different possibilities.

  I though the problem was more common. Testing all possibilities sure
can't be done ahead, that would be a radical change of model.

> In the past four or five days, we've had the first three 'broken'
> kernels of the rawhide series.  You've unfortunately just hit a rough
> patch.

  okay, I'm being unlucky ... but running i686 on a dell laptop doesn't
sounds like a setup which should expose weird cornercase behaviour :-)

Daniel

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