F-10 kernel upgrade

Joe Nall joe at nall.com
Thu Apr 16 17:37:41 UTC 2009


On Apr 16, 2009, at 11:49 AM, Denis Leroy wrote:

> I'm seeing a lot of regressions with the 2.6.29 update to F-10 here.  
> GDM doesn't always log me in (it hangs after the password is  
> entered, 'top' doesn't show any stuck process), and when it did I  
> had Xorg eat 100% CPU with little useful info in the log files.

I've been running koji 2.6.29 builds on my main development box with  
no issues for a few weeks. Are you sure you didn't pick up something  
else?

> What is the reasoning for pushing a 2.6.29 kernel to Fedora 10 (a  
> stable release about half-way its lifetime) ? Was there something  
> fundamentally wrong with the 2.6.27.x kernel ? Why introduce some  
> much instability ?

I want the netlabel changes introduced in 2.6.28 and updated in 2.6.29.

> I can understand there are people maybe waiting for new hardware  
> support brought by this kernel, but woudn't they be better off with  
> F-11 anyways?

Not for me :)

joe





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