two major failures after yesterday updates - anyone else

[Kevin J. Cummings]

On 10/29/2009 05:14 AM, Mike Cloaked wrote:
> 
> I have had an unprecented pair of events last night and this morning - two
> machines (both Dell Inspiron 530s desktops) have died completely (
> unbootable) - having been running on f11 very successfully for some time. I
> had no reason to suspect the hardware at all and both were running fine from
> new a couple of years ago - but I am now wondering if this has anything to
> do with updates that came in on 28th October. The new kernel and a number of
> other updates were installed yesterday morning on both machines. Both were
> also using ext4 files systems.

Did you reboot after installing the new kernels?

> I would like to know if this is a chance event or related to kernel changes,
> particularly related to ext4?
> 
> If nobody else has anything remotely similar happen then I will conclude
> that I am just very very unlucky  -  but I would like to know if anybody
> else has had a mysterious total failure of their system in the past 24
> hours.

I have installed the new updates yesterday as well, but I have not yet
reboot to use the new kernels on either my x86_64 laptop, nor an i586
desktop that I use only for testing.  Both are still running.  Possibly
because I have not yet rebooted.  Neither have any ext4 filesystems on them.

Just a data point for you to compare to.

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Kevin J. Cummings
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