System broken after kernel upgrade - explanation?

2011-05-22 Thread Anthony Campbell
I've been using linux-image-2.6.38-2-686 for some time without preblems. After a dist-upgrade in Sid today I acquired linux-image-2.6.39-1-686-pae. On booting this I had no connection (wired) to my router. Also, on starting X (startx) the screen locked up and I had to do a hard reset. I reverted

Re: System broken after kernel upgrade - explanation?

2011-05-22 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 15:08 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: I can only suppose that some package which was also upgraded today (there were various libraries) has affected both kernels. I would put in a bug report but I have no idea where the problem could lie. Any suggestions? A list of

Re: System broken after kernel upgrade - explanation?

2011-05-22 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 22 May 2011, Wolodja Wentland wrote: On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 15:08 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: I can only suppose that some package which was also upgraded today (there were various libraries) has affected both kernels. I would put in a bug report but I have no idea where the problem

Re: System broken after kernel upgrade - explanation?

2011-05-22 Thread Frank McCormick
On Sun, 22 May 2011 16:24:02 +0100 Anthony Campbell a...@acampbell.org.uk wrote: On 22 May 2011, Wolodja Wentland wrote: On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 15:08 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: I can only suppose that some package which was also upgraded today (there were various libraries) has

Re: System broken after kernel upgrade - explanation?

2011-05-22 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 16:24 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 22 May 2011, Wolodja Wentland wrote: On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 15:08 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: I can only suppose that some package which was also upgraded today (there were various libraries) has affected both kernels. I

Re: System broken after kernel upgrade - explanation?

2011-05-22 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Wolodja Wentland wrote: On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 15:08 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: I can only suppose that some package which was also upgraded today (there were various libraries) has affected both kernels. I would put in a bug report but I have no idea where the problem could lie. Any

Re: System broken after kernel upgrade - explanation?

2011-05-22 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-05-22 17:34 +0200, Frank McCormick wrote: Same situation here - the problem arose after yesterdays upgrades...which are: [UPGRADE] libgudev-1.0-0 169-1 - 170-1 [UPGRADE] libudev0 169-1 - 170-1 [UPGRADE] net-tools 1.60-23 - 1.60-24 [UPGRADE] udev 169-1 - 170-1

Re: System broken after kernel upgrade - explanation?

2011-05-22 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 11:34 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: Same situation here - the problem arose after yesterdays upgrades...which are: [UPGRADE] libgudev-1.0-0 169-1 - 170-1 [UPGRADE] libudev0 169-1 - 170-1 [UPGRADE] net-tools 1.60-23 - 1.60-24 [UPGRADE] udev 169-1 - 170-1

Re: System broken after kernel upgrade - explanation?

2011-05-22 Thread Frank McCormick
On Sun, 22 May 2011 17:43:17 +0200 Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote: On 2011-05-22 17:34 +0200, Frank McCormick wrote: Same situation here - the problem arose after yesterdays upgrades...which are: [UPGRADE] libgudev-1.0-0 169-1 - 170-1 [UPGRADE] libudev0 169-1 - 170-1

Re: System broken after kernel upgrade - explanation?

2011-05-22 Thread Frank McCormick
On Sun, 22 May 2011 16:51:25 +0100 Wolodja Wentland babi...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 11:34 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: Same situation here - the problem arose after yesterdays upgrades...which are: [UPGRADE] libgudev-1.0-0 169-1 - 170-1 [UPGRADE] libudev0 169-1 -

Re: System broken after kernel upgrade - explanation?

2011-05-22 Thread Frank McCormick
On Sun, 22 May 2011 12:18:25 -0400 Frank McCormick debianl...@videotron.ca wrote: On Sun, 22 May 2011 17:43:17 +0200 Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote: On 2011-05-22 17:34 +0200, Frank McCormick wrote: Same situation here - the problem arose after yesterdays upgrades...which

Re: System broken after kernel upgrade - explanation?

2011-05-22 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-05-22 18:37 +0200, Frank McCormick wrote: Rebuilt initramfs...rebooted and everything **seems** fine. However in looking through syslog I saw this: [...] May 22 12:25:21 sid kernel: [5.698554] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null) Ouch. Is that

Re: System broken after kernel upgrade - explanation?

2011-05-22 Thread Frank McCormick
On Sun, 22 May 2011 18:56:21 +0200 Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote: On 2011-05-22 18:37 +0200, Frank McCormick wrote: Rebuilt initramfs...rebooted and everything **seems** fine. However in looking through syslog I saw this: [...] May 22 12:25:21 sid kernel: [5.698554] BUG: