On Thursday 10 November 2005 07:25, Ed Tomlinson wrote: > Hi, > > 2.6.14.2 should be out this weekend. The .1 fixes a security issue, > .2 fixes bind (0 sized icmp packets) and several other bugs. > > Might be worth waiting. It also is worth trying to boot with apci disabled. > > Ed Tomlinson
2.6.14.2 is out - Note the fix list - the third one may help you. Its also worth making sure you have an up-to-date modutils package. Debian udev stresses modules loads.... Ed ============================================== Adrian Bunk: airo.c/airo_cs.c: correct prototypes Dimitri Puzin: fix XFS_QUOTA for modular XFS Greg Kroah-Hartman: USB: always export interface information for modalias Linux 2.6.14.2 Herbert Xu: NET: Fix zero-size datagram reception Ivan Kokshaysky: fix alpha breakage Jens Axboe: Oops on suspend after on-the-fly switch to anticipatory i/o scheduler - PowerBook5, 4 Julian Anastasov: ipvs: fix connection leak if expire_nodest_conn=1 Linus Torvalds: Fix ptrace self-attach rule Oleg Nesterov: - fix signal->live leak in copy_process() fix de_thread() vs send_group_sigqueue() race Roger While: prism54 : Fix frame length Stephen Hemminger: tcp: BIC max increment too large - > On Thursday 10 November 2005 06:50, Giacomo Mulas wrote: > > Hello, I am experiencing a very strange behaviour on my Asus A6k > > Turion64 laptop running sid. It used to work ok with a custom-compiled (from > > the debian-packaged source) 2.6.12 kernel. When the debian-packaged source > > for 2.6.14 became available, I copied over my old .config, did a make > > oldconfig answering the relevant questions, built a new kernel without any > > errors, installed it. > > Then I experienced this weird situation: the system boots, loads the > > ramdisk, does its initial setup, mounts the root filesystem, switches > > root... all ok until it gets to starting udev. Then udev's hotplug kicks in > > and starts loading modules and... in an erratic, unpredictable way, it hangs > > while loading the usb hcd module, without any error message. Sometimes it > > does, sometimes it doesn't and the boot procedure then goes smooth and the > > computer runs without a hitch thereafter. It does not happen at all with > > 2.6.12, therefore it must be something which changed between 2.6.12 and > > 2.6.14 (a shipload of things, unfortunately...). I was unable to relate the > > hangs to anything, they seem to be just random. The only thing which is > > reproducible is that the system always hangs (when it does) while loading > > the ehci_hcd module. I did not even file a bug report yet, since I don't > > quite understand whether this is a kernel or a udev issue. > >
