On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 05:30:29PM +0100, Marc Brockschmidt wrote:
> > Any chance of upgrading one of the buildds to 2.6.32 to see if it
> > helps?
>
> DSA told me that they do not want to run any non-standard (aka,
> non-Debian stable) kernel on these machines, not even for short
> tests. I'm not sure that's the best way to handle this, but I can't
> change it.
lebrun and schroeder had built many packages in the past with non-standard
kernels, indeed testing on them helped improve the standard upstream kernel,
and obviously we eventually do have to upgrade the buildds so it's a good
policy to find out if that's possible early enough. The one major data point
that you may be missing here is that a few months ago I got stuck trying to
to upgrade from the 2.6.28 to the 2.6.29 kernel built by new gcc on
schroeder. The same happened with .30 and .31; didn't test .32 yet but
there's no real indication that it would work. We've asked Dave Miller for
help, and he's promised to look into it. These heisenbuggy Ruby failures
sound like another thing you'd want him to look into.
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