On 2015-10-08 07:08, JBF wrote:
> Gunnar said: A consequence of this buggy kernel upload is that many 
> 'non-expert users' now have seemingly useless systems, and are unable
> to resolve the problem themselves.
> 
> Please note that non expert users should not activate proposed 
> repository.

The latter is indeed true. But (1) all users don't know that, and (2)
people do not always do as they are recommended.

So yes, it's true in a sense that those affected have themselves to
blame. But IMO that's not a reason to belittle the significance of the
incident. Quite a few users out there are stuck because they used Update
Manager to keep their systems up to date.

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  Kernel bug in eventpoll_release_file+0x46/0xa0 with 3.13.0-66.107

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