Re: Linux 2.6.23-rc5

["Alessandro Suardi" <alessandro.suardi@gmail.com>]

On 9/3/07, Gabriel C <nix.or.die@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > On Sunday, 2 September 2007 09:54, Prakash Punnoor wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> 2.6.23-rc5 locks up hard (Magic Syskeys won't even work) after a few minutes
> >> of work on x86_64. 2.6.23-rc4 was fine. I'll try git-bisect to find out what
> >> is causing trouble. Yes, I am using nvidia binary but it didn't make troubles
> >> since ages... When I found the bugger, I'll try whether it works w/o nvidia
> >> binary.
> >
> > Just for the record, I'm running -rc5 on two x86_64 boxes without any visible
> > issue.
> >
> > I don't use any binary graphics drivers, though.
>
> 2.6.23-rc5 dies here random[1] too .. on 2 Dell boxes ( i686 not x86_64 here ) which I upgraded to rc5 yesterday.
>
> When dies 'Caps Lock and Scroll Lock' blinks and the box lockups hard .. rc4 got an 7 days uptime on both with the same config ,
> kernel compiled with same gcc/glibc/binutils etc.

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--alessandro

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