nutznboltz
May 1st, 2009, 11:08 PM
Ladies and Gentlemen, see the amazing long-standing Intrepid Kernel Pagecache Bug...
See Linus Torvalds use a four-letter word about this bug (http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/1/5/307).
See a list of six bug reports dating from Intrepid Alpha release to the current Intrepid release now:
268215 (https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/268215)
289158 (https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/289158)
300329 (https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/300329)
303064 (https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/303064)
312163 (https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/312163)
348218 (https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/348218)
All of them describe soft lockups while running Intrepid 2.6.27-* kernels (less than 2.6.27-14)
Wonder how something of this magnitude has gone on so under-reported?
Help by testing the proposed 2.6.27-14 kernel that contains Linus' fix:
Desktop Interpid version
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/proposed.list contains:
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid-proposed main
/etc/apt/preferences contains:
Package: *
Pin: release a=intrepid-security
Pin-Priority: 990
Package: *
Pin: release a=intrepid-updates
Pin-Priority: 900
Package: *
Pin: release a=intrepid-proposed
Pin-Priority: 400
sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude -t intrepid-proposed install linux-image-2.6.27-14-generic
and maybe if you have the need for the kernel headers as well:
sudo aptitude -t intrepid-proposed install linux-headers-2.6.27-14-generic
The base header package will be pulled in automatically.
reboot into new kernel
Unfortunately, update-manager will pester you about other intrepid-proposed packages. To stop this comment out the intrepid-proposed apt repository and "sudo aptitude update" again. The kernel will not downgrade because of the /etc/apt/preferences configuration.
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/proposed.list will contain:
# deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid-proposed main
sudo aptitude update
Server Interpid version:
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/proposed.list contains:
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid-proposed main
/etc/apt/preferences contains:
Package: *
Pin: release a=intrepid-security
Pin-Priority: 990
Package: *
Pin: release a=intrepid-updates
Pin-Priority: 900
Package: *
Pin: release a=intrepid-proposed
Pin-Priority: 400
sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude -t intrepid-proposed install linux-image-2.6.27-14-server linux-image-server
and maybe if you have the need for the kernel headers as well:
sudo aptitude -t intrepid-proposed install linux-headers-2.6.27-14-server
The base header package will be pulled in automatically.
Thanks :)
See Linus Torvalds use a four-letter word about this bug (http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/1/5/307).
See a list of six bug reports dating from Intrepid Alpha release to the current Intrepid release now:
268215 (https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/268215)
289158 (https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/289158)
300329 (https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/300329)
303064 (https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/303064)
312163 (https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/312163)
348218 (https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/348218)
All of them describe soft lockups while running Intrepid 2.6.27-* kernels (less than 2.6.27-14)
Wonder how something of this magnitude has gone on so under-reported?
Help by testing the proposed 2.6.27-14 kernel that contains Linus' fix:
Desktop Interpid version
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/proposed.list contains:
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid-proposed main
/etc/apt/preferences contains:
Package: *
Pin: release a=intrepid-security
Pin-Priority: 990
Package: *
Pin: release a=intrepid-updates
Pin-Priority: 900
Package: *
Pin: release a=intrepid-proposed
Pin-Priority: 400
sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude -t intrepid-proposed install linux-image-2.6.27-14-generic
and maybe if you have the need for the kernel headers as well:
sudo aptitude -t intrepid-proposed install linux-headers-2.6.27-14-generic
The base header package will be pulled in automatically.
reboot into new kernel
Unfortunately, update-manager will pester you about other intrepid-proposed packages. To stop this comment out the intrepid-proposed apt repository and "sudo aptitude update" again. The kernel will not downgrade because of the /etc/apt/preferences configuration.
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/proposed.list will contain:
# deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid-proposed main
sudo aptitude update
Server Interpid version:
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/proposed.list contains:
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid-proposed main
/etc/apt/preferences contains:
Package: *
Pin: release a=intrepid-security
Pin-Priority: 990
Package: *
Pin: release a=intrepid-updates
Pin-Priority: 900
Package: *
Pin: release a=intrepid-proposed
Pin-Priority: 400
sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude -t intrepid-proposed install linux-image-2.6.27-14-server linux-image-server
and maybe if you have the need for the kernel headers as well:
sudo aptitude -t intrepid-proposed install linux-headers-2.6.27-14-server
The base header package will be pulled in automatically.
Thanks :)