[64studio-devel] Testing branch should be fixed

[Free Ekanayaka]

|--==> Daniel James writes:

  DJ> Hi Free,
  >>By the way, are there show stoppers for the 2.1 release?

  DJ> I've just had a second report of freeze-ups caused during network
  DJ> activity when running the 2.6.21 kernel, from Robin Rowe. It does seem
  DJ> quite rare though, as I've personally only seen it one Via C3 machine,
  DJ> which caused me to open the original ticket.

  DJ> Also, there's a question mark over John Emmas's desktop machine with
  DJ> the RME card, which freezes on boot with 64 Studio 2.0 unless the card
  DJ> is removed. I'd like to nail down the cause of that, because it worked
  DJ> fine with 64 Studio 1.0.

The main problem about upgrading the kernel is that for kernels >21 we
need a very recent nvidia, and with very recent nvidia we need very
recent xorg, which we do not have :(

  >>A part from
  >>that were there other packages which aptitude pulled in?

  DJ> Yes, exim4 for instance. I think I got everything in the repo! This
  DJ> machine may have had the Etch and Etch security sources enabled during
  DJ> the previous upgrade, so I will try to replicate the results on a
  DJ> plain 2.0 install.

Well, we can disable exim4 by default, but I would leave it as it
provides local mail delivery, which some applications use. It should
not consume much memory.

  DJ> I noticed that during the upgrade there was an ncurses tasksel
  DJ> dialogue that offered a list of tasks, including to install CDD
  DJ> packages, which I selected.

Did you use the upgrade script? Or the procedure I posted?

Ciao!

Free