robert m. riches jr.

Has anyone else noticed evidence that kernel 2.6.17-13mdv,
released around April 7, is considerably less stable than
the previous update kernel? I had 41 days of uptime on my
main system with 2.6.17-11mdv before updating to
2.6.17-13mdv, but I have had two cases when the kernel
locked up so hard it woudn't answer pings or any other
stimuli. In one case, it reported a dma timer expiry, and
in the other it reported an oops into /var/log/messages.
Both cases appeared to be associated with USB replugging to
awaken the USB device or system.

Coincidentally, my rate of Firefox crashing has been much
higher since the X update at about the same time. (This is
the X update that caused a different browser to segment
fault.)

I reported the kernel oops as
http://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=30375 in case anyone
else wants to chime in on it.

Thanks.

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bit twister

Not me. Using Spring RC3 with updates to Official 2007.1 32 bit/i586 install
$ uname -a
Linux wb.home.invalid 2.6.17-13mdv #1 SMP Fri Mar 23 19:03:31 UTC 2007
i686 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3800+ GNU/Linux

Well, firefox has yet to crash for me. But then again, I download the
tar file from Mozilla.com and run that one.
I also set MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH to fetch plugins
from /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins and have no plugins in my directory.

System wide login does a
export MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH=/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins:$HOME/.mozilla/plugins
and ~/.bash_logout deletes the ~/.mozilla, !/.fullcircle directories and tars
in a pristine copy.


Well, the X ATI driver ****s. Tried to install the non-free and X server
will not start. Did wonders for the 2007.0 install.

FlightGear will not run after init subsystem.
/usr/games/fgfs: undefined symbol: alutLoadWAVFile

Just downloaded/burnt Official free dvd and getting ready to install
and try again.

george czerw

Haven't had any problems whatsoever after installing 2.6.17-13mdv here.
Have been using Firefox 2 and Th****rbird 2 from tarballs obtained
directly from Mozilla.

ron gibson

Yes. Also support for more I2C devices in later kernels. I'm not using
anything older than 2.6.19.1

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