2.6.3_rc2-love2 aka "I'm just messing with you"

Peacefaker · Posted: Sat Feb 14, 2004 2:42 pm Post subject:

IT WORKS!! I don't know who to hug, I got my computer back from the dead.

I went back to 2.6.2-love1, rebuilt lvm2, device-mapper, found something that apparently had failed to compile last time i ran "emerge -U system" that had just sat there waiting for the perfect moment to blow up.

Also thanks to GentooBox for mentioning "modules update force", seems be just what it needed.

Now I'm going to try 2.6.3 again. (It's OK, I really don't need my computer working for another 7 days anyway, then on the 22 I'm going on a LAN party that has no internet connection

)

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cepler · Posted: Sat Feb 14, 2004 5:40 pm Post subject:

markfl · Posted: Sat Feb 14, 2004 5:53 pm Post subject:

Can you not post your entire .config please....
Put a link to it online or something unless you really have no choice.
Posts that long get annoying.

Anyway - just about to try the new love
I love love

Hehe
i just realised the humour of using love sources on valentines day

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asimon · Posted: Sat Feb 14, 2004 7:19 pm Post subject:

I installed 2.6.3_rc2-love2 and run it now. So far no problems with LVM, everything runs fine.

cepler · Posted: Sat Feb 14, 2004 7:40 pm Post subject:

I whipped out an Etherexpress pro/100 card and disabled my onboard Intel gigabit. Something just isn't working right with that. The e100 driver seems to be working fine so I've compiled that into the kernel and I've disabled my firewire as well as that appeared to cause some errors on bootup. So for now I'm ok, guess I'll try reactivating everything when some more patches come out, I'm sure I'm not alone, it's probably just some interaction of various things being turned on and my config here.

Time to make sure DRI/DRM with ATI is working properly...

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ejohnson · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 20 Jan 2004 Posts: 140

GentooBox:

I get locks as well with all the 2.6.3_rc's. I've isolated it to heavy disk i/o. It's not SATA realted because the drive in use is PATA. I hope this gets resolved in the 2.6.3 finals because its got me stumped.

petrjanda · Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2004 1:35 am Post subject:

Just one question Steel300, why is the generic USB scanner support removed from the kernel?

antisthenes · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 06 May 2003 Posts: 89

Yeah, this is weird.

I've been having stability problems with love-sources ever since maybe late 2.6.1 rc-s. X crashes randomly (that problem skipped a minor version number; I've been having it again); programs segfault often, including compiles, which is alarming.

Sometimes--and this is the strangest thing, and something I've only had with the 2.6.3 rc-s---compiles will hang. At this point, every program appears to continue running. New programs, however, fail to start, and after a little while old ones hang. Console works only for Bash builtins. If I switch to a VC and then back to X, it doesn't work and then everything freezes. This sounds like a memory-full problem, but top/gkrellm show moderate memory use. The problem is, with anything before rc3_love1, I get abysmal hdparm rates and responsiveness.

Anyone help? I'd really like to get openoffice-ximian and mozilla 1.6 compiled.

Jake · Veteran Joined: 31 Jul 2003 Posts: 1132

Add me to the list of people having problems. Actually, I don't know if I've ever gotten love-sources to be stable on my desktop.

The first time I tried this release, it locked during init while checking hde. The next time, everything seemed to be going fine. I got X running, started playing some MP3s on XMMS (ioniced to 20), opened some pages in Firefox, and while I was starting some torrents, it froze. I booted into 2.6.3-rc2 patched with the new CFQ and reiser4, started the same stuff, and it's still going. I only have about 3 1/2 hours of uptime, but I think vanilla with the patches I mentioned is solid.

I'll try patching -mm with the diff between what I'm running right now and vanilla 2.6.3-rc2. If it works, I can blame steel300. If it fails, I can blame Andrew Morton.

EDIT: I ran into problems with some really ugly code and couldn't get -mm to compile with my patch. I blame myself. My next kernel will be 2.6.3-rc3 with the new CFQ and reiser4.

Cerement · Guru Joined: 14 Jun 2003 Posts: 404

dedeaux · Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2004 4:52 am Post subject: my 2 cents

I know we all have different issues... This kernel and most loves I have tried are mostly stable. I still get oops on boot with the hotplug and ohci, but uhci is working fine now that the elev-select is out.

Yes mostly stable is relative. I would say that on this laptop I have had NO crashes at all -- just the issues with the usb oopsing as of late. I had some other minor issues with bootsplash -- but it's eyecandy so not important.

Kratos · n00b Joined: 15 Feb 2004 Posts: 8

I just thought I'd try out love-sources (since I've heard so much about them and being Valentines day

)

They work great, no problems so far, just thought I'd let you know.

How to get love-sources installed
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antisthenes · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 06 May 2003 Posts: 89

Or you could use my reworked script.

cpu · Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2004 10:32 am Post subject:

But where are nForce APIC patches ???

TriGuN · Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2004 9:20 pm Post subject:

Hmmm, steel300, for some reason I'm having ACPI problems. When I run `acpi` from the command line, everything is a-OK, but the GNOME battery charge monitor returns this error:

Can't access ACPI events in /var/run/acpid.socket!

Make sure the ACPI subsystem is working and
the acpid daemon is running.

Although if i log into GNOME as root, it works perfectly fine...What's going on?

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TriGuN · Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2004 9:48 pm Post subject:

well, it worked perfectly fine until i just got this newer version (i believe i was using your 2.6.2 release)....what should I do?

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charlieg · Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2004 10:32 pm Post subject:

Nominus · n00b Joined: 15 Feb 2004 Posts: 17

When love-sources will include supermount-ng?...it would be very nice...

And media-gfx/bootsplash-0.6-r6 contain bootsplash-3.1.3-2.6.3.patch.bz2...may be it should be included in love-sources instead of 3.1.3-2.6.0-test9 ?

steel300 · Veteran Joined: 10 Jul 2003 Posts: 1155

nbrown · Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2004 12:19 am Post subject:

Has anyone gotten evms to work with this kernel? This is the first love-sources I've tried and it boots, but it won't mount any of my evms partitions at boot which are my usr, home, var, tmp and opt, so this is kind of a deal breaker for me.

I enabled all of the device mapper options I could find in the kernel config, but I didn't see any evms options, am I missing something?

Uhm, I'm still using devfs and it's mounting at boot, but for some reason none of the evms stuff seems to work. the module loads fine, but then when the partitions should mount, the startup craps out. Any ideas would be great. Thanks

-nbrown

antisthenes · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 06 May 2003 Posts: 89

steel300: You DO mean 'not', not 'now', right??

steel300 · Veteran Joined: 10 Jul 2003 Posts: 1155