Re: Potato woes

[Brederlow <goswin.brederlow@student.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Giuliano P Procida <myxie@dev.madge.com> writes:

> I upgraded a fairly fresh install of Slink to Potato (of about 16 hours
> ago). Since then the system has gone mad (seemingly random dates within
> 1970 are reported). I don't think this is a problem with the date command
> as pppd also reports negative times and generally fails to work. I'm
> using the 2.0.36 jensen kernel from the CD.
> 
> Moving to a 2.2.6 kernel seems to fix the date problems but due to
> multiple oopses 2.2.6 is unusable. In fact, I'll only use it to get a
> working PPP when I need to download some more .debs.
> 
> Any advice?

Try to fix the kernel. 2.0.36 just doesn't work, its to old. You need
a fairly new kernel for potato.

May the Source be with you.
			Goswin