On Mon, 2010-07-12 at 10:22 +0200, Bjørn Mork wrote: > Vincent Danjean <vdanjean@debian.org> writes: > > > Package: linux-2.6 > > Version: 2.6.32-16 > > Severity: important > > [..] > > > PS: the severity can be increased if lots of people experiments the same thing > > or lowered if this is specific to my configuration. > > At first, I thought that the severity was appropriate as this bug > doesn't break *all* systems, and the kernel is somewhat special in that > most bugs will affect "the whole system". > > But I must admit that I was a bit surprised when 2.6.32-17 was uploaded > without a fix for this problem. It makes me wonder if the severity > shouldn't have been higher after all.... Just to be clear: This bug > does break all KVM based systems, making them completely unbootable, and > requiring console access to fix. I'm pretty sure there are plenty of > KVM based hosting solutions around where this will be a severe problem. I haven't seen a fix for it yet. > Is KVM a supported "hardware" platform i Debian? I would expect so. If > it is, then please raise the severity of this bug high enough to reflect > this. Yes, it's supported. Indeed we often use it to test new kernel builds. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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