On Sat, 2011-04-16 at 13:23 +0530, Faheem Mitha wrote: [...] > >> Also, I just tried to run 2.6.26 (still installed from when I was running > >> lenny) but it crashed and dropped down to the initramfs prompt. I don't > >> have the error message handy right now, but could get it. I just want to > >> know if I am missing something obvious. Should 2.6.26 continue to work on > >> squeeze without problems, or not? > > [...] > > > No, see > > <http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html#upgrading-udev>. > > Ok. Is the only problem with the lenny 2.6.26 that it has > CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED enabled? Or are there other problems? AFAIK that is the only problem. > I am seeing some failures in the 2.6.38 installation. See output below. > Specifically, some problems with nvidia and virtualbox. I tried booting > with .38, and it does boot, but compiling the nvidia module fails, and m-a > is not particularly helpful when outputting errors. Should I upgrade the > nvidia stuff to that in unstable? Would the unstable nvidia compile Ok > with 2.6.32? Ie. is it backward compatible? I don't know. I don't really care about non-free drivers. > I don't know what to think about virtualbox. I didn't try compiling the > modules. If I need to use the unstable version on squeeze, it will need > backporting from unstable. There are some C++ incompatabilities with the > version in unstable. So why not stick with 2.6.32? > Additionally, I was seeing the following errors thrown on the console. > > "No human readable MCE decoding support on this CPU type > Run the message through 'mcelog --ascii' to decode." That's not an error, the messages before it are errors. > Should I file bugs against any of this? [...] MCEs could be triggered by driver or other bugs, though they are usually hardware problems. So, do report a bug, but there may be nothing we can do. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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