Re: Running Debian Lenny on PowerMac G5
On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 14:35 -0500, Rick Thomas wrote:
> On Feb 17, 2010, at 4:12 AM, Michel Dänzer wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 01:25 +0100, Tiresia Giuno wrote:
> >
> >> 2. Restart works ok, but shutdown does not work properly (from gnome
> >> or from terminal). The last messages I get are:
> >> [1990.045234] Disabling non-boot CPUs
> >> [1990.053558] Cannot set affinity for irq 16
> >> I must then press the power button. If I wait longer, the fans
> >> start to
> >> be quite loud (again I had this problem also with another similar
> >> PowerMac G5)
> >
> > I think this is a kernel bug which is fixed in newer kernels.
>
>
>
> Which kernel versions are supposed to have this fixed?
At least 2.6.3x, possibly earlier, can't remember exactly.
> I have a similar problem (but, confusingly, intermittent -- sometimes
> it fails, sometimes not) on a dual-processor smp G4 box running Lenny.
I thought the bug (or fix) I'm thinking of was 64 bit specific, but
maybe not.
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