Re: Major problems 2.6.26 kernel in lenny
Virgo Pärna put forth on 11/7/2009 2:12 AM:
> When I upgraded my Debian computer form Etch to Lenny, I had to give up
> running 2.6.26 kernel for following reasons (computer has AMD Sempron 3000+
> CPU).
> 1. 686 version kernel crashed, when accessing listing files in mounted share
> from Windows 95 computer, if filenames contained accented characters.
> 2. with amd64 version of kernel I could not use smbumount as user.
> So I reverted to 2.6.18 kernel. But since smbmount doesn't support accented
> characters with Window 95 anymore at all, I changed my backup script (that
> accessed that Windows 95 share) to use smbclient. So I desided to try 2.6.26
> kernel again.
> In the meantime, there have been updates to 2.6.26 kernel, so it's no more
> same version, that I tried immediatly after upgrade from Etch.
> Now, with 686 kernel, I can no longer boot up - it just stops, when
> checking disks - it shows, that it sucessfully checked /boot partition, that
> has ext3 filesystem, but that's all. Other partitions have jfs filesystem.
> Amd64 kernel boots up fine, but it still cannot unmount smbmounted shares
> as user.
Sounds like it's time to retire that Win95 PC, or upgrade it to Linux.
--
Stan
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