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Re: Blank screen at boot with kernel 3.1



On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 1:47 AM, Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> wrote:
> On 2012-01-25 23:51 +0100, Tom H wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> wrote:
>>>
>>> The metapackage has not yet migrated, it seems. But 3.1 really is not
>>> supported anymore, neither by Debian nor by upstream.
>>
>> This can't be. I installed a testing box and upgraded it to unstable
>> today and I have both 3.1 and 3.2 installed - and they're both still
>> available in the repos.
>
> 3.1 kernels may still be available, but that does mean they are
> supported. There is a local root exploit that will not be fixed in the
> 3.1 series, move on to 3.2 already!

Thanks for the clarification, although I hope that the 3.1 kernels
will be yanked asap if they're not supported.

I've moved; I still have a 3.1 kernel out of laziness and lack of time
more than anything else.


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