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I refer you to this thread at notebookreview.com: http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=303919
Upon further reading, lowlymarine stated that the problem has been blacklisted in 2.6.27-4 and fixed in 2.6.27-6. However, running pacman upgrade prompts me to install kernel 2.6.27-2, which means that the problem is is not fixed in that version.
This is just a warning of caution.
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Kernel devs have (at least) patched the issue to ensure that damage can't occur.
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Ahh.. Great news. I think I'd still hold off on the kernel for the time being, Since I have an ICH8
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No, you're misinterpreting the version numbers.
The issue was in 2.6.27-RC2.
Arch package versions are of the form pkgver-pkgrel. So the last -X is the package release number, our own version number for the package, NOT the upstream version, which is pkgver.
The release in our repositories is the final 2.6.27 and the -2 indicates it's Arch's second 2.6.27 kernel, NOT RC2. The Arch equivalent of the rc would be something like 2.6.27_rc2-X
Last edited by iphitus (2008-10-18 05:12:55)
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Ahh... Thanks! That cleared it up. Time no upgrade!
But, in future cases, after I run
sudo pacman -Syu
and see something that I don't want to upgrade/install, what do I type to install everything else except for that?
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You can type
pacman -Syu --ignore kernel26
where --ignore denotes the packages you don't wish to upgrade.
I am holding off my kernel upgrade too since I am using vmware.
Vmware kernel modules are very dependent on kernel headers.
Last edited by archlinuxsagi (2008-10-18 05:25:48)
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