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zephyrus17

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Registered: 2008-06-15

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Possible hardware damage with 2.6.27 kernel

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.

dale77

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From: Down under

Registered: 2007-02-10

Posts: 102

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Re: Possible hardware damage with 2.6.27 kernel

Kernel devs have (at least) patched the issue to ensure that damage can't occur.

http://lwn.net/Articles/301380/

zephyrus17

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Registered: 2008-06-15

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Re: Possible hardware damage with 2.6.27 kernel

Ahh.. Great news. I think I'd still hold off on the kernel for the time being, Since I have an ICH8

TjPhysicist

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From: Waterloo, Canada

Registered: 2008-04-12

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Re: Possible hardware damage with 2.6.27 kernel

im confused here but isnt the kernel from the core repo NOT an RC version?

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iphitus

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From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2004-10-09

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Re: Possible hardware damage with 2.6.27 kernel

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)

zephyrus17

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Registered: 2008-06-15

Posts: 323

Re: Possible hardware damage with 2.6.27 kernel

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?

archlinuxsagi

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Registered: 2008-09-12

Posts: 259

Re: Possible hardware damage with 2.6.27 kernel

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)