Kernel bug in Fedora 7.

Kernel bug in Fedora 7.

[Serguei Miridonov]

Please, check http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7674

Fedora 7 with current 2.6.21-1.3228.fc7 kernel has this bug. My 
hard drive clicks every shutdown in Fedora 7 and never had 
this with FC5 or Windows. This is serious bug.

Please, help as soon as possible.

Best regards,
Serguei Miridonov.

P.S. I could download the newer kernel 2.6.22 from kernel.org 
and compile it myself but I'm not sure if any additional 
patches were applied to 2.6.21 which is necessary for Fedora 
7.

P.P.S. I have read http://linux-ata.org/shutdown.html and I 
still can not understand your logic... What is needed just 
properly shutdown the system without any emergency heads 
unload... My understanding is that kernel has nothing to do 
with spin-up/spin-down disks. This is what shutdown or halt 
script have to do, unmounting filesystems, synchronizing cache 
with hdparm -f, and spin-down with hdparm -y if necessary. 
Then let the kernel just switch the power off.

Re: Kernel bug in Fedora 7.

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

On 18.07.2007 08:25, Serguei Miridonov wrote:
> [...]
> P.S. I could download the newer kernel 2.6.22 from kernel.org 
> and compile it myself but I'm not sure if any additional 
> patches were applied to 2.6.21 which is necessary for Fedora 
> 7.

There is a new kernel based on 2.6.22 in updates-testing (version
kernel-2.6.22.1-20.fc7); if you want to try that one just run

# yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update kernel

and reboot.

> [...]

CU
knurd