Re: 3.12.8 is doing nasty things

[Guy Martin <gmsoft@tuxicoman.be>]

On Fri, 24 Jan 2014 22:07:23 +0100
Jeroen Roovers <jer@gentoo.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 24 Jan 2014 21:44:51 +0100
> Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de> wrote:
> 
> > I reported that I saw strange things happening after upgrading to
> > 3.12.5. Meanwhile I upgraded to 3.12.8 and things became worse. I
> > regularly see processes to fail randomly. I can see this as I
> > somethimes get failures in my nagios because the SSH connection to
> > the watched host (only the watched one runs .8) fails.
> 
> Confirmed with any kernel above 3.12.2 that I cared to test (I didn't
> test 3.12.3). The issues vary from illegal instructions to
> segmentation faults to double frees in userland, so it's basically a
> "random" thing. I can't say it's become "worse" after 3.12.5 (since I
> haven't kept per version statistics).


Same here, 3.12.5 was not behaving correctly and 3.12.8 was even worse.
With the later, I also experienced sshd segfault, python threading
segfault/hangs.
I quickly reverted to 3.12.4 which is far more stable.

  Guy