Re: Linux 2.6.9-rc4 - pls test (and no more patches)

Gene Heskett
2004-10-11T07:07:28Z

On Sunday 10 October 2004 23:22, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>Ok,
> trying to make ready for the real 2.6.9 in a week or so, so please
> give this a beating, and if you have pending patches, please hold
> on to them for a bit longer, until after the 2.6.9 release. It
> would be good to have a 2.6.9 that doesn't need a dot-release
> immediately ;)
>
>The appended shortlog gives a pretty good idea of what has been
> going on. Mostly small stuff, with some architecture updates and an
> ACPI update thrown in for good measure.
>
>(The ACPI update fixes broken AML with implied returns, and in
> particular the Compaq Evo notebook fan control. Yay! Guess who has
> one..)
>
> Linus
>
I'm running it, and dl'ing the suse livecd-9.1 to test the burning
sometime tomorrow. About the only unusual thing I see in dmesg is:
-----------------
EXT3 FS on hda8, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
EXT3-fs warning: maximal mount count reached, running e2fsck is
recommended
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS on hdd2, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
EXT3-fs warning: maximal mount count reached, running e2fsck is
recommended
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
-----------------
but it *didn't* ask me to hit y for the check while it was booting.

Also, the last couple of -rc's seem to be keeping a lock on /usr when
shutting down, so the 3 attempts at a clean umount during the
shutdown phase all fail. I made sure that everything was stopped
except some screen backgrounds that come from /usr, and gkrellm,
which sits on every window here. That hasn't bothered the reboots
until maybe -rc2 but -rc3 for sure is doing it 100% of the time in
the shutdown phase.

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