Re: [stable] Linux 2.6.17.5

[Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>]

Hi Matthew,

> >>> We (the -stable team) are announcing the release of the 2.6.17.5 kernel.
> >> Oops, please note that we now have some reports that this patch breaks
> >> some versions of HAL.  So if you're relying on HAL, you might not want
> >> to use this fix just yet (please evaluate the risks of doing this on
> >> your own.)
> > 
> > Hm, HAL 0.5.7 seems to work fine for me.  Anyone else seeing any
> > problems with this version?  Older versions?
> > 
> 
> I'm running 0.5.7 and also see no problems.
> 
> FTR, I'm invoking
> 
> /usr/sbin/hald --daemon=yes --verbose=yes --use-syslog
> 
> and /var/log/messages looks no different than usual (last under 2.6.17.3).

before this got spread around wrong. What I saw was an error window when
logging into Gnome. It said "failed to initialize HAL!". In fact it
seems that this is not a HAL error, it is an error of an application
using HAL and I suspect it was NetworkManager. However with 2.6.17.6 or
2.6.18-rc2 this is no problem anymore.

Regards

Marcel