From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1946020AbWGPAI5 (ORCPT ); Sat, 15 Jul 2006 20:08:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1946021AbWGPAI5 (ORCPT ); Sat, 15 Jul 2006 20:08:57 -0400 Received: from coyote.holtmann.net ([217.160.111.169]:54742 "EHLO mail.holtmann.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1946020AbWGPAI4 (ORCPT ); Sat, 15 Jul 2006 20:08:56 -0400 Subject: Re: [stable] Linux 2.6.17.5 From: Marcel Holtmann To: artusemrys@sbcglobal.net Cc: Greg KH , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , torvalds@osdl.org, stable@kernel.org In-Reply-To: <44B9814B.4050103@sbcglobal.net> References: <20060715030047.GC11167@kroah.com> <20060715032834.GA5944@kroah.com> <20060715042045.GB4322@kroah.com> <44B9814B.4050103@sbcglobal.net> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2006 02:08:09 +0200 Message-Id: <1153008489.12764.14.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.7.4 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.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