From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Richard Corbin <racorbin2010@charter.net>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: A Bug in 3.9.8
Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2013 09:11:05 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130630161105.GA4213@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51CF572F.3040400@charter.net>
On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 04:52:47PM -0500, Richard Corbin wrote:
> Folks:
>
> I sent the indented text to gregkh@linuxfoundation.org,
> inappropriately as I suspected. I got a polite automated response
> suggesting alternate destinations for my email. To my non-technical
> eyes, your addresses seemed most appropriate.
>
> "Mr. Kroah-Hartman,
>
> "Excuse me for bothering you, but I do not know where to report
> my problem and I found your name in
> http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.9.8-saucy/BUILD.LOG.
My name is there because it's the first commit, for some strange reason
the Ubuntu build logs this, but I have nothing to do with their kernel
builds.
> "I am running Linux Mint KDE v15, but I like to run the latest
> kernel. I have never had a problem before installing the latest
> "general release" kernel from
> http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/ until yesterday.
>
> "After I installed v3.9.8-saucy, the system could no longer
> "read" cpu usage of my quad-core Intel q6600. Conky, "top", "mpstat
> -P ALL" all show ZERO CPU usage. Everything else is fine; it is just
> the reporting that is busted.
>
> "If you are the wrong person and cannot forward to correct
> destination, then I am sorry for wasting your time."
>
> I neglected to write that when I rebooted the identical system using
> v3.9.7-saucy as the kernel, the CPU usage for each core was
> registering non-zero values when appropriate as usual.
As this is a Ubuntu-specific kernel, I suggest filing a bug in the
Ubuntu bug tracking tool to help resolve this, ther's not much we in the
community can do about this, sorry.
best of luck,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-30 16:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-29 21:52 A Bug in 3.9.8 Richard Corbin
2013-06-30 16:11 ` Greg KH [this message]
2013-06-30 17:23 ` Richard Corbin
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