Re: kernel 2.4.23 problem

From: Tony Schonfeld (irsp@mailit.tunk.net)
Date: Fri Jan 02 2004 - 20:24:02 EET

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    M Taylor wrote:
    > On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 05:03:15PM +0100, Tony Schonfeld wrote:
    >
    >>Since i've upgrade kernel 2.4.22 to 2.4.23 my system is unstable
    >>under debian sid like this message:
    >
    >
    >
    >>Without ax25 running, everything is fine.
    >>
    >>i' haven't check 2.4.23 without ax25 but 2.4.22 run fine here.
    >
    >
    >
    >>Do you know the fix for this problem ?
    >>the only way is it upgrade to kernel 2.6 ?
    >
    >
    > The best long term fix is to upgrade to 2.6.0 (or newer), as the 2.6.x
    > kernel has numerous bug fixes. No offense to 9a4gl but as far as I know
    > his patch does not fix everything that Ralf and Joeron (sp?) have been
    > working on.
    >
    > The reason it is flakey under 2.4.x (for some people) is that some
    > basic or fundemental assumptions changed between 2.2.x and 2.4.x and
    > at the time no one made the necessary changes to AX.25 and the device
    > drivers. So some people will be bit by these bugs while others get
    > luckily and don't see them (faster, more complex setups, especially
    > gateways seem to be affected the most).
    >
    > I believe that Debian 3.0 'testing' or 'unstable' both support the 2.6.x
    > kernel. (RedHat Linux 9 + module-init-util, or Fedora core 1 also support
    > 2.6 AFAIK)
    >
    > There is a 2.6.0 HOWTO at <http://www.kerneltrap.com/>
    >
    > Hope that helps,
    >
    > -ve3tix (ex. ve1mct)
    Many thanks for all reply, i've temporary remove ax25 service
    from my server before change a clean kernel version.

    Tony

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