From: Tony Schonfeld (irsp@mailit.tunk.net)
Date: Fri Jan 02 2004 - 20:24:02 EET
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:
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>
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>>Without ax25 running, everything is fine.
>>
>>i' haven't check 2.4.23 without ax25 but 2.4.22 run fine here.
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>
>>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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