Re: [stable] Boot failure with 2.6.27.46 on Xeon E5620 (WestmereEP)

From: Greg KH
Date: Tue May 25 2010 - 16:51:44 EST


On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 04:32:16PM -0400, "S.ÃaÄlar Onur" wrote:
> Hi Greg,
>
> On May 25, 2010, at 11:53 AM, Greg KH wrote:
>
> > On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 11:10:28AM -0400, "S.ÃaÄlar Onur" wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> We are observing boot failures [1] & [2] on some of our servers (Dell
> >> r410) with 2.6.27-stable kernels. I found following commit in upstream
> >> tree via a quick search (but I haven't tried it yet) so I don't know
> >> whether I'm on the right track or not.
> >>
> >> Please let me know if anything else is needed...
> >
> > Has any .27 kernel worked on these machines? If so, can you narrow it
> > down to the patch that caused the problem?
>
> I don't think any .27 kernel worked on those machines before. But in
> any case I'll try (I don't have a physical access to those machines as
> they are located in China) an older .27 release to see.

Ok, so it isn't a regression, which is what I want to know.

New hardware like this, probably will only work on newer kernel
versions, so please use those instead :)

thanks,

greg k-h
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