Subject: kernel panic with libc6-2.3.6-2 Package: libc6 Version: 2.3.5-13 Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system
Hello, Each week I try out the progress of Etch, and yesterday I upgraded libc6 (and libc6-amd64) from 2.3.5-13 to 2.3.6-2 * and continued working successfully with no problems* Today I boot my PC resulting in a kernel panic at boot (repeatedly, at the same location, reproducibly). Something about not being able to locate the root device. Since this is on a S-ATA disk on a MSI motherboard with nforce3 chipset that I had serious trouble with in the past (changing the names of its disks from hde5 <-> sda5 and back) I tried both booting with option root=/dev/sda5 and with root=/dev/hde5 to no avail. It took me quite a while to figure out what it was that broke the system. Kernel 2.6.15 failed to boot; in an older kernel 2.6.8 on the same hardware the system booted fine. downgrading libc6 from 2.3.6-2 to 2.3.5-13 solved the problem. I'm really sorry that I can't pinpoint the problem better... good luck!! Frits PS: I've also installed udev 0.084-5, hal 0.5.6-4 and dbus 0.60.5 in case that's of any help.. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-k7 Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
