For more than 3 months now some people have been complaining about ununtu's 2.6.24 kernels causing random freezes to a few systems (see the many threads that come out googling for hardy + freeze). This particularly nasty bug is still unfixed.
It was noticed that 2.6.25 kernels did not have the issue. Conseqently the porting of a 2.6.25 kernel to hardy was asked many times (for instance see ubuntu brainstorm). However, porting a 2.6.25 kernel to hardy was always excluded as a "big jump in the dark" in spite of most major distros and a huge number of users using it routinely. It was said that the right way to go was to backport pieces of 2.6.25 as patches to 2.6.24. And now we have this incident proving that also the cherry-picking is no less a jump in the dark. At this point please rethink the kernel policies and let ubuntu follow the normal kernel updates provided by kernel.org. Or please, do it at least whenever moving to a well tested plain 2.6.x.y is easier than trying to patch-again an already very-much- patched and only-tested-by-ubuntu-users 2.6.x-k. -- Hardy proposed 2.6.24-20-generic kernel update will not boot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/251344 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
