From: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net>
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Subject: Problem on F10 with 2.6.29-rc7
Date: Sat, 07 Mar 2009 17:23:10 -0500
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Greetings;

I've been meaning to post this for several days.  I built 2.6.29-rc7 the night 
it was released and was booted to it for about 4 hours the next morning, but 
lots of things didn't work or feel right.  On investigation the usual 
complement of about 50 copies of console-helper-daemon were not running.  
Rebooting to my current 2.6.28.7 restored the console-help-daemon to the alive 
and well status.  

su'ing to a user was one of the things that just didn't work, no user $PATH 
seemed to be part of the problem, but an echo $PATH indicted it was normal.

The system gradually fell apart, and I tried to do a graceful shutdown/reboot 
to see if it would preserve a working network, but that failed and I had to 
use the reset button after a couple of minutes.  I don't recall now where it 
hung on the shutdown now, but I do recall seeing several bright-red FAIL 
messages go by before it hung. It had not managed to turn off the network 
PHY's by the time it had hung, so I didn't get a chance to see if 2.6.28.7 
would restore them, or if I had to go through the complete powerdown of the 
whole room for 30 seconds to reset those as I had to do several times when 
running 2.6.29-rc5.  That, IMO, is a PITA.  And no one has explained the 
reason for this change that doesn't seem to appear in the ChangeLogs in 
recognizable form.

I have also had to wander through the system resetting both ownerships and 
selinux contexts for about 50 files since that 4 hour session.

Can someone clarify this for me?


-- 
Cheers, Gene
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