Re: mysterious 2.0.33 crashes

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Fri, 20 Feb 1998 14:16:06 +0000 (GMT)

> pre-2.0.34-2 breaks DOS-Emu, strace and gdb and shows many other
> instabilities. I've got several kernel panics in safe_wake_up_process
> which is introduced by the patch. Also, I got sporadical data corruption
> with loop filesystems, but I'm not yet sure if this is also due to that
> patch.

2.0.34pre2 has only on known bug. Thats the safe wakeup/signal/ptrace stuff
and it doesnt cause any other kind of corruptions. All other bugs I have
left I know about are either very old and obscure or first appwared in 2.0.30

> > This kernel is killing me. I remember the funny days with 2.0.29...

Run 2.0.29 with the teardrop patches applied.

Alan

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