I have upgraded this server to kernel 2.6.16.2. The next backup cycle resulted in a minor disaster: The backup process deadlocked at removing the first LVM2 snapshot and the snapshot source volumes were blocking write accesses. A cleanup shutdown was impossible and I had to hard-reset the machine. After some searching I found out that [...]
Archive for the ‘Linux Kernel’ Category
LVM Snapshots With Debian Sarge and Linux 2.6.16
Sunday, April 9th, 2006Debian Installer With Kernel 2.6.11
Sunday, June 26th, 2005As mentioned recently, Debian Sarge’s installer doesn’t work on my Dell Inspiron 9300. I like Debian but I think it’s a shame that the sarge installer was already outdated on the day of its release. The official sarge installer still uses a 2.4 kernel by default but includes a 2.6 kernel that can be used [...]
Fixing the ipt_recent Netfilter Module
Monday, May 9th, 2005I have experienced some strange behavior with my ipt_recent netfilter rules after an uptime of about 25 days. The rules started to block much too early. After rebooting the machine I was able to reproduce the problem for five minutes. This clearly indicated a problem with jiffies (Linux initialized jiffies so that the first roll-over [...]
2.6.12-rc-mm Lockups Fixed
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2005The lockups I have experienced with 2.6.12-rc-mm kernels have finally been fixed by this patch from Oleg Nesterov.
Lockups with 2.6.12-rc-mm on PPC64
Tuesday, April 19th, 2005After many cycles of compiling and testing ppc64 kernels, I finally found out what causes 2.6.12-rc-mm kernels to lock up my PowerMac G5 regularly: It’s the recent changes in kernel/timer.c. When I exclude the timer-* patches from the mm series everything works fine again. I have not found a bug in these patches yet but [...]
