Bug 4103 – 1.2 iso failures and kernel panics

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Mark Guertin 2002-06-24 16:48:28 UTC]

There have been quite a few problems recorded with the current ppc 1.2 iso, many
of which I very much think are kernel related (it's an old very patched kernel
on that iso afaik).  More info's found here:

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=2522
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=5363
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=5901

I was unable to bootstrap on my wallstreet with the iso as well on first 3
attempts (4th went thru but I subsequently died on bigger compiles taking down
filesystem).

I think its a problem for any pre G3 750 machines.  It seems that these machines
hit the wall when they run out of resources and kernel panic (taking down
filesystem irrecoverably with them).  I had this happen under very heavy load
with earlier kernels as well on fast machines.  VM patches in the kernel maybe?

Many times these users were only able to install with my unnoficial stage3 and
from there things have been good for them...the forums tell the tale.

The current iso is very out of date (especially the kernel)

We also desperately need a vanilla kernel.org kernel and maybe a benh kernel w/o
patches.  Many users wont even run gentoo-ppc kernels atm (still) and are using
benh tree.

[Comment 1 Kevyn Shortell (RETIRED) 2002-06-25 16:23:59 UTC]

testing newer kernel/iso, should be released to general public in a few days.

[Comment 2 Kevyn Shortell (RETIRED) 2002-06-25 18:05:04 UTC]

oops, I meant, I have new kernel.org kernels currently in testing, to be 
submitted for iso if they pass QA tests, in a few days =)

[Comment 3 Mark Guertin 2002-08-09 09:49:54 UTC]

fixed, new kernel on the 1.2-r1 PPC ISO