 | View Full Version : linux 2.4.21 out now! m-b 06-13-2003, 02:21 PM Hey dudes, run into the shop (http://www.kernel.org) and get your new kernel version! Price off, just today! ;) M.B. cperciva 06-13-2003, 03:37 PM Sure, but keep in mind that today is Friday the 13th, *and* a full moon. :D m-b 06-13-2003, 03:47 PM oh ... "Run Forrest Run!" :D M.B. Slidey 06-13-2003, 04:09 PM its definately worth getting this new kernel.. lots of patches + bugfixes. couple of critical overflows sorted get it! m-b 06-13-2003, 04:23 PM Well, one (file-)server already is running with it ;) (I might have forgotten the sarcasm-tags in my above posting?) One bitter pill: the message "The filesystem hasn't been checked since 199 days ..." (long run since last reboot :D) 13 minutes for fsck 192 GB ext2 :( Greetings from Germany, M.B. null 06-13-2003, 05:05 PM Just upgraded kernel using up2date, rebooted the server and now it is down :angry: m-b 06-13-2003, 06:08 PM Originally posted by null Just upgraded kernel using up2date, ... This is not the way getting the latest kernel ;) You might just have installed 2.4.20-18: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2003-187.html It's also dangerous, not being able to put hands directly to the server during a kernel upgrade ... MfG, M.B. null 06-13-2003, 06:12 PM had the same problemas you, my baclup drive was unclean, so system was checking it for like 20min :) m-b 06-13-2003, 06:20 PM that's normal due to the long uptimes of linux :D M.B. The Prohacker 06-13-2003, 06:55 PM I built 2.4.21 to have the nice build date, but I wont' finish the install for a few days.. Wanna wait to make sure no new patches are released.. Even though RC8 = final.. :D [root@www root]# uname -a Linux localhost 2.4.7-10smp #1 SMP Thu Sep 6 17:09:31 EDT 2001 i686 unknown [root@www root]# uptime 6:55pm up 310 days, 10:09, 1 user, load average: 0.07, 0.02, 0.00 [root@www root]# It needs it but I don't wanna loose the uptime.. Luckly its not a production :D null 06-13-2003, 07:53 PM nice uptime :D m-b 06-13-2003, 08:38 PM Originally posted by The Prohacker ... Linux ... 2.4.7-10smp ... seems to be RedHat 7.2 :D And nice uptime ;) M.B. Samuel 06-13-2003, 09:02 PM Yep, sitting on 2.4.21 now with office systems. No bugs to report after 3 kernels. rcs 06-13-2003, 09:17 PM Originally posted by m-b 13 minutes for fsck 192 GB ext2 :( upgrade to ext3. Samuel 06-13-2003, 09:23 PM journaling is your friend. m-b 06-13-2003, 09:29 PM Originally posted by rcs upgrade to ext3. Yep, already thought of that ... but fsck-runs don't appear very often here (keep the horses running :D) And I've still got the feeling, ext2 is more stable ... shurely faster! One Point to ext3: you will get the same effect until you compile ext3 directly into the kernel (not as a module, then you will also have fsck on your nerve)! M.B. null 06-13-2003, 10:23 PM One question: how can I disable auto disk checking after server reboot? I want to install kernel on other server and want to make sure that downtime wont be so long this time :) sasha 06-13-2003, 11:51 PM look at /etc/fstab setting the last field to 0 (zero) should do the trick. Not wise thing to do, though. |