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Serious Bug In 2.4.15/2.5.0

Posted by timothy on from the aim-the-bugspray dept.

John Ineson writes: "There is a bug in the latest kernel releases, that causes fs corruption on umount. A lot of people have already been hit by this, so for now I suggest you hold fire on booting those new kernels. More dead-duck than greased-turkey. Two possible fixes are being discussed on linux-kernel." Colin Bayer adds links to a story at the Register and Al Viro's fix. Update: 11/25 00:39 GMT by T : Tarkie writes "Linux 2.4.16-pre1 is out, as detailed at NewsForge. If you've been having the filesystem corruptions, might be worth a try so that 2.4.16 can be out ASAP!"

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  1. Sad by Platinum+Dragon · · Score: 1, Troll

    I have to wonder, with all the bizarre bugs that have been creeping into "stable" kernels... are they even being tested before release, or is Linus just slapping on some patches and putting out a new kernel as 2.4. instead of 2.4.-prewhatever?

    The latter would seem to indicate frustration and burnout on his part.

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  2. Those bastards! by zunix · · Score: 0, Troll

    I'm telling you, those Micro$hit morons couldn't build an OS if their lives depended on it. They give us their crappy bugous system and we're supposed to manage with that. Idiots!

    Oh. Wait a minute... The bug was in LINUX you're saying?

    I know what happened! Bil Gates sent spies to interfere with Linux's development process in order to put bugs in their systems and take over the world.

    Yes. This is exactly what happened.

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    Don't be a conformist! Be exactly like our group.

  3. hooray for 56k by RestiffBard · · Score: 2, Troll

    for once I'm glad i have 56k and decided against downloading the new kernel just yet. for all those bitching cause their system got hosed. well what did you expect? thats why you wait for the next post on slashdot saying somethings wrong with the new kernel. besides what about 2.4.15 was so necessary that you had to have the latest incremental kernel? I'm rather happy with 2.4.8. unless you're a developer/bug-tester/bleed-freak what reason do you have to upgrade to the very latest kernel?

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  4. Pathetic Cop-Out by VividU · · Score: 0, Troll

    "If you want stable, solid kernels, that are heavily QA'd...."

    Yes I do and that why I use Windows 2000.