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Meet Linux Kernel 2.6.2, 'Feisty Dunnart'
hatrisc writes "As of about 10:04 pm on February 3rd, Linux users can grab the official 2.6.2 kernel release from kernel.org.
A lot of PPC fixes. Changelog is here." omniru writes "Linux kernel 2.6.2 aka 'Feisty Dunnart' released," and adds some possibly useful information "about Dunnarts, in case you've never heard of them before. Changes include ACPI, Bluetooth, USB, XFS and many more improvements and fixes." gowdy suggests eager downloaders use a mirror.
Looks like Linus's trip "down under" inspired this kernel release... the Dunnart is a type of Australian marsupial. The Tasmanian Devil is probably the best known example.
Here's a clearer (and much cuter) picture of a Fat-tailed Dunnart (Sminthopsis crassicaudata crassicaudata).
Awwwwwww....
WARNING: If accidentally read, induce vomiting.
Come on slashdot, you can do better than that!!!
2.6 Kernel was called 'Heathen Chemistry' along the core programmers before it was released.
Linux kernel 2.6.2 aka 'Feisty Dunnart' released," and adds some possibly useful information "about Dunnarts
/. blurb: doesn't that look like a badly wounded rodent implacably attracted by a mentally deranged radioactive red hat?
...
So now Linux' mascot is a dunnart uh?
Well check out this picture from the link in the
Scary if you ask me
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
Holy shit that thing's cool!
Game... blouses.
Damn, that is a cute little beast.
Better not show it to Disney's lawyers or they'll be suing it for copyright infringement.
Personally I upgraded from 2.6.0-test11 to 2.6.1-rc3 in order to fix the famous local security exploit. User-mode linux still doesn't work well, but since the 2.6.0-test3 version of the virtual machine on 2.6.1 hosts works mostly (newer umls don't work), I decide to ignore the problem for now. Unluckily the SMTP server of my mail provider has trouble contacting lists.sourceforge.net, so I can't even submit a bug report :(
Disney is lobbying for the CCCA for just that reason. The 'Cute Critter Copyright Act' will put an end to all cuteness unless sanctioned by our new Disney Overlords!
From the changelog:
:P
[Bluetooth] Always use two ISOC URB's
This patch modifies the USB Bluetooth driver to use two ISOC URB's
per RX and TX transfer paths. This is needed for in time transfer
of SCO audio packets over HCI.
Linux is using SCO audio packets too??? Don't let them find out or they'll add it to their lawsuit
Man, oh man, I can't wait until Fedora 2 comes out with a 2.6 kernel. Then I'll take the plunge and upgrade all my old systems (running a mixture of 7.3, 8.0, and 9.0).
HOPEFULLY they'll get swsusp working so I can actually have a reason to use Linux on my laptop (despite being a Linux-only guy since 1995, swsusp hanging my system on every 2nd or 3rd reboot has forced me into the arms of MS. Well, that as well as Centrino wireless support, and digital video editing.)
Well with any luck this should include the changes which means that XFS on an NFS server doesn't suck royally
<nathans@sgi.com>
[XFS] Seperate the NFS reference cache code out from xfs_rw.c to simpli
fy management of different kernel versions.
Hopeing that fixes it
Rus
CPanel + Root from $35/mo - 10% off with discount code SLASHDOT
I never bothered to track it down, yes I know I'm a bad geek Perhaps if it still shows up I will poke more.
Thanks for the informative link. I checked it out, but unfortunately, as a Linux user, I do not appear to be eligible for upgrade pricing. And there is no way in FUCK I'm paying the price they're asking.
;-)
So I guess I'll be sticking with Linux a little longer.
why do you upgrade to a stable release without significant new features?
It only takes around a minute ("yum update" for me on Fedora 1) so I figure what the heck... since I power down for the nights anyway it's not a problem.
Because, for any people having an nforce2 board, they will be able to use their ethernet controller on a stable kernel.
It looks like a small rat. Darl, please consider it as the new SCO mascot: it comes from Linux and can represent your business practices!
I'd think that the fix for the "hash key being bound to ctrl-alt-f7 on many British layout keyboards" problem is a pretty good reason for a lot of people to upgrade. Kinda makes it hard to put comments in shell scripts...
Feisty Dunnart???
Nice! And my "name" is Freddy Fairview, and my girlfriend's "name" is Fluffy Lakes...
I am currently having issues that have been carried over from the 2.4 tree. It involves ip masquerading over multiple network interfaces. The kernel log only reads, "MASQUERADE: Route sent us somewhere else." I hope they have fixed that.
Sucking isn't necesarily a bad thing; ever had a GF?
I am one of many. My idea is not unique, nor do I expect my voice alone to sway you. I speak in a chorus of opinion.
*gasp*
Disclaimer: I don't know what I'm talking about.
Awwwwwww....
Yum! I'm sure they taste good!
Simon
Hal Spacejock: Science Fiction with Nuts
Do I get a discount from SCO if I upgrade from a earlier Version?
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One by one the penguins steal my sanity...
Thank god they fixed this:
[SCTP] Remove the extra semicolon in sctp_cacc_skip_3_1().
it was REALLY slowing down the performance on my machine!
Anyone know a reliable source where I can get 2.6 kernel RPMS for RedHat 7.3? Rpmfind doesn't seem to have any of them yet.
The simple truth is that interstellar distances will not fit into the human imagination
- Douglas Adams
Feisty Dunnart is a Google Whack! (But will probably not last for long :)
my other sig is a 500 page novel
With lugholes that big they must go through a lot of ear buds.
Chris
Does anybody know if ACLs will become standard in 2.6 (Is there even ACL patches out for 2.6)?
I'd be more than happy to upgrade, if there's a tangible performance advantage... anyone?
Anyone know what happened with the usb-storage module from 2.4.21 to the present? They added support for SD MMC cards, and it works fine in 2.4.24. But, 2.6.1 has a new SCSI driver that gives me up to a 20 per cent boost in throughput, however, the memory card support vanished.
??
Fred
"A fool and his freedom are soon parted"
-RMS
[Patch] Added SCO I.P. to Kernel so we would have a case.
Sig Follows: "Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself." -- Mark Twain
Anyone know if this works with the ATI drivers. I tried 2.6.1 recently, recompiled fglrx.o, but only get a black screen when I startx.
TODO: Something witty here...
I can just hear the DeadRat jokes now...
C|N>K
I had the same problem. The patches found at http://www.ssi.bg/~ja/#routes solved the problems.
I intend to send a "minimal" patch to Marcelo soon.
For those of use who aren't in-the-know about the latest kernel..
What features does 2.6 have?
What features does 2.6 have that 2.4 does not?
I agree, Fedora is a nice system. Very user friendly during the install, and actually quite easy to use and configure for someone without any Linux experience.
Unfortunately, according the Fedora website, the release of test1 for Core 2 has been delayed. I'd assume it means the final release will be delayed because of that too.
My plan until then is to try one of the kernel-2.6.x rpms in the development directory in Core 1. Though they haven't put out 2.6 kernel updates as part of the up2date updates, they have been making the rpms available in the development directory.
http://github.com/gbook/nidb
From the information on the page, it seems that this "OS" only seems to work on 8086 architectures. Is this some kind of joke?
I have a policy of upgrading and rebooting my systems frequently. It tends to break things. Which is a good thing. It makes sure you only have to deal with little problems, instead of years worth of problems at once.
I currently sys-admin half a dozen servers. When I inherited them, they were massively out of date, and hadn't been rebooted in years. The sys-admins had nightmares about what would happen if they ever had to be rebooted. So I scheduled some downtime, and rebooted them. Took me 8 hours to get the server back up again. I then fixed all the problems that had shown up, and updated the server to the latest of everything. Server reboots now occur every few weeks (generally for kernel updates), and take a matter of minutes.
Does 2.6.x have Access Control Lists (ACLs) built in?
If not when is this coming?
I like traffic lights
I had images turned off when looking at the dunnart link, so i could read that it was a marsupial. When I enabled images, as it was coming through I saw a thumb but mistook it for a penis... and immediately thought of Richard Gere
Do your best, hope for the best, suspect the worst.
I for one, welcome our new Disney Overlords. :-P
Just a Tuna in the Sea of Life
For a moment I thought he had named the release in Darl's honor. But that would be "feisty dimwit"...
Linus Torvalds has auctioned off the right to name the next Linux kernel
It could have been worse I suppose... ;)
[root@Linux233 linux]# uname -a
Linux Linux233.linicks.net 2.6.2 #1 Wed Feb 4 13:55:28 GMT 2004 i586 unknown unknown GNU/Linux
Nick
You're new here, aren't you?
I remember when legal used to mean lawful, now it means some kind of loophole. - Leo Kessler
the URL found links to "NT-animals.html".
Jozsef Kadlecsik:
* [NETFILTER]: Fix NAT leak with fragmented packets, missing conntrack put in ip_copy_metadata()
C|N>K
Somewhere, at Disney HQ...
I can picture it now... a movie about dunnarts... Danny, I call him... John! Get the lawyers on line! We've got an OS to ruin! Except the CEO probably isn't a geek.
toresbe
Ethernet interfaces on my 2.6.1 system occasionally flap. They stay nonfunctional for about a minute and then come back. I thought it might be the new intel eepro driver so I switched to the old one, same problem. So I installed a 4 port tulip board, same problem.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
ahem. gentoo?
speed wise, yes (last I checked), but if I remember well, 2.6 traded some speed for some responsiveness, which in real life desktop tasks, "feels" faster, even if benchmarks won't tell you that. I think, anyway, anyone correct me if Im wrong.
OMG ur teh funney
Wow, sad is the day when facts are marked as troll!
;)
Sounds like some people are in denial
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Thanks a bunch, I hope it works for me too :o)
is going to get annoying if they release every minor upgrade with a new name.
:)
Fiesty Dunnart
Fire-breathing Dragon
Jumping Rabbit
Not as simple as woody!
You can put comments in shell scripts?!
How does this memory leak manifest itself?
I think I might be experiencing a similar problem on 2.6.1... even when the system should be idle, the hard drive is active for about half a second every 5 seconds or so. No space is being taken up on my drives, but if I do an lsof I can see a file descriptor (/proc/[pid_of_lsof]/fd) that's very large and is larger every time I check it.
On a probably unrelated issue, I came home yesterday to my machine with the hard drive running CONSTANTLY and I was unable to elicit a response from the system. I had to hit the reset switch. Everything seemed fine after that, and again, no used HD space was unaccounted for.
Anyone else have any ideas?
University - a box of academia nuts.
*crickets chirping*
ARGH! THANK YOU!
I was wondering what caused that. I was under the impression it was a Gentoo screwup, but I'll be upgrading ASAP now. That was driving me nuts!
This is slightly OT, but gosh am I having problems with upgrading to the 2.6 kernel. The upgrade is from a 2.4.18 kernel running on a SuSE 8.0 installation.
I've upgraded all the software specified in Changes, but it's a real pain trying to figure out what features to include when doing a "make xconfig". I finally got PPP working after some screwing around, but getting the correct sound modules and making them work correctly has me stumped, as well as some other little things.
Is a major kernel upgrade usually such a chore, or am I just an idiot? (Or maybe I just have atypical hardware). There're friends I know who would like to run Linux, but if upgrading to the 2.6 tree is usually so difficult I think I'll suggest they wait until the major distributions come with the new kernel already set up.
Happy people make bad consumers.
I've compiled 2.6.1 yesterday, and now 2.6.2 is already out. Now I've to compile it again :-(
I do visit more than one site on the internet, ya know..
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I had this issue when I tried to use RAID. Also on a drive that was dying.
Perhaps you are running something like folding@home?
I don't know, even that does not hit the drive much. I would to a full check on the drive.
I can't imagine there being much meat on them... but being marsupials, I'll bet the pouch especially is delicious!
that post made my day. one less third party driver for me to use.
HELLO?! Ben Collins, SBP2 is still broken.
Why do I have to unplug and replug the firewire cable several times every time I reboot? It gets timeout errors and all sorts of problems. Often all the devices are not detected (I have 3 hard-drives and a DVD-R in the chain).
I think we need a new person working on the SBP2 stuff. It has been broken for so freaking long it's not even funny.
The ratio of people to cake is too big
Pssst... saying Linux has any problems (especially security problems) will get you modded down around here...
Manipulate the moderator system! Mod someone as "overrated" today.
When some blocks of my hard drive failed, it would retry for a long time. During such time anything attempting to access the drive locks up, the drive makes a half-second noise every 5 seconds (the HD LED is always on), and a lot of DMA errors show up in the kernel logs.
I can't explain the enlarging fd number though.
thx, I thought it was just me...
C|N>K
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Nice troll, but you'll note that it said changes, not additions. All those features have been in nix for years too, and I *highly* doubt you've have XFS for years in Windows. :-P
A rat!! It's in my hair, take it off, take it off!
What are these.... 'comments' you speak of? I do not understand! ;)
Who said they're new?
The 2.6 install instructions you see posted in many places are often incomplete with regards to modprobe configuration. Only do this on a box you are willing to freshly install when things go awry (they will), or wait for Fedora Core 2 (advised).
They're like these things here, except nobody pays attention to them.
Oh. Wait.
Here's a clearer (and much cuter) picture of a Fat-tailed Dunnart
Now we know what happens when a gerbil and a fox do it. I just hope the gerbil was the male.
In every article mentioning a kernel changelog, someone sees the letters "SCO" in it and makes a completely unfunny "Uh-oh, they'll put that in their lawsuit" quip. It doesn't require any forethought or cleverness. Cut it out.
i guess it sorta looks like tux....
:)
gots the same eyes atleast
You're wanting to have reasons for the changes listed. As in, what they actually will affect. That's a good idea.
I'm now in 2.6.2 so I guess I will see if whatever that was has been fixed.
-paul
My Matrox G400 too. hahaha.
After all, it's a palindrome.
Now we know what happens when a gerbil and a fox do it
the goatsee gerbil!
ACPI sucks balls on my W2K laptop - instead of going to sleep, half the time it just shuts down. And the networking dies. And I only have the option of shitty, fragmented, slow NTFS, not XFS. So shut the hell up, you know-nothing, non-technical idiot.
Note: I say this as a Windows user. You're a fool.
Why is that? I found the latest nforce drivers nvnet to be totally hosed anyway. not because of the kernel AFAIK. I fell back on nvnet 1 release, and all is well.
From here, there is precisely ONE thing broken that I keep hoping someone will figure out how to fix...
For some bizarre reason, on my laptop, when the power source state changes from what it was at startup (i.e. if I plug in AC after I've powered on from battery, or if I unplug from AC after starting up on AC) I lose the Synaptics touchpad completely, and can't get it to work again without a complete power-down and restart.
Very annoying, but not totally fatal since USB mouse still works, and it doesn't appear to affect anything else. I keep seeing tweaks to the synaptics, ps2-mouse, and acpi parts of 2.6, so maybe one of these days they'll get it fixed.
I reported the problem to the kernel list, but had to disable the 'sub-mailbox' I was using as my email address because it started getting bombarded with the "Microsoft security update" trojan (got really tired of having my bandwidth clogged by downloading all of those plus the bounces...)...(When my "Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanie" is on, I find myself wondering if a rabid Microsoft fan is monitoring the linux kernel mailing list for addresses to harass...)
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Because there's a cleanroom gpl replacement driver in there (forcedeth). You no longer need nvnet at all.
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CONFIG_DDOS_SCO=y
Eh, I'm using british keyboards with linux since the 2.2 series and never come across that. Admittedly I always use standard PC layout 105 key ps2 ones or laptop keyboards, which ones cause the problems?
First, ISO-C doesn't support URB's. Second, audio packets are doing to dissolve in hydrochloric acid.
I'm still compiling KDE 2.0.
The changelog is great for those of us tracking specific bugs. But where are the "release notes", which might offer a broader overview of new/working features? When I try to convince someone to upgrade, it's a lot easier to send/quote them the release notes than the changelog. Often the decision maker is neither the executor nor even a technologist.
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That photo replaced my Mars rover panoramic shot as my wallpaper. Danke!
Donald Duck is going to have a SCREAMING ORGASM when he gets the new kernel to compile on his PC.
It happened on my MS Natural Pro USB keyboard - It was something to do with scancodes being wrongly defined in the keyboard driver in 2.6.
That got fixed? w00t!!! I'm upgrading ASAP.
;)
There's another annoying keyboard related bug as well - sometimes when I unplug my USB keyboard, something screws up in the input layer or something as the laptop internal keyboard stops working and so does the USB keyboard if I plug it back in.
Yeah yeah, use the PS/2 port you say.. well I have lots of USB devices and I like being able to just plug in one (the hub) when I get home with my laptop
Are you paying this dude any money to get your stuff working? It's open source, man...go do the rest of the community a favor, find out what the problem is, send in a patch, instead of complaining that they can't do their job.
I have very little free as well. And my situation seems worse in the same conditions you mention (system in X, locked for the night).
/proc/7518/fd
Maybe you should check lsof as well?
the entry looks like this on my system:
lsof 7518 root 4r DIR 0,3 0 492699657
University - a box of academia nuts.
I see ACPI in the list of changes in every release. I thought this was functional maybe around the beginning of 2.4.
Can someone comment why this is taking so long to mature, or are they keeping up with all new hardware released.
"Give orange me give eat orange me eat orange give me eat orange give me you." -Nim Chimpsky
Ugh.
Bug entry #1842
Both IDE and SATA Via chipset 8237 give file corruption.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1842
My bad... seems that 492699657 is the node number, not the size. the preceding 0 is the size.
So I guess that's not my culprit. I still wonder what's keeping my drive running when it should be idle...
University - a box of academia nuts.
- Because it was donated to me.
Someone pays for the bandwidth. The bandwidth donor might be able to pay for something else instead if less bandwidth was used. Or the donor could donate bandwidth to some other project instead.
Ha! That's nothing! I run my system on Debian ludicrous; it's the most bleeding edge distro out there... It's so far ahead of Fedora and even Debian unstable that I already run the secret 2.8 kernel and the KDE4 desktop. It's awesome; all my apps run like 10x faster, and all my games rock! My ping times are lower, my frags are up, and MS Flight Sim runs flawlessly... Heck with the new kernel, even MSVB works right! LOL, I wish! Seriously, if you want bleeding edge you usually pay for it in reliability. If you aren't a total hacker-geek wait a week or two and install the new kernel when it makes it into Debian unstable.
Wonder if it also has support for V4L2 without patching it first?
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
Well, I will have my penguin logo back! Radeon frame buffer fix made it to 2.6.2. Hope it works..
I've spent the last two days trying to get 2.6.1 running! Just 2 hours ago I finally got sound working and haven't dared touch it for fear it would stop again. I still haven't gotten my TV card working (btv878 chipset) but anyway, it shouldn't be hard to go up another minor revision, before this I was going from 2.4.22 so it was a much larger shift. Still, I'd have liked a day or two to bask in the geekdom of running the latest kernel before they take that all away from me!
Fastest boot logo switch ever.
I'll stop it RIGHT AWAY, SIR!
Fucking retard.
We're sending this kernel... BACK TO THE FUTURE!
Am I the only one reminded of "The Mouse That Roared" (1959) with Peter Sellers?
2.6.2 can't even compile correctly. It fails during a modules compile. The kernel releases have really gone downhill. This branch should still be the 2.5 release. Obviously no one has even tested it on a real box.
... that i switched to FreeBSD because Linux's ACPI support is terrible. If they can get that working, they can have me back.
Why would that get moderated as a troll? If the moderator had actually used BitTorrent, they'd know the complaint is true. Instead, some idiot marks that as a troll. Come-on guys, if you don't understand something, don't moderate the post.
> Unless you get lucky and just happen to stumble across what you need, it's impossible to find anything.
Exactly! There is no way to search so unless you get very, very lucky, you'll never find what you're looking for.
It seems that so far no one of any prominence (such as a kernel developer) noticed a problem involving built-in ALSA and the ens1371 driver. The kernel sees the chip, but cannot initialize it. I posted a message about it on the ALSA mailing list, and no one had a response. Since then, two people e-mailed me personally asking if this had been resolved. Unfortunately, no.
Does anyone know what the deal is, or experiencing the same thing?
Continued here
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Call that a kernel?.....THIS is a kernel!!
See what i mean?
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A Gateway-branded USB one here is being affected. Model SK9926
no
is that no, as in you would rather suck a big dick, or no, as in you dont see?
Note: I say this as a Windows user. You're a fool.
Well, Im not a user. Im an expert. There is a term for people like you, and its "hobbyist"
1. If you laptop doesnt sleep properly, it probably has a poor implimentation of ACPI. Bad hardware is not MS's fault: stop buying Toshiba.
2. If your networking does, it probably is using bad hardware, has poorly written drivers, or is malfunctioning. Again, bad hardware is not MS's fault.
If your hard drive is using shitty, fragmented, slow NTFS, you should probably use toilet paper instead of your laptop, run defrag, and have a coke and a smile. Your lazyness is not MS's fault.
I say this as a know-all (at least regarding MS products, general networking, and security) and very technical professional: you are a stupid fuck.