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Linux Kernel 2.6.32 LTS Reaches End of Life In February 2016 (softpedia.com)

Posted by timothy on from the long-time-coming dept.

An anonymous reader writes: The oldest long-term supported Linux kernel branch finally reaches end of life next month, but before going into the deepest darkest corners of the Internet, it just dropped one more maintenance release, Linux kernel 2.6.32.70 LTS. Willy Tarreau dropped the news about the release of Linux kernel 2.6.32.70 LTS on January 29, 2016, informing all us that this will most likely be the last maintenance release in the series, as starting with February 2016 it will no longer be supported with security patches and bugfixes. Linux 2.6 first came out in December, 2003, and 2.6.16 (the first long-term release) in March 2006.

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  1. Re:RHEL6 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Please no. The swallowing of stderr makes it very difficult to troubleshoot startup problems. Just today I had a simple problem that was very hard to find because of systemd:


    # systemctl start mongod ; echo $?
    0
    # journalctl -u mongod
    Jan 30 20:58:29 storage3.maui.ascentis-prod.com systemd[1]: Starting SYSV: Mongo is a scalable, document-oriented database....
    Jan 30 20:58:29 storage3.maui.ascentis-prod.com runuser[5767]: pam_unix(runuser:session): session opened for user mongod by (uid=0
    Jan 30 20:58:29 storage3.maui.ascentis-prod.com mongod[5760]: Starting mongod: [FAILED]
    Jan 30 20:58:29 storage3.maui.ascentis-prod.com systemd[1]: mongod.service: control process exited, code=exited status=1
    Jan 30 20:58:29 storage3.maui.ascentis-prod.com systemd[1]: Failed to start SYSV: Mongo is a scalable, document-oriented database.
    Jan 30 20:58:29 storage3.maui.ascentis-prod.com systemd[1]: Unit mongod.service entered failed state.
    Jan 30 20:58:29 storage3.maui.ascentis-prod.com systemd[1]: mongod.service failed.

    Notice starting it exited with no error, and there's no clue as to what happened in the journal!

  2. Re: RHEL6 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Because it (still) points out there is an error? Did exit codes suddenly become deprecated?

  3. Re:Still on 2.6.32 because of Distro by present_arms · · Score: 3, Interesting

    PCLinuxOS is still systemd free and no gnome 3 or unity and is stable, very stable :) You just have to get used to no sudo we do things as God intended with a proper root password and su to gain root :P Alie

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  4. Re: RHEL6 by F.Ultra · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The proper blame is on the mongodb developers since they are the ones who have created the defunct unit file for mongodb. It's not systemd that drops logs, it's mongodb that is configured to not produced any since it's launched with --quiet in the default unit file. Now this is probably done due to it starting as a SysVinit project and on SysVinit one would have do disable stderr since otherwise the console would get completely garbled, just that they forgot that systemd is not as stupid as the older init system.