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