The Latest Kernel Release.

PROBLEMCHYLD · 11-25-2019, 01:40 PM

No wireless connection after 5.4.0 upgrade, no unbound working, Thunar takes forever and a day to open. Back to 5.3.11 with no problems. We need to give it some time to grow.

cwizardone · 11-25-2019, 01:42 PM

No problems of any kind with 5.4.0 here, running all the applications I listed in post #1858 in this thread.

https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...ml#post6059222

Lysander666 · 11-25-2019, 02:21 PM

Interesting, Wifi is unproblematic so far, Thunar opens instantly. No problems as yet.

Code:

lysander@lysultra-vi:~$ uname -rpm && uptime
5.4.0 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-6300U CPU @ 2.40GHz
 20:20:56 up  9:55,  1 user,  load average: 0.37, 0.62, 0.58
lysander@lysultra-vi:~$

PROBLEMCHYLD · 11-25-2019, 02:28 PM

I reinstalled and everything is working now. Back on 5.4.0 Sorry for the confusion.

Lysander666 · 11-25-2019, 02:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by PROBLEMCHYLD

I reinstalled and everything is working now. Back on 5.4.0 Sorry for the confusion.

Glad to hear it.

Quote:

Originally Posted by cwizardone

No problems of any kind with 5.4.0 here, running all the applications I listed in post #1858 in this thread.

https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...ml#post6059222

And congratulations on 5k posts and your Guru status, well deserved. It's a special day [and kernel].

Paulo2 · 11-25-2019, 07:21 PM

Running ok here on an old notebook, I upgraded kernel packages, rebooted and all is working.

Code:

Linux  5.4.0 #1 SMP Sun Nov 24 21:33:02 CST 2019 x86_64 Genuine Intel(R) CPU             585  @ 2.16GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

Broadcom wireless kernel driver is working ok.

Code:

lsmod|grep b43
b43                   454656  0
cordic                 16384  1 b43
bcma                   57344  1 b43
mac80211              851968  1 b43
cfg80211              815104  2 b43,mac80211
ssb                    81920  1 b43
mmc_core              155648  5 b43,sdhci,ssb,cqhci,sdhci_pci

The signature machine is working ok too.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lysander666

And congratulations on 5k posts and your Guru status, well deserved. It's a special day [and kernel].

+1 congrats (no beard, no belly, no guru?

)

PROBLEMCHYLD · 11-25-2019, 07:43 PM

I removed exfat-utils and fuse-exfat to try the native support in the kernel. Yummy!!!!!!! All is well......

cwizardone · 11-27-2019, 07:18 AM

Another kernel bug:

Quote:

Linux 5.2+ Hit By AVX Register Corruption Bug - Affecting At Least Golang Programs

Full story here,

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pa...gister-Corrupt

cwizardone · 11-27-2019, 04:30 PM

Just in time for the holiday weekend, another round of kernel updates has been scheduled for release on Friday evening, 29 November 2019, at approximately 20:00, GMT.

If no problems are found while testing the release candidates, they might be available early Friday morning (depending on your time zone).

There will be 66 patches in the 5.4.1 kernel update, 95 in 5.3.14, 306 in 4.19.87, 211 in 4.14.157, 151 in 4.9.204 and, finally, 132 patches in the 4.4.204 update.

The details:

5.4.1, http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/k...1.3/03235.html

5.3.14, http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/k...1.3/03132.html

4.19.87, http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/k...1.3/02897.html

4.14.157, http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/k...1.3/02758.html

4.9.204, http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/k...1.3/02671.html

4.4.204, http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/k...1.3/02581.html

Lysander666 · 11-27-2019, 04:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cwizardone

5.4.1

I don't know why I found that kind of exciting.

andrew.46 · 11-27-2019, 09:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lysander666

I don't know why I found that kind of exciting.

Perhaps 5.4.1 will leapfrog out of /testing? And then pave the way for 15.0 release...

cwizardone · 11-28-2019, 04:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cwizardone

Another kernel bug:
Full story here,
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pa...gister-Corrupt

Turned out to be a one line problem.

Quote:

The Linux 5.2+ "Register Corruption" Bug / Golang Issue Was A One-Line Kernel Caching Issue

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pa...rupt-Issue-Fix

cwizardone · 11-28-2019, 05:10 AM

Quote:

sysctl: Remove the sysctl system call

Is this a good idea?

http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/k...1.3/02404.html

GazL · 11-28-2019, 06:42 AM

They've been telling people not to use it for long enough.

man 2 sysctl:

Quote:

Glibc does not provide a wrapper for this system call; call it using
syscall(2). Or rather... don't call it: use of this system call has
long been discouraged, and it is so unloved that it is likely to disap‐
pear in a future kernel version. Since Linux 2.6.24, uses of this sys‐
tem call result in warnings in the kernel log. Remove it from your
programs now; use the /proc/sys interface instead.

Didier Spaier · 11-28-2019, 06:48 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cwizardone

Is this a good idea?

http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/k...1.3/02404.html

Yes. All Slackware scripts that execute sysctl do it only if /etc/sysctl.conf exists, and it doesn't by default. There are other ways to read/write to/from /proc/sys anyway. Maybe some sysadmins will have to adapt their custom scripts but hey that's life.

PS GazL beat me to it.

PS2 wrong interpretation from me, due to my misunderstanding. Please disregard this answer, thanks GazL for the heads-up.