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Old 11-30-2019, 06:11 PM   #1936
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Only issues I had with today's new kernel, easily solved but don't understand why it happened in the first place.

https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...0/#post6063479
 
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Old 11-30-2019, 11:17 PM   #1937
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What's the difference between 5.4 and 5.4.1?
 
Old 11-30-2019, 11:20 PM   #1938
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What's the difference between 5.4 and 5.4.1?
https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/ker...hangeLog-5.4.1
 
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Old 11-30-2019, 11:25 PM   #1939
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So the 5.4 is the 5.4.0, I already have on my system?
 
Old 11-30-2019, 11:26 PM   #1940
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So the 5.4 is the 5.4.0, I already have on my system?
Exactly.
 
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Old 11-30-2019, 11:27 PM   #1941
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Thanks, I was confused...
 
Old 12-01-2019, 03:31 AM   #1942
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New kernel running fine here [...]. Virtual Box 6.0.14 barfs at building kernel modules however...
It has probably been noted elsewhere that one fix for Virtual Box and its kernel modules with 5.4.x is to install Virtual Box 6.1 RC1 which certainly rectifies the situation here.

However I have noted one issue with the new kernel: Booting stalls for a good 10 seconds following the line '[ 10.857183] usbcore: registered new interface driver snd-usb-audio'. The output via dmesg shows the following around this line:

Code:
[   10.654072] input: Logitech Webcam C930e as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.1/0000:01:00.0/usb1/1-2/1-2:1.0/input/input18
[   10.655479] usbcore: registered new interface driver uvcvideo
[   10.656863] USB Video Class driver (1.1.1)
[   10.857183] usbcore: registered new interface driver snd-usb-audio
[  101.760298] Adding 4210772k swap on /dev/sda2.  Priority:-2 extents:1 across:4210772k SSFS
[  102.787133] EXT4-fs (sda1): re-mounted. Opts: (null)
[  102.969109] EXT4-fs (sdb1): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
[  103.554688] usb 1-2: reset high-speed USB device number 2 using xhci_hcd
Something odd and slow with setting a swap file, not seen with previous kernels? fdisk on my system shows:

Code:
root@ilium/home/andrew# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 1.84 TiB, 2000398934016 bytes, 3907029168 sectors
Disk model: CT2000MX500SSD1 
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0xb8f67cb2

Device     Boot      Start        End    Sectors  Size Id Type
/dev/sda1  *          2048 3898607615 3898605568  1.8T 83 Linux
/dev/sda2       3898607616 3907029167    8421552    4G 82 Linux swap


Disk /dev/sdb: 1.84 TiB, 2000398934016 bytes, 3907029168 sectors
Disk model: CT2000MX500SSD1 
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x02c1b74e

Device     Boot Start        End    Sectors  Size Id Type
/dev/sdb1        2048 3907029167 3907027120  1.8T 83 Linux
root@ilium/home/andrew#
Any thoughts?
 
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Old 12-01-2019, 03:58 AM   #1943
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Sat Nov 30 17:13:31 EST 2019 [25307]: Getting ChangeLog.txt...
0a1,20
> Sat Nov 30 21:17:21 UTC 2019
> a/kernel-generic-5.4.1-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
> a/kernel-huge-5.4.1-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
> a/kernel-modules-5.4.1-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
I'm sure this brings 15.0 closer
John

PS as an aside I've been using 5.4.0/1 on 14.2 since their release no problemo
One less hurdle now, indeed, now just hope the QT gets more fresh, the KDE5 gets even more fresh and an even more fresh 5.4.x kernel to break the latest NVidia *.run for a good measure
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Old 12-01-2019, 05:14 AM   #1944
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Kernel updates 4.19.87 and 4.14.157 are now available at,

https://www.kernel.org/

The change logs,

https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/ker...ngeLog-4.19.87

https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/ker...geLog-4.14.157
 
Old 12-01-2019, 05:53 AM   #1945
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What's the difference between 5.4 and 5.4.1?
About 4 days of extra commits:
Code:
ChangeLog-5.4     25-Nov-2019 10:33   13M
ChangeLog-5.4.1   29-Nov-2019 09:17   92K
So there's about 90 K of differences between 5.4 and 5.4.1 (and, as already mentioned, 4 days).

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Old 12-01-2019, 06:17 AM   #1946
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RESULTS UPDATE - My 14.2 MultiLib Main install has now been up a few minutes shy of 24 hours with half of that time undergoing Unigine Superposition Stressing. Heating was not a problem at all... GPU never exceeded 58C. I just ran the Benchmark utility and given the only changes from the last benchmarks are kernel and nVidia driver, my scores are substantially up.

The average for 3 runs running 5.0.20 with a slightly earlier nVidia driver (430.50) was 8350 and now, with 5.4.1 and 440.36 the average of 3 runs on High was 8950. Perhaps more valuable was a single run at Extreme with a rather low score of 3680 but minimal FPS increased to 27 FPS from 19 which I really don't understand. There is one point in the test where there is extreme shading and a very large number of various sized items in a lab are flying about that previously behaved in a stuttering fashion but which now are quite smooth. Makes little sense to me but I'll take it!
 
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Old 12-01-2019, 06:10 PM   #1947
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Well, it must be freezing in hell. The new kernel (5.4.1) has made my old Penryn/GM965 laptops usable again with -current. I was having very slow boot times at ~10 minutes to XFCE. Now working normal again.

Maybe it's a wait and see moment?

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Old 12-02-2019, 04:51 AM   #1948
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I'm having a bad time with Slackware 32 bit current with the 5.4.1 kernel. The last kernel upgrade to 4.19.84 was perfect in my Sony Vaio laptop (dual core). The latest 32 bit huge smp kernel always gives a kernel panic when attempting to unpack the initramd. I even created a current 32 bit dvd to try installing the latest Slackware from scratch, but I can't get past the unpacking initramd kernel panic. I can install the latest generic non-smp kernel, but that only gives me a single core. Any good ideas?
 
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Old 12-02-2019, 05:33 AM   #1949
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I'm having a bad time with Slackware 32 bit current with the 5.4.1 kernel. The last kernel upgrade to 4.19.84 was perfect in my Sony Vaio laptop (dual core). The latest 32 bit huge smp kernel always gives a kernel panic when attempting to unpack the initramd. I even created a current 32 bit dvd to try installing the latest Slackware from scratch, but I can't get past the unpacking initramd kernel panic. I can install the latest generic non-smp kernel, but that only gives me a single core. Any good ideas?
Seems similar to what's mentioned here: https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...ml#post6056128
Apparently this issue persists in 5.4.1, affecting both huge-smp and generic-smp

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Old 12-02-2019, 09:04 AM   #1950
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I read that several hours ago a performance regression involving some bug in PAT code in the 5.4 tree was fixed. Someone noticed a nearly 24% loss in the Phoronix test suite. If this means I can expect further increase in performance, I'm stoked!... but then I know almost nothing about PAT. So I guess my work today is cut out for me.
 
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