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Kernel 2.6.30rc3 uploaded to karmic
linux (2.6.30-1.1) karmic; urgency=low
* Initial release after rebasing against v2.6.30-rc3
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:16:07 -0600 Changed-By: Tim Gardner <xxx> Maintainer: Ubuntu Kernel Team <xxx> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/karmic/+source/linux/2.6.30-1.1
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Nice, im glad theyve decided to do this early on in the dev cycle this time.
Very good to see---I've played with it via the kernel tree, but it will be nice to have it be "real" :P:P
Unfortunately, KMS is disabled.
How can I get the new kernel in the repo's ? Or how do I do it ? Thanks
Updating Karmic should do it.
It might take a little while to get to you. One, it will take some time to be built after being uploaded. Two, it takes some time for mirrors to pick up the changes in the repo.
e.g. I don't see 2.6.30 yet, and I'm using the main archive. I might try an alternate, but it would be further away. :)
Just updated Karmic, no kernel pushed yet.
I'll try again tomorrow.
BTW: Just got word Gnome is about to be uploaded shortly, and apparently there is a HIGH chance it will break stuff (aww, karmic's first breakage, how cute :D) so watch out every1. (Doesn;t affect me, my karmic box has openbox, though I might make a gnome one too)
how do i get karmic? i really want to help test it. i tried update-manager -d.. lol didnt work.
meeples said: how do i get karmic? i really want to help test it. i tried update-manager -d.. lol didnt work.
that only works on full releases, not even for Beta's, IIRC.
You need to edit the file /etc/apt/sources.list and make all the entries say "karmic" instead of "jaunty", then update and upgrade from Synaptic/update-manager of choice.
If it's your first time, I would advise waiting till the Alpha 1 is out, if I'm honest.
thanks. i dunno i mite wait till alpha, but i like throwing myself in at the deep end. its fun :P
Using an Alpha isn't exactly the shallow end ;)
too late, updated :P
What does 2.6.30 offer over what's in Jaunty?
There are a LOT of things. Biggest among them seems to be faring a LOT better in many benchmarks for multiple things.
Jaunty uses 2.6.28, and a LOT of changes were brought in in .29, which continued in .30
Chief among them were fixing many regressions that had occured, and introducing support for WiMAX
Kernel is up on the main server. 5:50 Pacific time.
First real chance to dive in since updating to Karmic -- been *trying* to learn LaTeX. You'll need to install .30 manually for now. It should be default soon enough.
For me the kernel crashes quite late in the boot process, complaining about a null pointer dereference, if I remember correctly.
There doesn't seem to be a bug report yet, so I think I'll need to write the messages down and file one.
Does this problem occur on anyone else's machine?
portis said: Unfortunately, KMS is disabled.
That sucks. Probably still waiting on drivers.
Update to the kernel already---2.6.30-1-2-generic
6:50 Pacific time
The local mirror here had 2.6.30-1 ready for synaptic apply.
On intel integrated graphics i845 "AccelMethod" "uxa" produces garbled display on glxgears, and YouTube videos are jerky.
Slower without "uxa".
It worked, tho. We'll see about Alpha. intel graphics broke on Intrepid requiring "NoAccel" until after ship, also broke on jaunty until just before beta. Hardy's faster however jaunty has a lot more "polish" from my view.
Thanks for putting the karmic linux image out.
Jerry
autocrosser said: Update to the kernel already---2.6.30-1-2-generic
6:50 Pacific time Huh, I still have 2.6.28-11-generic :(
Manual install & make sure you are using the main sources---
For KMS on Intel.
rudenko_ruslan said: Huh, I still have 2.6.28-11-generic :(
Use Synaptic and search for linux-image and linux-headers :)
The meta-package isn't there yet...
Toe said: For me the kernel crashes quite late in the boot process, complaining about a null pointer dereference, if I remember correctly.
There doesn't seem to be a bug report yet, so I think I'll need to write the messages down and file one.
Does this problem occur on anyone else's machine?
Yup, on mine and I have reported this earlier with Kerneloops to upstream. (not Ubuntu)
Starks said: For KMS on Intel.
I thought I'd give KMS another try: the Edgers drivers work fine, and I modified /etc/modules (is this definitely the recommended way, as opposed to modprobe.d, which I think I've seem somewhere before?) and it seems to work well, but the only way I could get plymouth to work (on 945GME) was by using vga=... but I'm convinced that's not right! Any thoughts? ( Damn, I wish they'd just switch to KMS and Plymouth already, so I don't need to guess. )
Edit: By the way ... plymouth, is amazing!
@plun: Are you running openvpn?
On my machine, I've narrowed it down to this service.
The 2.6.30 kernel works fine for long periods of time, but within two seconds of "/etc/init.d/openvpn start", it crashes.
Edit: The server at kerneloops.org doesn't seem to respond, so I've opened a bug at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/369415
I installed the new Kernel on an Intel G45 mainboard, no problems until now, but also apparently no visible change that I can see. Maybe it boots even faster than 9.04 with the 2.6.28 kernel, but that could be only my imagination.
I read somewhere that the new kernel has new Intel video drivers. So I tried setting up UXA acceleration, which works fine (glxgears reports less fps than before, though), but hasn't solved the ugly tearing problem with videos. I would have liked to try the kernel modesetting introduced in 2.6.29 too, but I have no clue on how to activate it.
It would be nice to read a full list of 2.6.30rc3 kernel changes, anyway.
Toe said: @plun:
Are you running openvpn?
On my machine, I've narrowed it down to this service.
The 2.6.30 kernel works fine for long periods of time, but within two seconds of "/etc/init.d/openvpn start", it crashes.
Edit: The server at kerneloops.org doesn't seem to respond, so I've opened a bug at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/369415
OK.... I have my crash during boot
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000020
http://paste.ubuntu.com/160939/
You can probably see yours within kern.log.
Jaunty shipped with 2.6.28-11 2.6.29 was released around March 23. 2.6.30 RC3 is out, and I think they normally get a dozen or so RC before release. So 2.6.30 should be released in a month or two? So the question is whether ubuntu will use 2.6.30 or 2.6.31 in 9.10 (time will tell)?
The kernel version for release will be decided at UDS.
I can't even start the boot with 2.6.30-1-generic, error file not found from grub ! the files are there initrid.img and vmlinuz etc and I reinstalled them just to be sure . boots fine with 2.6.28-11 . any ideas ?
Did you mod menu.lst yourself or let grub do it? I did a manual & edited menu.lst myself & everything starts good...can't trust grub to do it with my "penti-boot" system :P
I moded the menu.lst myself , my grub is on another drive and install , I just cloned my working stanza and changed 2.6.28-11 to 2.6.30-1 , that has always worked before .
ronacc said: I moded the menu.lst myself , my grub is on another drive and install , I just cloned my working stanza and changed 2.6.28-11 to 2.6.30-1 , that has always worked before .
I had to do the same! For the last few kernel updates I have had this problem.
Cary
Well I tried purging all 2.6.30 files (including manualy deleting the /var/cache/apt packages ) and reinstalling , same result grub gives an imeadiate file not found .
Weird--That's all I ever do---miss anything in the copy/paste???
Mine looks like:
title Karmic (development branch 9.10), kernel 2.6.30-1-generic
uuid fc1446a5-94e9-40f8-9ebb-2442107fc13c
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.30-1-generic root=UUID=fc1446a5-94e9-40f8-9ebb-2442107fc13c ro quiet splash mem=6G concurrency=shell
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.30-1-generic
quietDon't mind the extras on the kernel line :)
I don't think so , I redid that too .
title Ubuntu koala (development branch), kernel 2.6.30-1-generic
root (hd4,0)
# uuid 5474216d-42f6-4f3e-aada-560ddfcd5279
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.30-1-generic root=UUID=5474216d-42f6-4f3e-aada-560ddfcd5279 ro splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.30-1-generic
quiet
title Ubuntu koala (development branch), kernel 2.6.28-11-generic
root (hd4,0)
# uuid 5474216d-42f6-4f3e-aada-560ddfcd5279
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-11-generic root=UUID=5474216d-42f6-4f3e-aada-560ddfcd5279 ro splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-11-generic
quiet
the second stanza boots to 28-11 just fine , I'm typing on it now .
Ya---that's strange--Try checking your UUID & boot with that instead if the root line, but other than that---I can't think of anything---going to bed--I'll think about it.........
tried that , I had to comment out the uuid and add the root line to get 2.6.28-11 to boot to koala , like I said my grub is on another drive I had 5 installs on this box also , down to 3 ATM . Its late here I'm on the other coast , I'll pound on this some more tomorrow .
I had a problem with grub when I installed 9.04 on my main (safe) P4 machine. It seemed to find all OSs but my 8.10 Intrepid that I'd been using before wouldn't boot - coming up with File Not Found from grub. I couldn't see any reason so I edited my new boot menu.lst to use "configfile" to point to the 8.10 menu.lst and all was well.
Changing to configfile means menu.lst references to kernels in other (older) systems update correctly. But I expect most people here know that :lolflag:
RC4 is also out now.....
The Tux is back....:)
Lots of random small changes. And one big revert - say "Goodbye" to Tuz,
and "Hello again" to Tux.
For people who prefer the tazmanian devil, you can revert the revert with "git revert 3d4f16348b77efbf81b7fa186a18a0eb815b6b84" and you'll get your Tuz back.
Other than that? Pretty random. ARM, m68k, Microblaze, Powerpc updates. ACPi and i915. DVB and network drivers. PCI and USB. btrfs and ecryptfs. Networking and sound. All over the map, in other words.
Linus
Both (-rc4 and -1) working fine here.
MacUntu said: Both (-rc4 and -1) working fine here.
Yep and RC4 solved my trouble with freezing gnome-panel.
CPU frequency selector is back..... it was 5 of them...
plun said: RC4 is also out now.....
The Tux is back....:)
I have been using the .30rc3 from when Jaunty and there was a thread in Jaunty with link to 'ppa' with .debs. Is that not the correct one I should be using and is there not .debs any more to upgrade to rc4?
DougieFresh4U said: I have been using the .30rc3 from when Jaunty and there was a thread in Jaunty with link to 'ppa' with .debs. Is that not the correct one I should be using and is there not .debs any more to upgrade to rc4?
PPA? You mean this - http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/ ?
DougieFresh4U said: I have been using the .30rc3 from when Jaunty and there was a thread in Jaunty with link to 'ppa' with .debs. Is that not the correct one I should be using and is there not .debs any more to upgrade to rc4?
You can get the new kernel thru the normal channels with Synaptic--no need to use the kernel mainline anymore.
rudenko_ruslan said: PPA? You mean this - http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/ ?
That only does as far as .30rc3.
autocrosser said: You can get the new kernel thru the normal channels with Synaptic--no need to use the kernel mainline anymore.
I am using 'main' and never got wind of .30 update/upgrade in 'Synaptic' or 'terminal' Thanks
I installed the new kernel packages with Synaptic and restarted - the new kernel was there in the menu - I thought I might need to add the new bits by hand but Synaptic did it all :)
Only problem I seem to have is that the nvidia 180 driver won't work with the new kernel. I guess it needs the kernel module recompiling. I'll have to look up how to do that again - I've done it before.
Only low graphics mode is available with the new kernel so I'm using the old one for now.
only 180.18.4 supports it
Gina---look at the Xorg drivers thread---there is a line to a PPA that gets you a .deb for the new beta driver....It works great!!!!
Thanks very much :)
andrewabc said: Jaunty shipped with 2.6.28-11
2.6.29 was released around March 23. 2.6.30 RC3 is out, and I think they normally get a dozen or so RC before release. So 2.6.30 should be released in a month or two? So the question is whether ubuntu will use 2.6.30 or 2.6.31 in 9.10 (time will tell)?
I would put my money on 2.6.31.
I agree--2.6.31 has a timeline that looks very good for Karmic release--Reminds me of Intrepid release--so I think it will squeak in right in time....
a rather bizare update to my 2.6.30 won't boot saga , I have a box I am building up that had jaunty on it as an only install so I edited my sources list and updated to karmic and installed 2.6.30-1 to it (I let it write its own boot stanza ) and that box booted to 2.6.30 just fine , so I copied the menu.lst to a usb drive and added the boot stanza from it to the menu.lst on my test box and copied the uuid from the stanza that wouldn't boot to the new stanza and that box will now boot to 2.6.30 ?????
What was the difference??? That is real strange......
Anyway--glad to see you are with the rest of us now........... :) :)
I can't see any difference thats the bizzare part , but I darn sure will find out , I preserved the original and am going to disect it tomorrow , I will cut and past one line of the stanza at a time to find the offending line and then go over it one character at a time if need be . again its late and I want to do that when my eyes arent so bleary .
ronacc said: I can't see any difference thats the bizzare part , but I darn sure will find out , I preserved the original and am going to disect it tomorrow , I will cut and past one line of the stanza at a time to find the offending line and then go over it one character at a time if need be . again its late and I want to do that when my eyes arent so bleary .
Might want to try a diff tool for this? Meld/Kompare for example.
ronacc said: a rather bizare update to my 2.6.30 won't boot saga , I have a box I am building up that had jaunty on it as an only install so I edited my sources list and updated to karmic and installed 2.6.30-1 to it (I let it write its own boot stanza ) and that box booted to 2.6.30 just fine , so I copied the menu.lst to a usb drive and added the boot stanza from it to the menu.lst on my test box and copied the uuid from the stanza that wouldn't boot to the new stanza and that box will now boot to 2.6.30 ?????
I think we have a bug within the function "keep the local version" or use Maintainer version of menu.lst.
If I keep my version something gets wrong and sometimes its not updated, when I choose Maintainers version it always works but I must manually add some changes within my menu.lst.
But... howto get a bug-report out of this...:)
@ plun thats not the case with me, see my earler posts this thread , my grub and menu.lst are on another drive and install , I always manualy edit , I cloned a working boot stanza changed the kernel number and it nolonger works .
ronacc said: @ plun thats not the case with me, see my earler posts this thread , my grub and menu.lst are on another drive and install , I always manualy edit , I cloned a working boot stanza changed the kernel number and it nolonger works .
Ok...but when you manually install a kernel debconf always starts and prompts you about which version of menu.lst should be used.
Then you must have several menu.lst ie boot/grub.
no , if I already have a grub on another install I tell ubiquity " don't install a boot loader" to keep things from getting too messy , and then just add what I need .
ronacc said: no , if I already have a grub on another install I tell ubiquity " don't install a boot loader" to keep things from getting too messy , and then just add what I need .
But again....:)
In this case if you uses Synaptic for installing 2.6.30-1 Debconf will start and ask about Grub and menu.lst.
But... I am unsure what happens if you have told Ubiquity that no bootloader is in use....
:confused::confused::confused:
New Ubuntu kernel based on RC4
linux (2.6.30-2.3) karmic; urgency=low
[ Tim Gardner ]
* [Config] Enabled CC_STACKPROTECTOR=y for all x86en - LP: #369152 * SAUCE: Default to i915_modeset=0 if CONFIG_DRM_I915_KMS=y * [Config] CONFIG_DRM_I915_KMS=y * [Config] Set CONFIG_SECURITY_DEFAULT_MMAP_MIN_ADDR to appropriate ARCH minimums
[ Upstream Kernel Changes ]
* rebased to 2.6.30-rc4
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/karmic-changes/2009-May/000294.html
New 2.6.30-2 boots nice and seems to be intact... No detailed analysis for you at this point :D
Hardware works... with minor glitches
[ 1.284067] ata2: softreset failed (device not ready)
[ 1.284069] ata1: softreset failed (device not ready)
[ 1.284076] ata1: failed due to HW bug, retry pmp=0
[ 1.284308] ata2: failed due to HW bug, retry pmp=0
[ 1.326283] usb 1-3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 1.448102] ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
[ 1.448136] ata2: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
[ 1.448819] ata1.00: ATA-8: Hitachi HTS543232L9A300, FB4OC40F, max UDMA/100
[ 1.448826] ata1.00: 625142448 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 NCQ (depth 31/32)
[ 1.449854] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100
[ 1.450094] scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA Hitachi HTS54323 FB4O PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[ 1.450525] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 625142448 512-byte hardware sectors: (320 GB/298 GiB)
[ 1.450564] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
[ 1.450572] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[ 1.450633] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[ 1.450887] sda:<5>sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
[ 1.463692] ata2.00: ATAPI: Optiarc DVD RW AD-7581S, 4H03, max UDMA/100
[ 1.473231] sda1 sda2 <<6>ata2.00: configured for UDMA/100
[ 1.482657] scsi 1:0:0:0: CD-ROM Optiarc DVD RW AD-7581S 4H03 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[ 1.484141] sda5 >
[ 1.484995] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk
[ 1.495553] sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/24x writer dvd-ram cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
[ 1.495560] Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
[ 1.495792] sr 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0
[ 1.496049] sr 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 5
taavikko;7192377]New 2.6.30-2 boots nice and seems to be intact...
No detailed analysis for you at this point :D
Well.. I havent tested it....:)
I am running my 1000Hz plain Vanilla RC4..... including Plymouth..:)
jerrylamos said: The local mirror here had 2.6.30-1 ready for synaptic apply.
On intel integrated graphics i845 "AccelMethod" "uxa" produces garbled display on glxgears, and YouTube videos are jerky.
Slower without "uxa".
It worked, tho. We'll see about Alpha. intel graphics broke on Intrepid requiring "NoAccel" until after ship, also broke on jaunty until just before beta. Hardy's faster however jaunty has a lot more "polish" from my view.
Thanks for putting the karmic linux image out.
Jerry
You need to set "Tiling" to false in the Device section of your xorg.conf to get 3D working correctly. Youtube et al is slow because the MTRR ranges aren't set to write-combining properly.
See my Intel performance guide for more information. Don't follow the steps, though, it's only for Jaunty.
With 2.6.30-2-generic modesetting works but even after patching the broadcom wl driver to build with 2.6.30 it fails to connect to any wireless networks. :(
Plymouth+2.6.30 works on Virtualbox, yeah!(But it eats 100% of the CPU when it boots...)
I've installed 2.6.30-2.3 on my Acer One D150 (10.1" Screen) and it seems to be working well.
BUT !! I did notice AppArmor FAILS during boot up Should I be concerned about this ??
Thanks :)
nvidia-graphics-drivers-180 (180.44-0ubuntu2) karmic; urgency=low
* debian.binary/patches/nvidia-x86_64-180.44-2.6.30-rc2.patch: - Add patch from http://pavlinux.ru/nv/nvidia-x86_64-180.44-2.6.30-rc2.patch to enable compiling against 2.6.30. * debian/dkms.conf.in: - Apply RT patch on 2.6.30 - Apply 2.6.30 compilation patch on 2.6.30. * debian/control: - Update description for libvdpau (LP: #369049)
Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 12:00:43 -0500 Changed-By: Mario Limonciello <mario_limonciello@xxxxxxx> Maintainer: Ubuntu Core Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@xxxxx> Signed-By: Mario Limonciello <superm1@xxxxxxxx> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/karmic/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-180/180.44-0ubuntu2
Any idea on AppArmor failing ??
Also does usplash work with this kernel ??
Thanks
autocrosser said: I agree--2.6.31 has a timeline that looks very good for Karmic release--Reminds me of Intrepid release--so I think it will squeak in right in time....
Intrepid was an exception. They wanted some fixes but it was too hard to backport them, thus they decided to risk upgrading to the new kernel late in the circle. But there were clear drawbacks: The kernel team was too busy with the late upgrade that it couldn't deliver a low latency kernel for Ubuntu studio.
If you find bugs it might be good to put them on the kernels official bug tracker, since 2.6.30 is still in development.
I wonder if Karmic will have low-latency kernel enabled like Fedora for some pulseaudio improvements... can hardly wait for UDS to read about Karmic plans...!
vishalrao said: I wonder if Karmic will have low-latency kernel enabled like Fedora for some pulseaudio improvements... can hardly wait for UDS to read about Karmic plans...!
Mate you could ask the kernel team on the devel discuss mailing list
OK, will fire out an email :)
Found a link posted in the "improve sound" thread too: https://tango.0pointer.de/pipermail/pulseaudio-discuss/2009-February/003150.html
Quick question: If I've upgraded to karmic, should I have a new kernel? (ie. not the one from jaunty)
davideotape said: Quick question: If I've upgraded to karmic, should I have a new kernel? (ie. not the one from jaunty)
Not yet. ubuntu-desktop and thus linux-image metapackages hasn't been upgraded yet to point towards the new one.
In the meanwhile you have to manually install the new kernel. it's in the repos.
taavikko said: Not yet. ubuntu-desktop and thus linux-image metapackages hasn't been upgraded yet to point towards the new one.
In the meanwhile you have to manually install the new kernel. it's in the repos.
Good :D Thought I was missing out there for a minute :P Do you know when abouts the new kernels will start coming?
Meta package description was uploaded today....
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/karmic-changes/2009-May/000567.html
and directly a new kernel..
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/karmic-changes/2009-May/000577.html
davideotape said: Good :D Thought I was missing out there for a minute :P Do you know when abouts the new kernels will start coming?
It's here, it's here (without installing it manually).
Seems to be working fine here
I lost my usplash after updates. I wonder if it is related to the new kernel.
plun said: Meta package description was uploaded today....
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/karmic-changes/2009-May/000577.html
Okay, so how do I install 2.6.30-3-lpia for my EeePC? It's not in the standard repos..
maheshasolkar said: I lost my usplash after updates. I wonder if it is related to the new kernel.
yep, no splash here as well. Guess we have to wait till they make new ones?
bl4ck32 said: yep, no splash here as well. Guess we have to wait till they make new ones?
I think they're going for plymouth this cycle?
aamukahvi said: I think they're going for plymouth this cycle?
They might indeed, but this early in the cycle chances are that by some upgrade procedure, usplash got removed.
so check if it is installed.
Date: Fri, 8 May 2009 17:31:30 -0700 (PDT)
From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Linux 2.6.30-rc5
It's been a week (and a couple of days - what can I say?), so here's a new -rc.
It's been getting quieter, although by -rc5 I obviously always hope for not just "pretty quiet" but "almost deathly quiet", and it never is.
Driver updates (SCSI being the bulk of it, but there are input layer, networking, DRI and MD changes too). Arch updates (mostly ARM "davinci" support, but some x86 and even alpha). And various random stuff (fairly big cifs update, but some smaller ocfs2 and xfs updates, and a fair amount of small one-liners all over). Oh, and if you look at the non-rename-aware patches, you'll see huge changes due to moving the dtc and libfdt sources (open-firmware device tree building/using support) from arch/powerpc/boot to scripts/dtc so that microblaze could use it too.
But on the whole, not a lot of huge issues. Please test and remind people about regressions if you've seen any, or (heaven forbid) look for new ones if you haven't.
Shortlog appended.
Linus http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/5/8/505
This RC will be available there - http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/ - after some time, I guess.
ruslan@ruslan-desktop:~$ uname -a
Linux ruslan-desktop 2.6.30-4-generic #5-Ubuntu SMP Fri May 8 13:20:48 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux ):P
Well I "home-brewed" it and RC5 works just fine....:)
RC5 based Ubuntu kernel available.
Not yet within a meta-package, easiest installed with Synaptic and searching for linux-image and linux-headers
[B]linux (2.6.30-5.6) karmic; urgency=low
[/B] [ Tim Gardner ]
* [Config] Enable Keyspan USB serial device firmware in kernel module - LP: #334285
[ Upstream Kernel Changes ]
* rebased to 2.6.30-rc5
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/karmic-changes/2009-May/001018.html
taavikko said: They might indeed, but this early in the cycle chances are that by some upgrade procedure, usplash got removed.
so check if it is installed.
Seems like it got re-instated today after 2.6.30-5 was uploaded:KS
Is there already a working patch to compile Vmware Workstation modules ? I did found this: http://communities.vmware.com/thread/208963 But it doesn't work for me :(
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/GitKernelBuild
I'm trying this on jaunty right now :)
and RC6....
date fri, 15 may 2009 21:36:02 -0700(pdt)
from linus torvalds <>
subjectlinux 2.6.30-rc6
another week, another -rc.
Things definitely are calming down, with just about 300 commits in the last week. And most of them are pretty small too, although the powerpc updates brought some defconfig changes that look largish.
Somewhat unusually, the dirstat shows filesystems with as much changes as drivers - we had some nilfs2 and reiserfs updates there, along with some mostly trivial vfs layer cleanups. We had a bkl pushdown in the umount paths, for example (that will hopefully make it easier to then merge the bkl removal patches for reiserfs during the next merge window).
On the arch side, apart from the powerpc things, we have soem cris and mips updates. The bulk of the cris updates was merging the compressed boot code across chris-v10 and chris-v32, so the diffs there look bigger than they really were.
On the driver front, there's some sata updates, some i915 graphics updates, and various other small things sprinkled all over. Some sound driver updates too, although most of those seem to be the davinci stuff (from the arm merge last -rc), so most people won't notice or care.
And we've hopefully fixed a number of regressions. Please remind people (me very much included) of all the ones that you still see - i've been missing rafael's regular regression summaries ;(
linus
Looking at the kernel teams git I dont see an RC5, I only see a tag from 2 weeks ago indicating RC4??
Anyway the 2.6.30-5 generic kernel got installed today from the main repo and it seems to be running ok so far albeit missing the various RC fixes in upstream since.
Nullack said: Looking at the kernel teams git I dont see an RC5, I only see a tag from 2 weeks ago indicating RC4??
Anyway the 2.6.30-5 generic kernel got installed today from the main repo and it seems to be running ok so far albeit missing the various RC fixes in upstream since.
linux (2.6.30-5.6) karmic; urgency=low
[ Tim Gardner ]
* [Config] Enable Keyspan USB serial device firmware in kernel module
- LP: #334285
[ Upstream Kernel Changes ]
* rebased to 2.6.30-rc5
-- Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com> Mon, 11 May 2009 12:02:16 -0600
mabovo said: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.30-rc5/
That isnt the karmic git branch however. I dont run non standard kernels as its a core part of the integrity of my test effort.
taavikko said:
linux (2.6.30-5.6) karmic; urgency=low
[ Tim Gardner ]
* [Config] Enable Keyspan USB serial device firmware in kernel module - LP: #334285
[ Upstream Kernel Changes ]
* rebased to 2.6.30-rc5
-- Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com> Mon, 11 May 2009 12:02:16 -0600
Thanks mate. I wish the kernel team would consistently tag their git web - unless Ive missed it, I dont think RC5 is tagged.This update fixed a shutdown issue with my Acer 5920g. Hurray!
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/karmic/+source/linux/2.6.30-6.7
linux (2.6.30-6.7) karmic; urgency=low
[ Andy Whitcroft ]
* Dropped: UBUNTU: SAUCE: input: Blacklist digitizers from joydev.c (now upstream)
[ Upstream Kernel Changes ]
* rebased to 2.6.30-rc6
-- Andy Whitcroft <email address hidden> Mon, 18 May 2009 18:05:54 +0100
Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 15:07:03 -0700 (PDT)
From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Linux 2.6.30-rc7
Ok, so 90% of the patch is the addition of one new driver, at around 9000 lines for the the Cisco PCI-Express FCoE HBA SCSI driver.
If you ignore that (and you should - unless you happen to have such hardware and have been pining for the driver to be merged for a long time), the rest is really mostly a collection of small fixes. Several regressions fixed, lots of small cleanup.
Nothing huge stands out. The diffstat shows the new driver clearly, and some of the cifs fixes aren't totally trivial (and the reiserfs xattr changes show up), but most of it really is one-liners.
So go wild. I suspect I'll do an -rc8, but we're definitely getting closer to release-time - it would be good to get as much testing as possible, and it should generally be pretty safe to try this all out.
Thanks,
Linus http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/5/23/121 + http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.30-rc7/
I'm not using Karmic yet but I have a question that is about 2.6.30: is there a way I could make 2.6.30.rc7 boot with my ext3 on Jaunty in data=ordered or data=guarded mode? I do not want to use writeback ... too risky ... :smile: as I understood data=guarded is not available in 2.6.28? I've tried things that worked in 2.6.28... data=ordered in /etc/fstab e.t.c. ... nothing worked. if I put data =ordered in /etc/fstab I get read-only boot ... :sad:
(excuse me for double-posting ...) p.s. it worked now with ``` tune2fs -o journal_data_ordered/dev/sdax
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/karmic/+source/linux/2.6.30-7.8
linux 2.6.30-7.8 (source) in ubuntu karmic
Changelog
linux (2.6.30-7.8) karmic; urgency=low
[ Andy Whitcroft ]
* Enabled NEW configration options: Paravirtualization layer for spinlocks (PARAVIRT_SPINLOCKS) [N/y/?] Y Cisco FNIC Driver (FCOE_FNIC) [N/m/y/?] M
[ Upstream Kernel Changes ]
* rebased to 2.6.30-rc7
-- Andy Whitcroft <email address hidden> Sat, 23 May 2009 23:47:24 +0100 Nice! :)
They are still not tagging their releases in GIT:
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/ubuntu-karmic.git;a=summary
Last one tagged was RC4
I just ran an update on Karmic. I noticed it downloaded kernel 2.6.30-6 but it failed to update the grub menu and it seems that there is no initrd.img-2.6.30-6-generic file under /boot. What would happen if I booted the 2.6.30-6 kernel with the initrd initrd.img-2.6.30-5-generic?
When your grub menu comes up, highlight the first line with the kernal number in it. Hit "e". Change the number. Hit enter. Highlight the second line and do the same things. This will probably boot you to the new kernal.
If so just
gksudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst
and edit your file.
alphacrucis2 said: I just ran an update on Karmic. I noticed it downloaded kernel 2.6.30-6 but it failed to update the grub menu and it seems that there is no initrd.img-2.6.30-6-generic file under /boot. What would happen if I booted the 2.6.30-6 kernel with the initrd initrd.img-2.6.30-5-generic?
Did You see only Linux-image-2.6.30-6-generic? Did it install Linux-headers-2.6.30-6-generic? If it did not, wait until that come through updates and it should clear by itself ...
I can not use a USB mouse with this kernel.Mouse responds in 4 secs if it is inactive.
zika said: Did You see only Linux-image-2.6.30-6-generic? Did it install Linux-headers-2.6.30-6-generic? If it did not, wait until that come through updates and it should clear by itself ...
I am not with my Karmic test machine at present so I can't check. I do recall seeing the Linux image mentioned in the dist-upgrade output and certainly the corresponding vmlinuz compressed kernel ended up in /boot but I noticed the corresponding initrd was missing. I will run another update tomorrow and see if it resolves.
2.6.30-7 appeared today at the repositories here. Upgrading… :)
linux (2.6.30-7.8) karmic; urgency=low
[ Andy Whitcroft ]
* Enabled NEW configration options: Paravirtualization layer for spinlocks (PARAVIRT_SPINLOCKS) [N/y/?] Y Cisco FNIC Driver (FCOE_FNIC) [N/m/y/?] M
[ Upstream Kernel Changes ]
* rebased to 2.6.30-rc7
-- Andy Whitcroft <email address hidden> Sat, 23 May 2009 23:47:24 +0100
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/karmic/+source/linux/2.6.30-7.8 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.30-rc7/CHANGES
It is in the repo's
updated and so far so good.
afv said: 2.6.30-7 appeared today at the repositories here. Upgrading… :)
Been using it for a nearly a week. :P It was built during USD and put in the upload queue from where I manually downloaded and installed it. working fine :D
And now it's time for -rc8 :)
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 21:06:20 -0700 (PDT)
From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Linux 2.6.30-rc8
This is almost certainly the last -rc, and I debated even doing it. But rather than just do 2.6.30, I decided that I'd be better off doing a last -rc8 and then a real release probably this weekend.
This has mostly driver and arch updates, with perhaps the intel drm/kms and network driver changes standing out, but there's powerpc, blackfin and arm updates too. Admittedly, the two biggest parts of the powerpc update are a revert and a defconfig update.
A lot of small stuff, fixing a few regressions (and at least one bugzilla entry going back to 2.6.24). The small stuff does matter. Please test.
Linus http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/6/3/3 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.30-rc8/ - after some time, I guess ;)
why bother with .30 if we are going to have .31 ? get .31 in here as soon as possible so we can start finding bugs .
ronacc said: why bother with .30 if we are going to have .31 ? get .31 in here as soon as possible so we can start finding bugs .
...perhaps because 2.6.31 does not exist in *any* form yet? ;)
psyke83 said: ...perhaps because 2.6.31 does not exist in *any* form yet? ;)
congratulations , you've found the first bug :lolflag:
ronacc said: congratulations , you've found the first bug :lolflag:
\\:d/
linux 2.6.30-8.9 (source) in ubuntu karmic
Changelog
linux (2.6.30-8.9) karmic; urgency=low
[ Andy Whitcroft ]
* Config update removed the following options: CONFIG_EDAC_AMD8111=m CONFIG_EDAC_AMD8131=m
[ Upstream Kernel Changes ]
* rebased to 2.6.30-rc8
-- Andy Whitcroft <email address hidden> Wed, 03 Jun 2009 09:21:13 +0100 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/karmic/+source/linux/2.6.30-8.9
Well, that was fast :)
dirtylobster said: Okay, so how do I install 2.6.30-3-lpia for my EeePC? It's not in the standard repos..
Yeah, strange it's not in the repos.
You can find it here https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/karmic/lpia/+search?text=linux-image
The lpia kernel is for a different "architecture". It won't install on your machine just like a package for i386 won't install on an amd64 machine.
Of course it isn't actually a different architecture it's just a way for them to compile all the packages specifically tuned for Atom processors.
Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 20:36:36 -0700 (PDT)
From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Linux 2.6.30
As mentioned last week, -rc8 was the last -rc, and there really isn't any point in delaying the real release any more.
I'm sure we've missed something, and I know we have some regressions pending. At the same time, we do need the coverage of a eral release, and on the whole it looks pretty good. We've fixed a few regressions in the last few days, and there's always 2.6.30.x.
The appended shortlog from 2.6.29-rc8 is not very interesting, but it's about as good as it gets. Not a lot of changes (just 72 non-merges, according to git rev-list), and most of those are pretty small and trivial. We're talking mostly one-liners, with just a couple of them standing out (in fact, just mainly the DPMS handling cleanup in drm_crtc_helper.c)
As to the whole set of changes since 2.6.29, the best place to look is probably just
http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_30
as usual. One thing that doesn't seem to be mentioned there is that we're hopefully now done with the suspend/resume irq re-architecting, and have switched to a new world order. Although I suspect lots of details will still change, of course.
And as usual, I'll wait a day or two before really opening the merge window. I want people to actually test this one rather than immediately sending me "please pull" requests. Deal?
Linus http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/6/9/710 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.30/