Debian sarge kernel update

Jim Popovitch · External Since: May 19, 2007 Posts: 9

Any one else seeing an (as of now) unannounced Debian Sarge kernel
update? I haven't seen anything mentioned publicly yet, but I have a
system saying it came out (on a mirror) about an hour ago.

Package: kernel-image-2.6-686-smp
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: base
Installed-Size: 32
Maintainer: Debian kernel team
Architecture: i386
Source: kernel-latest-2.6-i386
Version: 101sarge1
Depends: kernel-image-2.6.8-3-686-smp
Description: Linux kernel image for version 2.6 on
PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/P4 SMP.
This package will always depend on the latest 2.6 kernel image
available
for Pentium Pro/Celeron/Pentium II/Pentium III/Pentium 4 with SMP
support.
SMP (symmetric multi-processing) is needed if you have multiple
processors.

Any ideas on what this if for?

-Jim P.

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Phil Dyer · External Since: Jan 12, 2006 Posts: 6

Jim Popovitch wrote:
> Any one else seeing an (as of now) unannounced Debian Sarge kernel
> update? I haven't seen anything mentioned publicly yet, but I have a
> system saying it came out (on a mirror) about an hour ago.

[snip]
>
> Any ideas on what this if for?

I see some possible things over on security focus. entropy weakness,
local DoS, etc.

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24390

phil

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Julian De Marchi · External Since: Apr 11, 2007 Posts: 5

Hi all,

My Raid 5 fell over. Sad

Have been trying to recover it with no luck.
Here is my setup and what i have done.

Linux, software raid5. Seven SATA drives in the array (the 8th drive
was supposed to be a hot-spare, but it didn't get properly initialized
into the array). Had one drive fail, and was rebuilding after a power
reset. Had a second drive dump while the first was still rebuilding.
After another reboot, mdadm tells me that the two 'failed' drives are
now spares, and it can't start the array with only 5 drives.

Best info I could find to begin recovery at this point is to use 'mdadm
--create --assume-clean' to rebuild the array and recreate the
superblocks. I've tried this on all 7 drives, plus I tried in degraded
mode cutting out one, then the other of the two bad drives. In every
case, /proc/mdstat claims the array is back online, but attempts to
mount the array give me a "group descriptors corrupted" error.

I'm not sure what else I can try without fear of completely mucking up
my chances of a data recovery. I've got about 900GB of data on the
array (most of which is just downloads though), and it would certainly
be nice to get it back up again.

Many thanks in advance,

Julian

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Keith Edmunds · External Since: Jun 13, 2007 Posts: 3

Hi Julian

> I'm not sure what else I can try without fear of completely mucking up
> my chances of a data recovery.

Build from scratch, restore from backup.

Also: start a new thread for a new question, and you may want to try a
more appropriate list - this one is 'debian-isp'; maybe 'debian-users'
would be better.

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Julian De Marchi · External Since: Apr 11, 2007 Posts: 5

Hey,

> Build from scratch, restore from backup.
>

Thanks for your advice, thats the way I have gone.

> Also: start a new thread for a new question, and you may want to try a
> more appropriate list - this one is 'debian-isp'; maybe 'debian-users'
> would be better.
>

I thought this list was appropriate as raids concerns the people that
monitor this list, more so then debian-users. But never the less, i
already have asked on that list as well. Smile

Julian

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Matus UHLAR - fantomas · External Since: Sep 08, 2006 Posts: 39

> >Also: start a new thread for a new question, and you may want to try a
> >more appropriate list - this one is 'debian-isp'; maybe 'debian-users'
> >would be better.

On 13.06.07 18:58, Julian De Marchi wrote:
> I thought this list was appropriate as raids concerns the people that
> monitor this list, more so then debian-users. But never the less, i
> already have asked on that list as well. Smile

I hope you didnt miss the "start a new thread for a new question" which
means you shouldn't reply onto existing post if you aren't really going to
reply to it. If you are posting new question, send new mail, not a reply to
other mail.
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