On Friday 06 August 2004 02:21 pm, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Friday 06 August 2004 11:00, Peter M. Abraham wrote: > > Greetings Jesse: > > > > From Progeny: > > > > "The most recent kernel security advisory > > (TSSA-2004:6552-01) contains a bug that may cause some customers > > machines appear to hang during the boot process while trying to load > > the loopback device or experience problems using netstat. While we > > have a very thorough QA process, especially for something as > > important as the kernel, sometimes a bug will slip through. We have > > been working with the customers who have this problem to replicate it > > on our own machines and hope to have a fix shortly." > > > > Thank you. > > Very interesting. I wonder what they did to introduce that. Has > anybody tested our kernel in updates-testing to see if ours has the > same problem? I have zero problems with netstat on the latest test kernel, and haven't seen any lockups on boot. It sounds like a pretty strange issue...maybe they've updated a dodgy network card driver somewhere along the line. - Si -- Simon Weller LPIC-2, BCIP Systems Engineer NZServers LTD http://www.nzservers.com/ U.S. Branch <- To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your Windows box, you just need to work on it. - Scott Granneman, Security Focus -> -- fedora-legacy-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legacy-list
