[TriLUG] Reporting Linux Kernel Issues

[Matt Pusateri]

Does this help? http://kernelnewbies.org/FoundBug  I'm sure you can also report it to the distro that your kernel is from, via their regular bug reporting methods.


On Dec 14, 2011, at 6:09 PM, Tarus Balog wrote:

> Gang:
> 
> Off and on for several weeks now I've been beating my head against a wall trying to get my Macbook Air to dual boot Linux. None of the distros I tried would even recognize the hard drive.
> 
> Well, I figured out today that it appears to be a Linux 3.1 kernel issue. I installed squeeze, which worked, and then did a dist-upgrade to wheezy, which didn't. 
> 
> During the initial boot, I'd get an error like this:
> 
> ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 Sact 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen
> ata1.00: failed command: IDENTIFY DEVICE
> 
> However, since I was also able to boot to a 2.6 kernel, I found that it worked. I had never been able to see the error before because I could never even get Linux on the machine.
> 
> Since it boots under 2.6 and not 3.0, I am assuming that something has changed in the kernel and I'd like to be a good citizen and report it.
> 
> Note that the hard drive was a 256GB SSD purchased from Other World Computing and was not stock. The stock SSD appears to work fine, and the OWC drive works fine under OS X.
> 
> I just don't know where to send the bug report.
> 
> -T
> _______________________________________________________________________
> Tarus BALOG, OpenNMS Maintainer             Main:   +1 919 533 0160
> The OpenNMS Group, Inc.                     Fax:    +1 773 345 3645
> Email: tarus at opennms.org                    URL: http://www.opennms.org
> PGP Key Fingerprint: 8945 8521 9771 FEC9 5481  512B FECA 11D2 FD82 B45C
> 
> 
> -- 
> This message was sent to: M. Pusateri <mpusateri at wickedtrails.com>
> To unsubscribe, send a blank message to trilug-leave at trilug.org from that address.
> TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug
> Unsubscribe or edit options on the web	: http://www.trilug.org/mailman/options/trilug/mpusateri%40wickedtrails.com
> TriLUG FAQ          : http://www.trilug.org/wiki/Frequently_Asked_Questions