Re: F-10 kernel upgrade

[Denis Leroy <denis poolshark org>]

Orion Poplawski wrote:
> Denis Leroy wrote:
> > I'm seeing a lot of regressions with the 2.6.29 update to F-10 here. 
> > GDM doesn't always log me in (it hangs after the password is entered, 
> > 'top' doesn't show any stuck process), and when it did I had Xorg eat 
> > 100% CPU with little useful info in the log files.
> >
> > What is the reasoning for pushing a 2.6.29 kernel to Fedora 10 (a 
> > stable release about half-way its lifetime) ? Was there something 
> > fundamentally wrong with the 2.6.27.x kernel ? Why introduce some much 
> > instability ?
>
> Works well here and fixes a number of intel graphics driver issues for me.

Well just my luck, it seems I'm the only one suffering :-( Looks like a 
memory corruption either in gdm-session-worker or in the pam library.

Filed:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=496293