Why haven't my updates been pushed to testing?

Chuck Ebbert cebbert at redhat.com
Fri Feb 16 15:14:59 UTC 2007


Jon Ahlquist wrote:
> I have installed 2.6.19-1.2911.fc6 on several computers,
> and it works fine in general, but we have encountered one
> important problem that has forced us to roll back the kernel
> to the previous release on our most important computer that prepares
> weather forecast graphics several times each day for a Web site
> running on this computer (http://ahlquist.met.fsu.edu).
> 
> We have a cron job that runs a bash shell script which calls Perl
> scripts and other bash scripts every 15 minutes,
> checking whether new data files are available.  This script
> has been running fine for months.  It even runs fine with
> version 2.6.19-1.2911.fc6 of the kernel as long as it is run
> in a terminal window.  Unfortunately, the script locks up the whole
> computer near the end of its work when it is run as a cron job.
> It is not obvious what is different about what is happening
> at the lock-up time compared to ran fine a minute of two earlier.
> 
> When we rolled back the kernel to the previous version,
> everything works fine as it has for months under earlier
> version of Fedora Core.
> 
> Our Perl scripts process data files with two compiled
> Fortran programs, followed by a graphics utility to
> prepare graphs for the Web site.
> Is it possible that the new kernel has soemthing
> new involving SE Linux that is causing the lock-up?
> But, if it is an SE Linux issue, why would the application
> work fine when run in a terminal window but fail when run
> as a cron job?

Please file a bug report.

And be sure to include your hardware configuration
(output of lspci -v)




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