Re: [hants] 2.5.0 kernel available - DO NOT USE!!

From: Jonathan R. Hudson (jonathan@daria.co.uk)
Date: Sun Nov 25 2001 - 13:48:13 EST


In article <3C0138EF.8675BED@aug24.co.uk>,
        E Justin M Rowles <justin@aug24.co.uk> writes:
EJMR> Gareth Owen wrote:
>>
>> YOU SHOULD NOT USE 2.5.0 or 2.4.15 AS THEY HAVE A SERIOUS FILESYSTEM
>> CORRUPTION BUG, try 2.4.16pre1, but no guarantees.
EJMR>
EJMR> Right, thanks for that. I have now rebooted to my old 2.4.1 kernel.
EJMR>
EJMR> I dled the whole 2.4.15 tarball cos I hadn't upgraded for ages (I wanted
EJMR> the new VM manager). Can anyone make and mail me a diff to take 2.4.15
EJMR> back to 2.4.14? Offer onlist please, so I don't get multiples!
EJMR>
EJMR> Alternatively, does anyone know how to reverse apply the 2.4.15 patch?
EJMR> patch -R looks hopeful, but I'm not convinced.
EJMR>

Just get the 2.14.16-pre1 patch (or apply the attached to 2.4.15)

 cd /usr/src/linux
 patch -p1 <2415.fs.patch

Next time you want to apply an official patch, remove it again:

 patch -p1 -R <2415.fs.patch



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