Re: A Bug in 3.9.8

[Richard Corbin]

Many Thanks and my apologies.


Richard Corbin
25532 Southwind Rd.
Warrenton, MO 63383
racorbin2010@xxxxxxxxxxx



-------- Original Message --------
*Subject:* 	Re: A Bug in 3.9.8
*Date:* 	Sun 06/30/2013 at 11:11 AM
*From:* 	Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
*To: * 	Richard Corbin <racorbin2010@xxxxxxxxxxx>
*CC: * 	stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

> On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 04:52:47PM -0500, Richard Corbin wrote:
> > Folks:
> >
> > I sent the indented text to gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
> > inappropriately as I suspected. I got a polite automated response
> > suggesting alternate destinations for my email. To my non-technical
> > eyes, your addresses seemed most appropriate.
> >
> >      "Mr. Kroah-Hartman,
> >
> >      "Excuse me for bothering you, but I do not know where to report
> > my problem and I found your name in
> > http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.9.8-saucy/BUILD.LOG.
> My name is there because it's the first commit, for some strange reason
> the Ubuntu build logs this, but I have nothing to do with their kernel
> builds.
>
> >      "I am running Linux Mint KDE v15, but I like to run the latest
> > kernel. I have never had a problem before installing the latest
> > "general release" kernel from
> > http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/ until yesterday.
> >
> >      "After I installed v3.9.8-saucy, the system could no longer
> > "read" cpu usage of my quad-core Intel  q6600. Conky, "top", "mpstat
> > -P ALL" all show ZERO CPU usage. Everything else is fine; it is just
> > the reporting that is busted.
> >
> >      "If you are the wrong person and cannot forward to correct
> > destination, then I am sorry for wasting your time."
> >
> > I neglected to write that when I rebooted the identical system using
> > v3.9.7-saucy as the kernel, the CPU usage for each core was
> > registering non-zero values when appropriate as usual.
> As this is a Ubuntu-specific kernel, I suggest filing a bug in the
> Ubuntu bug tracking tool to help resolve this, ther's not much we in the
> community can do about this, sorry.
>
> best of luck,
>
> greg k-h

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