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xeno74 wrote: Sun Apr 13, 2025 1:08 pm I was able to boot the kernel 6.12.22 with ubuntu MATE 16.04.7 on my X1000 today. No problems so far.

I think I've found the problem and this may explain the intermittent fails. A related clue is all my volumes tested except Debian are using ramdisk. I checked my 6.12 ramdisk and it's stale. A month out of date. While that's not too long ago it should match to when I installed the kernel. So I'll regenerate it and see if that's the issue.

Hi All,

Linus Torvalds has released the RC2 of kernel 6.15 for testing.

I have compiled it for our machines.

Download and further information: github.com



Please test the kernels.

Thanks,
Christian

Looks like my suspicions were correct. I rebuilt the 6.12.22 ramdisk and retested. All my Ubuntu systems and Fienix then booted fine.

6.15 RC2 installed and now ready for testing...

Hypex wrote: Tue Apr 15, 2025 6:12 am Looks like my suspicions were correct. I rebuilt the 6.12.22 ramdisk and retested. All my Ubuntu systems and Fienix then booted fine.

6.15 RC2 installed and now ready for testing...

Maybe it was the change to ABIv2. Thanks a lot for reporting and testing.

xeno74 wrote: Tue Apr 15, 2025 8:09 pm Maybe it was the change to ABIv2. Thanks a lot for reporting and testing.

You could be right there. I didn't think of that as when I discovered the ABI issue on Debian it crashed. Or, actually, the ABI2 kernels solved the crashing on Debian. I checked the ramdisk contents I had using ldd on the fsck binary and comparing with what fsck I had on system. I did see a difference with one needing libpcre3 and the other didn't. But thought all libs needed would be inside ramdisk. What's strange is I kept getting the message on Precise even though Precise has libpcre3 installed.

In any case I've now tested 6.15 RC2 and all systems booted. I had an issue with Bionic as it loaded the login screen, instead of logging me in, and nothing happened after I logged in. I'll boot it again and check logs. Debian had lots of updates last night including some AMD firmware. I don't know if it will fix my issues but suspect not many people are testing Debian with an R7 250 either. I'm not aware of the best card a G5 tower can take which would be the most common machine it would be tested on I expect.

Hypex wrote: Wed Apr 16, 2025 7:07 am In any case I've now tested 6.15 RC2 and all systems booted.

Great! Thanks a lot for testing the RC2.

Hi All,

I successfully tested the RC2 of kernel 6.15 with Void PPC on my X5000/40 today.



Please test the RC2.

Thanks,
Christian

New for the RC3:

• Linux 6.15-rc3 Released With GCC 15 Build Fixes, Intel Bartlett Lake & Zen 5 Check -- phoronix.com
• 6.15-rc3 release announcement
• HFS/HFS+ File-System Driver Support For Linux May End Up Being Maintained -- phoronix.com
• hfs{plus}: add deprecation warning
• Revert "hfs{plus}: add deprecation warning"
• ISOfs fix
• BTRFS fixes
• XFS fixes
• NVMe fixes
• ATA fix
• SCSI fixes
• Sound fixes
• Networking fixes
• PCI fix
• DRM fixes
• NFSd fixes
• Linux Git log
• Phoronix articles, reviews and news stories covering Linux 6.15

Hi All,

I released the RC3 of kernel 6.15 today.

Download and further information: github.com



Please test the kernels.

Thanks,
Christian

Hi
Debian 64 trixie/sid running with vmlinux-6.15_rc3