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You can go back to 5.4.25 from -current (update from Fri Mar 13 20:15:29) or wait till 5.4.27 is there and get that one then.
There must be a good reason why Pat is skipping 5.4.26, although it may not apply to your system, of course.
See the next post too!
Last edited by ehartman; 03-19-2020 at 02:05 PM.
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You can go back to 5.4.25 from -current (update from Fri Mar 13 20:15:29) or wait till 5.4.27 is there and get that one then.
There must be a good reason why Pat is skipping 5.4.26, although it may not apply to your system, of course.
Running 5.4.26 completely killed my icecream cluster - any calls to icecc would just hang. The browser also started complaining about unresponsive scripts running and wouldn't register any clicks. I haven't bisected it yet, but if 5.4.27 acts the same way then I will.
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Originally Posted by bassmadrigal
Crap, I wait months to upgrade my kernel and finally decide to do it yesterday and used the 5.4.26 kernel (went from the 5.3.12). Luckily, I haven't seen any issues with it :shrug:
I don't see any issues with 5.4.26 (or 5.5.10 in that matter).
My notebook hardware: MSI GT60, CPU i7-4750MQ, GPU nVidia GTX 770MX/intel Iris Pro Graphics 5200(sorry don't remember version), 2xSSD Samsung, 32GB RAM
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1) kernel customized for the hardware (removed all I don't need).
2) I don't use icecream cluster
Running 5.4.26 completely killed my icecream cluster - any calls to icecc would just hang. The browser also started complaining about unresponsive scripts running and wouldn't register any clicks. I haven't bisected it yet, but if 5.4.27 acts the same way then I will.
I had a sneaking suspicion that skipping the .26 patchlevel was due to a serious matter - I definitely would also have been adversely affected by this issue, as I have an icecream cluster myself. I will keep a close eye on this and if necessary, stick with .25 until this has been ironed out.
I don't run an icecream cluster, so maybe it only affects that. If I run into any problems I'll either downgrade to 5.4.25 or upgrade to a later one if that is problem free.
What's going on with the stable patches getting RCs all of a sudden? Not that it's unwelcome: historically, quality control hasn't been that good with the stable branch. If it becomes a regular thing, this might well be a big improvement.
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It is a change of labeling, more than anything else.
Up to very recently, new releases were labeled, e.g., "5.4.27-stable review" and the first pass was always rc-1, but not noted as such. If additional release candidates were needed they were labeled, e.g., 5.4.27-rc2, and so on.
Sometime during this last week, for reasons unknown, the label became, e.g., "5.4.27-rc1 review," and so on.....
*For those who are not English speakers, e.g., means, for example.
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Year 2020, Round 20
Another batch of kernel updates has been scheduled for release on Thursday, 26 March 2020, at approximately 13:00, GMT.
If no problems are found while testing the release candidates, they might be available sometime late Wednesday or early Thursday (depending on your time zone).
There will be 119 patches in the 5.5.12 update, 102 in 5.4.28 and 65 in the 4.19.113 update.
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