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Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2006 02:08:09 +0200 From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org> To: artusemrys@...global.net Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, torvalds@...l.org, stable@...nel.org Subject: Re: [stable] Linux 2.6.17.5 Hi Matthew, > >>> We (the -stable team) are announcing the release of the 2.6.17.5 kernel. > >> Oops, please note that we now have some reports that this patch breaks > >> some versions of HAL. So if you're relying on HAL, you might not want > >> to use this fix just yet (please evaluate the risks of doing this on > >> your own.) > > > > Hm, HAL 0.5.7 seems to work fine for me. Anyone else seeing any > > problems with this version? Older versions? > > > > I'm running 0.5.7 and also see no problems. > > FTR, I'm invoking > > /usr/sbin/hald --daemon=yes --verbose=yes --use-syslog > > and /var/log/messages looks no different than usual (last under 2.6.17.3). before this got spread around wrong. What I saw was an error window when logging into Gnome. It said "failed to initialize HAL!". In fact it seems that this is not a HAL error, it is an error of an application using HAL and I suspect it was NetworkManager. However with 2.6.17.6 or 2.6.18-rc2 this is no problem anymore. Regards Marcel - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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