[elrepo-devel] ctxfi now in alsa-1.0.21

[Phil Perry]

Phil Perry wrote:
> Alan Bartlett wrote:
>> On 09/09/2009, Phil Perry <phil at elrepo.org> wrote:
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>>>  I'll rebuild and get these
>>>  packages uploaded for testing later today. I'd appreciate if as many
>>>  people as possible could briefly test this package even if sound is
>>>  currently working fine - just a quick test that sound continues to work
>>>  as expected should suffice. I can test both x86_64 and i686 packages,
>>>  but both boxes are hda-intel.
> 
> Packages are now uploaded to elrepo-testing, so everyone please test 
> them over the next few days. They've just finished building so I've not 
> had a chance to test them yet.
> 

I got a kernel panic testing kmod-alsa-1.0.21.2.el5.elrepo.i686 on an 
x86 laptop. The system wouldn't boot, any kernel, so keep that in mind 
when testing. Booting from a rescue CD and deleting the override conf 
file /etc/depmod.d/alsa.conf should allow any kernel other than -164.el5 
to boot then just uninstall the package.

Googling did hint at kernel panics with alsa 1.0.21 and RHEL 5 so I 
wonder if this is a wider issue?

If someone else can confirm the kernel panic, maybe on x86_64, then 
perhaps we can go back to the drawing board and see if a simple source 
install causes the same issues so as to eliminate our packaging 
procedure as the cause.

I'll leave these packages in testing for the moment, but treat with 
caution and be prepared to rescue the system from alternative boot media 
if needed.