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Thomas H. George

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Feb 3, 2010, 7:00:02 PM2/3/10
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I find I now have vmlinuz-2.6.32-trunk-amd64 in my boot directory.
Added, I guess, as part of a recent dist-upgrade though I didn't notice it
(careless) in the list of new items to be installed.

grub has added this kernel image to the top of the boot list but trying
to boot with it ends in kernel panic, can't find root directory. This
is not catastrophic as the system still boots and functions perfectly
with vzlimuz-2.6.30-2-amd64.

I assume this will be corrected in due course but I am curious, what is
the significance of the trunk designation?


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Tim Tebbit

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Feb 3, 2010, 7:30:02 PM2/3/10
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Thomas H. George wrote:
> I find I now have vmlinuz-2.6.32-trunk-amd64 in my boot directory.
---8<---

> I assume this will be corrected in due course but I am curious, what is
> the significance of the trunk designation?

I wondered that as well. It's been sitting in Sid for weeks now like that.

Alex Samad

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Feb 4, 2010, 3:20:02 PM2/4/10
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On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 05:52:49PM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote:
> I find I now have vmlinuz-2.6.32-trunk-amd64 in my boot directory.
> Added, I guess, as part of a recent dist-upgrade though I didn't notice it
> (careless) in the list of new items to be installed.
>
> grub has added this kernel image to the top of the boot list but trying
> to boot with it ends in kernel panic, can't find root directory. This
I had a similiar problem when upgrading to 2.6.32-6, what I did to fix
it was rebuild the initrd - some reason grub or mkinitrd had failed when
doing it during the linux-image install


> is not catastrophic as the system still boots and functions perfectly
> with vzlimuz-2.6.30-2-amd64.
>
> I assume this will be corrected in due course but I am curious, what is
> the significance of the trunk designation?
>
>

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Florian Ernst

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Feb 12, 2010, 11:10:03 AM2/12/10
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Hello all,

On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 07:20:29PM -0500, Tim Tebbit wrote:
> Thomas H. George wrote:
> > I find I now have vmlinuz-2.6.32-trunk-amd64 in my boot directory.
> ---8<---
> > I assume this will be corrected in due course but I am curious, what is
> > the significance of the trunk designation?
>
> I wondered that as well. It's been sitting in Sid for weeks now like that.

FWIW, "trunk" has no stable ABI yet. However, in the last uploads the
kernel ABI had been set and thus the most recent image is 2.6.32-2, see
<http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/l/linux-2.6/current/changelog>.

HTH,
Flo

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