Everyone:
This morning I updated to the latest kernel. And promptly shut down and rebooted the immediate previous kernel, which is the Last Known Good.
Here's why:
1. The kernel, once again, is prone to an annoying flaw: it produces a Plague of Fives. Any time a text box opens up, a string of repeated digits 5 appears. The only way to shut it off is to type "5" again.
2. The computer became almost inaccessible to other computers on the network. File sharing slowed to a totally unacceptable crawl.
This last was a critical error. And of course it never occurred to me to suspect the kernel. That is, until I saw the Plague of Fives return.
/No/, kernel group! Do /not/ tell me I have a problem with a sticking 5 key. If that were the problem, then pressing Shift would change "55555555555..." to 5555555555%%%%%%..." It doesn't. More to the point, the Plague of Fives tended to go away with the next iteration of the kernel.
Well, I'm not going to wait that long. I'm not going to use this version of the kernel. I will wait for someone to push another one.
Because when I reverted to the Last Known Good, the Plague of Fives disappeared, and the network file-share problem resolved.
Temlakos
On Thu, 2015-09-24 at 15:27 -0400, Temlakos wrote:
Everyone:
This morning I updated to the latest kernel. And promptly shut down and rebooted the immediate previous kernel, which is the Last Known Good.
Calling things by cute names is fun and all, but for this kind of thing, a bug report with logs is a whole lot more useful. :)
On Qui, 2015-09-24 at 15:27 -0400, Temlakos wrote:
Everyone:
This morning I updated to the latest kernel. And promptly shut down and rebooted the immediate previous kernel, which is the Last Known Good.
what kernel ?
Here's why:
- The kernel, once again, is prone to an annoying flaw: it produces a
Plague of Fives. Any time a text box opens up, a string of repeated digits 5 appears. The only way to shut it off is to type "5" again.
- The computer became almost inaccessible to other computers on the
network. File sharing slowed to a totally unacceptable crawl.
This last was a critical error. And of course it never occurred to me to suspect the kernel. That is, until I saw the Plague of Fives return.
No, kernel group! Do not tell me I have a problem with a sticking 5 key. If that were the problem, then pressing Shift would change "55555555555..." to 5555555555%%%%%%..." It doesn't. More to the point, the Plague of Fives tended to go away with the next iteration of the kernel.
Well, I'm not going to wait that long. I'm not going to use this version of the kernel. I will wait for someone to push another one.
Because when I reverted to the Last Known Good, the Plague of Fives disappeared, and the network file-share problem resolved.
Temlakos
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On 09/24/2015 02:27 PM, Temlakos wrote:
Everyone:
- The kernel, once again, is prone to an annoying flaw: it produces a
Plague of Fives. Any time a text box opens up, a string of repeated digits 5 appears. The only way to shut it off is to type "5" again.
/No/, kernel group! Do /not/ tell me I have a problem with a sticking 5 key. If that were the problem, then pressing Shift would change "55555555555..." to 5555555555%%%%%%..." It doesn't. More to the point, the Plague of Fives tended to go away with the next iteration of the kernel.
Temlakos
Huh, and here I thought my "refurbished" Logitech Wave wireless keyboard wasn't fully refurbished. I had a weird problem with the 5 key a while ago - the only way to stop it was to hit "5" on the number row. No other key would stop it, and shift didn't change it. But it's gone now. I think.
On 09/28/2015 01:38 PM, Dan Mossor wrote:
On 09/24/2015 02:27 PM, Temlakos wrote:
Everyone:
- The kernel, once again, is prone to an annoying flaw: it produces a
Plague of Fives. Any time a text box opens up, a string of repeated digits 5 appears. The only way to shut it off is to type "5" again.
/No/, kernel group! Do /not/ tell me I have a problem with a sticking 5 key. If that were the problem, then pressing Shift would change "55555555555..." to 5555555555%%%%%%..." It doesn't. More to the point, the Plague of Fives tended to go away with the next iteration of the kernel.
Temlakos
Huh, and here I thought my "refurbished" Logitech Wave wireless keyboard wasn't fully refurbished. I had a weird problem with the 5 key a while ago - the only way to stop it was to hit "5" on the number row. No other key would stop it, and shift didn't change it. But it's gone now. I think.
The Plague of Fives came back with the latest kernel push. Which is one reason I rebooted to the last known good kernel. That stopped the Plague of Fives, and also resolved an issue with some very slow file transfer across my private network.
Temlakos
On 09/28/2015 11:03 AM, Temlakos wrote:
On 09/28/2015 01:38 PM, Dan Mossor wrote:
On 09/24/2015 02:27 PM, Temlakos wrote:
Everyone:
- The kernel, once again, is prone to an annoying flaw: it produces a
Plague of Fives. Any time a text box opens up, a string of repeated digits 5 appears. The only way to shut it off is to type "5" again.
/No/, kernel group! Do /not/ tell me I have a problem with a sticking 5 key. If that were the problem, then pressing Shift would change "55555555555..." to 5555555555%%%%%%..." It doesn't. More to the point, the Plague of Fives tended to go away with the next iteration of the kernel.
Temlakos
Huh, and here I thought my "refurbished" Logitech Wave wireless keyboard wasn't fully refurbished. I had a weird problem with the 5 key a while ago - the only way to stop it was to hit "5" on the number row. No other key would stop it, and shift didn't change it. But it's gone now. I think.
The Plague of Fives came back with the latest kernel push. Which is one reason I rebooted to the last known good kernel. That stopped the Plague of Fives, and also resolved an issue with some very slow file transfer across my private network.
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