Package: kernel-image-2.6.8-1-686 Version: 2.6.8-3 Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system
I can only report this bug because I have three Debian Sid systems. A bug in something, I suspect the kernel package, just ate two of them. I was running fully updated Debian Sid systems on two laptops, one with Debian Sid kernel 2.6.7 and the other with Mepis kernel 2.6.5. I upgraded the first to Debian Sid kernel 2.6.8-1 and suffered extreme disk corruption to hda1 within a few hours. reiserfsck --rebuild-tree with Knoppix was unsuccessful. Thinking that I had suffered a hardware failure, I immediately switched over to my backup laptop. Stupidly, I decided to upgrade it to 2.6.8-1 too. The system died overnight, with reiserfs corruption. Using knoppix reiserfsck --rebuild-tree was somewhat successful. The system is bootable again under 2.6.5, but many system files are damaged, including the apt database. One symptom common to both failures (besides the reiserfs corruption on switching to 2.6.8-1) is that /etc/fstab file was destroyed. It is possible that some other package caused this corruption. I did an apt-get dist-upgrade at the same time as upgrading the OS. However, I am typing this on a third Debian Sid laptop which is also updated but running 2.6.7-1 and it seems fine. So, there is a very bad package on the loose somewhere. Searching debian-kernel, I found one other report of this, but no bugs files in BTS. So I'm doing my best to ensure this does not happen to others. If you find the offending package, please remove it from the repository because it is extremely deadly. Thanks and good luck. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.7-1-686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C Versions of packages kernel-image-2.6.8-1-686 depends on: ii coreutils [fileutils] 5.2.1-2 The GNU core utilities ii fileutils 5.2.1-2 The GNU file management utilities ii initrd-tools 0.1.74 tools to create initrd image for p ii module-init-tools 3.1-pre5-7 tools for managing Linux kernel mo -- no debconf information
