I'm on an iMac CRT (rev.D, 333MHz). Today's CUPS upgrade in Sarge manages to kill kernels upon loading:
On 2.6.1, it results in a hang during boot. It eventually gets over it, but complains that "irda_setup timed out on 1st byte" which means that it's trying to access a port that isn't physically available on this iMac configuration. On 2.6.3, I don't even get to see the above error message. Instead, the kernel just freezes dead; the only cure is to disconnect the power cord from the Mac and reboot. I have two questions: 1) Why do I get this timeout on IrDA port, even though this hardware has none? 2) How could trying to access the port manage to crash 2.6.3? -- Martin-Éric Racine, ICT Consultant http://www.pp.fishpool.fi/~q-funk/
