Tony van der Hoff wrote: > On 28 Feb at 14:52 Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>[snip] >> In your case, I would go with either Debian Stable or Ubuntu. Why Debian >> Stable? Because Debian stable is very reliable, stable and never crashes. > > Oh, yes it does :( >
Ok. May be I should have said Debian stable is very reliable, stable and never crashes on my hardware. > As a recent convert from Mandriva, I was disappointed to find that it > crashed every Sunday morning; nothing in any log file. > > Turns out to be bug #327355, unresolved for 2.5 years, in ide-tape, which > was being called from Amanda after doing the weekly backup. Sorry about that. I have looked at the bug but can't help you much as I can neither run that kernel (mine is a Pentium processor) nor do I own any IDE tapes. > Moving to ide-scsi (which is deprecated and not available in the > stock kernel) overcomes the problem. No one has mentioned in the bug log of #327355. Why don't you add it there so that others experiencing that problem will at least have a work around. > I've raised a new bug report (467291), but no > response yet. You opened it on just couple of days ago. I think you need to give the maintainers more time than that. > > Whilst I like Debian, I'm surprised that the maintainers can let this > situation prevail. But I guess it's a kernel bug, not specific to Debian. Right! Upstream bugs are always painful. We should ask the upstream to fix it rather than making Debian the scapegoat. raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/ http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
