Comment 4 for bug 60433

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Ben Collins (ben-collins) wrote :

Here's the quick and dirty: The last security update included on symbol change, boot_cpu_data, that should have caused an ABI bump. After inspection, it seemed that this symbol affected no modules. However, I failed to check the nvidia module.

The bad part is that the ABI check was disabled, since this one symbol only seems to affect i386 and amd64, and didn't seem to affect any modules.

This was a mistake, and I am rectifying this by uploading a new linux-restricted-modules-2.6.15 rebuild against the new kernel. Long term resolution will be in the next security update which will bump the ABI properly.

Regrets to anyone affected by this issue. Expect a new l-r-m package within 24 hours.