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  1. Bug #346691
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Comment 85 for bug 346691

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Daniel J Blueman (danielblueman) wrote : Re: jaunty kernel 2.6.28-11 kernel update renders the system un-usable.

This bug has been open for two months, and was fixed upstream some time ago, but not in Ubuntu.

As a consequence, 2.6.28-11-generic and 2.6.28-11-server - the production release media kernels deliver silent and show-stopping data corruption, to the extent that the kernel kills user processes accessing parts of the filesystem corrupted in a particular way. That's as "game over" as it can get, and damaging for Ubuntu's image.

On the upside, there are a bunch of related fixes upstream for if the Ubuntu kernel is rebased to a newer point release, and the patch posted two months ago [1], is also probably the fixer.

What else do we need?

[1] http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/ubuntu-jaunty.git;a=commit;h=b29e79bf557ce777878518da154f4a0becb1de0e