Hiya

I am being bitten by this bug, which kills my USB HD stick, PCTV 290e, randomly every couple of days.
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72891

Is there any chance of a new kernel coming out soon? Is it possible just to get the fixed ehci driver?

I am missing my HD programs.

cheers

Paul

Kernel 3.18.2 is in -testing but you should probably update everything to testing if you want to try it. However, from that link it doesn't look like that patch has made it into a release kernel yet.

That said, you can compile it yourself using the provided PKGBUILD and associated files.

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I was experiencing USB issues as well, I am glad to know the hardware is still good.

This bug in the iso_stream_schedule was just patched in the mainline Kernel Linux 3.19-rc5

https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/1/18/32

OK looks like patch is in now.

For the short term I will keep on rebooting daily and wait for it to get out of rc and then work on getting the new kernel sorted.

I haven't rebuilt a kernel before so there will be a bit of a learning curve. (But a nice project for these winter nights.

Thanks for all your replies

Paul

I would recommend that you open up a Linhes Issue

http://linhes.org/projects/linhes/issues/new

That will help the devs account for the bug

Issue opened: http://linhes.org/issues/987

Looks like the patch for this made it into 3.18.4. I built and pushed it to testing yesterday.

Hiya

Thats great that it is there now.

Can I just upgrade the kernel from testing or should I do the a full upgrade?

Are there any other issues with testing at the moment?

cheers and thanks for all the great work!

Paul

I am running testing on 3 production boxes right now and have found it to be very stable at the moment.

I wouldn't recommend just upgrading the kernel and you probably can't only upgrade the kernel due to other deps.

The only thing I have seen in upgrading is fontconfig has some file conflicts. So do something like:
Change /etc/pacman.conf to core and extra to core-testing and extra-testing
sudo pacman -Syy
sudo pacman -S fontconfig
remove the file conflicts it reports
sudo pacman -Syu

FYI

Just changed over to R8.3 test seems fine but the Firefly Remote is broken again....

Just pushed an update to lirc that will hopefully fix that.

Also, in the future, please start a new topic for unrelated issues.

Hiya

I have updated form testing, and recorded 5 HD programs without a problem! Thanks very much.

had a problem with x not starting but reinstalled Nvidia module and all sorted.

again: Thanks very much for the quick response

Paul

In testing there are some changes to the nvidia drivers so I would like to understand why you had to do this manually. What nvidia card do you have? What does pacman -Ss nvidia show you now? When you reinstalled the nvidia driver did you use xconfig.sh or manually with pacman?

Thanks for trying out testing.