June 5, 2011 · 6:30 pm
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My first Linux 3.0 bug?

I discovered that parted fails to run if the Linux kernel
version is 3.0, because parted is expecting the utsname
release string to contain 3 numbers (like 2.6.39).

Linux version 3.0-0.rc1.git0.2.fc16.x86_64 (mockbuild@x86-03.phx2.fedoraproject.org) (gcc version 4.6.0 20110530 (Red Hat 4.6.0-9) (GCC) ) #1 SMP Fri Jun 3 12:47:56 UTC 2011
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6 Responses to My first Linux 3.0 bug?

  1. Tomasz
    June 5, 2011 at 7:06 pm

    LVM2 was bitten by the same bug recently.

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  2. Luke Sheldrick
    June 5, 2011 at 7:24 pm

    Just bad coding in the first place, shouldn’t really expect version numbers will follow 2.x

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    • rich
      June 5, 2011 at 7:27 pm

      Everyone makes mistakes. It’s tricky to imagine an automated test which would have detected this sort of error before.

      Reply
  4. pankaj86
    June 6, 2011 at 4:09 am

    i hears something about Linus naming it 3.0.0 exactly for the same reason, is it not the case. My guess is this will bring on bugs in lots of programs

    Reply

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