[sllug-members]: Potential Suse 10.2 Bug in browsing

[Stuart Jansen]

On Fri, 2006-12-29 at 17:36 -0700, Allen Parker wrote:
> As a side note, I wouldn't blame SuSE's kernel or latest release, I
> know they've got a LOT of QA they do before they do RTM (release to
> market).

That isn't very good reasoning. If you've been paying attention to LKML
then you know that a really nasty corner case file corrupt bug was
recently discovered and hopefully squashed. Linus did some digging and
the problem's been around since at least 2.6.5. On a similar note, one
of my co-workers discovered several LVM snapshots are broken on stock
SLES10. One would expect an important technology like LVM to be part of
the RTM process, yet these problems slipped by.

When you're debugging a problem, don't throw away possibilities based on
blind faith. Prioritize, test and verify.

That said, a kernel bug wouldn't be the first thing I'd investigate. I'd
suspect a misconfigured network first. Maybe the box is misconfigured,
maybe a router is misconfigured, maybe an overzealous firewall is
getting in the way. It could be obvious like routing, or it could be
subtle like filtered ICMP. 

Or it could be the kernel. Maybe a perfectly valid setting like TCP
cookies has been enabled without fully understanding the disadvantages.

-- 
Stuart Jansen              e-mail/jabber: sjansen at buscaluz.org
                           google talk:   stuart.jansen at gmail.com

"However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at 
the results." -- Winston Churchill
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