The most recent kernel: Plague of Fives, and fatally inefficient networking

[Rick Stevens]

On 09/24/2015 10:35 AM, Temlakos wrote:
> Everyone:
>
> This morning I updated to the latest kernel. And promptly shut down and
> rebooted the immediate previous kernel, which is the Last Known Good.
>
> Here's why:
>
> 1. The kernel, once again, is prone to an annoying flaw: it produces a
> Plague of Fives. Any time a text box opens up, a string of repeated
> digits 5 appears. The only way to shut it off is to type "5" again.
>
> 2. The computer became almost inaccessible to other computers on the
> network. File sharing slowed to a totally unacceptable crawl.
>
> This last was a critical error. And of course it never occurred to me to
> suspect the kernel. That is, until I saw the Plague of Fives return.
>
> /No/, kernel group! Do /not/ tell me I have a problem with a sticking 5
> key. If that were the problem, then pressing Shift would change
> "55555555555..." to 5555555555%%%%%%..." It doesn't. More to the point,
> the Plague of Fives tended to go away with the next iteration of the kernel.
>
> Well, I'm not going to wait that long. I'm not going to use this version
> of the kernel. I will wait for someone to push another one.
>
> Because when I reverted to the Last Known Good, the Plague of Fives
> disappeared, and the network file-share problem resolved.

Please report this to the test list as well as filing a bug.
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