…give us our daily Kernel recompile.
It has been one hell of a day! At least informatically speaking.
The baby has arrived as planned when I was in Maldives last week: it’s new, it’s shiny, it’s amazing and it already has a name (Belial). I’ve always been fascinated by that character from Angel Sanctuary, and it was about time to gift him (her?) by giving his (her? :p) name to one of my geeky toy (as you all by now know, I name everything: PCs, iPod, mobile phone, digital camera…).
Anyway, I was speaking about recompiling the Linux kernel.
Well, it all started this morning with a weird feeling powering up my Haldir, probably was because he was sensing the vicinity of the new Thinkpad, but was behaving not completely like he usually does. There was something wrong, and while I still don’t know how or when it happens, something had gone messy with the ACPI daemon. Finding the problem was easy: /proc/acpi had disappeared somehow, and /etc/rc.d/rc.acpid was indeed failing in launching the daemon. After a little of looking around (commonly called: debugging) I was still unable to load the proper module, and so I promptly pointed my browser to kernel.org and I then took my chance to finally play a little with the new (by my point of view) 2.6.x series kernel.
Both my machines are were running a 2.4.29 version, without any problems since quite some months ago and I didn’t plan to change this, looking mainly at the fact that I’m planning to switch distro to debian for these two as much as I’m planning to install it on the Thinkpad, but the mood was right and the occasion was just there: so why not taking it and play a little?
I end up recompiling the 2.6.17.11 kernel (the last -stable) about 4 or 5 times on Haldir and I believe the fun it’s not over yet. We need to optimize!
It’s just like with Pringles: “Once you POP, the fun doesn’t stop!“. Switching to a newer version of the Kernel made a strong wish of “new things” to grow in me. The Thinkpad is going to be the biggest part of the experience (I’m really looking forward to configuring it ^_^) but I think I’ll have fun playing with my old Haldir and Apophis too!
It’s a luck I’ve 3 more full days OFF at home, before leaving for La Havana (Cuba).
