On 10 Dec 2023, at 02:37, Andy Smith via BitFolk Users <users(a)mailman.bitfolk.com>
wrote:
A bug sneaked into the upstream Linux kernel and was
included in the
latest Debian stable kernel release. As the point release to Debian
12.3 happened yesterday, if you upgrade to that kernel and boot into it
you will be exposed to a data corruption bug in ext4.
So do not install linux-image-6.1.0-14-amd64 version 6.1.64-1. Wait
for 6.1.66-1 which contains the fix.
Too late for me, unfortunately. I usually wait when a new kernel is released but didn’t
this time, given it was part of the update to 12.3. However, as soon as I saw a warning
(about 30 minutes later) I rebooted into the previous kernel and set it to the default.
For anybody else in the same position (and with the default Debian 12 grub settings) you
can do this by editing /etc/default/grub and setting
GRUB_DEFAULT=“1>Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 6.1.0-13-amd64”
and running
update-grub
This assumes that your kernel was up to date prior to installing the 12.3 update. If not,
you’ll have to find the latest one installed. If not, you can find the latest installed
with
grep “menuentry “ /boot/grub/grub,cfg
This has worked for me and there will probably be an easier way of reverting, but this is
what I’ve done in the past when a new kernel has had an issue.
Regards,
Mike