Re: systemd network interface configuration (was "Re: systemd woes continue")

2019-09-19 Thread Bob Tracy
On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 09:10:20AM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > (...) > So, can you please type "ip a" and check what device name is actually assigned > to your wired card and if it differs from "eth0", adjust your /etc/network/ > interfaces file? > > If your wired card is actually

Re: systemd network interface configuration (was "Re: systemd woes continue")

2019-09-19 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Bob! On 9/19/19 7:09 AM, Bob Tracy wrote: On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 11:46:06AM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Your permanent bashing of systemd makes answering your mails stressful for me. Adrian -- please accept my apology for my rantings... They contribute nothing to the

systemd network interface configuration (was "Re: systemd woes continue")

2019-09-18 Thread Bob Tracy
On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 11:46:06AM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Your permanent bashing of systemd makes answering your mails stressful > for me. Adrian -- please accept my apology for my rantings... They contribute nothing to the conversation, and as you note, irritate the very

Re: systemd woes continue

2019-09-18 Thread Michael Cree
On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 11:46:06AM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > is just annoying. Please let's have a more constructive discussion, after > all, the previous issues on alpha were not caused by systemd either but > a bug in glibc for alpha. I would not be so quick to blame glibc. (If

Re: systemd woes continue

2019-09-18 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Bob! On 9/18/19 1:48 AM, Bob Tracy wrote: It appears that all the configuration info in "/etc/network/interfaces" for my "eth0" interface was completely ignored other than the IPv4 address. No IPv6 address, no "dns-*" config items, etc. Thanks, systemd! Not :-(. I blame "systemd",

Re: systemd woes continue

2019-09-17 Thread Bob Tracy
On Mon, Sep 16, 2019 at 09:38:55PM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: > I say "almost clean", because a recent update managed to break my > resolver configuration: "/etc/resolv.conf" came up completely empty, in > spite of "/etc/network/interfaces" having the requisite > "dns-nameservers" and "dns-search"

RE: systemd woes continue

2019-09-17 Thread Skye
Cc: debian-alpha@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: systemd woes continue Hi Bob! On 9/17/19 4:38 AM, Bob Tracy wrote: > Verified. Life is now better, if not good :-). This is the first time > I've been able to accomplish an "almost clean" boot of my Alpha in MANY > mon

Re: systemd woes continue

2019-09-17 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Bob! On 9/17/19 4:38 AM, Bob Tracy wrote: Verified. Life is now better, if not good :-). This is the first time I've been able to accomplish an "almost clean" boot of my Alpha in MANY months. Great. Thanks for confirming. I say "almost clean", because a recent update managed to break

Re: systemd woes continue

2019-09-16 Thread Bob Tracy
On Mon, Sep 09, 2019 at 10:49:25PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > > ... > > > > You are in emergency mode. After logging in, type "journalctl -xb" to view > > system logs, "systemctl reboot" to reboot, "systemctl default" or "exit" > > to boot into default mode. > > Give root password for

Re: systemd woes continue

2019-09-09 Thread Aurelien Jarno
On 2019-09-01 21:12, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > On 2019-07-17 20:36, Michael Cree wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 09:54:40PM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: > > > First, "systemd" still cannot handle systems with persistent filesystems > > > other than "/" and "/usr". As far as I know, the bug report I

Re: systemd woes continue

2019-09-02 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi! On 9/1/19 9:12 PM, Aurelien Jarno wrote: >> The bug I see on my XP1000 with systemd is that it fails to mount >> the filesystems in /etc/fstab and so stops in emergency mode; one >> can enter the root password, issue "mount -a" and "swapon -a" and >> exit and the boot resumes fines. > > This

Re: systemd woes continue

2019-09-01 Thread Aurelien Jarno
On 2019-07-17 20:36, Michael Cree wrote: > On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 09:54:40PM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: > > First, "systemd" still cannot handle systems with persistent filesystems > > other than "/" and "/usr". As far as I know, the bug report I filed > > against "systemd" is still open, and no

Re: systemd woes continue

2019-07-18 Thread Bob Tracy
On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 01:45:21PM +, Witold Baryluk wrote: > Hey John, > > > The gist is: A lot of projects don't test their code on systems with > separate > > /usr partitions anymore, so things get silently broken. > > I don't have separate /usr, just single / (ext4) partition, and just >

Re: systemd woes continue

2019-07-18 Thread Bob Tracy
On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 03:16:09PM +0200, Frank Scheiner wrote: > To sum things up: what Adrian intends to do for Alpha - pre-include the > firmware on the installer discs - seems to be the only way to get this > problem fixed w/o manual intervention during installation. Many other things to

Re: systemd woes continue

2019-07-17 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 7/17/19 4:13 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote: > Probably not, as [3] shows that one still needs to use different > directories for the different targets. > > [3]: http://deb.debian.org/ > > Ok, what about a redirect on the Debian-Ports mirror for a > "/debian-ports/pool/non-free/" directory to e.g.

Re: systemd woes continue

2019-07-17 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 7/17/19 3:50 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote: > Ok, could it work when using the CDN (deb.debian.org) as described on > [2]? Or does this just redirect to the actual ports mirror for ports > architectures? > > [2]: https://www.ports.debian.org/mirrors debian-cd requires a mirror to be available

Re: systemd woes continue

2019-07-17 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 7/17/19 3:45 PM, Witold Baryluk wrote: >> The gist is: A lot of projects don't test their code on systems with separate >> /usr partitions anymore, so things get silently broken. > > I don't have separate /usr, just single / (ext4) partition, and just separate > /boot (ext2), and still systemd

Re: systemd woes continue

2019-07-17 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 7/17/19 15:50, Frank Scheiner wrote: On 7/17/19 15:41, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 7/17/19 3:16 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote: To sum things up: what Adrian intends to do for Alpha - pre-include the firmware on the installer discs - seems to be the only way to get this problem fixed w/o

Re: systemd woes continue

2019-07-17 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 7/17/19 15:41, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 7/17/19 3:16 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote: debian-installer doesn't use fdisk (anymore), it uses partman. Did you try any of the recent installation images, see [1]. Please note these images are currently shipped without proprietary firmware.

Re: systemd woes continue

2019-07-17 Thread Witold Baryluk
Hey John, > The gist is: A lot of projects don't test their code on systems with separate > /usr partitions anymore, so things get silently broken. I don't have separate /usr, just single / (ext4) partition, and just separate /boot (ext2), and still systemd fails to mount this /boot file system,

Re: systemd woes continue

2019-07-17 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 7/17/19 3:16 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote: debian-installer doesn't use fdisk (anymore), it uses partman. Did you try any of the recent installation images, see [1]. Please note these images are currently shipped without proprietary firmware. >>> >>> Yeah, that's a

Re: systemd woes continue

2019-07-17 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 7/17/19 11:54, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 7/17/19 11:00 AM, Michael Cree wrote: On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 04:11:44PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: I assume you are talking about the non-functionality of a separate /usr partition, but this is something that isn't guaranteed

Re: systemd woes continue

2019-07-17 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 7/17/19 11:00 AM, Michael Cree wrote: > On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 04:11:44PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> systemd works the same way on my Alpha XP-1000 as it works on my Intel boxes. > > Interesting. It doesn't work on mine; it fails to mount the > filesystems even when I

Re: systemd woes continue

2019-07-17 Thread Witold Baryluk
I do have similar issue with systemd. It fails "local-fs.target" task, unless I remove /boot (which is on separate device) entry from "/etc/fstab" swap works (based on "free" and "/proc/swaps"), and systemd does enable it automatically. Another issue I do face, is that systemd doesn't bring up

Re: systemd woes continue

2019-07-17 Thread Michael Cree
On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 04:11:44PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > systemd works the same way on my Alpha XP-1000 as it works on my Intel boxes. Interesting. It doesn't work on mine; it fails to mount the filesystems even when I recently tried a new install into a spare partition (but

Re: systemd woes continue

2019-07-17 Thread Michael Cree
On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 09:54:40PM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: > First, "systemd" still cannot handle systems with persistent filesystems > other than "/" and "/usr". As far as I know, the bug report I filed > against "systemd" is still open, and no progress has been made on that > front. The bug I

Re: systemd woes continue

2019-07-11 Thread Bob Tracy
On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 09:48:14PM +0900, John Blake wrote: > (...) > I have a DS10L 617mhz and I can't figure out which version is the best to > attempt to install on it.?? I'd rather avoid things like this issue with > systemd where they obviously haven't tried to actually test it on an alpha >

Re: systemd woes continue

2019-07-11 Thread John Blake
It's been a year or two since I last tried to install the experimental debian alpha image on my DS10L, and my abiding memory of the last attempt was banging my head against a problem with creating BSD disklabel on the ide hard drive due to fdisk being updated a few years prior to remove the

Re: systemd woes continue

2019-07-11 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi John! On 7/11/19 2:48 PM, John Blake wrote: > I have a DS10L 617mhz and I can't figure out which version is the best to > attempt to install on it.  I'd rather avoid things like this issue with > systemd where they obviously haven't tried to actually test it on an alpha > processor, but I

Re: systemd woes continue

2019-07-11 Thread John Blake
This brings up a question I need to ask of the people who know best on this mailing list: I have a DS10L 617mhz and I can't figure out which version is the best to attempt to install on it.  I'd rather avoid things like this issue with systemd where they obviously haven't tried to actually