Re: X11 system lockup with 5.11.0 kernel

2021-04-05 Thread Michael Cree
On Mon, Apr 05, 2021 at 04:55:15PM +1200, Michael Cree wrote: > On Sun, Apr 04, 2021 at 11:47:58PM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 11:04:42AM +0200, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > > > I think the only feasible way of determining what has happened here is > > > that you track the

Re: X11 system lockup with 5.11.0 kernel

2021-04-04 Thread Michael Cree
On Sun, Apr 04, 2021 at 11:47:58PM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: > On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 11:04:42AM +0200, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > > I think the only feasible way of determining what has happened here is > > that you track the offending change down by bisecting the upstream kernel > > repository

Re: X11 system lockup with 5.11.0 kernel

2021-04-04 Thread Bob Tracy
On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 11:04:42AM +0200, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > I think the only feasible way of determining what has happened here is > that you track the offending change down by bisecting the upstream kernel > repository with `git bisect'. That would normally be what I would do, and it

Re: X11 system lockup with 5.11.0 kernel

2021-03-31 Thread Maciej W. Rozycki
On Thu, 25 Mar 2021, Bob Tracy wrote: > > Everything worked as well as it's going to for kernel versions up > > through v5.10.0. When I boot on v5.11.0, "lightdm" starts, the screen > > goes blank as usual, I get a mouse pointer as usual, and shortly after > > that, the system locks up solid

Re: Bug#986009: installation-reports: document qemu workarounds and bug in newer d-i image

2021-03-27 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 3/27/21 10:18 PM, Thorsten Glaser wrote: >> The debian-installer tarballs are completely untested. We have ISO images >> in the snapshots folder which you should use. > > Yeah, I did that later. The tarball there was the first thing I found, > though, and its ISO subdirectory contains only

Re: Bug#986009: installation-reports: document qemu workarounds and bug in newer d-i image

2021-03-27 Thread Thorsten Glaser
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz dixit: >On 3/27/21 8:32 PM, Thorsten Glaser wrote: >> - >> https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/debian-installer/2021-01-03/alpha/debian-installer-images_20201202+nmu1_alpha.tar.gz >> is insufficient, it lacks the ISO which contains nic-modules > >The

Bug#986009: installation-reports: document qemu workarounds and bug in newer d-i image (fwd)

2021-03-27 Thread Thorsten Glaser
FYI -- Forwarded message -- Message-ID: <161687355375.3666.12906764209603803348.reportbug@alpha> Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2021 20:32:33 +0100 Subject: Bug#986009: installation-reports: document qemu workarounds and bug in newer d-i image Package: installation-reports Severity:

Re: Bug#986009: installation-reports: document qemu workarounds and bug in newer d-i image

2021-03-27 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Thorsten! On 3/27/21 8:32 PM, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > - > https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/debian-installer/2021-01-03/alpha/debian-installer-images_20201202+nmu1_alpha.tar.gz > is insufficient, it lacks the ISO which contains nic-modules The debian-installer tarballs are

Re: X11 system lockup with 5.11.0 kernel

2021-03-25 Thread Bob Tracy
On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 09:48:46AM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: > (...) > Everything worked as well as it's going to for kernel versions up > through v5.10.0. When I boot on v5.11.0, "lightdm" starts, the screen > goes blank as usual, I get a mouse pointer as usual, and shortly after > that, the

X11 system lockup with 5.11.0 kernel

2021-03-24 Thread Bob Tracy
All, First an apology for being "dark" for so long. There are still a few of us out here using Alpha computers... Another apology for the crappy "bug report" that follows, but first, a little background information. I'm not in the habit of running X11 on my PWS 433au these days, except for

Happy Chinese New Year!

2021-02-28 Thread Cherry
Hi Debian-alpha, Happy Chinese New Year! We’ve back to work, and ready to serve you all the time, thanks. Have a nice day! Thanks Regards, Cherry Hu |Sales Manager SHENZHEN PLUXLED LIGHTING CO., LIMITED. 4F,Building 4, Huafeng

Bug#983308: vim: Please disable Ruby interpretor support on alpha and ia64

2021-02-22 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Source: vim Severity: normal Tags: patch User: debian-alpha@lists.debian.org Usertags: alpha ia64 X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-alpha@lists.debian.org,debian-i...@lists.debian.org Hi! The Ruby interpretor is not fully working on alpha and ia64 and regularly causes the vim testsuite to fail on these

Support Informatique

2021-02-22 Thread Pierre Musso
Bonjour, En tant que fournisseur de services de nearshoring dans l'industrie du logiciel, nous souhaitons partager avec vous des solutions logicielles flexibles et rentables pour soutenir vos opérations commerciales. Avec plus de 10 ans de présence sur le marché, nous comprenons les besoins

Bug#979757: scummvm: Please disable Ultima on the remaining big-endian targets as well

2021-01-11 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Source: scummvm Severity: normal User: debian-powe...@lists.debian.org Usertags: powerpc ppc64 X-Debbugs-Cc:

Re: Porter roll call for Debian Bullseye

2020-12-29 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sun, Dec 06, 2020 at 01:03:17PM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote: > On 12/1/20 5:02 AM, YunQiang Su wrote: > > I am sorry for the later response. > >Hi, > > > > I am an active porter for the following architectures and I intend > > to continue this for the lifetime of the Bullseye release

Re: Porter roll call for Debian Bullseye

2020-12-12 Thread Frédéric Bonnard
Hi, sorry for the late reply and thanks a lot Graham for pinging me directly. I didn't monitor -devel closely lately, but I am an active porter for the following architecture and I intend to continue this for the lifetime of the Bullseye release (est. end of 2024): For ppc64el, I - test most

Re: Porter roll call for Debian Bullseye

2020-12-11 Thread Wookey
On 2020-11-02 22:23 +0200, Graham Inggs wrote: > Hi > > We are doing a roll call for porters of all release architectures. If > you are an active porter behind one of the release architectures [1] > for the entire lifetime of Debian Bullseye (est. end of 2024), please > respond with a signed

Re: Porter roll call for Debian Bullseye

2020-12-07 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sun, Dec 06, 2020 at 01:03:17PM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote: > On 12/1/20 5:02 AM, YunQiang Su wrote: > > I am sorry for the later response. > >Hi, > > > > I am an active porter for the following architectures and I intend > > to continue this for the lifetime of the Bullseye release

Re: Porter roll call for Debian Bullseye

2020-12-06 Thread Matthias Klose
On 12/1/20 5:02 AM, YunQiang Su wrote: > I am sorry for the later response. >Hi, > > I am an active porter for the following architectures and I intend > to continue this for the lifetime of the Bullseye release (est. end > of 2024): > > For mipsel and mips64el, I > - test most

Updated installer images 2020-12-02

2020-12-03 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi! I uploaded updated Debian installer CD images today. These come with the latest versions of the kernel and the debian-installer application as well as various other updates. The images can be found at the usual location [1] as well as the debian-installer for netboot [2]. Known issues: -

Re: Porter roll call for Debian Bullseye

2020-11-30 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2020-11-20, Graham Inggs wrote: > A friendly reminder about the porter roll call for bullseye. > > On Mon, 2 Nov 2020 at 22:23, Graham Inggs wrote: >> We are doing a roll call for porters of all release architectures. If >> you are an active porter behind one of the release architectures [1]

Re: Porter roll call for Debian Bullseye

2020-11-20 Thread Graham Inggs
Hi A friendly reminder about the porter roll call for bullseye. On Mon, 2 Nov 2020 at 22:23, Graham Inggs wrote: > We are doing a roll call for porters of all release architectures. If > you are an active porter behind one of the release architectures [1] > for the entire lifetime of Debian

Bug#974878: libio-pty-perl: Patch Add-termios-data-structures-for-alpha.patch can be dropped

2020-11-15 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Source: libio-pty-perl Severity: normal User: debian-alpha@lists.debian.org Usertags: alpha X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-alpha@lists.debian.org Hi! The patch Add-termios-data-structures-for-alpha.patch that was introduced in #82627 [1] in 2001 is no longer necessary and can safely be dropped, the

Porter roll call for Debian Bullseye

2020-11-02 Thread Graham Inggs
Hi We are doing a roll call for porters of all release architectures. If you are an active porter behind one of the release architectures [1] for the entire lifetime of Debian Bullseye (est. end of 2024), please respond with a signed email containing the following before Friday, November 27: *

Bug#972510: (no subject)

2020-10-19 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Source: glibc Version: 2.31-4 Severity: normal User: debian-sp...@lists.debian.org Usertags: alpha hppa ia64 m68k sh4 sparc64 Hello! The two tests: FAIL: misc/tst-sbrk FAIL: misc/tst-sbrk-pie fail on multiple architectures. According to the discussion in #debian-ports, the tests are broken

JESEN NA KOPAH | GRATIS VEČERJE | PESTER ANIMACIJSKI PROGRAM

2020-09-12 Thread KOPE
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Re: DS15 with kernel 5.8.1

2020-08-17 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 8/17/20 9:42 PM, Michael Cree wrote: >> As I posted last month, my old version of iceweasel was deleted by apt. >> I downloaded the deb file for firefox 52.6 alpha, but when trying to install >> I get the following errors: > > I doubt if we ever will have firefox built on Alpha again. It now

Re: DS15 with kernel 5.8.1

2020-08-17 Thread Michael Cree
On Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 05:27:53PM +, Ivan C. N. wrote: > Hello again, > Had to fix a few things with the DS15: a suspected failing power supply > turned out to be the front panel power-on button's wires having a flimsy > connection (probably due to front access storage cage

DS15 with kernel 5.8.1

2020-08-17 Thread Ivan C. N.
Hello again, Had to fix a few things with the DS15: a suspected failing power supply turned out to be the front panel power-on button's wires having a flimsy connection (probably due to front access storage cage removal/installation). Also had to clone my Debian Alpha installation since the

Re: Arch qualification for buster: call for DSA, Security, toolchain concerns

2020-08-04 Thread Florian Weimer
* Florian Weimer: >> * Concern for mips, mips64el, mipsel and ppc64el: no upstream support >>in GCC >>(Raised by the GCC maintainer; carried over from stretch) > > I'm surprised to read this. ppc64el features prominently in the > toolchain work I do (though I personally do not work on

Richiesta Contatto

2020-08-02 Thread Maria Puccini
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Re: sources.list for debian alpha

2020-07-31 Thread Kirsten Bromilow
You have the wrong email! Please delete my email Sent from my iPhone > On 31 Jul 2020, at 07:34, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > wrote: > > Hello! > >> On 7/31/20 7:51 AM, Ivan Carrillo-Nava wrote: >> My debian alpha box was off for a long time (over 2 years). >> When I turned it back on a few

Re: sources.list for debian alpha

2020-07-31 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello! On 7/31/20 7:51 AM, Ivan Carrillo-Nava wrote: > My debian alpha box was off for a long time (over 2 years). > When I turned it back on a few days ago and tried to update, the keys had > expired so I got a new one and started updating. > apt reported several packages had to be deleted

sources.list for debian alpha

2020-07-31 Thread Ivan Carrillo-Nava
Hello all, My debian alpha box was off for a long time (over 2 years). When I turned it back on a few days ago and tried to update, the keys had expired so I got a new one and started updating. apt reported several packages had to be deleted (cinnamon amongst them). So my alpha debian box runs

GCC and binutils plans for bullseye

2020-07-01 Thread Matthias Klose
Debian bullseye will be based on a gcc-10 package taken from the gcc-10 upstream branch, and binutils based on a binutils package taken from the 2.35 branch. I'm planning to make gcc-10 the default after gcc-10 (10.2.0) is available (upstream targets mid July). binutils will be updated before

Désinfectants

2020-06-29 Thread Cecylia Lazar
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RE: Bug#963109: libreoffice: Please drop clang from build-dependencies for alpha and ia64

2020-06-23 Thread Skye
> Why do I need to be helpful to dead architectures unless it's a LO issue? Because it is what we do as maintainers. So much of what we do, in this case don't do, has knock-on consequences across open source. Cheers Skye -Original Message- From: r...@rene-engelhard.de

Re: Bug#963109: libreoffice: Please drop clang from build-dependencies for alpha and ia64

2020-06-23 Thread Helge Deller
On 23.06.20 13:22, r...@rene-engelhard.de wrote: > Am 23. Juni 2020 13:07:42 MESZ schrieb Helge Deller : >>> Which didn't build since 2018. And is constantly bd-uninststallable. >> >> If you apply Adrian's patch which drops dependency on clang, >> then it maybe get's bd-installable again? > > No?

Re: Bug#963109: libreoffice: Please drop clang from build-dependencies for alpha and ia64

2020-06-23 Thread rene
Am 23. Juni 2020 13:07:42 MESZ schrieb Helge Deller : >Hello Rene, > >On 23.06.20 12:33, r...@rene-engelhard.de wrote: >> Am 23. Juni 2020 12:05:18 MESZ schrieb Helge Deller : >>> I'm one of the maintainers for the hppa/parisc architecture >> >> Which didn't build since 2018. And is constantly

Re: Bug#963109: libreoffice: Please drop clang from build-dependencies for alpha and ia64

2020-06-23 Thread Helge Deller
Hello Rene, On 23.06.20 12:33, r...@rene-engelhard.de wrote: > Am 23. Juni 2020 12:05:18 MESZ schrieb Helge Deller : >> I'm one of the maintainers for the hppa/parisc architecture > > Which didn't build since 2018. And is constantly bd-uninststallable. If you apply Adrian's patch which drops

Re: Bug#963109: libreoffice: Please drop clang from build-dependencies for alpha and ia64

2020-06-23 Thread rene
Hi, Am 23. Juni 2020 12:05:18 MESZ schrieb Helge Deller : >Hello Rene, > >I'm one of the maintainers for the hppa/parisc architecture Which didn't build since 2018. And is constantly bd-uninststallable. >On 19.06.20 19:12, Rene Engelhard wrote: >> Am 19.06.20 um 17:46 schrieb John Paul

Re: Bug#963109: libreoffice: Please drop clang from build-dependencies for alpha and ia64

2020-06-23 Thread Helge Deller
Hello Rene, I'm one of the maintainers for the hppa/parisc architecture On 19.06.20 19:12, Rene Engelhard wrote: > Am 19.06.20 um 17:46 schrieb John Paul Adrian Glaubitz: >> On 6/19/20 1:08 PM, r...@rene-engelhard.de wrote: >>> Am 19. Juni 2020 12:52:40 MESZ schrieb John Paul Adrian Glaubitz

Re: Bug#963109: libreoffice: Please drop clang from build-dependencies for alpha and ia64

2020-06-19 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Am 19.06.20 um 19:19 schrieb John Paul Adrian Glaubitz: > On 6/19/20 7:12 PM, Rene Engelhard wrote: >> Sorry, I don't believe I don't need to fix stuff here myself. ia64 and >> m68k even didn't yet do a ICU rebuild or at least make stuff being >> rebuildable. >> >>> Would it be okay if I send

Re: Bug#963109: libreoffice: Please drop clang from build-dependencies for alpha and ia64

2020-06-19 Thread Rene Engelhard
Am 19.06.20 um 17:46 schrieb John Paul Adrian Glaubitz: > On 6/19/20 1:08 PM, r...@rene-engelhard.de wrote: >> Am 19. Juni 2020 12:52:40 MESZ schrieb John Paul Adrian Glaubitz >> : >>> So nothing that keeps us from using GCC in cases where clang is not >>> available. >> >> Correct. Except

Re: Bug#963109: libreoffice: Please drop clang from build-dependencies for alpha and ia64

2020-06-19 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 6/19/20 7:12 PM, Rene Engelhard wrote: > Sorry, I don't believe I don't need to fix stuff here myself. ia64 and > m68k even didn't yet do a ICU rebuild or at least make stuff being > rebuildable. > >> Would it be okay if I send a pull request to make the necessary changes? > > I am perfectly

Re: Bug#963109: libreoffice: Please drop clang from build-dependencies for alpha and ia64

2020-06-19 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 6/19/20 1:08 PM, r...@rene-engelhard.de wrote: > Am 19. Juni 2020 12:52:40 MESZ schrieb John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > : >> So nothing that keeps us from using GCC in cases where clang is not >> available. > > Correct. Except staying as close as possible with upstream. While at the same time,

Re: Bug#963109: libreoffice: Please drop clang from build-dependencies for alpha and ia64

2020-06-19 Thread rene
Am 19. Juni 2020 12:52:40 MESZ schrieb John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : >So nothing that keeps us from using GCC in cases where clang is not >available. Correct. Except staying as close as possible with upstream. >>> Not sure why you want to enforce architectures off libreoffice when >>> it’s

Re: Bug#963109: libreoffice: Please drop clang from build-dependencies for alpha and ia64

2020-06-19 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 6/19/20 10:08 AM, r...@rene-engelhard.de wrote: > Am 19. Juni 2020 09:58:34 MESZ schrieb John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > : > >> clang isn’t required to build libreoffice [1], it’s just recommend. > > I know. That is even documented: > >

Bug#963109: libreoffice: Please drop clang from build-dependencies for alpha and ia64

2020-06-19 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Source: libreoffice Version: 1:7.0.0~beta2-1 Severity: normal User: debian-alpha@lists.debian.org Usertags: alpha ia64 Hello! I just noticed that src:libreoffice 7.x has added a build dependency on clang for alpha and ia64. However, clang is unfortunately no longer available on these targets

Bug#962676: libzstd FTBFS for alpha: libc doesn't #define st_mtime

2020-06-11 Thread Helmut Grohne
Source: libzstd Version: 1.4.5+dfsg-1 Tags: ftbfs patch User: helm...@debian.org Usertags: rebootstrap libzstd fails to build from source on alpha. programs/util.c has code that checks whether st_mtime is defined as a macro. If yes, it uses a struct timespec. Otherwise a struct utimebuf. alpha is

Re: Bug#959144: mozjs68: Build-depends on cargo and rustc but doesn't actually use it

2020-05-04 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi! On 4/30/20 11:20 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > The attached patch removes the checks for the LLVM and Rust toolchains from > the build system and allows to build mozjs68 without LLVM and Rust in the > build dependencies. With the patch applied, it should be possible to drop the >

Re: Bug#959144: mozjs68: Build-depends on cargo and rustc but doesn't actually use it

2020-04-30 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Control: tags -1 +patch Hi! The attached patch removes the checks for the LLVM and Rust toolchains from the build system and allows to build mozjs68 without LLVM and Rust in the build dependencies. With the patch applied, it should be possible to drop the patch

Bug#959144: mozjs68: Build-depends on cargo and rustc but doesn't actually use it

2020-04-29 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Source: mozjs68 Version: 68.6.0-2 Severity: normal Tags: upstream User: debian-...@lists.debian.org Usertags: alpha hppa ia64 m68k sh4 Hi! mozjs68 build-depends on cargo and rustc, but it doesn't actually build any Rust code. The configure script just checks for the version of cargo and rustc,

Re: A floppy driver in the debian installer kernel

2020-04-21 Thread jhcha54008
Hi Adrian, Thank you for your answer. Sorry for my -not so clear- previous message. There is an alternative between these two patches : only one of the two may be merged. Indeed, a choice should be made : to have the floppy driver built-in (in all stock kernels or in the alpha-generic flavor

Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2020-04-19

2020-04-21 Thread Witold Baryluk
John, I only provided a temporary workaround (a hack, that ugly, but will work) in case somebody really wants to try it quickly. In no way it was supposed to be 'official' or 'correct'. Obviously compiling it into installer kernel or udeb is the only option forward, and this is what I said in 'or

Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2020-04-19

2020-04-21 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 4/21/20 7:59 PM, Witold Baryluk wrote: >>> It should be relatively easy to put it there manually (unpack, >>> repack), or fix the iso build scripts to include it too. >> debian-installer does not use a kernel package, it boots the bare kernel >> image >> and loads additional modules either

Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2020-04-19

2020-04-21 Thread Witold Baryluk
On Tue, 21 Apr 2020 at 17:57, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > On 4/21/20 7:53 PM, Witold Baryluk wrote: > > floppy.ko for alpha is in the kernel image deb file, > > > >

Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2020-04-19

2020-04-21 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 4/21/20 7:53 PM, Witold Baryluk wrote: > floppy.ko for alpha is in the kernel image deb file, > > debian-10.0-alpha-NETINST-1.iso/iso9660://pool-alpha/main/l/linux/linux-image-5.5.0-1-alpha-smp_5.5.13-2_alpha.deb/deb://CONTENTS/lib/modules/5.5.0-1-alpha-smp/kernel/drivers/block > > but it is

Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2020-04-19

2020-04-21 Thread Witold Baryluk
floppy.ko for alpha is in the kernel image deb file, debian-10.0-alpha-NETINST-1.iso/iso9660://pool-alpha/main/l/linux/linux-image-5.5.0-1-alpha-smp_5.5.13-2_alpha.deb/deb://CONTENTS/lib/modules/5.5.0-1-alpha-smp/kernel/drivers/block but it is not present in any udeb file, or in the

Re: A floppy driver in the debian installer kernel

2020-04-21 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello! On 4/21/20 4:00 PM, jhcha54008 wrote: > PS : it is the opportunity to thank you (and Samuel Thibault) for all your > work on the alpha kernel and > towards a working debian installer on alpha - and the other ports ! You're welcome. Although it's sometimes so frustrating that I'm

A floppy driver in the debian installer kernel

2020-04-21 Thread jhcha54008
Hi Adrian and Michael, Indeed, it would be great to have a floppy driver at installation time. But it seems that the floppy-module udeb was removed. Would it be possible to ship it in the udeb kernel package instead, either built-in or as a module ? I wonder if one of the two following

Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2020-04-19

2020-04-21 Thread Darren Goossens
For reference, the recipe at: The recipe at https://lists.debian.org/debian-alpha/2019/11/msg00033.html for adding firmware to the install disk did indeed work. I booted with the modified install disk in the SCSI CD drive and the original in a second IDE CDROM drive that runs on a PCI card.

Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2020-04-19

2020-04-20 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 4/21/20 4:16 AM, Michael Cree wrote: > So is the floppy module included in the install ISO, and, if so, > can you run insmod on it to enable the floppy drive while > installing? That's an easy fix. I assume there used to be a floppy-modules package that was removed. We can re-add that. Or just

Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2020-04-19

2020-04-20 Thread Darren Goossens
> > Interesting. I've just checked on my running XP1000 and I see there > is no /dev/fd0 either. I'm running a self-compiled 5.6.3 kernel and > the floppy module is built. Modprobing it loaded it and then I have > a /dev/fd0 device node. What's more it works --- I managed to list > the

Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2020-04-19

2020-04-20 Thread Michael Cree
On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 11:37:14AM +1000, Darren Goossens wrote: > My experience with the April 2020 Alpha iso > > Booted fine, asked for me to load qlogic/1040.bin on removable media. > I downloaded the deb file for buster, exploded it and copied all the > bin files onto both a floppy and a USB

Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2020-04-19

2020-04-20 Thread Darren Goossens
My experience with the April 2020 Alpha iso Booted fine, asked for me to load qlogic/1040.bin on removable media. I downloaded the deb file for buster, exploded it and copied all the bin files onto both a floppy and a USB stick. The AlphaServer 1200 has a USB card in a PCI slot. Put both the USB

Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2020-04-19

2020-04-20 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Darren! On 4/20/20 11:49 AM, Darren Goossens wrote: > The floppy disk controller did not work either, I recall clearly. I > tried a PCI USB card, IDE CD, SCSI CD and putting the files on a > second HDD. None of the storage was visible to the Debian installer. > > If this might have changed, I

Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2020-04-19

2020-04-20 Thread Darren Goossens
> > You can add the firmware files manually during installation with a > floppy disk. The installer asks during installation if you want > to provide additional firmware using removable media. > Thanks for that The floppy disk controller did not work either, I recall clearly. I tried a PCI USB

Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2020-04-19

2020-04-20 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Darren! On 4/20/20 10:53 AM, Darren Goossens wrote: > I understand your comment about help being appreciated. I'm afraid I > am an amateur, and my day job is nothing to do with software. I am > happy to test things and see how they work and report back, but I am > not a developer -- not even a

Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2020-04-19

2020-04-20 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 4/20/20 10:28 AM, Darren Goossens wrote: > That's great! Thanks again for all your troubles. A question: When I > last tried an install on an Alpha, qlogic firmware for the storage was > missing (eg SCSI disks, CD etc). Does the Alpha image have any new > firmware compared to the previous

Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2020-04-19

2020-04-20 Thread Darren Goossens
On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 4:30 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > Hi! > > I just uploaded updated installation images 2020-04-19 for the > following Debian Ports architectures [1]: > > * alpha > * hppa > * ia64 > * m68k > * powerpc > * ppc64 > * sparc64 > > These images should finally

Re: directory sticky bit strangeness following libc6 update

2020-04-20 Thread Matthias Ferdinand
On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 07:11:56PM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: > On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 01:01:17AM +0200, Matthias Ferdinand wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 18, 2020 at 07:48:27AM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: > > > > If the rules had changed, it should not succeed even without > > > > O_CREAT. A bug? > > > > > >

Re: directory sticky bit strangeness following libc6 update

2020-04-19 Thread Bob Tracy
On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 01:01:17AM +0200, Matthias Ferdinand wrote: > On Sat, Apr 18, 2020 at 07:48:27AM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: > > > If the rules had changed, it should not succeed even without > > > O_CREAT. A bug? > > > > That's *my* take on the matter. It will be a day or so before I can >

Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2020-04-19

2020-04-19 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi! I just uploaded updated installation images 2020-04-19 for the following Debian Ports architectures [1]: * alpha * hppa * ia64 * m68k * powerpc * ppc64 * sparc64 These images should finally fix the installation process on Apple PowerMacs and PowerBooks compatible with GRUB, so

Re: directory sticky bit strangeness following libc6 update

2020-04-18 Thread Matthias Ferdinand
On Sat, Apr 18, 2020 at 07:48:27AM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: > > If the rules had changed, it should not succeed even without > > O_CREAT. A bug? > > That's *my* take on the matter. It will be a day or so before I can > check upstream and see if any bug reports have been opened against > libc6,

Re: directory sticky bit strangeness following libc6 update

2020-04-18 Thread Bob Tracy
On Sat, Apr 18, 2020 at 12:25:11PM +0200, Matthias Ferdinand wrote: > On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 02:17:46PM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: > > (directory sticky bit handling strangeness) > > it seems the difference lies in handling of O_CREAT. > > (...) > > not Alpha specific; this was done on x86_64

Re: directory sticky bit strangeness following libc6 update

2020-04-18 Thread Matthias Ferdinand
On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 02:17:46PM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: > All, > > This likely isn't unique to Debian, much less the alpha platform, but > I first encountered this strangeness on my alpha running Debian unstable. > > Best way to explain what I'm seeing is by example. A fairly common > thing

directory sticky bit strangeness following libc6 update

2020-04-17 Thread Bob Tracy
All, This likely isn't unique to Debian, much less the alpha platform, but I first encountered this strangeness on my alpha running Debian unstable. Best way to explain what I'm seeing is by example. A fairly common thing to do is create temporary or download directories with octal mode 1777

Re: Bug#954031: [Sbcl-devel] Bug#954031: sbcl: Please allow building with clisp on currently unsupported architectures

2020-04-01 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
(Switched back to my main address, accidentally switched to GMail) On 4/1/20 5:05 PM, Sébastien Villemot wrote: >> So, the currently only candidate for this scenario is mipsel and I think this >> is a risk that is bearable, in particular since upstream considers 32-bit >> mips >> one of the

Re: Bug#954031: [Sbcl-devel] Bug#954031: sbcl: Please allow building with clisp on currently unsupported architectures

2020-04-01 Thread Sébastien Villemot
Le mercredi 01 avril 2020 à 16:56 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz a écrit : > On 4/1/20 4:51 PM, Sébastien Villemot wrote: > > > FWIW, sbcl builds fine for me on mipsel if clang is used as the C > > > compiler, > > > I'll file a separate bug report for that. > > > > I have mixed feelings about

Re: Bug#954031: [Sbcl-devel] Bug#954031: sbcl: Please allow building with clisp on currently unsupported architectures

2020-04-01 Thread Sébastien Villemot
Hi, Le mercredi 01 avril 2020 à 16:43 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz a écrit : > On 3/16/20 1:16 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > sbcl has partial support for alpha, hppa, mips*, ppc64 and riscv64 > > and if we try to build sbcl on any architecture using clisp, we will > > be able to

Re: [Sbcl-devel] Bug#954031: sbcl: Please allow building with clisp on currently unsupported architectures

2020-04-01 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi! On 3/16/20 1:16 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > sbcl has partial support for alpha, hppa, mips*, ppc64 and riscv64 > and if we try to build sbcl on any architecture using clisp, we will > be able to provide upstream with a build log of sbcl on any architecture > that might be supported

Re: Bug#954031: sbcl: Please allow building with clisp on currently unsupported architectures

2020-03-16 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 3/16/20 5:34 PM, John David Anglin wrote: > With patch, I get following error: See [1], the build system is not very smart, unfortunately. Adrian > [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=939453 -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer -

Bug#954031: sbcl: Please allow building with clisp on currently unsupported architectures

2020-03-15 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Source: sbcl Severity: normal Tags: patch Hi! In order to provide some basic level of continuous integration for sbcl upstream, it would be great if the sbcl package could be tried to build on any of the currently unsupported architectures using clisp. sbcl has partial support for alpha, hppa,

Re: [Sbcl-devel] Alpha, HPPA support at risk

2020-03-15 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 3/12/20 10:23 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> Moreover, just because we have tried to keep the backends compiling >> gives no guarantee that they actually run; I'd be slightly surprised if >> they don't crash pretty quickly in cold-init. > > I sent in some fixes, but so far I haven't

Re: [Sbcl-devel] Alpha, HPPA support at risk

2020-03-12 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Christophe On 3/12/20 10:15 PM, Christophe Rhodes wrote: > I would like the SBCL project to try to substantially improve, or else > retire, support for Alpha and HPPA. > > At the moment, those backends in particular are kept in the source more > for nostalgia than any other reason; and

Saludos

2020-03-11 Thread Mariana Quintal
Hola, bonito día, le escribo para invitarle a participar en el próximo evento de Seguridad Informática "El Lado Oscuro de la Red". Será impartido por un Hacker Israelí el próximo 23 de Abril en CDMX. ¿Me permite enviarle el temario para que pueda evaluar? Sí le interesa la información espero

Re: RM: aboot -- RoQA; Multiple RC bugs, can no longer be built due to missing alpha buildds

2020-02-24 Thread Scott Kitterman
On February 24, 2020 8:46:47 PM UTC, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >On 2/24/20 9:37 PM, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote: >> On Sun, Feb 02, 2020 at 02:06:12PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz >wrote: >>> Hello! >>> >>> On 1/29/20 11:49 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: One of the Gentoo

Re: RM: aboot -- RoQA; Multiple RC bugs, can no longer be built due to missing alpha buildds

2020-02-24 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 2/24/20 9:37 PM, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote: > On Sun, Feb 02, 2020 at 02:06:12PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> Hello! >> >> On 1/29/20 11:49 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >>> One of the Gentoo developers has forked aboot and is maintaing it on >>> Github [1]. I have filed an

Re: RM: aboot -- RoQA; Multiple RC bugs, can no longer be built due to missing alpha buildds

2020-02-24 Thread Moritz Mühlenhoff
On Sun, Feb 02, 2020 at 02:06:12PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hello! > > On 1/29/20 11:49 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > One of the Gentoo developers has forked aboot and is maintaing it on > > Github [1]. I have filed an issue regarding the manpage issue and will > >

Re: packaging error: cmake-3.16.3-1

2020-02-13 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello! On 2/14/20 7:17 AM, Bob Tracy wrote: > "apt-get upgrade" is failing on "cmake_3.16.3-1_alpha.deb" with the > following errors for the past day: Not a packaging error but an inconsistency of the index data on the FTP server. This started to show last night and affects the build machines as

packaging error: cmake-3.16.3-1

2020-02-13 Thread Bob Tracy
"apt-get upgrade" is failing on "cmake_3.16.3-1_alpha.deb" with the following errors for the past day: Get:1 http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports unstable/main alpha cmake alpha 3.16.3-1 [3,531 kB] Err:1 http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports unstable/main alpha cmake alpha 3.16.3-1

Re: Bug#950591: O: aboot

2020-02-06 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Control: retitle -1 ITA: aboot Control: owner -1 ! Changing to ITA and setting myself as owner. My pull request to switch to docbook-utils for aboot has been merged [1] upstream in the meantime. Thanks, Adrian > [1] >

Bug#950591: O: aboot

2020-02-03 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Package: wnpp Severity: normal User: debian-alpha@lists.debian.org Usertags: alpha Hi! I am orphaning aboot on behalf of the current maintainer now as he has agreed on removing the package [1]. I would like to adopt aboot and address the open RC bugs so it can be kept in the main archive. This

Re: RM: aboot -- RoQA; Multiple RC bugs, can no longer be built due to missing alpha buildds

2020-02-02 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello! On 1/29/20 11:49 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > One of the Gentoo developers has forked aboot and is maintaing it on > Github [1]. I have filed an issue regarding the manpage issue and will > coordinate a new release of the bootloader with the aforementioned > issues addressed. I

Re: Bug#950192: Please remove build dep on aboot

2020-01-31 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 1/31/20 2:19 AM, jhcha54008 wrote: > May I ask if there is a git repository (in salsa ?) following the > debian variation of aboot ? (and including the history as a bonus ?) I have not created such a repository yet. I have to ask Steve whether he's got one for his packaging. > Three RC bugs

Re: Bug#950192: Please remove build dep on aboot

2020-01-30 Thread jhcha54008
Hi Adrian, Nice that someone knowledgeable stepped in to salvage aboot. Thanks in advance ! May I ask if there is a git repository (in salsa ?) following the debian variation of aboot ? (and including the history as a bonus ?) Three RC bugs are listed for src:aboot, with at least partial

Re: RM: aboot -- RoQA; Multiple RC bugs, can no longer be built due to missing alpha buildds

2020-01-29 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi again! One of the Gentoo developers has forked aboot and is maintaing it on Github [1]. I have filed an issue regarding the manpage issue and will coordinate a new release of the bootloader with the aforementioned issues addressed. I didn't know about these RC bugs otherwise I would have

Re: RM: aboot -- RoQA; Multiple RC bugs, can no longer be built due to missing alpha buildds

2020-01-29 Thread Moritz Mühlenhoff
On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 11:25:32PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > I will look into this issue. Ok, great! Cheers, Moritz

Re: RM: aboot -- RoQA; Multiple RC bugs, can no longer be built due to missing alpha buildds

2020-01-29 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
> Please remove aboot. It blocks the sgmltools-lite removal and is RC-buggy > otherwise for a last > time (like for the removal of sp). Steve Langasek pointed out as one of the > last alpha maintainers > in #949711 that the arch: all binaries can only be built on an alpha buildd, > which we no

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