Bug#1028340: grub-ieee1275-bin: grub 2.06-7 faults on SPARC, 2.06-3 does not

2023-01-09 Thread Rich Ercolani
Package: grub-ieee1275-bin Version: 2.06-7 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: rincebr...@gmail.com Dear Maintainer, I decided enough was enough and finally went to migrate my Netra T1 from SILO to GRUB. So I installed grub2 2.06-7, went through the motions, did grub-install --skip-fs-probe

Bug#1013205: samba-common: samba no longer installable on sparc64 due to impossible version conflict

2022-06-18 Thread Rich Ercolani
Package: samba-common Version: 2:4.13.5+dfsg-2 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: rincebr...@gmail.com Dear Maintainer, Pretty simple report - since samba-common is only offered at 2:4.16.2+dfsg-1 in sid currently, and all the binary samba packages for sparc64 are at 2:4.13.14+dfsg-1+b4, it's

Bug#1003201: libc6: Upgrading to libc 2.33-1 causes lots of strange crashes

2022-01-05 Thread Rich Ercolani
Package: libc6 Version: 2.33-1 Severity: important X-Debbugs-Cc: rincebr...@gmail.com Dear Maintainer, (I marked this as serious because it's "just" ppc64, but the system is permaneantly unusable if this upgrade is installed.) I booted my ppc64 VM in qemu 6.1, apt update, apt upgrade, and

Bug#1000551: elfutils: Segfault in read_addrs

2021-11-24 Thread Rich Ercolani
Package: elfutils Version: 0.183-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, While experimenting with drgn [1], I ran into a crash[3], which seems to be from a bug introduced in elfutils 0.183 and fixed in 0.186[2]. I don't know if said bug meets the threshold for a backport on stable, but figured

Bug#999820: linux-image-5.14.0-4-sparc64-smp: kernel fails to boot with niu driver enabled on recent kernels

2021-11-16 Thread Rich Ercolani
Package: src:linux Version: 5.14.16-1 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: rincebr...@gmail.com Dear Maintainer, Trying to boot a recent sparc64 disc on this T5140, it dies on boot with something like: [ 52.521656] niu: niu.c:v1.1 (Apr 22, 2010) [ 52.529379] niu: niu0: Found PHY 002063b0 type MII

Bug#998078: reportbug: linux-headers-cloud-arm64 from buster-backports can't be satisfied

2021-10-29 Thread Rich Ercolani
Package: linux-headers-cloud-arm64 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, linux-headers-cloud-arm64 and linux-image-cloud-arm64 point to -5.10.0-0.bpo.8-cloud-arm64, except... while linux-image-5.10.0-0.bpo.8-cloud-arm64 is still around, linux-headers-... is not. So you can't install the headers

Bug#996961: bpfcc-tools: biosnoop fails to print the SIZE field correctly on bullseye

2021-10-21 Thread Rich Ercolani
Package: bpfcc-tools Version: 0.18.0+ds-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, Pretty simple - it looks like the internal field that biosnoop-bpfcc reads to get the size of the IO started being cleared on IO completion at some point, so it prints as always 0 now. Upstream fixed this by stashing

Bug#996397: rpm-common: macros.* are no longer in any package provided in Debian

2021-10-13 Thread Rich Ercolani
Package: rpm-common Version: 4.16.1.2+dfsg1-3 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, When debugging why %{python_version} no longer expanded in an alien package, I discovered that in bullseye and up, the macros.* packages (and their associated macros) seem entirely absent. It seems like upstream RPM

Bug#993966: linux-image-5.10.0-8-sparc64: Kernel panic while copying a bunch of files over NFS

2021-09-08 Thread Rich Ercolani
Package: src:linux Version: 5.10.46-4 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: rincebr...@gmail.com Dear Maintainer, I was copying a bunch of 1-10M compressed logfiles (~2000 of them, to be exact) over NFS to another machine with rsync, and suddenly my SSH session stopped responding entirely. Looking on

Bug#992830: udevadm trigger produces inconsistent by-id entries

2021-08-23 Thread Rich Ercolani
Package: udev Version: 247.3-6 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: rincebr...@gmail.com Dear Maintainer, I had the following unexpected behavior happen: $ ls -al /dev/[sv]d* /dev/disk/by-id/;sudo udevadm trigger;sleep 5;ls -al /dev/[sv]d* /dev/disk/by-id/; brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 0 Aug 23 19:25

Bug#992612: linux-image-5.10.0-8-amd64: Macbook3,1 fails to boot without nomodeset with nouveau

2021-08-21 Thread Rich Ercolani
Package: src:linux Version: 5.10.46-4 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: rincebr...@gmail.com Dear Maintainer, (I have no idea how many people might run into this, but...) I just had occasion to set up bullseye on an old Macbook Pro. After convincing it to boot the installer in the first place

Bug#992001: zfs-dkms: ZFS_META_GITREV is "unknown"

2021-08-08 Thread Rich Ercolani
Package: zfs-dkms Version: 2.0.3-8~bpo10+1 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer, I was curious what versions of ZFS I had imported a given pool with, so I asked zpool history -i, and to my surprise, its log entries had "software version unknown". Specifically (note that I believe the entries with

Bug#991263: libparted2: libparted assertion fails on resizing a certain sun partition table

2021-07-19 Thread Rich Ercolani
Package: libparted2 Version: 3.4-1 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: rincebr...@gmail.com Like it says on the tin - I noticed my drive's partition table was smaller than the drive, tried to resizepart, and boom. I'm assuming I input a somehow invalid value, but an assertion failure was not the

Bug#990659: qemu-system-misc: qemu-riscv64-static sometimes crashes while running gcc in chroot

2021-07-03 Thread Rich Ercolani
Package: qemu-system-misc Version: 1:5.2+dfsg-9~bpo10+1 Severity: normal I was assembling a Debian riscv64 (and therefore, currently, sid) root FS to test something, ultimately in a VM, and building OpenZFS git master chrooted into that root to that end. I did the ./autogen.sh && ./configure

Bug#990090: linux-source-4.19: Cannot install buster mips64el in qemu, panics

2021-06-20 Thread Rich Ercolani
Package: linux-source-4.19 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, Trying to boot the buster installer inside qemu-system-mips64el with my setup kernel panics almost instantly with the message "No memory area to place a bootmap bitmap". Using the incantation: qemu-system-mips64el -M malta -cpu 5KEc

Bug#989716: kdump-tools: kdump produces useless "dumps" on i386

2021-06-11 Thread Rich Ercolani
Package: kdump-tools Version: 1:1.6.5-1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, Installed kdump-tools appear to work, echo 'c' | sudo tee /proc/sysrq-trigger boots the crashkernel and takes a dump and reboots, but attempting to use "crash" on the dump in a way that works in other configurations

Bug#989714: kdump-tools is broken out of the box

2021-06-11 Thread Rich Ercolani
Package: kdump-tools Version: 1:1.6.5-1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, (This part also applies to jessie/x86_64 and bullseye/x86_64, in addition to buster/x86_64.) I installed kdump-tools to take a crash dump, rebooted, verified the crashkernel was configured, triggered the problem I

Bug#989371: irssi has a UAF causing unexpected behavior with SASL

2021-06-01 Thread Rich Ercolani
Package: irssi Version: 1.2.0-2.1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, Today, I ran across a problem in irssi - for me, it manifested as /reload causing my SASL connections to fail auth on (re)connects until I restarted irssi. The problem turns out to be a use-after-free in the SASL handling code;

Bug#989020: linux-image-5.9.0-5-sh7751r entirely fails to boot in qemu-system-sh4

2021-05-23 Thread Rich Ercolani
Package: src:linux Version: 5.9.15-1 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: rincebr...@gmail.com Dear Maintainer, On a lark, I decided to try and get a sh4 boot environment running. So I tried downloading the oldest (2019-11-21, with vmlinuz-4.19.0-5-sh7751r) and newest (2021-04-17, with

Bug#988843: qemu-user-static: qemu-hppa-static completely breaks arguments to programs

2021-05-20 Thread Rich Ercolani
Package: qemu-user-static Version: 1:6.0+dfsg-1~exp0 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: rincebr...@gmail.com Dear Maintainer, I have a Debian sid hppa VM, and I wanted to try using qemu-hppa-static to build things faster than running the full VM. So I tried this with 5.2[mumble] and encountered

Bug#988842: qemu-user-static: qemu-hppa-static breaks some networking

2021-05-20 Thread Rich Ercolani
Package: qemu-user-static Version: 1:5.2+dfsg-10 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: rincebr...@gmail.com Dear Maintainer, (I'm reporting this from my bullseye/sid testbed, but I originally encountered it on 5.2+dfsg-9~bpo10+1 on buster, and subsequently reproduced it here.) I have a Debian sid

Bug#988655: qemu-user-static: qemu-sparc64-static often coredumps running a sid chroot

2021-05-17 Thread Rich Ercolani
Package: qemu-user-static Version: 1:5.2+dfsg-9~bpo10+1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I am trying to debug an issue with an external kernel module on sparc64, so I wanted to rebuild said module faster than my poor (real) UltraSPARC IIi would permit. For bisecting reasons on another

Bug#985835: alien incorrectly replicates filepaths

2021-03-24 Thread Rich Ercolani
in /include/... and /sbin/... I've created a patch, which I'm not entirely happy with, that fixes it for the test case I was reproducing it on (generating deb packages from the upstream zfsonlinux source packages, which use alien to turn their generated rpms into debs). Thanks, - Rich Ercolani

Bug#983492: alien incorrectly generates debian/rules

2021-02-24 Thread Rich Ercolani
Package: alien Version: 8.95.3 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, It appears, sometime between 8.95 and 8.95.3, alien started generating incorrect debian/rules output, resulting in it being unable to convert at least RPMs[1] into DEBs successfully (though I'm guessing it broke everything.)

Bug#915831: zfsutils-linux: Upgrading to 0.7.12 breaks during dpkg --configure

2018-12-07 Thread Rich Ercolani
Package: zfsutils-linux Version: 0.7.12-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, Tried upgrading from stretch-backports 0.7.11 to testing 0.7.12, because the package hadn't landed in backports yet, and discovered it broke on dpkg --configure : Setting up zfsutils-linux (0.7.12-1) ... insserv: Service

Bug#909062: kexec-tools: Want man page for kdump

2018-09-17 Thread Rich Ercolani
see .BR kdump-tools (5) or .BR kexec (8) for what you likely want to know. .SH SEE ALSO .BR makedumpfile (8), .BR crash (8), .BR kdump-tools (5), .BR kexec (8), .BR vmcore-dmesg (8) .SH AUTHOR kdump was written by Eric Biederman. .PP This manual page was initially written by Khalid Aziz , for the Debian project (but may be used by others). Additional content was added by Rich Ercolani .

Bug#880709: zfsutils-linux 0.7.3 has an unlisted dependency on libuutil1linux >= 0.7.3

2017-11-03 Thread Rich Ercolani
Package: zfsutils-linux Version: 0.7.3-1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, As the subject says, if you just install {zfsutils-linux,spl-dkms,zfs-dkms}/unstable, you can end up with libuutil1linux from stable or testing, and get back: zpool: symbol lookup error: /lib/libzpool.so.2: undefined

Bug#813764: linux-source-3.16: "Dazed and confused, but trying to continue" on X10SDV-TLN4F while using perf top

2016-02-04 Thread Rich Ercolani
Package: linux-source-3.16 Version: 3.16.0-4 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I was going about my business, using perf top to see what I was spending a bunch of my time in on this system, when suddenly, I got this written to console: [2425302.546957] Uhhuh. NMI received for unknown reason 11

Bug#792088: apt-get install segfaults with certain repository configurations

2015-07-10 Thread Rich Ercolani
Package: apt Version: 1.0.9.10 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, I tried adding the Mono third-party repositories and doing an apt-get update; apt-get install -y mono-runtime apt-get install mono-runtime refused with an unmet dependency, which I include below only because of what happened