Bug#758870: Supposedly going to be fixed in kernel v3.18

2015-02-23 Thread Rik Theys
Hi, I've had a similar issue with Fedora's 3.17 kernel and indeed it was fixed after an upgrade to 3.18. If Jessie has the same bug, I agree it should best be fixed prior to its release. As a workaround on the 3.17 kernel I started the RPC idmapd service. This service is normally no

Bug#778249: linux-tools-3.16: Please include the x86_energy_perf_policy and turbostat tool on x86

2015-02-12 Thread Rik Theys
Package: linux-tools-3.16 Version: 3.16-3 Severity: wishlist Hi, Would it be possible to include the x86_energy_perf_policy and turbostat tool on x86 builds of linux-tools? It allows you to set the x86 performance policy of the CPU, and a tool to monitor the CPU states of recent intel

Bug#778251: linux-image-3.16.0-4-amd64: x86_energy_perf_policy of cpu0 switches to performance after suspend to ram

2015-02-12 Thread Rik Theys
Package: src:linux Version: 3.16.7-ckt4-3 Severity: normal Hi, I was playing with the x86_energy_perf_policy tool to change the energy performance policy of the CPU. When the system boots, it indicates it has switched the CPU to the 'normal' perf_policy (from 'performance'). [0.011281]

Bug#777165: Update affected kernels

2015-02-06 Thread Rik Theys
found 777165 3.18.5-1~exp1 forwarded 777165 https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92871 stop This bug is also present in the 3.18 kernel from experimental. I've also tested this on 3.19-rc7 and it also has this bug. I filed an upstream bug at

Bug#777165: linux-image-3.16.0-4-amd64: WARNING and guest crash when using nested virtualisation

2015-02-06 Thread Rik Theys
Hi, On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 6:57 AM, Jérôme Deuchnord debian-li...@deuchnord.tk wrote: I have the same problem, and wrote a bug, but nobody answered me: https://lists.debian.org/20150131113439.1239.79224.reportbug@JeromeTanghe-Debian The screen on the photo doesn't say the same thing, but

Bug#777165: Looks similar to RHEL bug

2015-02-05 Thread Rik Theys
Hi, This bug looks like a similar bug in the RHEL bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?format=multipleid=1086058 Regards, Rik

Bug#777165: linux-image-3.16.0-4-amd64: WARNING and guest crash when using nested virtualisation

2015-02-05 Thread Rik Theys
Package: src:linux Version: 3.16.7-ckt4-3 Severity: normal Hi, I enabled nested virtualisation on the kvm_intel module and created a virtual machine (using virt-manager). The VM had the host cpu flags copied so it also had the vmx cpu flag. Inside this VM I configured another virtual machine

Bug#754855: linux-image-3.14-1-amd64: backport PowerEdge VRTX driver from 3.15 to 3.14 kernel

2014-07-15 Thread Rik Theys
Package: src:linux Version: 3.14.12-1 Severity: wishlist Hi, If the 3.14 kernel will be the kernel for Jessie, please consider backporting support for the Dell PowerEdge VRTX storage. Support for this was first introduced with the 3.15 kernel in the following commit:

Re: Bug#753407: exportfs -r does not reexport shares for hosts with changed IPs

2014-07-02 Thread Rik Theys
Hi, Does it help if you run 'exportfs -f'? (or wait about 15 minutes) You can check the content of the various caches that nfsd uses in: /proc/net/rpc I've also recently discovered that /proc/net/rpc/auth.unix.ip/content contains the cache used by nfsd. You can flush that cache with the above

Bug#728909: linux-image-3.11-1-amd64: kernel WARNING in tcp_input.c:2711 tcp_fastretrans_alert

2013-11-06 Thread Rik Theys
Package: src:linux Version: 3.11.6-2 Severity: normal Hi, I received the following WARNING in my kernel messages: [ 846.633954] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 553 at /build/linux-iRt5Ta/linux-3.11.6/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c:2711 tcp_fastretrans_alert+0xb72/0xba0() [ 846.633955] Modules linked in:

Bug#725906: linux-image-3.10-3-amd64: latency when increasing or decreasing brightness

2013-10-10 Thread Rik Theys
Hi, I've experienced similar behaviour since the 3.9 kernels on my Dell Latitude 6530 Adding the following kernel parameter to the grub boot line has dramatically reduced the latency for me: acpi_backlight=vendor It might also make a difference for you. Regards, Rik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Bug#723098: linux-image-3.10-2-amd64: Setting screen backlight bightness extremely sluggish

2013-09-16 Thread Rik Theys
Hi Marc, I'm experiencing similar behaviour on my Dell Latitude E6530: updating the brightness blocks (mouse) input and is very slow. Adding 'acpi_backlight=vendor' to the kernel parameters has helped a lot on my system to make the brightness updates less slow. It's still slower than it used to

Bug#698780: BUG in nfs_mark_delegation_referenced after network outages

2013-02-27 Thread Rik Theys
a way of (reliably) triggering this bug? Regards, Rik -- Rik Theys System Engineer KU Leuven - Dept. Elektrotechniek (ESAT) Kasteelpark Arenberg 10 bus 2440 - B-3001 Leuven-Heverlee +32(0)16/32.11.07 Any errors in spelling, tact

Bug#698780: BUG in nfs_mark_delegation_referenced also triggered without hibernation

2013-01-29 Thread Rik Theys
Hi, We had another system triggering this same BUG which did not come out of resume/hibernate, so the hibernation/suspend does not seem relevant. Although the issue seems to be a lot easier to hit when using hibernate/suspend. Regards, Rik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#698780: linux-image-3.2.0-0.bpo.4-amd64: BUG in nfs_mark_delegation_referenced after resume from hibernate

2013-01-23 Thread Rik Theys
Package: src:linux Version: 3.2.35-2~bpo60+1 Severity: normal Hi, When our NFSv4 client is resumed from hibernate, it logs the following message: NFS: nfs4_reclaim_open_state: Lock reclaim failed! After a while (15 min up to 2 hours) the following BUG is triggered: Jan 22 09:13:47 bax kernel:

Bug#631799: [squeeze] Kernel logs name_count maxed, losing inode data messages

2012-12-12 Thread Rik Theys
Hi, On 12/07/2012 09:48 AM, Rik Theys wrote: Hi, On 12/06/2012 02:51 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Thu, 2012-12-06 at 13:58 +0100, Rik Theys wrote: On 12/06/2012 01:29 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: It is not too difficult to fix up the conflicts. But this is a fairly big change, so I think

Bug#631799: [squeeze] Kernel logs name_count maxed, losing inode data messages

2012-12-07 Thread Rik Theys
Hi, On 12/06/2012 02:51 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Thu, 2012-12-06 at 13:58 +0100, Rik Theys wrote: On 12/06/2012 01:29 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: It is not too difficult to fix up the conflicts. But this is a fairly big change, so I think this bug should now be 'wontfix' for wheezy. Sorry we

Bug#631799: [squeeze] Kernel logs name_count maxed, losing inode data messages

2012-12-06 Thread Rik Theys
Hi, On 12/01/2012 11:10 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Fri, 2012-11-30 at 11:10 +0100, Rik Theys wrote: [...] I cherry picked commits 5ef30ee53b187786e64bdc1f8109e39d17f2ce58 and 5195d8e217a78697152d64fc09a16e063a022465 and tried to compile the result, but it failed with the following error

Bug#631799: [squeeze] Kernel logs name_count maxed, losing inode data messages

2012-12-06 Thread Rik Theys
running, so extra names aren't cheap. What would you consider the upper limit to which we could increase the number? Just so I know at which limit I can stop building test kernels. Regards, Rik -- Rik Theys System Engineer KU Leuven - Dept. Elektrotechniek (ESAT) Kasteelpark Arenberg 10 bus

Bug#631799: [squeeze] Kernel logs name_count maxed, losing inode data messages

2012-11-30 Thread Rik Theys
Hi, On 11/30/2012 08:18 AM, Rik Theys wrote: On 11/29/2012 01:10 PM, Rik Theys wrote: On 11/25/2012 01:12 AM, Jonathan Nieder wrote: On some of our servers, we periodically see name_count maxed, losing inode data messages in the kernel log. As you mentioned, this is said to be fixed

Bug#631799: [squeeze] Kernel logs name_count maxed, losing inode data messages

2012-11-29 Thread Rik Theys
this as this is a production system and I did not plan on rebooting the system before the end of January. I'll see if I can squeeze in a reboot somewhere. Regards, Rik -- Rik Theys System Engineer KU Leuven - Dept. Elektrotechniek (ESAT) Kasteelpark Arenberg 10 bus 2440 - B-3001 Leuven-Heverlee +32(0)16

Bug#631799: [squeeze] Kernel logs name_count maxed, losing inode data messages

2012-11-29 Thread Rik Theys
On 11/29/2012 01:10 PM, Rik Theys wrote: On 11/25/2012 01:12 AM, Jonathan Nieder wrote: On some of our servers, we periodically see name_count maxed, losing inode data messages in the kernel log. As you mentioned, this is said to be fixed by commit 5195d8e217a7 Author: Eric Paris epa

Bug#679750: Lenovo G360: ALPS Touchpad Recognized as PS/2 Generic Mouse(with newly dmesg information)

2012-07-10 Thread Rik Theys
Hi Seth, On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 6:57 AM, Seth Forshee seth.fors...@canonical.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 12:16:27PM +0800, littlebat wrote: 3, If you are interest in this and have time and it is helpful, I can provide a root password for this laptop to you and run ssh service for you

Bug#617453: restarting doesn't always work on Dell Latitude E6400

2012-07-06 Thread Rik Theys
Hi, On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 12:19 AM, Vincent Lefevre vinc...@vinc17.net wrote: On 2012-07-04 20:55:56 +0200, Rik Theys wrote: Vincent Lefevre wrote: When I want to restart (reboot) my Dell Latitude E6400 laptop, the machine sometimes remain on without restarting. The last message

Bug#679750: Lenovo G360: ALPS Touchpad Recognized as PS/2 Generic Mouse

2012-07-05 Thread Rik Theys
Hi, I believe this is the same bug as launchpad bug 606238: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/606238 The bug discusses various Dell laptops with ALPS touchpad that don't work. They now work in the ubuntu 12.04 kernel (and I believe upstream as well), but some (such as the one

Bug#617453: restarting doesn't always work on Dell Latitude E6400

2012-07-04 Thread Rik Theys
Hi, Vincent Lefevre wrote: When I want to restart (reboot) my Dell Latitude E6400 laptop, the machine sometimes remain on without restarting. The last message on the console is: Restarting system. Can you try adding the following parameter to your kernel boot line? Add it to the

Bug#675621: system freeze after safely unmounting usb drive

2012-06-08 Thread Rik Theys
Hi, On 06/07/2012 11:22 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 09:05:42AM +0200, Rik Theys wrote: I have seen similar crashes with the 6.0.x kernel on some of our systems. Unfortunately the systems are in a remote location and I was unable to capture any crash screens

Bug#675621: system freeze after safely unmounting usb drive

2012-06-05 Thread Rik Theys
reassign 675621 linux-2.6 thanks Hi, I have seen similar crashes with the 6.0.x kernel on some of our systems. Unfortunately the systems are in a remote location and I was unable to capture any crash screens. I installed the 3.2 kernel from squeeze-backports on those systems and that fixed

Bug#657078: Patches to reduce footprint of nfs idmapper

2012-06-04 Thread Rik Theys
Hi, With the freeze in a few weeks, I'm wondering if you would still consider applying the following patches to the Wheezy kernel: NFSv4: Further reduce the footprint of the idmapper commit 685f50f9188ac1e8244d0340a9d6ea36b6136cec NFSv4: Reduce the footprint of the idmapper commit

Bug#664859: LVM segfaults on 3.3-rc6

2012-05-14 Thread Rik Theys
Hi, On 05/12/2012 11:32 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Sat, 2012-05-12 at 16:25 -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: Ben Hutchings wrote: Which shows that the segfault is always at the same code address: [ 56.663596] lvm[540]: segfault at ff600400 ip ff600400 sp 7fff25461ec8

Bug#664859: LVM segfaults on 3.3-rc6

2012-05-14 Thread Rik Theys
Hi, On 05/14/2012 10:52 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Mon, 2012-05-14 at 08:48 +0200, Rik Theys wrote: Hi, On 05/12/2012 11:32 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Sat, 2012-05-12 at 16:25 -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: Ben Hutchings wrote: Which shows that the segfault is always at the same code

Bug#659111: Regarding NFSv4: Save the owner/group name string when doing open

2012-05-11 Thread Rik Theys
Hi, On 05/10/2012 02:56 PM, Rik Theys wrote: So, the Save owner/group name string is the most efficient way of ensuring that the open works as expected, and it should be a fairly self-contained patch. There is an alternative solution, which is much shorter (and therefore appropriate for stable

Bug#659111: Regarding NFSv4: Save the owner/group name string when doing open

2012-05-11 Thread Rik Theys
Hi, On 05/10/2012 05:08 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote: I looked at the 2.6.32-44 kernel source to see if the simple fix Trond suggested can be applied there as well, but I fail to find the context where the extra line could be needed. Here's a patch to try against 2.6.32.y. Hope that helps,

Bug#659111: Regarding NFSv4: Save the owner/group name string when doing open

2012-05-10 Thread Rik Theys
Hi, On 05/09/2012 04:34 PM, Myklebust, Trond wrote: Can you please comment on wether additional fixes and/or dependencies are needed to backport the patch below to the Debian 3.2 kernel? So, the Save owner/group name string is the most efficient way of ensuring that the open works as

Bug#659111: Regarding NFSv4: Save the owner/group name string when doing open

2012-05-08 Thread Rik Theys
Hutchings wrote: On Tue, 2012-04-24 at 22:04 +0200, Rik Theys wrote: Hi, I'm experiencing the bug described in the Debian[1] and Red Hat[2] bug tracker. This bug seems to have been fixed in the 3.3 kernel with your commit 6926afd1925a54a13684ebe05987868890665e2b: From: Trond

Bug#659111: Regarding NFSv4: Save the owner/group name string when doing open

2012-05-08 Thread Rik Theys
Hi, On Tue, 8 May 2012, Jonathan Nieder wrote: Hi Trond, Can you please comment on wether additional fixes and/or dependencies are needed to backport the patch below to the Debian 3.2 kernel? The Debian kernel maintainers would prefer some feedback before applying the fix to their 3.2 kernel.

Bug#670505: linux-image-3.2.0-0.bpo.2-amd64: 3.2.{14, 15} regression: NFS delegation problems

2012-04-26 Thread Rik Theys
Package: linux-2.6 Version: 3.2.15-1~bpo60+1 Severity: important Hi, It seems stable update 3.2.14 or 3.2.15 introduced a regression regarding NFS4 delegations. It seems to be the same issue as reported here[1] against the 3.3 kernel. It was also intruduced there between 3.3.0 and 3.3.1. [1]

Bug#670505: [3.2.12 - 3.2.14 regression] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request in nfs_mark_delegation_referenced

2012-04-26 Thread Rik Theys
Hi Jonathan, On Thu, 26 Apr 2012, Jonathan Nieder wrote: Rik Theys wrote: It seems stable update 3.2.14 or 3.2.15 introduced a regression regarding NFS4 delegations. It seems to be the same issue as reported here[1] against the 3.3 kernel. It was also intruduced there between 3.3.0

Bug#657078: patches to reduce the footprint of the nfs4 idmapper

2012-04-25 Thread Rik Theys
or not these get applied in the stable tree (which would be nice if it can be justified), I think we definitely want them in Debian, so cloning the bug to track that. I agree! (but I'm biased). Regards, Rik -- Rik Theys Senior System Engineer KU Leuven - Dept. Elektrotechniek (ESAT) Kasteelpark

Bug#657078: patches to reduce the footprint of the nfs4 idmapper

2012-04-25 Thread Rik Theys
Hi, On 04/24/2012 11:16 PM, Jeff Layton wrote: On Tue, 24 Apr 2012 13:35:13 -0700 Greg KHgre...@linuxfoundation.org wrote: On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 10:22:50PM +0200, Rik Theys wrote: Hi, I'm experiencing the following Red Hat bug[1] on RHEL and also on Debian. I've noticed Fedora has

Bug#659111: Regarding NFSv4: Save the owner/group name string when doing open

2012-04-24 Thread Rik Theys
the patch be part of a stable update to consider it. Regards, Rik [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=659111 [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?format=multipleid=789298 -- Rik Theys Senior System Engineer KU Leuven - Dept. Elektrotechniek (ESAT) Kasteelpark Arenberg 10 B

Bug#657078: patches to reduce the footprint of the nfs4 idmapper

2012-04-24 Thread Rik Theys
these patches in a stable 3.2 update (and/or 3.0.x) so they will become part of the upcoming Debian 7.0 kernel (which is based on 3.2). Have these patches made it into the 3.3 and/or 3.4-rc kernels? Regards, Rik -- Rik Theys Senior System Engineer KU Leuven - Dept. Elektrotechniek (ESAT) Kasteelpark

Bug#659111: [2.6.31 - 2.6.32 regression] Files on NFS4 become unwritable,, but OK after explicit stat

2012-04-06 Thread Rik Theys
Hi, On 03/21/2012 06:39 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote: Rik Theys wrote: Can this commit be backported to the 3.2 kernel in sid? It applies and I have tested it in the past against the 3.2.4 kernel. Just for the record: we are talking about v3.3-rc1~116^2~1 NFSv4: Save the owner/group name

Bug#664859: LVM segfaults on 3.3-rc6

2012-03-23 Thread Rik Theys
Hi Jonathan, On 03/22/2012 04:16 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote: It seems it's not only lvm that segfaults, but also ls etc in the initramfs. Thanks. Are symptoms tied to the version of initramfs-tools or one of its dependencies, or to the kernel version? E.g., if you install another kernel or

Bug#664859: LVM segfaults on 3.3-rc6

2012-03-22 Thread Rik Theys
Hi, On 03/21/2012 05:27 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote: When booting with the quiet option off, I see that the lvm command in the initrd segfaults. Can you get a backtrace, for example by saving a core file to some other (virtual) disk and analyzing it afterward with gdb? See

Bug#664859: LVM segfaults on 3.3-rc6

2012-03-22 Thread Rik Theys
Hi, On 03/22/2012 01:12 PM, Rik Theys wrote: Would unpacking the initramfs on a sid box with the 3.3 kernel and chrooting into it be able to provide any additional info? I believe the initramfs uses another C library than glibc, or is that no longer the case? I did this, but when I chroot

Bug#664859: linux-image-3.3.0-rc6-amd64: LVM segfaults on 3.3 kernel

2012-03-21 Thread Rik Theys
Package: linux-2.6 Version: 3.3~rc6-1~experimental.1 Severity: important Hi, I installed the 3.3.0-rc6-amd64 kernel from experimental on a squeeze VM. The system fails to boot this kernel as it can no longer find the root file system. When booting with the quiet option off, I see that the lvm

Bug#659111: [2.6.31 - 2.6.32 regression] Files on NFS4 become unwritable,, but OK after explicit stat

2012-03-21 Thread Rik Theys
fixed-upstream 659111 fixed 659111 linux-2.6/3.3~rc6-1~experimental.1 quit Hi, The commit that fixes this bug is now part of the upstream 3.3 kernel. I verified it on the 3.3-rc6 kernel from experimental. Can this commit be backported to the 3.2 kernel in sid? It applies and I have tested it

Bug#636306: Patches available in Fedora kernel

2012-03-21 Thread Rik Theys
Hi, The Fedora 16 kernel 3.2.10-3.fc16 has patches that should reduce the memory requirements of the old id mapper. The relevant changelog entry is: * Wed Mar 14 2012 Steve Dickson ste...@redhat.com - Reduce the foot print of the NFSv4 idmapping coda (bz 593035) I have attached the patches

Bug#659111: [2.6.31 - 2.6.32 regression] Files on NFS4 become unwritable,, but OK after explicit stat

2012-03-21 Thread Rik Theys
Hi, On Wed, 21 Mar 2012, Jonathan Nieder wrote: Rik Theys wrote: Can this commit be backported to the 3.2 kernel in sid? It applies and I have tested it in the past against the 3.2.4 kernel. I would also be very much interested to hear how well the following series against 2.6.32.y does

Bug#664859: LVM segfaults on 3.3-rc6

2012-03-21 Thread Rik Theys
Ben, On Wed, 21 Mar 2012, Ben Hutchings wrote: It's probably also worth testing 3.3 when it shows up (currently in NEW but likely to be available within 24 hours). I compiled 3.3 from kernel.org and it has the same problem. I'll try to configure a netconsole and/or serial console tomorrow.

Bug#659111: [2.6.31 - 2.6.32.y regression] Files on NFS4 become unwritable, but OK after explicit stat

2012-02-10 Thread Rik Theys
testing any other NFS functionality now. How do you determine which other patches are required to backport a specific patch (in general)? Is there some magic git command for that? Regards, Rik -- Rik Theys Senior System Engineer KU Leuven - Dept. Elektrotechniek (ESAT) Kasteelpark Arenberg 10 B

Bug#659111: [2.6.31 - 2.6.32.y regression] Files on NFS4 become unwritable, but OK after explicit stat

2012-02-09 Thread Rik Theys
] or the corresponding file in the debian-kernel-handbook package. [1] http://kernel-handbook.alioth.debian.org/ch-common-tasks.html#s-kernel-org-package Which 3.2.y kernel did you test? I will upgrade the lenny test system to sid and try building a kernel with this patch. Regards, Rik -- Rik

Bug#657078: linux-image-3.2.0-1-amd64: Support for new NFS id mapper

2012-02-09 Thread Rik Theys
Hi Ben, On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 3:54 PM, Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote: On Tue, 2012-01-24 at 08:01 +0100, Rik Theys wrote: The allocation failure has already been reported as #636306.  I proposed a fix for that in http://bugs.debian.org/636306#35. The patch in #636306 has

Bug#659111: [2.6.31 - 2.6.32.y regression] Files on NFS4 become unwritable, but OK after explicit stat

2012-02-09 Thread Rik Theys
Hi, On 02/09/2012 10:09 AM, Rik Theys wrote: On 02/08/2012 07:31 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote: Please try v3.3-rc1 or newer from upstream, or try the following patch against stable/linux-3.2.y. Instructions for building a custom kernel can be found at [1] or the corresponding file in the debian

Bug#659111: [2.6.31 - 2.6.32.y regression] Files on NFS4 become unwritable, but OK after explicit stat

2012-02-09 Thread Rik Theys
Hi, On 02/09/2012 12:04 PM, Rik Theys wrote: On 02/08/2012 07:31 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote: Please try v3.3-rc1 or newer from upstream, or try the following patch against stable/linux-3.2.y. Instructions for building a custom kernel can be found at [1] or the corresponding file in the debian

Bug#659111: linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64: Files on NFS4 become unwritable, but OK after explicit stat

2012-02-08 Thread Rik Theys
Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.32-41 Severity: normal Hi, Our home directories here are mounted over NFS4. When I log in to machine A and run vim :q and then log into machine B and do: vim :q I get E137: Viminfo file is not writable: /users/system/rtheys/.viminfo Every invocation of 'vim

Bug#659111: List unaffected versions

2012-02-08 Thread Rik Theys
notfound 659111 linux-2.6/2.6.26-27 notfound 659111 linux-2.6/2.6.29-5 notfound 659111 linux-2.6/2.6.31-2 found 659111 linux-2.6/2.6.32-8~bpo50+1 thanks Hi, It seems Lenny is not affected by this bug. Regards, Rik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Bug#657078: linux-image-3.2.0-1-amd64: Support for new NFS id mapper

2012-01-23 Thread Rik Theys
Package: linux-2.6 Version: 3.2.1-1 Severity: wishlist Hi, Please consider enabling the new NFS ID mapper functionality in the kernel: CONFIG_NFS_USE_NEW_IDMAPPER This will also need support in nfs-utils. Enabling this feature should prevent page allocation failure errors we frequently get

Bug#657078: linux-image-3.2.0-1-amd64: Support for new NFS id mapper

2012-01-23 Thread Rik Theys
Hi Ben, On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 11:28 PM, Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote: On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 10:43:18PM +0100, Rik Theys wrote: Please consider enabling the new NFS ID mapper functionality in the kernel: CONFIG_NFS_USE_NEW_IDMAPPER Enabling this feature should prevent page

Re: [Fwd: Latest kernel stable/longterm status]

2012-01-12 Thread Rik Theys
Hi, I'm just an end-user but personally I would prefer to see Wheezy release with a more recent kernel than 3.2. If Wheezy freezes in June linux 3.4 might already be released. When Wheezy releases there will be a 3.5 and likely even a 3.6. Having a more recent kernel (like 3.4) will result

Bug#655109: linux-2.6: BUG in videobuf-core triggered by mplayer on HVR-1300

2012-01-09 Thread Rik Theys
Hi, On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 7:36 PM, Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote: Jan 8 17:12:52 saturn kernel: [ 1623.655341] [ cut here ] Jan 8 17:12:52 saturn kernel: [ 1623.655363] kernel BUG at

Bug#655109: linux-2.6: BUG in videobuf-core triggered by mplayer on HVR-1300

2012-01-09 Thread Rik Theys
[Reformatted as plain-text so it will get accepted by the vger.kernel.org list] On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 1:14 PM, Rik Theys rik.th...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 7:36 PM, Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote: Jan  8 17:12:52 saturn kernel: [ 1623.655341] [ cut

Bug#653381: linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64: page allocation failures with virtio-net driver

2011-12-27 Thread Rik Theys
Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.32-39 Severity: normal Hi, We have a virtual machine now running as a KVM virtual machine. Before, this virtual machine was running as a Xen domU. The VM has been given the same amount of memory and number of cpu's as it had with Xen. We configured the

Bug#568557: keyboard and mouse lockup, system is still running (asus_atk0110?)

2011-12-03 Thread Rik Theys
Hi Jonathan, On Fri, 2 Dec 2011, Jonathan Nieder wrote: Thanks, Rik! It would also be useful to know the newest kernel you've experienced this problem on, so we can rule out it having silently gone away (though I don't think that's likely). cteg, Rik, what kernel are you using these days?

Bug#568557: linux-image-2.6.32-2-amd64: keyboard and mouse lockup, system is still running (asus_atk0110?)

2011-10-01 Thread Rik Theys
still log in on the system using SSH. Regards, Rik On Fri, 30 Sep 2011, Jonathan Nieder wrote: tags 568557 + moreinfo quit Hi, Rik Theys wrote: cteg wrote: I hopefully found a workaround, this is working since hours, keyboard and mouse seem stable now. Its not enough just to rmmod

Bug#631799: linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64: Kernel logs name_count maxed, losing inode data messages

2011-06-27 Thread Rik Theys
Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.32-35 Severity: normal Tags: patch Hi, On some of our servers, we periodically see name_count maxed, losing inode data messages in the kernel log. From what I can tell from Google, they are probably harmless and caused by the auditing subsystem. The following

Bug#617508: patch available

2011-04-22 Thread Rik Theys
Hi, On 04/15/2011 05:49 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote: Please consider adding this patch to a ((old)stable) kernel update. I don't think this is sufficiently critical for an oldstable update. For stable, yes, we'll consider it once it's accepted upstream. Please let us know when that happens. It

Bug#617508: patch available

2011-04-20 Thread Rik Theys
Hi, On 04/15/2011 05:49 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=683372 Please consider adding this patch to a ((old)stable) kernel update. I don't think this is sufficiently critical for an oldstable update. For stable, yes, we'll consider it once it's accepted

Bug#617508: patch available

2011-04-14 Thread Rik Theys
Hi, Red Hat has debugged this problem and has provided a patch. I've tested the patch on the RHEL6 kernel and it seems to fix the problem. The patch is available in the Red Hat bug report: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=683372 Please consider adding this patch to a

Bug#618924: linux-image-2.6.38-1-amd64: Please enable transparent hugepages

2011-03-19 Thread Rik Theys
Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.38-1 Severity: wishlist Hi, It seems transparent hugepages (a new feature in 2.6.38) is not enabled in the Debian build. Please consider enabling transparent hugepages in the Debian kernel. The feature could default to being disabled by default, but can be

Bug#617508: Reported upstream

2011-03-10 Thread Rik Theys
Hi, As this appears to be an upstream problem, I filed a bug report in the kernel bugzilla under File Systems/NFS. The upstream bug number is 30862. https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30862 Regards, Rik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Bug#617508: linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64: File permissions wrong on NFS4 mounts, but OK after explicit stat

2011-03-09 Thread Rik Theys
Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.32-30 Severity: normal Hi, We initially experied this bug on a RHEL6 server and CentOS 5.5 clients. See also my Red Hat bugzilla report: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=683372 I can reproduce this with: - Debian Lenny clients against the RHEL6

Bug#606964: linux-image-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64: Xen fails to boot dom0 kernel on system with, lots of RAM

2011-01-06 Thread Rik Theys
Ian, On 01/06/2011 10:09 AM, Ian Campbell wrote: I can test some more options on this system for a few more days, but then I have to reinstall it. If you are able it would be useful to know if the tip of xen-4.0-testing.hg (which is just about to become 4.0.2-rc1) works or not. You would only

Bug#606964: linux-image-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64: Xen fails to boot dom0 kernel on system with, lots of RAM

2011-01-04 Thread Rik Theys
Iann Now I think of it can you also collect a similar log with the dom0_mem workaround in place, for comparisons sake. Are you able to rebuild the kernel with CONFIG_XEN_MAX_DOMAIN_MEMORY=128? If so then a log of that boot for comparison would be very interesting. If you don't know how

Bug#606964: linux-image-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64: Xen fails to boot dom0 kernel on system with, lots of RAM

2011-01-03 Thread Rik Theys
Hi, On 12/22/2010 10:34 AM, Ian Campbell wrote: I was wondering about clamping something in the kernel to correspond to CONFIG_XEN_MAX_DOMAIN_MEMORY and avoid the issue but you say the crash is after x VCPUS and before Scrubbing Free RAM so I'm surprised the dom0 kernel has run at this point

Bug#606964: linux-image-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64: Xen fails to boot dom0 kernel on system with, lots of RAM

2010-12-21 Thread Rik Theys
Hi, On 12/14/2010 02:41 PM, Ian Campbell wrote: When adding dom0_mem=2G to the boot line, the system boots OK. I expect it will work ok with everything up to and including dom0_mem=32G? It does. It depends a bit on your usecase but it is often best recommended to use dom0_mem= anyway,

Bug#607634: linux-image-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64: task blocked for 120s in xen_force_evtchn_callback

2010-12-21 Thread Rik Theys
On 12/20/2010 03:19 PM, Bastian Blank wrote: On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 02:02:51PM +0100, Rik Theys wrote: I get task blocked for 120s errors (see below). Upgrade dpkg to something newer. 1.15.8.6 or 1.15.8.7. Are any of those versions expected to enter squeeze? Regards, Rik

Bug#606968: DMA: Out of SW-IOMMU space with Xen kernel during heavy I/O

2010-12-14 Thread Rik Theys
Ben, On Tue, 14 Dec 2010, Ben Hutchings wrote: mpt2sas was not using the correct test for whether DMA mapping succeeded, so it tried to continue after the DMA mapping failure. This has been fixed in a later version and I will apply the fix to Debian's branch of 2.6.32. Thanks! However,

Bug#606968: DMA: Out of SW-IOMMU space with Xen kernel during heavy I/O

2010-12-14 Thread Rik Theys
On Tue, 14 Dec 2010, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Tue, 2010-12-14 at 13:24 +0100, Rik Theys wrote: This system _has_ a RAID controller and the disk is in a RAID1. Why would the filesystem switch to read-only mode? Is it because the RAID is too slow? If the RAID is too slow, this should just give

Bug#606968: DMA: Out of SW-IOMMU space with Xen kernel during heavy I/O

2010-12-14 Thread Rik Theys
On Tue, 14 Dec 2010, Rik Theys wrote: On Tue, 14 Dec 2010, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Tue, 2010-12-14 at 13:24 +0100, Rik Theys wrote: This system _has_ a RAID controller and the disk is in a RAID1. Why would the filesystem switch to read-only mode? Is it because the RAID is too slow

Bug#588509: hang sometimes occurs earlier

2010-07-14 Thread Rik Theys
Hi, I'm seeing the same issue (hang at boot of -17 kernel) but the hang is sometimes much earlier in the boot process on my system: [0.00] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset [0.00] Initializing cgroup subsys cpu [0.00] Linux version 2.6.32-5-amd64 (Debian 2.6.32-17)

Bug#534964: Including memory cgroup support disabled by default

2010-07-13 Thread Rik Theys
Hi, Did you find the time to run tests to find the performance cost of enabling the feature (disabled-by-default)? Google [1] shows some low overhead patches for the memory controller, but I don't know if they have been merged. [1] http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/6/15/12 Regards, Rik -- Rik

Bug#568557: linux-image-2.6.32-2-amd64: keyboard and mouse lockup, system is still running (asus_atk0110?)

2010-07-04 Thread Rik Theys
Hi, I had a similar issue on Fedora 12 (and now 13), with the keyboard and mouse locking up but the rest of the system OK. The problem went away for me by adding the following kernel parameter to the grub configuration: pcie_aspm=off My motherboard is also an ASUS P7P55D-E. Regards, Rik

Bug#571659: duplicate bug

2010-03-02 Thread Rik Theys
Hi, It seems this was already filed in bug #534964, so this bug can be closed. Regards, Rik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Bug#571659: linux-2.6: missing memory cgroup support

2010-02-26 Thread Rik Theys
Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.32-9 Severity: wishlist Hi, Please consider adding the memory cgroup feature to the kernel. CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR=y CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP=y It uses a little bit of memory but can be disabled using a boot option. It's also enabled in Fedora 12.

Bug#520379: linux-image-2.6.26-bpo.1-amd64: Lots of kernel messages about lockd and the number of nfsd threads

2009-03-19 Thread Rik Theys
Package: linux-image-2.6.26-bpo.1-amd64 Version: 2.6.26-13~bpo40+1 Severity: normal Hi, I'm running the 2.6.26 kernel from backports on etch. The server in question is an NFS file server. During periods we're getting a lot of lockd: too many open connections, consider increasing the number of

Bug#496917: Also happens on migration

2009-01-15 Thread Rik Theys
to reproduce. Regards, Rik -- Rik Theys System Engineer KU Leuven - Dept. Elektrotechniek (ESAT) Kasteelpark Arenberg 10 B-3001 LEUVEN - HEVERLEE Tel.: +32(0)16/32.11.07 Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors

Bug#499230: [Fwd: [Bug 11580] /dev/rtc entries are not created with 2.6.26+ on HP DL360]

2008-10-07 Thread Rik Theys
Hi, Can the patch be applied to the Debian kernel so lenny releases with a kernel which works on common HP servers? Regards, Rik -- Rik Theys System Engineer KU Leuven - Dept. Elektrotechniek (ESAT) Kasteelpark Arenberg 10 B-3001 LEUVEN - HEVERLEE Tel.: +32(0)16/32.11.07

Bug#499230: upstream bug report tagged as resolved

2008-10-01 Thread Rik Theys
Hi, The upstream bug report has been tagged as resolved and code_fix. I assume this means it is scheduled for inclusion in 2.6.27. Any chance of having this patch backported (the patch applies cleanly on the Debian 2.6.26 kernel) to the 2.6.26 kernel targetted for Lenny? Regards, Rik

Bug#499230: patch

2008-09-18 Thread Rik Theys
Hi, The patch provided by David Brownell in the upstream bug report[1] seems to fix this issue. I've applied the patch to the Debian 2.6.26-4 kernel and it seems to work. Please consider applying this patch to the Debian kernel targetted for Lenny. Regards, Rik [1]

Bug#499230: linux-image-2.6.26-1-amd64: No RTC device created, fails to get/set hardware clock

2008-09-17 Thread Rik Theys
Package: linux-image-2.6.26-1-amd64 Version: 2.6.26-5 Severity: important When booting the latest Debian kernel (tried 2.6.26-4 and 2.6.26-5) on an HP DL360 G5, no rtc device is created in /dev and the system can not get the hardware clock time at boot and save it at shutdown. In the kernel

Bug#499230: other kernels

2008-09-17 Thread Rik Theys
Hi, I've tried some other kernels on the system: 2.6.18-6-amd64 from etch: OK 2.6.24-etchnhalf from etch: OK 2.6.25-1 from snapshot.debian.net: OK 2.6.26-1-amd64 (up to 2.6.26-6~snapshot.12236): NOT OK 2.6.27-rc6: NOT OK Fedora kernel 2.6.26.3-29.fc9.x86_64: NOT OK Maybe related to

Bug#496028: linux-2.6: host kernel oopses when adding a cpu to a kvm virtual machine

2008-08-22 Thread Rik Theys
Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.26-3 Severity: normal I'm running a kvm virtual machine (with CentOS 5.2 as the guest OS, but it doesn't seem to matter) on a Lenny host (using the 2.6.26 kernel and kvm from unstable). When I try to hot-add a cpu to the virtual machine, the host kernel oopses

Bug#493567: linux-image-2.6.26-1-amd64: /dev/rtc* not created with 2.6.26, rtc_cmos module must be manually loaded.

2008-08-03 Thread Rik Theys
Package: linux-image-2.6.26-1-amd64 Version: 2.6.26-1 Severity: normal Hi, When booting the 2.6.26 kernel from unstable on Lenny, hwclock complains during boot that it can not read the hardware clock using any known methods. When I look in /dev, the /dev/rtc* device is not there. The device

Bug#493567: linux-image-2.6.26-1-amd64: /dev/rtc* not created with 2.6.26, rtc_cmos module must be manually loaded.

2008-08-03 Thread Rik Theys
Hi, On Sunday 03 August 2008 16:08:18 Bastian Blank wrote: On Sun, Aug 03, 2008 at 02:38:10PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: On Sun, Aug 03, 2008 at 12:00:10PM +0200, Rik Theys wrote: When booting the 2.6.26 kernel from unstable on Lenny, hwclock complains during boot that it can not read

Bug#493567: linux-image-2.6.26-1-amd64: /dev/rtc* not created with 2.6.26, rtc_cmos module must be manually loaded.

2008-08-03 Thread Rik Theys
On Sunday 03 August 2008 16:08:18 Bastian Blank wrote: On Sun, Aug 03, 2008 at 02:38:10PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: On Sun, Aug 03, 2008 at 12:00:10PM +0200, Rik Theys wrote: When booting the 2.6.26 kernel from unstable on Lenny, hwclock complains during boot that it can not read

Bug#493567: linux-image-2.6.26-1-amd64: /dev/rtc* not created with 2.6.26, rtc_cmos module must be manually loaded.

2008-08-03 Thread Rik Theys
Hi, On Sunday 03 August 2008 16:08:18 Bastian Blank wrote: On Sun, Aug 03, 2008 at 02:38:10PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: On Sun, Aug 03, 2008 at 12:00:10PM +0200, Rik Theys wrote: When booting the 2.6.26 kernel from unstable on Lenny, hwclock complains during boot that it can not read

Bug#491309: linux-2.6: Kernel supports only 32 cpu's

2008-07-21 Thread Rik Theys
Bastian Blank wrote: Setting it to 255 needs 2MiB of image size and unswappable memory. |textdata bss dec hex filename |1345623 3148364 417112 4911099 4aeffb x86_64-255/vmlinux |1339887 380556 273880 1994323 1e6e53 x86_64-32/vmlinux It adds 32 interrupt vectors

Bug#491309: linux-2.6: Kernel supports only 32 cpu's

2008-07-18 Thread Rik Theys
Subject: linux-2.6: Kernel supports only 32 cpu's Package: linux-2.6 Severity: wishlist Hi, The current Debian kernel supports 32 cpu's according to the /boot/config file. The RHEL/CentOS 5 kernel has CONFIG_NR_CPUS set to 255. Any chance the Debian kernel parameter can be adjusted to be a

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