Re: Time to change the debian-ports list?
On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 07:01:00PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: Alexander Wirt dixit: Could you please (technically) summarize what needs to be done from listmaster side? 1. Remove whatever debian-po...@lists.debian.org is right now 2. Create a new debian-po...@lists.debian.org mailing list which works just like the other regular lists 3. Announce the new debian-po...@lists.debian.org so that people can subscribe to it; document that there is no longer an address to reach *all* ports but that people should eMail the individual ports’ lists (and cross-post if needed, but only to the amount needed), and that the new debian-po...@lists.debian.org instead is a mailing list for discussion about a) debian-ports.org infrastructure b) porting Debian in general c) questions related to setting up a Debian port, including wanna-build, buildd, etc. That's exactly it, yes. Thanks. :-) -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com I suspect most samba developers are already technically insane... Of course, since many of them are Australians, you can't tell. -- Linus Torvalds -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/2014095129.gg14...@einval.com
Ultra-5 freezing
hi i have an Ultra-5 which has been housed in a datacenter for several years. It used to be running SunOS 5.9 and i didn't experience any problems with it. As that OS became obsolete, I installed Wheezy on the box not too long ago but now am experiencing hard freezes with no info in the system log as to what is happening. how can i troubleshoot? is it a software/OS/kernel issue? i did a barebones installation, not selecting any roles for the computer and have installed all software as needed (mainly openssh server), so it is a very slim installation. is it a recent hardware failure? how can i test RAM and other hardware, for example? i have another sun server in the same datacenter and i was looking to link the two boxes between their serial ports; perhaps i can see more info on the console when the freezes happen. problem is i am not too good at figuring out how to wire such a link. The Ultra-5 has a DB9 port and the other server has an RJ45 port, and i have an Avocent Sun DB9-RJ45 adapter made to be used with their Cyclades serial port server which is what i used to have the Ultra-5 connected to, but the Cyclades is gone now so i'm trying to link it to my other server. i started a discussion about this in the Avocent forums[1] thanks 1. http://community.emerson.com/networkpower/support/avocent/f/105/t/4124.aspx -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/lusqjk$qkn$1...@ger.gmane.org
Re: Ultra-5 freezing
Hello, scar a écrit : hi i have an Ultra-5 which has been housed in a datacenter for several years. It used to be running SunOS 5.9 and i didn't experience any problems with it. As that OS became obsolete, I installed Wheezy on the box not too long ago but now am experiencing hard freezes with no info in the system log as to what is happening. how can i troubleshoot? is it a software/OS/kernel issue? i did a barebones installation, not selecting any roles for the computer and have installed all software as needed (mainly openssh server), so it is a very slim installation. is it a recent hardware failure? how can i test RAM and other hardware, for example? You can use diag_switch? = true and diag_level = max (with a null modem serial line). You can also use SunVTS from Solaris. I have some trouble with all my U5 memory modules (until I use compatibles modules, not Sun branded ones). And UltraSPARC IIi/440 MHz seems to be fragile. BUT : for several months, Linux/Sparc64 is unfortunately not stable anymore (or completely broken). After 2.6.35 kernel, I can see random deadlock on all my sparc64 (sun4v _and_ sun4u). Now, I run NetBSD or Solaris 10. But FreeBSD and OpenBSD run fine also. If you want to help to continue linux/sparc64 port, you're welcome. But if you want to use your workstation, I think you have to forget Linux... Regards, JKB -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/5411fad5.7040...@systella.fr
Re: Ultra-5 freezing
Hi Scar, When you say you are experiencing hard freezes, can you give a time frame? From you email it sounds like this: * Installed Wheezy (works 100% perfectly?) * Some time passes * Now, it hard freezes (at boot? after a minute? after an hour? one week?) I don't have problems with my Sun Ultra 80 or SB 2500 on Linux. I also don't keep them on for weeks at a time though -- although I used to without issues. Patrick On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 1:45 PM, scar s...@drigon.com wrote: hi i have an Ultra-5 which has been housed in a datacenter for several years. It used to be running SunOS 5.9 and i didn't experience any problems with it. As that OS became obsolete, I installed Wheezy on the box not too long ago but now am experiencing hard freezes with no info in the system log as to what is happening. how can i troubleshoot? is it a software/OS/kernel issue? i did a barebones installation, not selecting any roles for the computer and have installed all software as needed (mainly openssh server), so it is a very slim installation. is it a recent hardware failure? how can i test RAM and other hardware, for example? i have another sun server in the same datacenter and i was looking to link the two boxes between their serial ports; perhaps i can see more info on the console when the freezes happen. problem is i am not too good at figuring out how to wire such a link. The Ultra-5 has a DB9 port and the other server has an RJ45 port, and i have an Avocent Sun DB9-RJ45 adapter made to be used with their Cyclades serial port server which is what i used to have the Ultra-5 connected to, but the Cyclades is gone now so i'm trying to link it to my other server. i started a discussion about this in the Avocent forums[1] thanks 1. http://community.emerson.com/networkpower/support/avocent/f/105/t/4124.aspx -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/lusqjk$qkn$1...@ger.gmane.org
Re: Ultra-5 freezing
Hi, On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 09:41:09PM +0200, BERTRAND Joël wrote: BUT : for several months, Linux/Sparc64 is unfortunately not stable anymore (or completely broken). After 2.6.35 kernel, I can see random deadlock on all my sparc64 (sun4v _and_ sun4u). Now, I run NetBSD or Solaris 10. But FreeBSD and OpenBSD run fine also. I have Ultra 5 in active use. It used to suffer from random hard lockups/hangs, but those issues disappeared with recent Linux mainline kernels (I think after 3.12 or so). A. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140912000340.gc...@drone.musicnaut.iki.fi
