Re: Bug#805988: aboot : dpkg-buildpackage -A on alpha

2017-01-11 Thread Steve Langasek
possible that a better option nowadays would be to use the gcc-alpha-linux-gnu cross-compiler package. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer

Re: Potential issues for most ports (Was: Re: Bits from the Release Team (Jessie freeze info))

2013-11-03 Thread Steve Langasek
have access to their own box for porting work. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com

Re: DSO linking changes for wheezy

2010-11-16 Thread Steve Langasek
-config for linking. I don't argue that this makes --as-needed *correct* as a default, but I think it's clear how using --as-needed may benefit a distribution in terms of reducing churn when library dependencies change. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS

Re: latest debian testing on alpha installer?

2010-11-08 Thread Steve Langasek
around? Debian will not release an Alpha port with squeeze, due to lack of interest from porters. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2009/10/msg0.html -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I

Re: latest debian testing on alpha installer?

2010-11-08 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 01:48:42AM +0100, Adrian Zaugg wrote: On 11/08/2010 07:18 PM, Steve Langasek wrote: On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 11:10:54AM +0100, Adrian Zaugg wrote: Debian will not release an Alpha port with squeeze, due to lack of interest from porters. I followed the thread at the time

Re: Upgrading Sarge to Etch - failing to boot new kernel

2010-06-18 Thread Steve Langasek
kernel after 2.6.22 would work. As you are trying .18, you should have luck, but don’t upgrade to etchnhalf! The -legacy kernel should not be needed for a 164LX (and indeed, I think that one is guaranteed not to work on said hardware). Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long

Re: Bug#561418: texlive-bin: FTBFS on alpha: relocation truncated to fit: GPREL16 against symbol `zzzaa' defined in COMMON section in pdftex-pdftexextra.o

2009-12-18 Thread Steve Langasek
.html. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor

Re: Bug#561418: texlive-bin: FTBFS on alpha: relocation truncated to fit: GPREL16 against symbol `zzzaa' defined in COMMON section in pdftex-pdftexextra.o

2009-12-18 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 06:43:48PM +0100, Hilmar Preusse wrote: On 18.12.09 Steve Langasek (vor...@debian.org) wrote: On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 02:03:08PM +0100, Hilmar Preusse wrote: On 18.12.09 Norbert Preining (prein...@logic.at) wrote: On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, Hilmar Preusse wrote: I

Re: Bug#558752: www.debian.org: Too many Alpha porters on intro/organization

2009-12-06 Thread Steve Langasek
) no active Alpha porters in Debian. thanks, [1] http://www.debian.org/intro/organization#distribution Alpha -- debian-alpha@lists.debian.org member Falk Hueffner member John Goerzen member Steve Langasek member Thimo Neubauer member Norbert Tretkowski Should

Re: [DebianGIS-dev] Bug#545843: Bug#545843: grass: FTBFS: configure: error: *** Unable to locate ODBC includes.

2009-09-11 Thread Steve Langasek
suppose... Eh, it failed because it was trying to build against the version of unixodbc-dev that was missing the headers. Will work if rebuilt now. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world

Re: Bug#515826: document that virtual_root.force_probe=1 is required for jensen

2009-08-21 Thread Steve Langasek
I had assumed it did), it should go in the release notes; since it definitely affects installs it should definitely go there as well, in the best case. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move

current status of alpha in squeeze

2009-07-30 Thread Steve Langasek
to be signs that this is changing over the next month, or else alpha should be dropped from the release planning. Could you please let us know whether you will have time to work on this? Awaiting your reply, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian

Re: Installing on a Alpha XL 300

2009-04-14 Thread Steve Langasek
know of for downloading MILO is http://milo.core-systems.de/; but once you get the MILO images, you're still pretty much on your own for getting Debian installed using it, since there's no support for this in the installer. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free

Re: man-db_2.5.4-1 broken on Alpha

2009-03-12 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 02:54:34PM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: Fix by upgrading to man-db_2.5.4-2 (currently in the unstable repository). If it's fixed by upgrading to the unstable version, I don't see that there's anything further to be done here? -- Steve Langasek Give me

Re: man-db_2.5.4-1 broken on Alpha

2009-03-12 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 07:19:42PM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 04:02:32PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: Fix by upgrading to man-db_2.5.4-2 (currently in the unstable repository). If it's fixed by upgrading to the unstable version, I don't see that there's anything

Re: squeeze and the future of the alpha port, redux

2009-02-22 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 01:52:03PM +0100, Oliver Falk wrote: Steve Langasek wrote: [ ... ] not to mention the serious problems of the port's viability implied by things like the lack of Java support gcj and openjdk work fine in Fedora. AFAIK, Gentoo also has Java for Alpha. So

Re: squeeze and the future of the alpha port, redux

2009-02-22 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 10:01:52PM +1300, Michael Cree wrote: Steve Langasek wrote: Also unsurprisingly (to me, given my observations that had led to the post in the first place), no one else has yet stepped up to be an alpha porter for squeeze. What is involved in this job? Collectively

squeeze and the future of the alpha port, redux

2009-02-20 Thread Steve Langasek
the work on alpha for Squeeze has an opportunity to do so. But in the absence of some demonstration of committment in the next couple of weeks, on March 7 I'll plan to ask the ftp team and the release team to drop alpha from the archive for testing and unstable. -- Steve Langasek

Re: The State of Alpha Linux

2009-01-08 Thread Steve Langasek
, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor

Re: Bug#497230: [alpha] legacy and generic package descriptions

2008-11-16 Thread Steve Langasek
missing something? Yes, you are. A kernel loaded at the legacy address *won't boot* on the newer hardware. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer

Re: firefox-3.0.3 working on alphaev56

2008-10-21 Thread Steve Langasek
that fixing this would also fix the longstanding issues with modules on SMP kernels... -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp

Re: Succesful and smooth install of Lenny Beta2 on AS DS20

2008-09-28 Thread Steve Langasek
in the installer would have been a bit much; it was more straightforward to always require ext2 on /boot, since the advantages of ext3 over ext2 don't generally apply to /boot anyway. Is there a to do list page somewhere on the net? http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Steve

Re: Software raid on alpha

2008-09-22 Thread Steve Langasek
this because SRM can't boot from a disk that uses DOS partition tables. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.debian.org/ [EMAIL

Re: etch -- lenny upgrade report on Alpha platform

2008-08-28 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 09:35:29AM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 11:09:20AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: A report against upgrade-reports would definitely be useful here, and in particular I think we would want a copy of /var/log/apt/term.log covering the upgrade attempt

Re: lenny+1 and the future of the alpha port?

2008-08-28 Thread Steve Langasek
people, but frankly, if your goal is to show that you can keep old hardware working, you don't need a supported, recent OS to do that, and I don't think the Debian project should carry a port along for no other reason than this. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough

Re: etch -- lenny upgrade report on Alpha platform

2008-08-24 Thread Steve Langasek
... :) That sounds like it should be a separate bug report on the radeon package, then? Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer

Re: Build dependencies and the alpha autobuilder

2008-08-23 Thread Steve Langasek
in alpha? Dep-waits in wanna-build are sticky: if the package was once a build-dep and the package went to dep-wait, and then you upload another version of the package without the build-dep, someone has to clear the dep-wait by hand. I've done this now for alpha, armel and hppa. Cheers, -- Steve

Re: lenny+1 and the future of the alpha port?

2008-08-23 Thread Steve Langasek
, filing a bug report against the upgrade-reports pseudopackage is probably best. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp

Re: lenny+1 and the future of the alpha port?

2008-08-22 Thread Steve Langasek
that are more powerful *and* more energy efficient, for relatively little money - how long would a more energy-efficient machine have to run in place of your alpha, in order to pay for itself in electricity savings? For me, I know the answer is not long. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give

lenny+1 and the future of the alpha port?

2008-08-21 Thread Steve Langasek
of resentment. Thoughts? Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.debian.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Pkg-scicomp-devel] including atlas in lenny

2008-08-18 Thread Steve Langasek
for lenny; cc:ing debian-alpha, though, in case someone else feels differently and is willing to work on fixing the problem. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer

Re: software RAID1 with 2.6.x kernel

2008-07-20 Thread Steve Langasek
that was included in etch, at least for the initial upgrade. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.debian.org/ [EMAIL

Re: Please upload 'r-base on alpha' build (Re: Please hint or push r-base 2.7.1-1 into testing)

2008-07-14 Thread Steve Langasek
that have not been uploaded yet, so this isn't a case of just a single package being overlooked; and if every maintainer emailed every time there was a 3-day delay in a build being signed, that would be a whole lot of counterproductive email. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long

Re: linker bug on alpha

2008-07-03 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 05:07:02PM +0200, Torsten Marek wrote: I'm the maintainer of python-qt4 and currently trying to get the latest version (4.4.2) into testing. Please try building with LDFLAGS=-Wl,--no-relax. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS

Re: aboot update for etch

2008-06-07 Thread Steve Langasek
intentional. Yikes; no, they weren't - apparently, cvsps doesn't handle vendor branches all that well! I've fixed this up now, the hard way. Thanks for bringing it to my attention. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set

Re: aboot update for etch

2008-06-05 Thread Steve Langasek
users on these lists. Prebuilt packages are here, debdiff follows: http://dannf.org/aboot/ Knowing the nature of the failure and fix, I'm confident that your testing is sufficient, provided that the patch is the same one applied in lenny. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me

Re: [stable] aboot - support recent kernels, fix build issues

2008-05-30 Thread Steve Langasek
. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.debian.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

Re: [stable] aboot - support recent kernels, fix build issues

2008-05-30 Thread Steve Langasek
of no way to map to a Linux device name. If I had a way to map between these two naming schemes, I would most certainly be using it in the installer to change the boot device from CD to hard drive on the post-install reboot. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough

Re: aboot vs. linux-image-2.6.24

2008-05-02 Thread Steve Langasek
up anywhere yet (I cannot fathom why houses in the 1970s just weren't built with ethernet to every room...). -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer

Re: your mail

2008-03-19 Thread Steve Langasek
, Thibaut. You don't need access to a different architecture to reproduce this, you just need to try building the package using dpkg-buildpackage -rsudo -uc -us -B. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can

Re: Alpha 4100 rawhide with smp kernel 2.6.18.8 WORKING

2008-03-03 Thread Steve Langasek
trouble with some modules, but maybe this wouldn't be a problem in your case? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp

Re: math-emu on buildd machine?

2008-01-13 Thread Steve Langasek
is not relevant on that chip. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.debian.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: math-emu on buildd machine?

2008-01-13 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 07:41:11AM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote: Steve Langasek wrote: On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 02:01:41PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote: Is the math-emu module loaded (or compiled in the kernel) on the buildd alpha machines? The gnu-smalltalk package is failing for 3.0 because

Re: No port maintainers?

2008-01-04 Thread Steve Langasek
://wiki.debian.org/alphaLennyReleaseRecertification. No one else is going to help? :) -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: ldconfig (of libc6.1 2.7) caused segfault on alpha

2007-12-14 Thread Steve Langasek
installed UTF-capable terminals. Hrm? What terminals are you using that aren't UTF8-capable? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer

Re: radvd unaligned trap errors

2007-12-12 Thread Steve Langasek
of send_ra(): /* char chdr[CMSG_SPACE(sizeof(struct in6_pktinfo))]; */ char __attribute__((aligned(8))) chdr[CMSG_SPACE(sizeof(struct in6_pktinfo))]; Could you maybe submit this as a bug report on the radvd package? Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough

Re: ldconfig (of libc6.1 2.7) caused segfault on alpha

2007-12-08 Thread Steve Langasek
would be a start.) -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.debian.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Debian Etch on Samsung 164UX/BX Alpha

2007-12-06 Thread Steve Langasek
/want two hard disks? If this is a system that can only ever be booted from arcs, I see no reason why you wouldn't put everything on a single disk with a FAT partition. (Or if you wanted two disks, to RAID them instead.) -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS

Re: Who to contact to get a buildd retry on alpha?

2007-11-30 Thread Steve Langasek
that it builds reliably. The very test that's failing includes documentation of why the test is broken and unreliable. Please either fix the test or disable it in the build. Having to retry packages because they sometimes fail is obnoxious, especially when a security update is involved. -- Steve

Re: Who to contact to get a buildd retry on alpha?

2007-11-30 Thread Steve Langasek
. Who should I be bothering? 0.37-4 might actually be able to make it into testing after a depressingly long hiatus, so I would really like to see it retried quickly. Is monotone some programing language? It's a VCS. The test suite appears to be done in the lua language. -- Steve Langasek

Re: [BUGS] Test suite fails on alpha architecture

2007-11-25 Thread Steve Langasek
; but now going back to it I'm getting the correct division by zero output. But postgresql still fails to build with the same errors as before. FWIW, the first test suite failure involving floor() has been resolved now in the glibc package in unstable. -- Steve Langasek Give me

Re: miata linux kernel

2007-11-19 Thread Steve Langasek
no one can really fix it anymore. Source code is still available for MILO, it's just not buildable with a modern toolchain. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [BUGS] Test suite fails on alpha architecture

2007-11-07 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 01:49:53PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It may be specific to particular versions of glibc and the kernel. At least one of the test regressions is actually due to the bug described in http://lists.debian.org/debian-alpha/2007/10

Re: [BUGS] Test suite fails on alpha architecture

2007-11-06 Thread Steve Langasek
. But if it can be reproduced on other distros as well, all the better. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org

Re: Debian Installation upon an Alpha Server 4000 5/400

2007-10-20 Thread Steve Langasek
cards you inquired about, the DAC960 cards and the QLogic ISP1040 are probably the best bets. The ISP1020 does not work for me, but the later QLogic cards are still widely used. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer

Re: Bug#446319: Debian Installation Reports on a Alpha server

2007-10-18 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi n p, I'm forwarding this report to the debian-alpha mailing list, where it's likely to get more attention from folks who might be familiar with the particularities of this hardware. Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer

Re: manipulating FPU rounding modes on alpha

2007-09-06 Thread Steve Langasek
that code linked against the new libc needs math_emu enabled? AFAIK the math_emu module should not be needed on the buildds, which are ev6 and above. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world

Re: gnumeric issue since libc6.1 upgrade

2007-08-29 Thread Steve Langasek
module or do I need download all the kernel- sources and compile it myself? It's not supposed to be a module at all, it's supposed to be built into the kernel. If you check /boot/config-2.6.18-4-alpha-generic, you should find that this is the case. -- Steve Langasek Give me

Re: help with mplayer bug 431139

2007-08-27 Thread Steve Langasek
: unrecognized command line option -march=ev5 ldd /tmp/mplayer-conf-12199-5493.o ldd: /tmp/mplayer-conf-12199-5493.o: No such file or directory Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world

Re: help with mplayer bug 431139

2007-08-26 Thread Steve Langasek
that not all CPUs have) I don't know what MVI is either, but according to http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-dev-eng/2003-September/020895.html it's not supported on ev56 so should be disabled, or else enabled only as an optional subarch optimization within the package. Thanks, -- Steve Langasek

Re: [BUG] 2.6.23-rc3 won't boot on alpha (fwd)

2007-08-23 Thread Steve Langasek
. - install linux-libc-dev from unstable, and build the package against that instead of the linux-kernel-headers included in etch. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [BUG] 2.6.23-rc3 won't boot on alpha (fwd)

2007-08-22 Thread Steve Langasek
a bootlx built from his patched source package. Well, it would've gone to unstable eventually, but if nobody else was able to test it, that probably wouldn't happen until I had a 2.6.23 kernel to test it with myself... -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian

Re: [BUG] 2.6.23-rc3 won't boot on alpha (fwd)

2007-08-21 Thread Steve Langasek
. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: [BUG] 2.6.23-rc3 won't boot on alpha (fwd)

2007-08-21 Thread Steve Langasek
that tries to rewrite boot records on installation of the new aboot package! Patches welcome... -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: [BUG] 2.6.23-rc3 won't boot on alpha (fwd)

2007-08-21 Thread Steve Langasek
working 2.6.23 kernels. Yes, this still boots 2.6.22 just fine. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org

Re: [BUG] 2.6.23-rc3 won't boot on alpha (fwd)

2007-08-21 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 08:30:56PM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: Steve Langasek wrote: On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 01:36:36PM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: Was the issue with using aboot for net booting addressed with this patch set? I've not had need of that functionality, but I can probably rig up

Re: [BUG] 2.6.23-rc3 won't boot on alpha (fwd)

2007-08-17 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 09:59:09AM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: Steve Langasek wrote: Please have a look at the latest package available from http://people.debian.org/~vorlon/aboot/. This does need tested, because the patch posted by Richard is muddled with unrelated changes that aren't

Re: [BUG] 2.6.23-rc3 won't boot on alpha (fwd)

2007-08-16 Thread Steve Langasek
://people.debian.org/~vorlon/aboot/ instead as a starting point. The package builds with the current sid toolchain; I haven't yet applied Richard's patch, but will look at doing that soon. FWIW, the issue with 2.6.23rc booting deserves its own bug in the BTS. -- Steve Langasek Give me

Re: [BUG] 2.6.23-rc3 won't boot on alpha (fwd)

2007-08-16 Thread Steve Langasek
for building in Debian, so I'm not 100% sure that I've grabbed all the bits required for the fix. Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: WiFi on alpha

2007-08-09 Thread Steve Langasek
architectures. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: aboot and the new binutils?

2007-07-29 Thread Steve Langasek
unstable. No, it's not. Please define updated kernel, and indicate which kernels have worked for you on this system in the past. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL

Re: gclcvs

2007-07-18 Thread Steve Langasek
cited should be a good starting point. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: apache2/mod_php5

2007-07-16 Thread Steve Langasek
just did a quick test here of installing the stable apache2 and libapache2-mod-php5 on my alpha running unstable, and apache2 seems to start up just fine. Can you attach to the hung apache2 process with gdb, and provide a backtrace? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough

Bug#433031: qt4-x11: broken threading on alpha, hangs uselessly on startup

2007-07-13 Thread Steve Langasek
, but these are all simple single-thread applications, so getting the locking semantics wrong would cause no problems here but would cause significant (and hard-to-debug) problems later. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set

Re: monotone: FTBFS on alpha, configure fails mysteriously

2007-07-11 Thread Steve Langasek
admin will need to make some changes to restore build-essential in these environments. Closing the bug report since this is not a bug in monotone. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move

Re: monotone: FTBFS on alpha, configure fails mysteriously

2007-07-11 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 11:26:20AM -0700, Zack Weinberg wrote: On 7/11/07, Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The most recent upload of glibc to unstable has introduced a libc-dev dependency which is in conflict with the sbuild configuration on multiple buildds. As a result, libstdc

Re: Where to put module option in Etch?

2007-05-31 Thread Steve Langasek
, one for each device they're driving. So if you want both tulip0 and tulip1 to be brought up with 100FDX, then the correct syntax would be modprobe tulip options=5,5 and under /etc/modprobe.d, options tulip options=5,5 Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough

porting, NMUing opportunities

2007-05-25 Thread Steve Langasek
the maintainer about a promised upload, to NMUing with patches in the BTS, to deciphering obscure build failures. :-) Any takers? Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL

Re: gclcvs, Re: gw.wurtel.net

2007-05-24 Thread Steve Langasek
to export), I seem to get the same build failure on alpha that's affecting amd64, hppa, mips, mipsel, powerpc, and sparc in unstable (ld segfault with -Wl,-Map). -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I

Re: Booting the testing versions of lenny

2007-05-22 Thread Steve Langasek
of the installer. Please file a bug against the installation-reports pseudopackage. Maybe there's a problem with my hardware here (AS500/333, 320MB RAM, MGA Millenium 2 with 4MB WRAM, SB-Live Soundcard and a USB 2.0 Card)? No. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS

Re: gclcvs, Re: gw.wurtel.net

2007-05-22 Thread Steve Langasek
anything the kernel has an obligation to export), I seem to get the same build failure on alpha that's affecting amd64, hppa, mips, mipsel, powerpc, and sparc in unstable (ld segfault with -Wl,-Map). -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer

Re: Workaround for percpu, relocation errors with SMP kernels

2007-05-14 Thread Steve Langasek
have a handle on. But ISTR that it did fix the ipv6 module in particular, so it might be worth trying for you? Of course, building a static kernel will bypass all of the relocation problems as well, so that's certainly an option for folks being hit by this. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek

Re: Linking against libm-2.5.so ?

2007-05-14 Thread Steve Langasek
anything smoother than document it in the release notes, and maybe make glibc conflict with old binutils. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Linking against libm-2.5.so ?

2007-05-14 Thread Steve Langasek
. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: error mysql-server

2007-05-11 Thread Steve Langasek
/usr/sbin/mysqld Parece que te hará falta la opción --one-thread para hacer que mysqld corra bajo gdb. (preferentemente en ingles). Visto que el mantenedor de mysql en Debian es alemán, sí. :) -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer

Re: 4.0u0 and testing crash during install on Lynx

2007-04-25 Thread Steve Langasek
on the list has one of these, but my guess is that you're breaking new ground for Debian alpha by trying this install. :) If you can get some readable output with the text interface, I'll see what I can do to help fix it, or at least direct the bug report in the right direction. -- Steve

Re: Congratulation on Etch release

2007-04-16 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 12:08:01AM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: Steve Langasek wrote: On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 03:35:03PM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: (2) being unable to build firefox with gcc/g++ 4.X (compiler segfault during build). firefox-1.5.X and -2.0.X build fine with gxx-3.4

Re: Congratulation on Etch release

2007-04-14 Thread Steve Langasek
seeing. Heh, what an unpleasant daemon to have that in. I use IPv6, but my alpha isn't doing any routing, so no reason to run radvd there... Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move

Re: Debian Etch ....

2007-04-09 Thread Steve Langasek
will be a problem soon enough in unstable. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Debian Etch ....

2007-04-09 Thread Steve Langasek
...) -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: alpha raid?

2007-04-09 Thread Steve Langasek
disklabels, so you'll need to drop to a command prompt and relabel them with PC labels. Which will also render those disks unbootable from SRM. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world

Re: Debian Etch ....

2007-04-08 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 11:15:09PM -0400, Tom Evans wrote: where is the experimental libc that fixes this? There isn't one, because so far glibc 2.5 doesn't build on alpha. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set

Re: OpenWRT

2007-04-03 Thread Steve Langasek
this for the hack value you have to decide how much that's worth to you in itself; but at least for me, the hack value is in doing the hacking, not in keeping it running afterwards in a manner contrary to my own best interest :), so. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough

Re: prctl on alpha

2007-03-12 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 05:36:53PM -0600, LaMont Jones wrote: On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 04:34:16PM -0600, Khalid Aziz wrote: On Sat, 2007-03-10 at 02:24 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: Lamont, could you please add alpha to the list of supported archs for prctl? One of the goals of my last

Re: starfire NIC driver on alpha

2007-03-10 Thread Steve Langasek
of the driver, but there's no information about what came of that. Committing the patch to the Debian tree is easy enough, but I'm hesitant to do that without more information. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set

Re: prctl on alpha

2007-03-10 Thread Steve Langasek
-arch-specific[1] as only belonging on hppa and ia64. Lamont, could you please add alpha to the list of supported archs for prctl? The Debian kernels have supported the prctl interfaces on alpha since version 2.6.18-3. Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough

Re: prctl on alpha

2007-03-10 Thread Steve Langasek
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Re: netboot for sarge?

2007-03-09 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 09:32:20AM -0600, Harmon Seaver wrote: Steve Langasek wrote: Yes, I have a patch that appears to fix the relocation problem in rsrc_nonstatic; I was hoping to find a fix for 410933, but those are different relocation errors entirely and so far I haven't found enough

Re: netboot for sarge?

2007-03-08 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 09:38:16PM -0600, Harmon Seaver wrote: Steve Langasek wrote: On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 03:31:11PM -0600, Harmon Seaver wrote: Is there a netboot image still available that will netboot sarge? Sure, the sarge netboot images. http://www.debian.org/releases/sarge

Re: netboot for sarge?

2007-03-07 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 03:31:11PM -0600, Harmon Seaver wrote: Is there a netboot image still available that will netboot sarge? Sure, the sarge netboot images. http://www.debian.org/releases/sarge/debian-installer/ -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free

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