Re: giveback of knot-resolver 3.1.0-1 on armhf?

2018-11-30 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On Fri 2018-11-30 10:10:55 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 09:48:28AM +0100, Héctor Orón Martínez wrote: >> Hello Steve, > >> Since you are doing a study building armhf on arm64 hardware, see >> below yet another failure example. > > As a data point, this version of

Re: giveback of knot-resolver 3.1.0-1 on armhf?

2018-11-30 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Hi Steve-- On Fri 2018-11-30 09:48:28 +0100, Héctor Orón Martínez wrote: > Since you are doing a study building armhf on arm64 hardware, see > below yet another failure example. relevant links to knot-resolver failures on arm64: https://bugs.debian.org/907729

Re: Removing armel from the list of arches we build for

2013-08-21 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 08/21/2013 04:36 PM, Joey Hess wrote: More generally, there is a vast amount of arm systems with displays attached. Arm was probably used mostly headless 10 years ago, but this is increasignly not the case, and I was using webkit on arm systems over 5 years ago. Even if you only want to

Re: howto remote unlock encrypted root fs

2012-06-21 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
(please trim quoted replies to a sensible length by only containing relevant bits!) On 06/15/2012 10:43 AM, Richard Ray wrote: Got it. Changed line 30 in file /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/dropbear from cp /lib/libnss_* ${DESTDIR}/lib/ to cp /lib/arm-linux-gnueabi/libnss_* ${DESTDIR}/lib/

armhf build failure for gmime can't resolve `.rodata' {.rodata section} - `.LPIC21' {*UND* section}

2012-02-10 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Hey armhf porters-- henze (the armhf buildd) recently tried to build the gmime 2.6.4-2 package (full logs at [0]), and failed with this error message: ... /tmp/ccDgDwCh.s: Assembler messages: /tmp/ccDgDwCh.s:2208: Error: can't resolve `.rodata' {.rodata section} - `.LPIC21' {*UND* section} It

jailbreak as a term, and civility in general [was: Re: Debian on the Archos 5 internet tablet]

2011-06-30 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 06/30/2011 01:44 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: can't f*g stand it when people call it jail-breaking. f*g morons. it's running the linux kernel: you have the f*g _right_ to run any software of your choice. gaah. Some people are currently jailed or imprisoned in

Re: Anybody have a fw_env.config file for Sheeva Plug et al? use with uboot-envtools package?

2011-06-26 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 06/25/2011 06:18 PM, Clint Adams wrote: On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 04:14:30PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: It does list a bunch of example files in /etc/share/doc/uboot-envtools/examples/ but it doesn't say which one (if any) of them are good for use with the SheevaPlug (or any of it's

Re: Using nslu2 as remote console

2011-03-07 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 03/07/2011 05:40 AM, Andrew McGlashan wrote: Björn Wetterbom wrote: I recently got the idea to use my nslu2 as a remote serial console for another machine. The idea is to be able to ssh to the nslu2 to see console output from the other machine. To do this, I figure I have to disable the

Re: Using nslu2 as remote console

2011-03-06 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 03/06/2011 09:40 AM, Björn Wetterbom wrote: I recently got the idea to use my nslu2 as a remote serial console for another machine. The idea is to be able to ssh to the nslu2 to see console output from the other machine. To do this, I figure I have to disable the getty on the nslu2. Is

Re: Reports of successful Squeeze upgrades

2011-02-27 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 02/26/2011 02:23 AM, John Winters wrote: I suggest removing this package (apt-xapian) if you're running Squeeze on a slug. I concur with this. I had the same experience on an NSLU2. I attribute the problem basically to lack of RAM. I wonder if we shouldn't contribute a patch to

using GNU screen to access a serial port [Was: Re: LEDs on a Sheevaplug]

2011-02-14 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 02/14/2011 03:37 PM, Clint Adams wrote: On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 03:07:42PM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: If anybody knows what command-line-options/configuration-file-fiddles to use to make minicom do the same thing (i.e. nothing) I'd be grateful for a pointer. screen may be closer to what

Re: Context Switching is Broken

2010-06-10 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 06/10/2010 06:59 AM, Herman Swartz wrote: Context switching is broken. The man page for context is example code that doesn't work, but should. Does a bug report need to be submitted? i don't understand what you're asking about. man context gives me no manual entry for context Can you

Re: Context Switching is Broken

2010-06-10 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 06/10/2010 11:34 AM, Xan wrote: Maybe you refer to texexec. Try man texexec. Does it work? I also do not have a texexec manual page. Is this related to ARM on debian? Could you try being more explicit about exactly what you're doing, what you expect to happen, and what is actually

Re: Context Switching is Broken

2010-06-10 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Hi Herman-- On 06/10/2010 05:12 PM, Herman Swartz wrote: Does the CPU support context switching, from looking around I think it does since there is an addon for improving context switching performance of this model of ARM processor. JNOS application developer believes there is no support

Re: ARM BoF at DebConf

2010-06-09 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Hi Steve-- On 06/09/2010 11:15 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote: I've requested a slot at DebConf for an ARM BoF. There's a lot of things going on in the ARM/Linux/Debian world at the moment, and I expect we'll have a lot to discuss... :-) Both you and Hector Oron submitted ARM BoF-type events, but

Re: ARM BoF at DebConf

2010-06-09 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 06/09/2010 01:26 PM, Hector Oron wrote: Hello, 2010/6/9 Martin Michlmayr t...@cyrius.com: Ian Sullivan said he'd submit a BoF or other event for people interested in hacking on the SheevaPlug. We could use this event to talk about in ARM in general as well, assuming Ian submitted

Re: local booting without initramfs fails [was: re: guruplug notes]

2010-05-29 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 05/28/2010 11:47 AM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: It occurred to me this morning that maybe my hand-created rootfs just doesn't have /dev/console or /dev/null something. i'll try to boot the machine tonight and report back. Yeah, it was missing /dev/console. a simple: mount -t ubifs ubi0

Re: local booting without initramfs fails [was: re: guruplug notes]

2010-05-28 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 05/28/2010 10:44 AM, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Daniel Kahn Gillmor d...@fifthhorseman.net [2010-05-27 00:25]: Any ideas? am i missing some bootargs or something? or does the kernel really need an initramfs? No ideas... the boog log looks fine to me. I recently installed UBIFS on my

Re: guruplug notes

2010-05-28 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 05/28/2010 10:58 AM, Martin Michlmayr wrote: However, I'm not sure you need a hack like that. AFAIK the u-boot you use has UBIFS support built-in so you should be able to simply read a kernel from the filesystem. (Maybe I'm wrong about this; I don't have a GuruPlug.) interesting, i'll

Re: guruplug notes

2010-05-28 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 05/28/2010 03:29 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote: uboot pretty much #defines everything for a given system and compiles based on that, so you would need to just about make a seperate package for every target system you want to make a uboot for. That could be a lot of packages. not to say it

local booting without initramfs fails [was: re: guruplug notes]

2010-05-26 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Well, i've tried to boot the guruplug with no initrd, using the following uboot sequence: nand read.e 0x200 0x10 0x20 setenv bootargs console=ttyS0,115200n8 root=ubi0:root ubi.mtd=2 rootfstype=ubifs verbose bootm 0x200 and the boot hangs here: ... [1.845874] mv_xor

functioning libertas_uap from source (still needs firmware blob) [was: Re: guruplug notes]

2010-05-26 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 05/24/2010 11:31 AM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: At that point, i'll start looking at the wireless business again. so on my freshly wiped guruplug, i've gone ahead and re-built the uap8xxx.ko module to work with the current sid kernel. It wasn't too bad: as root, i fetched the various build

WARNING! uap8xxx.ko is insecure [was: Re: functioning libertas_uap from source (still needs firmware blob)]

2010-05-26 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 05/27/2010 12:57 AM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: To get to act as an AP, i had to copy /usr/bin/uaputl from another guruplug. It seems to work fine. If no one has gotten the code from marvell, i'll look into replacing uaputl -- it doesn't look too complex. WARNING! testing uaputl tonight

Re: guruplug notes

2010-05-24 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 05/24/2010 09:27 AM, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Daniel Kahn Gillmor d...@fifthhorseman.net [2010-05-23 19:36]: and generated a uBoot-friendly kernel and initramfs (thanks to Clint Adams for helping me cargo-cult this): fwiw, I've just uploaded a new version of flash-kernel that will do

Re: guruplug notes

2010-05-24 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 05/23/2010 07:36 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: More notes on the way when i sort anything else out. Thanks primarily to a really stupid keyboard slipup, i now have a guruplug running entirely debian code (with the exception of uboot, which is running 2010.03-01266-g42f7128, compiled by Clint

Re: guruplug notes

2010-05-24 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 05/24/2010 11:43 AM, Martin Michlmayr wrote: However, UBI/UBIFS is currently compiled into the Kirkwood kernel, so you don't need an initramfs at all. Hum, interesting. the kernel binary package i built had Depends: initramfs-tools | linux-initramfs-tool i think, so it hadn't even

Re: guruplug notes

2010-05-24 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 05/24/2010 11:31 AM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: I'm currently still booting the device from the kernel/initrd over tftp. I hope to followup with tbm's suggestion of the new flash-kernel to get it back to an all-local boot sometime in the next few days. I've put the kernel and two variant

Re: guruplug notes

2010-05-23 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 05/21/2010 02:38 AM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: I'm in the process of re-building the 2.6.32-13 package for kirkwood on the guruplug itself -- hopefully i can sort out how to boot from it soon (pointers welcome). So i built the kernel package from 2.6.32-13 like this as a regular user

guruplug notes

2010-05-21 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
hi debian-arm folks-- I found philippe kehl's nice page about debian and the guruplug: http://oinkzwurgl.org/guruplug_debian there are good pointers in there, esp. noting the bizarre stuff they've shipped in /etc/sudoers and /etc/rc.local A couple things to add that i've noticed since

guruplug: uap access point possibilities

2010-05-18 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
hey folks-- i finally got the guruplug i ordered from globalscale technologies. It ships with debian lenny plus a special kernel, which is nice. I'm curious about what's not quite in debian yet, though: * there appears to be a special driver (uap8xxx.ko) for the micro access point -- the

Re: guruplug: uap access point possibilities

2010-05-18 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 05/18/2010 08:41 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: * there is a corresponding userspace utility /usr/bin/uaputl, which enables setting of certain features of that driver. For interested folks, though i haven't been able to find any sources for uaputl, it doesn't look terribly complex

Re: quick hack that may be usefull to qemu armel users

2010-01-20 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 01/19/2010 09:18 PM, peter green wrote: A while back fsck got more bitchy (treated as an error rather than a warning) about timestamps in the future, I filed a bug report about this change in behaviour that breaks but the this seems to have been cut off -- what is the bug report number?

debian on an iPaq rx1955

2010-01-12 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
hi folks-- i've recently come into a discarded iPaq rx1955, which appears to be an arm-based PDA. (i don't have a charger for it yet, but that's on its way). Once i get the charger, I'd love to get debian working on it, but i'm not sure what my first step would be. there are hints out there

Re: SS4000E Cable Wiring

2009-12-26 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 12/26/2009 06:26 AM, m...@jumpingbean.co.za wrote: I think I may have to write a little java app to see whats wrong with the cable. I can find any message on /var/log/message or /var/log/syslog so its a bit difficult to see if its just a poor soldering job or I am doing something else

Re: ARM kernel snapshots - 2.6.32-rc8

2009-11-24 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 11/24/2009 05:36 PM, Martin Michlmayr wrote: Can you report this to lkml? i just posted the report with the console to the lkml (first ever post to lkml, that sound you hear is my teeth chattering in fear). hopefully it is of some use to the kernel development process. Regards,

Re: ARM kernel snapshots - 2.6.32-rc8

2009-11-23 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 11/20/2009 06:27 AM, Martin Michlmayr wrote: I've built kernel snapshots for armel based on 2.6.32-rc8. If your device has a recovery mechanism or a serial console, feel free to test them on your favourite ARM machine and report any problems you encounter to this list. You can find the

Re: alignment errors on armel: what to do?

2009-09-29 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 09/29/2009 01:27 PM, Martin Guy wrote: On 9/28/09, Daniel Kahn Gillmor d...@fifthhorseman.net wrote: However, it seems like we should still be filing bugs against packages which trigger alignment errors, no? Absolutely. i just filed a bug against libc6 (so this might be implicated

Re: alignment errors on armel: what to do?

2009-09-29 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 09/29/2009 04:16 PM, Paul Brook wrote: char f[4]; ... any idea why gcc would lay out the memory differently for armel than for i386? i haven't tried it on the old arm architecture. The alignment of f is entirely arbitrary. It could be effected by any number of things, including but

ivorbisfile_example.c triggers alignment error on armel

2009-09-28 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Package: libvorbisidec-dev On armel, when i build ivorbisfile_example.c against the stock libvorbisidec package, it triggers a series of CPU alignment faults, and consequently produces bad data. Interestingly, this seems to be because gcc is happy to align an array of chars on an odd address

alignment errors on armel: what to do?

2009-09-28 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Hey debian-arm folks-- after dealing with #548815, i'm a little bit concerned about the behavior of the kernel in the face of alignment errors on armel. i've read http://bugs.debian.org/397616 and followed the references in there, so i think i understand why the default is to silently fail when

Re: FTBFS on armel: 'OV_CALLBACKS_STREAMONLY' undeclared

2009-09-22 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 09/20/2009 07:13 PM, Joey Hess wrote: ARM hardware certianly has floating point hardware, and with EABI binaries can be built that use it on the otherwise softfloat system. But different ARM systems have different FPUs, and so it would be very hard to get coverage for all/most of them.

Re: FTBFS on armel: 'OV_CALLBACKS_STREAMONLY' undeclared

2009-09-20 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 09/20/2009 07:13 PM, Joey Hess wrote: Luckily, I see in the bug report that vorbis upstream seems to have fixed the FTBFS. I'm hoping to get a new version of libvorbisidec pulled from upstream's svn r16259 packaged and uploaded in the next day or so. When i get that sorted, i'll see if that

Re: ARM kernel snapshots - 2.6.30-rc5

2009-05-11 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 05/11/2009 05:55 PM, Martin Michlmayr wrote: I've built kernel snapshots for armel based on 2.6.30-rc5. If your device has a recovery mechanism or a serial console, please test them on your favourite ARM machine and report any problems you encounter to this list. I made sure that the

Re: Please test debian-installer rc1 images

2008-11-07 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On Fri 2008-11-07 11:34:19 -0500, Martin Michlmayr wrote: I cannot give you a guarantee but I successfully made a degraded RAID1 with d-i recently. Simply specify a RAID1 with 2 disks but then only assign one disk to it. I've also done this successfully with d-i recently (though not on arm

Re: Supporting platforms with no EEPROM?

2008-09-12 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On Fri 2008-09-12 12:26:09 -0400, Bill Gatliff wrote: John Winters wrote: Can't you just put a made-up MAC address into /etc/network/interfaces? Like this: allow-hotplug eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp hwaddress ether 12:34:56:78:9a:bc One could, but that won't work for root-over-NFS.

Determining the driver for a network device [was: Re: Ralink]

2008-08-29 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On Fri 2008-08-29 10:56:26 -0400, Xan wrote: Last question: how can I see what module wlan0 is used? rt2x00 or rt73? On modern Linux kernels, sysfs has a lot of information about attacheds devices. I can tell that eth0 on my NSLU2 is using the ixp4xx_eth module by poking around in there: 0

Re: kernel console timestamps behaving oddly on 2.6.26-1-ip4xx (on an NSLU2)?

2008-08-26 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On Tue 2008-08-26 13:50:32 -0400, Gordon Farquharson wrote: I also see this behaviour on ixp4xx, but I haven't looked into the cause yet. I don't see it on iop32x or orion5x. Thanks for the confirmation, Gordon. FWIW, it does not seem to be present in 2.6.25 (at least not at the same point in

Re: Shell Script on Debian

2008-06-28 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On Fri 2008-06-27 09:39:24 -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: The environment could be viewed too. How can the environment be viewed, other than by the same user? On a lenny/sid system, it looks to me like the environment is only visible to the process owner: [0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ ls -la

Linux 2.6.23 in debian unstable [was: Re: Thecus 2100, extremly slow r8169]

2007-12-28 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On Fri 2007-12-28 17:57:46 -0500, Florent Fourcot wrote: I have the same problem with a processor IOP 80219 on a NS04-4110. But I use an armel mirror, kernel 2.6.23 is unfortunately not avaible, not in unstable packages. fwiw, the new kernel is available for me with the following repo: 0

upslug2 hanging, indicating timeout occurred

2007-12-02 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
I'm having difficulty flashing an image with my NSLU2. When i try to send an image to it with upslug2, it works fine durin gthe erasing step, but as soon as it tries to write data, it shows a leading first character in the status line of *, which appears to mean timeout occurred. It doesn't seem

Re: upslug2 hanging, indicating timeout occurred

2007-12-02 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On Sun 2007-12-02 05:04:28 -0500, Rod Whitby wrote: What's between the PC and the NSLU2? Any routers or s/w firewalls which might be filtering the non-IP ethernet protocol that the NSLU2's upgrade mode uses? This happens even when the only thing between the two machines is an ethernet cable,

Re: any replacement for sshd?

2007-11-22 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On Thu 2007-11-22 13:43:52 -0500, Olivier Heinry wrote: is there any replacement for sshd for the slug? I mean, a daemon that allows the same but has a lower memory footprint. http://packages.debian.org/dropbear Dropbear doesn't have nearly as many neat features as Debian's build of

Re: embedded web browser

2007-08-17 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Hope it's ok that i'm sending this reply to the list. I'd prefer discussions be on-list, and this doesn't seem sensitive. On Fri 2007-08-17 12:43:54 -0400, hong zhang wrote: Yes. I did put dillo in my arm basd baord. I did ls dillo and returns dillo. That's good! That's the first step. But

Re: embedded web browser

2007-08-15 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On Wed 2007-08-15 12:57:43 -0400, hong zhang wrote: I unpacked embedded browser DILLO. I run file dillo and showed it was an executable file for linux 2.4. I copied dillo to my arm board with linux 2.6. And run dillo but returns -sh: dillo: not found Is this caused by linux version

Re: Writting scripts

2007-05-08 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue 2007-05-08 09:10:29 -0400, John Fieldsend wrote: I want to write a script that will execute ecery 30 mins, the script will get my networks WAN IP using wget -q -O - checkip.dyndns.org|sed -e 's/.*Current IP Address: //' -e 's/.*$//' i

Re: NSLU2 D-I RC2, installation oddities, apt-get update error

2007-03-28 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed 2007-03-28 07:47:05 -0400, Rob Lockhart wrote: When logging in as root for the first time, I have to change the root password to something other than what I chose during the install. That seems a little redundant. Now, when I do apt-get

Re: ARM DEBIAN

2007-03-09 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Hi and welcome! If you can give more information, you might be able to get better help... On Fri 2007-03-09 22:41:45 -0500, priya sridhar wrote: I am trying to install debian on emulated ARM machine. QEMU is used as the emulator. During base system installation, it says Release file signed

Re: debian-etch and ssh disconnects

2007-01-11 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
At 2007-01-11 22:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I just installed debian-etch to a slug so I can use it for development. It has the peculiar habit of disconnecting my ssh session when I do work, e.g. compiling, installing packages. Another console that is just used to watch the processes has no

Re: backing up kernel and initramfs for future rescue use with upslug2

2006-11-27 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On November 26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: The next time i'm physically near the machine, i'll try reseating the battery to clear it up, and report back if that clears my problem. Woohoo! It worked! Before shutting it down to reseat the battery, i removed the rtc-dev module, which let me have

Re: backing up kernel and initramfs for future rescue use with upslug2

2006-11-26 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Hi Gordon-- On November 25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: No, I sent an email to the package maintainer instead :-) OK, good to know. posting it as a bug as well would be helpful for those of us who check these things before considering an upgrade. i know i'd be interested in the details. Yes.

Re: backing up kernel and initramfs for future rescue use with upslug2

2006-11-26 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On November 26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Yeah, I know, but I was discussing the problem via email, so in this case, apart from the reason you mention above, there was no reason to file a bug report. Another use of bug reports (especially ones about bugs that make machines unbootable, and would

backing up kernel and initramfs for future rescue use with upslug2

2006-11-25 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
I'm very pleased with the progress of the debian arm port. My NSLU2 is running fine, and i'm looking forward to seeing it become an official stable release with the etch transition. I'd like to try to upgrade to the new kernel (linux-image-2.6.18-3-ixp4xx), but i want to make sure i can recover

Re: backing up kernel and initramfs for future rescue use with upslug2

2006-11-25 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Hi Gordon-- On November 25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I have tested this version of the kernel, and it works, so switching to it shouldn't be a problem. I wouldn't switch the rest of the system to packages from unstable just yet - for instance, there appears to be a problem with the version of

Intent to package libvorbisidec (aka tremor) -- useful for FPU-less arm processors

2006-11-23 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
reopen 167464 retitle 167464 ITP: libvorbisidec - Integer-only Ogg Vorbis decoder, AKA tremor thanks I would like to maintain libvorbisidec, the integer-math-only Ogg Vorbis decoder, also known as tremor. it is useful for my debian NSLU2 (igor), an arm-based device without a FPU. If i've