Re: Who is still here?

2017-11-01 Thread Jeff Epler
Like many, I came to Debian GNU/kFreeBSD when it was a way I could get Debian and ZFS together. Early on I contributed some patches (improved thread debugging in gdb, and a working valgrind port being the two that I recall offhand in which I had a great deal of pride at the time) which

Bug#781161: dovecot-core: Can't log in via imap on kFreeBSD amd64 (Auth request missing a file descriptor)

2015-03-25 Thread Jeff Epler
Package: dovecot-core Version: 1:2.2.15-1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, After upgrading my Debian kFreeBSD machine from Wheezy to Jessie, dovecot imap stopped working. The version from experiemental was also broken in the same way. After I attempt to sign in with valid information, the

Bug#779467: dpkg: start-stop-daemon sometimes exits with _cpu_tick_frequency: no such symbol on kFreeBSD

2015-02-28 Thread Jeff Epler
Package: dpkg Version: 1.17.23+local1 Severity: important Tags: patch On a Debian Jessie kFreeBSD system, start-stop-daemon sometimes exits with an odd error: $ sudo service nfsd restart start-stop-daemon: _cpu_tick_frequency: no such symbol The specific command invocation which was reliably

Re: Memory debugging tools for kFreeBSD

2015-02-12 Thread Jeff Epler
On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 05:36:16PM -0600, Jeff Epler wrote: Some time ago I prepared patches that allowed me to build and use [...] Adam, I tried to Cc: you on this response, but your mail server rejected the message: This message was created automatically by mail delivery software

Re: Memory debugging tools for kFreeBSD

2015-02-11 Thread Jeff Epler
Some time ago I prepared patches that allowed me to build and use valgrind on kFreeBSD. Unfortunately, this has not been incorporated into the Debian package. I feel like I still haven't managed to figure out how to effectively collaborate within the Debian project. I also have no idea whether

Re: Please help building bwa on freebsd [nore...@buildd.debian.org: failed kfreebsd-amd64 build of bwa 0.7.12-1]

2015-02-09 Thread Jeff Epler
On Debian kFreeBSD, uname -s says GNU/kFreeBSD. so perhaps you want a second stanza in the Makefile ifeq ($(shell uname -s),GNU/kFreeBSD) LIBS += -lrt endif Jeff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bsd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Please help building bwa on freebsd [nore...@buildd.debian.org: failed kfreebsd-amd64 build of bwa 0.7.12-1]

2015-02-06 Thread Jeff Epler
The solution may simply be to link with -lrt. $ cat shmopen.c #include sys/mman.h #include stdio.h int main() { printf(%p\n, shm_open); return 0; } $ gcc shmopen.c /tmp/ccRPQFME.o: In function `main': shmopen.c:(.text+0x5): undefined reference to `shm_open'

Re: _PC_VDISABLE cpp problem

2014-06-06 Thread Jeff Epler
According to http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xsh/unistd.h.html _POSIX_VDISABLE is either undefined, or defined to a value other than -1. As far as I can tell, no text requires that it be defined to a valid *preprocessor* number. In fact,

Re: NFS?

2014-05-20 Thread Jeff Epler
I have a kfreebsd (debian 7 / kernel 9.0) system serving zfs file systems over nfsv3 to linux (debian 7). It seems to work well, though there are some user reports of problems using Libre Office document recovery that I haven't looked into yet. I also failed to use nfsv4. I manually maintain

Re: Bug#628383: [kfreebsd-*] test failure: test-secmem

2014-05-18 Thread Jeff Epler
Apparently freebsd kernels 9.2 and later have security.bsd.unprivileged_mlock, which appears to default to permitted. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mlocksektion=2manpath=FreeBSD+9.2-RELEASE http://marc.info/?l=freebsd-archm=134617193210756 Is this test failure happening with kernel

Re: Init system for non-Linux ports

2014-01-29 Thread Jeff Epler
I'm only a kFreeBSD user and don't have any official standing within the Debian project, but all the same my preferences are 614253 where 6. is the proposed alternative to switch to Upstart if Linux uses it, otherwise sysvinit. Jeff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Bug#736202: undeterministic output when running egrep repeatedly with the same input

2014-01-20 Thread Jeff Epler
Could it be http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=164445 ? It looks like that fix from reply 3 is not in kernel 9.0-10+deb70 which is what I'm running (but I have Wheezy userspace, so I haven't reproduced a problem either) Jeff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: grub on ZRaid2

2013-10-21 Thread Jeff Epler
You might consider doing what I did: Make two zfs partitions per disk. Create a mirrored zpool from the first, smaller partitions; place files needed for booting there. Create a raidz(2) pool from the bigger partitions and use it for bulk storage. In fact, I've convinced myself that the

Bug#726664: radvd FTBFS on kfreebsd

2013-10-17 Thread Jeff Epler
upload. + * Use autoreconf, as the kfreebsd patch requires rebuilding configure + + -- Jeff Epler jep...@unpythonic.net Thu, 17 Oct 2013 15:38:15 -0500 + radvd (1:1.9.1-1.1) unstable; urgency=low * Non-maintainer upload with maintainer approval. diff -Nru radvd-1.9.1/debian/control radvd

Re: This platform lacks a functioning sem_open implementation

2013-07-01 Thread Jeff Epler
On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 04:26:23PM +0200, Petr Salinger wrote: Not really. We do not support named semaphores (sem_open), but we do support (unnamed semaphores) (sem_init). The named only functions returns ENOSYS. In Wheezy on kfreebsd? The implementation of sem_open in

Re: Bug#707733: pygobject: FTBFS on kfreebsd

2013-05-16 Thread Jeff Epler
OK, this seems crazy to me but I feel obliged to note it: When I build 3.8.1-3 in /usr/src or /tmp/wat, I can observe the failure when I subsequently 'make check' in build-2.7/tests. When I build it in /tmp or /tmp/wat/frugal-bonasfrarfsarfasrfasrf/pygobject-3.8.1 I do not. However, I also note

Re: Bug#707733: pygobject: FTBFS on kfreebsd

2013-05-15 Thread Jeff Epler
valgrind (helgrind) on linux (sid amd64 chroot on wheezy amd64) didn't turn up anything that looked too useful. There were a number of diagnostics of this general form: ==12158== Lock at 0x603E5C0 was first observed ==12158==at 0x4C2EB32: pthread_mutex_init (in

Re: Bug#707733: pygobject: FTBFS on kfreebsd

2013-05-14 Thread Jeff Epler
Another bug that may be similar: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=671785 In that bug I remark that a problem with pthread_mutex_unlock can be observed on linux with valgrind --tool=helgrind. I haven't tried to determine whether it's a similar problem here, but it might be worth

Bug#705126: Tried but failed to reproduce

2013-04-15 Thread Jeff Epler
Since the reported trigger was an ssh flood, I tried ssh -T -o 'PreferredAuthentications hostbased' localhost (which on my system will result in a quick failed ssh because hostbased authentication is not enabled in the server) in a tight, parallelized loop with this construct: for i in

Re: Bug#702729: valgrind: build on kfreebsd-amd64

2013-03-15 Thread Jeff Epler
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 06:30:43PM +0100, Alessandro Ghedini wrote: I'll have a look as soon as I have some free time. I was also thinking that the patch may be applied only in the kfreebsd builds, so it wouldn't interfere with the linux builds. That sounds great, but I do not yet have the

Bug#703061: mongodb: Enable building on kfreebsd

2013-03-14 Thread Jeff Epler
I guess this provides some level of confidence in the result. Please consider my patch for a future release of mongodb. Thanks, Jeff Epler jep...@unpythonic.net -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture

Re: Porting valgrind to Debian/kFreeBSD

2013-03-10 Thread Jeff Epler
It looks like freebsd9 ports has valgrind-snapshot which is based off of valgrind 3.8.0: http://cdn.bitbucket.org/stass/valgrind-freebsd/downloads/valgrind-freebsd-3.8.0.tar.bz2 There are a lot more changes than I would expect between this and the upstream 3.8.0 tarball: valgrind-3.8.0/FAQ.txt

Re: Porting valgrind to Debian/kFreeBSD

2013-03-10 Thread Jeff Epler
I cleaned up the freebsd diffs, added some magic from this thread, and filed a debbug about it (702729). I'm not 100% confident it won't cause some debian/linux regression or that it's complete, but it's a step in the right direction, particularly as it builds off of the version of valgrind

Re: xfce, lightdm

2013-03-07 Thread Jeff Epler
On Wed, Mar 06, 2013 at 01:10:42PM -0600, Mark Johnson wrote: I used the kFreeBSD debian installer (wheezy RC1) and I installed the default desktop (xfce lightdm). Which is currently the most stable desktop: xfce, kde, gnome, etc? Lightdm is utilizing one of my cores at 100%. I saw this

Re: Porting valgrind to Debian/kFreeBSD

2013-03-07 Thread Jeff Epler
Valgrind does appear to be aware of sysarch, implementing sysarch(AMD64_SET_FSBASE) in coregrind/m_syswrap/syswrap-amd64-freebsd.c. Jeff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bsd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: Porting valgrind to Debian/kFreeBSD

2013-03-07 Thread Jeff Epler
On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 09:40:38AM -0600, Jeff Epler wrote: Valgrind does appear to be aware of sysarch, implementing sysarch(AMD64_SET_FSBASE) in coregrind/m_syswrap/syswrap-amd64-freebsd.c. Aha. eglibc is testing that the syscall succeeds, which is indicated by setting RAX to 0

Re: Porting valgrind to Debian/kFreeBSD

2013-03-07 Thread Jeff Epler
On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 05:49:55PM +0100, Petr Salinger wrote: Valgrind does appear to be aware of sysarch, implementing sysarch(AMD64_SET_FSBASE) in coregrind/m_syswrap/syswrap-amd64-freebsd.c. Aha. eglibc is testing that the syscall succeeds, which is indicated by setting RAX to 0.

Re: Bug#701832: doxygen consistently segfaults on kfreebsd-i386 when building opendnssec documentation

2013-03-04 Thread Jeff Epler
On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 12:20:57PM +, Steven Chamberlain wrote: #5 0x000800d21f2c in *__GI___libc_free (mem=optimized out) at malloc.c:3736 ar_ptr = 0x800ff3240 p = optimized out #6 0x000800844a79 in gvFreeContext () from /usr/lib/libgvc.so.5 No symbol

Re: some support for debugging threads in gdb on kfreebsd

2013-03-02 Thread Jeff Epler
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 01:20:18PM -0800, Christoph Egger wrote: If Jeff doesn't submit it to gdb mainline himself, I'll take care of that as a kFreeBSD Porter. Thank you. Jeff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bsd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: some support for debugging threads in gdb on kfreebsd

2013-02-04 Thread Jeff Epler
On Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 03:00:14PM -0800, Christoph Egger wrote: Hi! Thanks for your patch. However gdb with the patch applied dies for me: I must have attached a wrong patch, or you're applying it to a different gdb. (I started with 7.4.1-3) It looks like you're probably dying here, but in

Re: libvirt build failure on kfreebsd

2013-02-03 Thread Jeff Epler
It looks like the problem is the value of MAXHOSTNAMELEN from sys/param.h--this program prints 64 on linux but 256 on kfreebsd: #include sys/param.h #include fcntl.h #include stdio.h int main() { printf(%d\n, (int) MAXHOSTNAMELEN); return 0; } As you can see, the structure sizes won't

Re: Bug#698102: eglibc: initgroups changes egid on kfreebsd

2013-01-29 Thread Jeff Epler
Michael, For now it sounds like there's no consensus that this is a bug in initgroups(3) in eglibc or setgroups(2) in kfreebsd. If you're aware of this leading to a bug in a specific Debian package (particularly if it is a bug with a security impact), please file a bug against that package.

Re: debugging with gdb - Program received signal 32, LinuxThreads restart signal.

2013-01-15 Thread Jeff Epler
On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 04:46:39PM -0800, Christoph Egger wrote: (gdb) run Program received signal 32, LinuxThreads restart signal. __pthread_sigsuspend () at ../ports/sysdeps/unix/bsd/bsd4.4/kfreebsd/linuxthreads/pt-sigsuspend.S:24 24

some support for debugging threads in gdb on kfreebsd

2013-01-15 Thread Jeff Epler
This is not yet complete or debugged, but it improves things. The signals.c patch makes gdb not be confused by the signals that LinuxThreads(sic) uses internally; you can even 'handle LTRESTART nostop' if you prefer (you probably do so prefer). This is a slightly different version of a patch

Bug#698199: freebsd-utils: kdump incorrectly prints delivery of signals = 32

2013-01-14 Thread Jeff Epler
+ds1-9.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low + + * Non-maintainer upload. + * Improve reporting of signals = 32 + + -- Jeff Epler jepler@localhost Mon, 14 Jan 2013 20:44:54 -0600 + freebsd-utils (9.0+ds1-9) unstable; urgency=low [ Steven Chamberlain ] diff -Nru freebsd-utils-9.0+ds1/debian/patches

Re: Workaround for kFreeBSD crash in reportbug

2012-12-30 Thread Jeff Epler
On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 05:34:10PM -0800, Christoph Egger wrote: However, I still believe that the problem is either in python-gtk2 or python-gtk2's FAQ advice on how to use gtk.gdk.threads_init(). Can you be a bit more verbose about that? Also the FAQ might well be right and what we are

Re: Bug#685625: libgeom: may cause segfault of grub-probe

2012-12-29 Thread Jeff Epler
If it's a question of minimal impact to fix the specific crash that grub-probe encounters, then there are two more minimal ways to fix this specific problem that come to mind: replace reallocf with realloc---but in the unlikely case that realloc fails, it doesn't deallocate the argument (this is

Workaround for kFreeBSD crash in reportbug

2012-12-22 Thread Jeff Epler
; urgency=low + + * Non-maintainer upload. + * Avoid a kFreeBSD crash by telling python-gtk not to hook readline +Closes: #671785 + + -- Jeff Epler jepler@localhost Sat, 22 Dec 2012 10:35:25 -0600 + reportbug (6.4.3) unstable; urgency=low * reportbug/debbugs.py diff -Nru reportbug-6.4.3

Bug#685625: implicit declaration of function ‘reallocf’

2012-12-21 Thread Jeff Epler
It looks like this is the problem, and it exists repeatedly in freebsd-libs-9.0+ds1-7 geom_getxml.c: In function ‘geom_getxml’: geom_getxml.c:59:2: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘reallocf’ [-Wimplicit-function-declaration] geom_getxml.c:59:2: warning: return makes pointer from

Bug#685625: [PATCH] Re: Bug#685625: implicit declaration of function ‘reallocf’

2012-12-21 Thread Jeff Epler
silently +in the future + + -- Jeff Epler jep...@unpythonic.net Fri, 21 Dec 2012 13:20:44 -0600 + freebsd-libs (9.0+ds1-3) unstable; urgency=low [ Robert Millan ] diff -Nru freebsd-libs-9.0+ds1/debian/patches/implicit-declaration freebsd-libs-9.0+ds1/debian/patches/implicit-declaration

Re: Bug#685625: implicit declaration of function ‘reallocf’

2012-12-21 Thread Jeff Epler
[snipped astute observations about the size of the xml data being important] On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 10:02:45PM +, Steven Chamberlain wrote: And I'm worried about some of the other packages mentioned, where the error shows on kfreebsd-* or maybe hurd-*, but not on other arches. Should they

Treat adaN devices as SCSI (cam) devices; improve detection

2012-12-20 Thread Jeff Epler
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@ +parted (2.3-11.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low + + * Non-maintainer upload. + * Treat adaN devices as SCSI (cam) devices (Closes: #693510) + * Fill out the drive model information for ata adaN devices + * Fill out the physical sector size information for ata adaN devices + + -- Jeff

Bug#696119: `zpool status` incorrectly names raidz vdevs

2012-12-16 Thread Jeff Epler
Package: libzfs1 Version: 9.0-3 Severity: normal Tags: patch zpool status incorrectly prints raidz vdevs as -0 instead of raidz1-0, e.g. $ zpool status mpool pool: mpool state: ONLINE scan: scrub repaired 0 in 0h52m with 0 errors on Sun Dec 16 12:43:40 2012 config:

Bug#653929: Bug #696119 probably has the fix to this bug

2012-12-16 Thread Jeff Epler
Tags: patch Today I filed a bug about this same problem, having found this earlier report too late. I believe the patch on bug #696119 will address this problem (which is not seen on freebsd due to libc differences). As I'm a newbie at the debian bugtracker I'm not sure how to merge the two

Bug#653929: Bug #696119 probably has the fix to this bug

2012-12-16 Thread Jeff Epler
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 02:24:42AM +, Steven Chamberlain wrote: Originally in #653929 it was said that this bug breaks GRUB in some way, and could prevent use of RAID-Z as a root filesystem; do you know if that is true? Unfortunately, I don't know the answer to this. I am booting from a