Bug#919825: systemd: local filesystems other than '/' and '/usr' not checked and mounted -- emergency mode

2019-03-13 Thread Bob Tracy
On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 12:37:27PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: > I can't really trawl through the complete config file. > What I noticed from the journal are errors like this > > Feb 14 04:12:20 smirkin systemd-udevd[435]: sr0: Failed to apply ACL: > Operation not supported > Feb 14 04:12:31

Bug#919825: systemd: local filesystems other than '/' and '/usr' not checked and mounted -- emergency mode

2019-03-07 Thread Bob Tracy
On Thu, Mar 07, 2019 at 10:52:13AM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: > Sounds a bit like > https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/3446#issuecomment-224046140 > > Please check that your kernel has all options enabled that are listed in > /usr/share/doc/systemd/README.gz > > Are you currently missing

Bug#919825: systemd: local filesystems other than '/' and '/usr' not checked and mounted -- emergency mode

2019-03-07 Thread Bob Tracy
On Thu, Mar 07, 2019 at 10:17:05AM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: > Could you attach > systemctl list-units --type device Had to specify additional "--all" flag, as all units of type "device" are "inactive" "dead". List attached. UNITLOAD ACTIVE SUB DESCRIPTION dev-sda2.device

Bug#919825: systemd: local filesystems other than '/' and '/usr' not checked and mounted -- emergency mode

2019-03-07 Thread Bob Tracy
On Thu, Mar 07, 2019 at 10:09:10AM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: > https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/master/src/fstab-generator/fstab-generator.c#L109 > https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/master/src/basic/virt.c#L430 > > There are various tests used to determine if the system runs in a >

Bug#919825: systemd: local filesystems other than '/' and '/usr' not checked and mounted -- emergency mode

2019-03-07 Thread Bob Tracy
On Thu, Mar 07, 2019 at 10:00:23AM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: > Since alpha is not an officially supported architecture, I was not aware > that there is no Debian provided kernel for it. > > My main point was to test a kernel which has the same set of features / > config options enabled as the

Bug#919825: systemd: local filesystems other than '/' and '/usr' not checked and mounted -- emergency mode

2019-03-07 Thread Bob Tracy
On Thu, Mar 07, 2019 at 09:00:24AM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 20.01.2019 um 00:11 schrieb Bob Tracy: > > > Architecture: alpha > > > > Kernel: Linux 4.16.0 > > Could you test with a Debian provided kernel? Ben Hutchings grabbed the fix referenced here (h

Bug#919825: systemd: local filesystems other than '/' and '/usr' not checked and mounted -- emergency mode

2019-03-06 Thread Bob Tracy
On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 07:36:37PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: > Control: tags -1 + moreinfo > > Please attach the full output "journalctl -alb" output of such a failed > boot. > > I'd also be interested in the output of > udevadm info /sys/class/block/sda2 Apologies for the delay in

Bug#883089: udev: on alpha architecture, /dev/disk/by-XXX nodes not created

2017-12-01 Thread Bob Tracy
On Fri, Dec 01, 2017 at 06:13:01PM -0600, Bob Tracy wrote: > Not ignoring you... PWS 433au takes overnight to build a kernel these > days. > > Rebuilt 4.14 with the few changes noted in my previous message. Will > try it tomorrow when I've got a couple of free hours to collect

Bug#883089: udev: on alpha architecture, /dev/disk/by-XXX nodes not created

2017-12-01 Thread Bob Tracy
On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 11:10:41PM -0600, Bob Tracy wrote: > On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 05:12:58PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: > > Please test the kernel that is provided by Debian and report back if it > > works with that one. Not ignoring you... PWS 433au takes overnight to

Bug#883089: udev: on alpha architecture, /dev/disk/by-XXX nodes not created

2017-11-29 Thread Bob Tracy
On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 05:12:58PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: > Please check all other kernel config options as well that are listed in > /usr/share/doc/systemd/README.gz A few of the listed config options do not exist, at least in 4.14: CONFIG_DMIID CONFIG_DEVPTS_MULTIPLE_INSTANCES There were

Bug#883089: udev: on alpha architecture, /dev/disk/by-XXX nodes not created

2017-11-29 Thread Bob Tracy
Package: udev Version: 235-3 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, With kernel version 4.13, udev worked correctly at least two releases ago. The current release (and maybe the prior one) fails to detect/enumerate SCSI disk partitions (both real filesystems and swap partitions) except for "/"

Bug#855486: libkf5purpose-bin: inappropriate install dependency on nodejs for some architectures

2017-02-18 Thread Bob Tracy
Package: libkf5purpose-bin Version: 1.1-4 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, For several architectures, including at least alpha and hppa, there is no "nodejs" package available. For those architectures, "libkf5purpose-bin" has an installation dependency on "nodejs" that needs to be removed.

Bug#855259: nodejs: FTBFS on alpha architecture

2017-02-18 Thread Bob Tracy
Request bug closure with probable status of "won't fix". Did not realize what I was *really* asking for was a port of a Javascript JIT compiler, which isn't going to happen for the alpha architecture (nor any of several others represented in the Debian ports archive). Original reason for filing

Bug#855259: nodejs: FTBFS on alpha architecture

2017-02-15 Thread Bob Tracy
Source: nodejs Version: 4.7.2~dfsg-2 Severity: serious Justification: fails to build from source Dear Maintainer, The subject package fails to build on alpha systems due to an inappropriate selection of compiler flags during configuration. In particular "-m32" is not valid on alpha. My guess

Bug#548096: hangs after doing its job

2016-03-13 Thread Bob Tracy
Package: bind9-host Version: 1:9.9.5.dfsg-12.1 Followup-For: Bug #548096 Dear Maintainer, An earlier respondent mentioned the hang occuring with the "host" command as well. I have an Alpha PWS-433au running 4.5.0-rc4 (compiled from the stock "kernel.org" source tree). Libraries and userspace

Bug#789807: [alpha] cmake: testsuite failure: compiler feature "c_function_prototypes" is not known to C compiler

2015-09-10 Thread Bob Tracy
I think I may have found the issue. Not sure if other architectures could be affected. Looking at the cmake build artifacts under the "Build" directory, there are several instances of "feature_tests.c" and "feature_tests.cxx" with "const char features[]" initialized to '{ "" ... }' where I'm

Bug#660960: tight loop attempting to madvise(..., MADV_DONTNEED) locked memory

2012-04-27 Thread Bob Tracy
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 08:12:51AM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: Let me guess... alpha has non-4K page size. Page size was 8K the last time I checked, which was admittedly a long time ago. --Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Bug#660960: tight loop attempting to madvise(..., MADV_DONTNEED) locked memory

2012-04-26 Thread Bob Tracy
Earlier messages in this bug-report thread indicated use of Flash would also trigger the madvise() madness. I'm happy (?) to report that visiting Flash-enabled web sites reliably triggers this condition on the Alpha platform for *all* releases of firefox/iceweasel after 9.0.1. Michael Cree gets

Bug#649641: pulseaudio mutex issue on Alpha architecture

2011-11-23 Thread Bob Tracy
Verified that the previously-mentioned workaround is applicable to Alpha, and that it works: no more mutex failures. The specific implementation of the workaround for the 1.1-1 source package is to patch m4/ax_pthread.m4 line 266ff to read as follows: AC_CACHE_CHECK([for

Bug#649641: pulseaudio mutex issue on Alpha architecture

2011-11-22 Thread Bob Tracy
Package: pulseaudio Version: 1.1-1 Severity: important Iceweasel and firefox browsers crash with the following error: Assertion 'pthread_mutex_unlock(m-mutex) == 0' failed at pulsecore/mutex-posix.c:106, function pa_mutex_unlock(). Aborting. Always reproducible by starting either firefox or

Bug#648994: qt4-x11: g++-4.4 optimizer broken on Alpha

2011-11-16 Thread Bob Tracy
Source: qt4-x11 Version: 4:4.7.3-8 Severity: important Tags: patch Dear Maintainer, Due to a bug in the g++-4.4 optimizer, the normal -O2 build of qt4-x11 binary packages results in segfaults on the alpha architecture when apps are run that use the qt4 libraries. This includes kdm and the KDE4

Bug#648761: webkit: FTBFS on Alpha: arch missing from 01_double-conversion.patch

2011-11-14 Thread Bob Tracy
Source: webkit Version: 1.6.1-5 Severity: serious Tags: patch Justification: fails to build from source (but built successfully in the past) Dear Maintainer, This actually applies to 1.6.1-4 as well. The Alpha architecture passes the test mentioned in

Bug#556948: gnome-volume-control-applet: Connection failed, reconnecting...

2009-11-18 Thread Bob Tracy
Package: gnome-media Version: 2.28.1-1 Severity: normal My .xsession-errors file is full of lines like the following: ** (gnome-volume-control-applet:19774): WARNING **: Connection failed, reconnecting... If gnome-volume-control-applet is allowed to continue to run, say, overnight, the session

Bug#548792: gnumeric: WARNING **: NULL sheet in gnm_sheet_get_size! and segfault

2009-10-04 Thread Bob Tracy
Package: gnumeric Version: 1.9.12-2 Severity: normal Me too, I guess. I haven't checked the original bug report, but the subject indicates I'm not the first to see this. Note that I'm on an Alpha, not x86. Doesn't matter whether gnumeric is invoked with a spreadsheet argument: I get the same

Bug#546675: another library issue with unstable version

2009-09-16 Thread Bob Tracy
I installed the updated gnumeric and gnumeric-common packages from unstable (which fixed the undefined symbol error), but am now getting gnumeric: /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2: no version information available (required by /usr/lib/libspreadsheet-1.9.12.so) This appears to be a warning, as gnumeric

Bug#546846: libspreadsheet-1.9.10.so: undefined symbol error

2009-09-15 Thread Bob Tracy
Package: gnumeric Version: 1.9.10-2 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Invoking gnumeric generates an undefined symbol error for libspreadsheet-1.9.10.so: foo_canvas_item_request_update This error showed up after several squeeze updates were applied over the weekend.

Bug#541402: alpha: plasma segfault on kde4 startup

2009-08-30 Thread Bob Tracy
ACK on the below indicated packages. I won't have any free time to devote to this until this coming Thursday, but I *will* do what I can to help. Thanks! --Bob On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 12:55:35AM +0200, Sune Vuorela wrote: tag 541402 +help thanks On Thursday 13 August 2009 23:24:38 Bob

Bug#541402: alpha: plasma segfault on kde4 startup

2009-08-13 Thread Bob Tracy
Package: kdebase-workspace-bin Version: 4:4.2.4-1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Since the upgrade from KDE3 to KDE4 on the Alpha platform, KDE has been unusable. /usr/bin/plasma consistently segfaults on startup. This may or may not be related to #519518: the reporter

Bug#492488: Reproduction of the Iceweasel crashes.

2008-10-26 Thread Bob Tracy
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 12:26:52PM +1300, Michael Cree wrote: I've CCed this to Bob Tracy since he has done quite a bit of work trying to track down the problem,, that is reported in the debian-alpha mail list. He may wish to comment further. Bob compiled vanilla 3.0.3 firefox sources

Bug#503164: more complete list of missing items

2008-10-24 Thread Bob Tracy
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Bug#503051: gcc-4.2: optimizer produces code that segfaults on Alpha

2008-10-22 Thread Bob Tracy
Package: gcc-4.2 Version: 4.2.4-3 Severity: important firefox-3.0.3 builds from the mozilla.org source tree using gcc/g++-4.2.4 with optimization enabled result in an executable that segfaults on invocation. Adding ac_add_options --disable-optimize to the .mozconfig file and rebuilding produces

Bug#503052: binutils: ld default relax option causes relocation errors on Alpha

2008-10-22 Thread Bob Tracy
Package: binutils Version: 2.18.1~cvs20080103-7 Severity: important Attempts to build firefox-3.0.3 from the mozilla.org source tree fail with GPREL16 relocation errors on the Alpha at the point where libxul.so is built. Adding -Wl,--no-relax to DSO_LDOPTS results in a successful build. This

Bug#503164: /usr/bin/cacao not included in alpha package

2008-10-22 Thread Bob Tracy
Package: cacao Version: 0.99.4~20081012-2 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Packaging error: many files missing from alpha architecture version of the .deb file. /usr/bin/cacao is an obvious omission. The included man pages are symbolic links to non-existent files. --

Bug#456205: radvd: unaligned traps on Alpha platform

2007-12-13 Thread Bob Tracy
Package: radvd Version: 1:1.0-1 Severity: normal Running radvd on an Alpha PWS 433au causes alignment traps with error messages appearing on both the console and in syslog. The reported address is consistent, and I was able to track down the cause. The workaround below is not a proper fix,

Bug#439733: gnumeric: abort on startup: Failed to generate NaN.

2007-08-26 Thread Bob Tracy
Package: gnumeric Version: 1.6.3-5 Severity: important gnumeric aborts on startup since upgrading libc6.1 package on Alpha PWS 433au. Error message is Failed to generate NaN, which comes from libgoffice. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500,

Bug#438431: aboot will not load 2.6.23-rc1 and later kernels

2007-08-16 Thread Bob Tracy
Package: aboot Version: 0.9b-3 Severity: important Richard Henderson reports in a linux-kernel posting dated 14 Aug 2007: Recent build changes have added a PT_NOTE entry to the kernel's ELF header. A perfectly valid change, but Alpha's aboot loader is none too bright about examining these

Bug#368863: hald generates unaligned trap errors on Alpha

2006-05-27 Thread Bob Tracy
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Bug#368863: hald generates unaligned trap errors on Alpha

2006-05-25 Thread Bob Tracy
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Bug#344328: installation-reports: Debian Sarge installation on Alpha (PWS 433au)

2005-12-21 Thread Bob Tracy
Package: installation-reports Severity: normal INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/3.1_r0a/alpha/bt-cd/ downloaded in Sept. 2005. uname -a: Linux smirkin 2.4.27-2-generic #1 Tue Nov 22 17:12:59 UTC 2005 alpha GNU/Linux Date: 18 Dec 2005, 18:00 CST

Bug#344328: installation-reports: Debian Sarge installation on Alpha (PWS 433au)

2005-12-21 Thread Bob Tracy
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