Bug#633423: Problem with autofs 64-bit kernel/32-bit userspace compatibility

2012-04-03 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, Horst Rauber wrote: > I'm having the same problem (autofs hangs when accessing an auto mount point) > with recent kernels, so I wonder if this is really fixed upstream or if there > is another cause. > > Affected kernel: vanilla 3.2.13 and 3.3.1 (both amd64) > Working kernel: 3.1.10 (amd64) >

Bug#633423: Problem with autofs 64-bit kernel/32-bit userspace compatibility

2012-04-03 Thread Horst Rauber
Hi, I'm having the same problem (autofs hangs when accessing an auto mount point) with recent kernels, so I wonder if this is really fixed upstream or if there is another cause. Affected kernel: vanilla 3.2.13 and 3.3.1 (both amd64) Working kernel: 3.1.10 (amd64) Userspace: autofs5 5.0.4-3.2+b1

Bug#633423: Problem with autofs 64-bit kernel/32-bit userspace compatibility

2012-02-29 Thread Jonathan Nieder
tags 633423 = patch upstream quit Sven Joachim wrote: > 3.3-rc5 works for me, as does 3.2.7 with the following changes > cherry-picked: > > a32744d4abae (autofs: work around unhappy compat problem on x86-64) > 3c761ea05a89 (Fix autofs compile without CONFIG_COMPAT) > 048cd4e51d24 (compat: fix com

Bug#633423: Problem with autofs 64-bit kernel/32-bit userspace compatibility

2012-02-28 Thread Sven Joachim
tags 633423 + fixed-upstream patch thanks On 2012-02-24 20:15 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > Short summary for readers new to the bug: boot hangs with i386 systemd > and an x86_64 kernel. > > On 2011-10-15 21:51 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > >> It seems that somebody who is both smarter and more p

Bug#633423: Problem with autofs 64-bit kernel/32-bit userspace compatibility

2012-02-24 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2012-02-24 20:44 +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 08:15:09PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: >> Short summary for readers new to the bug: boot hangs with i386 systemd >> and an x86_64 kernel. > > Care to explain why it hangs and not dies? Here is Thomas Meyer's explanation fr

Bug#633423: Problem with autofs 64-bit kernel/32-bit userspace compatibility

2012-02-24 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 01:54:39PM -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > (But why hasn't this been spotted on sparc or powerpc already, > > where 32-bit userland on 64-bit kernel is the normal case?) > > __u64 is 64-bit aligned on those arches in 32-bit mode. > > http://thre

Bug#633423: Problem with autofs 64-bit kernel/32-bit userspace compatibility

2012-02-24 Thread Bastian Blank
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 07:50:05PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 08:15:09PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > [...] > > Thankfully this problem has now been communicated to Linus himself, and > > he agreed that it should be fixed in the kernel. > Of course it should. A shame tha

Bug#633423: Problem with autofs 64-bit kernel/32-bit userspace compatibility

2012-02-24 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Ben Hutchings wrote: > (But why hasn't this been spotted on sparc or powerpc already, > where 32-bit userland on 64-bit kernel is the normal case?) __u64 is 64-bit aligned on those arches in 32-bit mode. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1255890 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bu

Bug#633423: Problem with autofs 64-bit kernel/32-bit userspace compatibility

2012-02-24 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 08:15:09PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: [...] > Thankfully this problem has now been communicated to Linus himself, and > he agreed that it should be fixed in the kernel. Of course it should. A shame that some kernel maintainers think they don't have to care about 32-bit com

Bug#633423: Problem with autofs 64-bit kernel/32-bit userspace compatibility

2012-02-24 Thread Jonathan Nieder
found 633423 linux-2.6/3.2.6-1 tags 633423 + upstream # broken interface introduced in v2.6.17-rc1~444 # amd64 kernel image on i386 introduced in 2.6.18.dfsg.1-10 found 633423 linux-2.6/2.6.18.dfsg.1-10 forwarded 633423 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1256405/focus=1256966 quit Sven Jo

Bug#633423: Problem with autofs 64-bit kernel/32-bit userspace compatibility

2012-02-24 Thread Bastian Blank
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 08:15:09PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > Short summary for readers new to the bug: boot hangs with i386 systemd > and an x86_64 kernel. Care to explain why it hangs and not dies? Bastian -- Conquest is easy. Control is not. -- Kirk, "Mirror, Mirror", sta

Bug#633423: Problem with autofs 64-bit kernel/32-bit userspace compatibility

2012-02-24 Thread Sven Joachim
reassign 633423 linux-2.6 retitle 633423 autofs4 interface is broken between x86 and x86_64 affects 633423 systemd thanks Short summary for readers new to the bug: boot hangs with i386 systemd and an x86_64 kernel. On 2011-10-15 21:51 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > It seems that somebody who is

Bug#633423: Problem with autofs 64-bit kernel/32-bit userspace compatibility

2011-10-15 Thread Sven Joachim
It seems that somebody who is both smarter and more pertinacious than myself has tried to use a 32-bit systemd under 64-bit kernel and experienced the hangs, see the thread starting at [1]. Thomas Meyer proposed a patch in [2], but it was rejected, arguing that the incompatibility should be fixed