Bug#926903: Installation-report addition

2019-04-30 Thread Ben Hutchings
ed for a more current unit (Dell U2414H) and screen is > nicely centered now. > > That still leaves the problem why dmesg shows > '[ 1.349124] [drm:amdgpu_pci_probe [amdgpu]] *ERROR* amdgpu >requires firmware installed]' > Which firmware? [...] The firmware-amd-gra

Bug#925766: linux: ftbfs with GCC-9

2019-04-28 Thread Ben Hutchings
^~~~ usbip_network.c:179:2: note: in expansion of macro ‘PACK_OP_COMMON’ 179 | PACK_OP_COMMON(0, _common); | ^~ -- Ben Hutchings Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat. - John Lehman signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#927972: jitterentropy_rng.ko never loads

2019-04-25 Thread Ben Hutchings
Control: reassign -1 jitterentropy-rngd Control: severity -1 wishlist There is no dependency between the user-space daemon and the kernel module. And I don't see any kernel bug here, but this might be a wishlist item for the user-space package. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Horngren's Observation

Bug#925971: release-notes: should mention secure boot in d-i

2019-04-21 Thread Ben Hutchings
r grub-efi-ia32-signed, and a Linux kernel package from buster. * Some features of GRUB and Linux are restricted in Secure Boot mode, to prevent modifications to their code. * More information can be found on the Debian wiki at <https://wiki.debian.org/SecureBoot>. Ben. -- Ben H

Bug#927368: irqbalance: Should be Multi-Arch: foreign

2019-04-18 Thread Ben Hutchings
Package: irqbalance Version: 1.5.0-3 Severity: normal 15:05 < Diziet> Starting SMP IRQ Balancer: irqbalancestart-stop-daemon: unable to start /usr/sbin/irqbalance (Exec format error) 15:06 < Diziet> What fun, if you install linux-image-amd64 on an i386 host it

Bug#925379: linux-base: linux-version vmlinuz/vmlinux dichotomy, breaks at least m68k

2019-04-17 Thread Ben Hutchings
parc64 over to an > uncompressed kernel as well since compressed kernels are not > officially > supported and actually don't work with GRUB 2.04~rc1 when I tested > on sparc64 [1]. It might be worth adding a versioned dependency on linux-base for the affected architectures. Ben. -- Ben H

Bug#923675: debian-installer: consider using haveged to gather entropy

2019-04-17 Thread Ben Hutchings
_random/rng_current 2>/dev/null || echo none)" = none ] \ && ! grep -q '^flags\b.*\brdrand\b' /proc/cpuinfo; then # use software entropy daemon fi Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Make three consecutive correct guesses and you will be considered an expert. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#923675: Add related bug #916690 info

2019-04-16 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, 2019-04-16 at 13:57 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Ben Hutchings] > > This is a pretty terrible approach. Especially as the world has moved > > on to SSDs and they provide very little entropy from interrupts. > > Absolutely. But it has solved the problem wi

Bug#926539: rootskel: steal-ctty no longer works on at least sparc64

2019-04-16 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, 2019-04-16 at 11:47 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hi Ben! > > On 4/7/19 1:53 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > root@landau:~# cat /proc/consoles > > > ttyHV0 -W- (EC p )4:64 > > > tty0 -WU (E )4:1 &g

Bug#923675: Add related bug #916690 info

2019-04-16 Thread Ben Hutchings
flush the file buffers and run 'find > /target' to force some IO operations that would add entropy to the kernel. [...] This is a pretty terrible approach. Especially as the world has moved on to SSDs and they provide very little entropy from interrupts. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Make three consecuti

Bug#820036: Debian does not run on systems with Secure Boot enabled

2019-04-14 Thread Ben Hutchings
Control: summary -1 GRUB and Linux images are now signed by the production key trusted by shim-signed. Debian-installer apparently installs the signed packages, but other installation systems are not yet ready. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Quantity is no substitute for quality, but it's the only one

Bug#821088: vmdebootstrap: Missing UEFI Secure Boot support

2019-04-14 Thread Ben Hutchings
Control: found 1.11-1 I can confirm that this still doesn't work. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Quantity is no substitute for quality, but it's the only one we've got. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#821051: Need support for uploading and signing EFI executables

2019-04-14 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 03 Aug 2018 21:49:19 +0800 Ben Hutchings wrote: > Control: retitle -1 ftp.debian.org: Get signing service running > > At the Secure Boot sprint > <https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2018/04/msg00071.html> a new > architecture for code signing was agreed, and t

Bug#926794: linux-image-4.19.0.0-bpo.4-amd64: Please enable FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE_DEFERRED_TAKEOVER in kernel config

2019-04-12 Thread Ben Hutchings
hemes as well. If you want this to happen, please propose those changes in the other packages after the buster release. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Hoare's Law of Large Problems: Inside every large problem is a small problem struggling to get out. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#926875: initramfs-tools backward compatibility removal

2019-04-11 Thread Ben Hutchings
ramfs.conf. Due to the nature of evolution, this has > been moved to /etc/dropbear-initramfs/config within the release of stretch. [...] This is part of dropbear-initramfs and not initramfs-tools itself. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Never attribute to conspiracy what can adequately be expl

Bug#914517: linux-image-4.19.0-4-amd64: System freezes with nomodeset set and boots in a loop without

2019-04-10 Thread Ben Hutchings
is unusable in general, or on a large proportion of Debian systems. I don't believe that that is the case for this bug. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Never attribute to conspiracy what can adequately be explained by stupidity. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#925411: kernel-package: Not suitable for release

2019-04-09 Thread Ben Hutchings
d be to provide definitions for new UAPI added in a new kernel version. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Never attribute to conspiracy what can adequately be explained by stupidity. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#852323: Problem: UUIDs not being used everywhere for disks in stretch

2019-04-06 Thread Ben Hutchings
" in the second script. Fundametally, it you don't get new > kernel events when a mkfs happens so udev will never notice. Closing a block device that is opened for writing should trigger a change event. I tested this now with Linux 4.19.28 and it still seems to happen. Ben. -- Ben Hutc

Bug#926539: rootskel: steal-ctty no longer works on at least sparc64

2019-04-06 Thread Ben Hutchings
; console="${console_raw##*/}" > ;; So maybe rootskel should use that again, but applied to each console's char device number. (Though directly using the symlinks under /dev/char seems cleaner than poking in sysfs.) Ben. -- Ben Hutchings This sentence contradicts itself - no actually it doesn't. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#926149: AMD: Add nomodeset kernel parameter to avoid black screen

2019-04-04 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2019-04-04 at 09:22 +0800, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote: > > > > > > "BH" == Ben Hutchings writes: > > BH> The installer normally uses a dumb framebuffer driver (probably efifb > BH> on this system) that is built into the kernel. This is too

Bug#926261: closed by Ben Hutchings (Re: Bug#926261: linux-image-4.19.0-4-amd64: fan continiously spinning above 6900 RPM after resume on lenovo carbon x1 thinkpad with isa adap

2019-04-03 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2019-04-03 at 20:08 +, Karol Szkudlarek wrote: > > It has been closed by Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk. > > > > Their explanation is attached below along with your original > > report. > > If this explanation is unsatisfactory and you have

Bug#926149: AMD: Add nomodeset kernel parameter to avoid black screen

2019-04-03 Thread Ben Hutchings
ler normally uses a dumb framebuffer driver (probably efifb on this system) that is built into the kernel. This is too low- performance for a proper desktop. Ben. > Note the whole experiment was done offline as to reduce outside > interference in isolating the problem. -- Ben Hutchings Q.

Bug#926149: AMD: Add nomodeset kernel parameter to avoid black screen

2019-04-02 Thread Ben Hutchings
t.cgi?att=0;bug=925556;filename=logs.gz;msg=50 I wish you would just provide the information inline, but anyway that does answer the question: 00:01.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Carrizo [1002:9874] (rev e6) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. De

Bug#926149: AMD: Add nomodeset kernel parameter to avoid black screen

2019-04-02 Thread Ben Hutchings
d the netinst images do contain the necessary firmware packages, not just firmware for network adapters in the installer itself. So I think that the amdgpu firmware did get installed, and the driver is failing for some other reason. Please send the output of "lspci -vnn" for the system that sho

Bug#849509: Logs show popularity-contest installation indeed occurs after user says no

2019-04-02 Thread Ben Hutchings
part of popularity-contest, so the package has to be installed in order to ask the question. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Klipstein's 4th Law of Prototyping and Production: A fail-safe circuit will destroy others. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#926149: AMD: Add nomodeset kernel parameter to avoid black screen

2019-04-01 Thread Ben Hutchings
stalled on your test system? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans. - John Lennon signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#925979: busybox-udeb: breaks user-params, rescue mode, etc.

2019-03-31 Thread Ben Hutchings
he process is free to overwrite or even unmap this memory at any time. (Even if it doesn't do that, any additions to its environment will necessarily be outside that region.) So I don't recommend using /proc/1/environ if you can avoid it. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Design a system any fool ca

Bug#925919: RFT: linux with fix for VMware regression

2019-03-29 Thread Ben Hutchings
packages if needed. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Design a system any fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#901193: Bug#901003: There is no standard way of removing transitional / dummy packages

2019-03-27 Thread Ben Hutchings
re not intended to be removed > are tracking packages, which are used to keep > track of the current available version of a program over time. > A common case is linux-image--. Why do you want to introduce the term "tracking package" when we already have the term "metapackage&q

Bug#925482: stretch-pu: package firmware-nonfree/20161130-5

2019-03-25 Thread Ben Hutchings
Package: release.debian.org Severity: normal Tags: stretch User: release.debian@packages.debian.org Usertags: pu This update fixes CVE-2018-5383 in firmware for some Bluetooth adapters. The security team already triaged this as not requiring a DSA. Ben. -- System Information: Debian

Bug#925441: unblock: linux/4.19.28-2

2019-03-24 Thread Ben Hutchings
Package: release.debian.org Severity: normal User: release.debian@packages.debian.org Usertags: unblock Please unblock package linux * Upstream stable fixes for security, stability, and regressions * Various other important fixes * Enable additional hardware support * Make more drivers

Bug#925411: kernel-package: Not suitable for release

2019-03-24 Thread Ben Hutchings
ago. Bug #890817 also looks like it may be a big problem for current kernel versions, but apparently you have avoided it. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Larkinson's Law: All laws are basically false. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#925415: linux-update-symlinks(1) refers to man page that won't be in buster

2019-03-24 Thread Ben Hutchings
Package: linux-base Version: 4.5 Severity: important kernel-img.conf(5) is part of kernel-common, built from kernel-package. However kernel-package is not in a state to be released in buster (see #925411). Ben. -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable-debug

Bug#925411: kernel-package: Not suitable for release

2019-03-24 Thread Ben Hutchings
Yamada Cc: Ben Hutchings , Linux Kbuild mailing list , Liz Zhang , Lili Deng , Riku Voipio , Michal Marek , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH] kbuild: add workaround for Debian make-kpkg Hi, Well, if there are users, then I'll file the return bug, but I'll take a look

Bug#785065: [PATCH] powerpc: vdso: Make vdso32 installation conditional in vdso_install

2019-03-21 Thread Ben Hutchings
VDSO ...") Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- arch/powerpc/Makefile | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Makefile b/arch/powerpc/Makefile index 488c9edffa58..3def265cf1cf 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/Makefile +++ b/arch/powerpc/Makefile @@ -406,7 +406,9 @@ endef ifdef CO

Bug#925266: two different versions for Jessie install media (8.11.1 for LTS, 8.11.0 for the rest)

2019-03-21 Thread Ben Hutchings
ould continue to link to unsupported images, but I now see that we still have installer pages for all releases that used d-i. In my commit 0a388832cb4a7e9dfe1265fa04d1c441e9730e23 I intended to remove the non- LTS arches from the page, but that obviously didn't work. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Ma

Bug#785065: #785065: is this still relevant ?

2019-03-21 Thread Ben Hutchings
he build log, I can still see command lines using "-m32". But this seems to be due to a bug in the vdso_install target, which should be easy enough to fix. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Make three consecutive correct guesses and you will be considered an expert. signature.asc Description: T

Bug#920286: gcc-8: Missing conflict/break with binutils-x86-64-linux-gnu:i386 can lead to broken compiler

2019-03-19 Thread Ben Hutchings
break any native stuff and it'll fix the bug at hand. > > Helmut -- Ben Hutchings The first rule of tautology club is the first rule of tautology club. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#924581: lintian: license-problem-gfdl-invariants false positive in src:linux's fdl-appendix.rst

2019-03-14 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2019-03-14 at 11:49 -0400, Chris Lamb wrote: > Package: lintian > Version: 2.9.1~bpo9+1 > Severity: normal > X-Debbugs-CC: ans...@debian.org, b...@decadent.org.uk, > ftpmas...@ftp-master.debian.org> > > Ansgar wrote: > > > Ben Hutchings writes: > &

Bug#924499: libgeocode-glib0: Segfault in _geocode_create_place_from_attributes

2019-03-13 Thread Ben Hutchings
libgeocode-glib0 recommends no packages. libgeocode-glib0 suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- Ben Hutchings, Software Developer Codethink Ltd https://www.codethink.co.uk/ Dale House, 35 Dale Street Manc

Bug#895131: linux-perf: Add libopencsd support to perf

2019-03-13 Thread Ben Hutchings
c64 [1] as > the package libopencsd doesn't build there [2]. > > Since this library is ARM-specific anyway, wouldn't it make > more sense to have this build-dependency on ARM targets only? Please open a *new* bug for this. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Make three consecutive correct guesses

Bug#923988: /boot/vmlinuz-4.19.0-2-arm64: dmidecode causes kernel panic (puma-rk3399)

2019-03-12 Thread Ben Hutchings
/dev/mem, *unless* Secure Boot / lockdown is active - and in that case access to /dev/mem is blocked completely. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Larkinson's Law: All laws are basically false. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#890950: Bug#902416: Bug#890950: RE: Bug#902416: systemd: systemctl hibernate: unable to resume after upgrade

2019-03-10 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2019-03-11 at 00:20 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: > Hi Ben > > Am 10.03.19 um 23:17 schrieb Ben Hutchings: > > I think it would make sense for systemd to only set the hibernation > > device if it's not already set (i.e. if /sys/power/resume contains > > "0:0\

Bug#890950: RE: Bug#902416: systemd: systemctl hibernate: unable to resume after upgrade

2019-03-10 Thread Ben Hutchings
them into buster? > If not, should we revert commit > https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/17c40b3a8fbfb797110c88d749bd5 > > What do you suggest? The current situation doesn't seem ideal. I think it would make sense for systemd to only set the hibernation device if it's not already set (i.e.

Bug#922028: Can not start on Thinkpad X1 Carbon 5th (can not find its PCIe SSD?)

2019-03-09 Thread Ben Hutchings
elect the "recovery mode" entry for 4.19 on the boot menu, and take a picture of the output. - Run this command as root: mkinitramfs -v -o $(mktemp) 4.19.0-2-amd64 > mkinitramfs.log 2>&1 - Reply with the picture and mkinitramfs.log as attachments. Ben. -- Ben Hu

Bug#712953: sysvinit: System Restarts Instead of Powering Off

2019-03-08 Thread Ben Hutchings
off. > > But the computer then restarts and reboots. > > If I load up Debian Wheezy and shut that down, the computer powers off > properly. Sorry this report took so long to get assigned properly. Is this still happening in a current Debian version? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings

Bug#833500: kernel-package: CONFIG_STACK_VALIDATION needs tools/objtool/objtool along headers

2019-03-06 Thread Ben Hutchings
Control: severity -1 important Control: forcemerge -1 919270 This is at least important, if not RC, as it seems to prevent building out-of-tree modules on amd64. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings friends: People who know you well, but like you anyway. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally

Bug#658759: [kirkwood] squeeze-backports kernel fails to boot on SheevaPlug

2019-03-04 Thread Ben Hutchings
the > "affects", to not clutter the release-notes bug list. Again, it should have been mentioned and I don't believe the kernel has a workaround for this, but it would probably be pointless to mention now. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular. - Adlai Stevenson signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#697029: [ilk] using GNOME 3 makes computer sluggish after a few minutes

2019-03-04 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2019-03-04 at 20:45 +0100, Paul Gevers wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, 24 Feb 2013 07:08:14 + Ben Hutchings > wrote: > > > "Graphics rendering may be very slow on Intel 'Ironlake M' GPUs (PCI > > ID 8086:0046) when an IOMMU (VT-d) is enabled. The IOMMU &

Bug#923522: Upgrading `linux-image-4.9.0-8-amd64` breaks loading kernel modules

2019-03-01 Thread Ben Hutchings
(nominal) kernel version*, can break a running system -- all while that a > solution for this problem has been known for many years now... > > Thanks for any help! Normally all required modules would be loaded during boot, so there's no breakage. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Tomorrow will be cancelled due to lack of interest. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#923400: initramfs-tools: failure inside chroot: W: Couldn't identify type of root file system for fsck hook

2019-02-27 Thread Ben Hutchings
> > Would it perhaps make sense to support passing pre-resolved root > filesystem fstype as an environment variable, taking precedence over > probing? I don't think this should be an environment variable but it does seem like a useful option. Ben. -- Ben Hutch

Bug#922815: insserv FATAL while updating as mountkernfs has to be enabled to use service udev

2019-02-27 Thread Ben Hutchings
stalled? > > My guess is that update-initramfs invokes insserv /if/ it is available, > and since you have insserv installed, but no initscripts, we get this > bug. It does not. Ben. > Adding initramfs-tools maintainer into loop. If my guess is correct, > this issue should be

Bug#376925: initramfs-tools: init should say 'Will now load...'!

2019-02-23 Thread Ben Hutchings
ug do not apply to initscripts. > Reassigning. This message no longer appears when the "quiet" parameter is present (default behaviour when using GRUB). I don't intend to remove it completely. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings The obvious mathematical breakthrough [to break modern encryption] would b

Bug#922628: ITP: dt -- DNS tool - display information about your domain

2019-02-18 Thread Ben Hutchings
e dt begun: > > https://github.com/farrokhi/dnsdiag/issues/16 > > So I would love to see this in Debian. As usual, I would co-maintain > this in the golang team. This command name is very short, and in fact we already have a dt command (in the ditrack package). I suggest you try t

Bug#922072: linux-image-4.9.0-3-686-pae: A Hauppauge PVR-150 fails obtain any image when a camera is conneted to the composite video input.

2019-02-11 Thread Ben Hutchings
Control: tag -1 moreinfo The current kernel version in stable is 4.9.130-2, while you are running a much older version. Please install the available updates and re-test. Note that "apt-get upgrade" does *not* install all available updates; you must use the --with-new-pkgs option. Ben

Bug#916696: initramfs-tools: search for nonexistent resume device

2019-02-10 Thread Ben Hutchings
t; $ephemeral || break # exit the for-loop if ephemeral=true > resume_auto=# otherwise empty resume_auto > > > that's it :) > thanks again for your time > ciao! OK, I understand now, thanks. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings The world is coming to an end. Please log o

Bug#916696: initramfs-tools: search for nonexistent resume device

2019-02-10 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2019-02-10 at 06:31 +0100, Trek wrote: > On Wed, 06 Feb 2019 21:21:57 + > Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > The RESUME variable doesn't have to be set in any particular file. > > Please check with: > > > > grep -rw RESUME /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.

Bug#921951: debian-installer: Remove beep-udeb

2019-02-10 Thread Ben Hutchings
t; > [1] > debian-installer-20190118/build/pkg-lists/netboot/network-console/armel/ixp4xx.cfg This configuration is no longer used as we already dropped support for this platform in stretch. Please go ahead with removal of beep. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings The world is coming to

Bug#866122: slapd-mtread crash on ppc64{,el} in stretch/sid

2019-02-10 Thread Ben Hutchings
of a solution, which is really not acceptable for a release architecture. I propose to disable CONFIG_PPC_TRANSACTIONAL_MEMORY in both stretch and unstable, until a fix is available for TM. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings The world is coming to an end. Please log off. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#910069: linux-image-4.18.0-1-amd64: NVME quirk needed for Intel 760p + Thinkpad T480

2019-02-10 Thread Ben Hutchings
it may address this problem. Please upgrade the firmware (but make sure you have a backup of the drive) and check whether that fixes the problem. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings The world is coming to an end. Please log off. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#921542: tc qdisc kernel crash

2019-02-10 Thread Ben Hutchings
fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb [ 64.049993] == Ben. -- Ben Hutchings The world is coming to an end. Please log off. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#916898: linux-image-4.18.0-3-amd64: kernel oops and gdm fails to start

2019-02-09 Thread Ben Hutchings
I can get > into the system remotely and get to the journal. There is a kernel oops in > the > journal. [...] This looks like a bug that was fixed in 4.19. Let us know if you're still seeing the problem. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings The world is coming to an end. Please log off. signature

Bug#883413: src:linux: Still reproducible with linux-image-4.15.0-rc8-amd64

2019-02-09 Thread Ben Hutchings
smoking gun: > > [ 2982.158622] percpu ref (css_release) <= 0 (-197) after switching to atomic [...] Sorry for leaving this unanswered so long. Are you still seeing this? I found some apparently related reports on the Red Hat Bugzilla but not on anything newer than 4.17. Ben. -- Ben Hut

Bug#898743: breaks when #included after

2019-02-09 Thread Ben Hutchings
[...] has defined MS_RDONLY as a macro since before version 1.0, so this is a wontfix on the kernel side. was already defining MS_RDONLY as both enumerator and macro in jessie, so this doesn't seem to be a regression. Downgrading and reassigning to just libc6-dev, but I fully expect this to be wontfix on that

Bug#895131: (linux-perf-4.16: Add libopencsd support to perf)

2019-02-08 Thread Ben Hutchings
e should sometimes be built without it. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Logic doesn't apply to the real world. - Marvin Minsky signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#916696: initramfs-tools: search for nonexistent resume device

2019-02-06 Thread Ben Hutchings
nitramfs-tools version 0.133 (I just uploaded this so you will have to wait a few hours for it to be available) 2. Run "update-initramfs -u -v >initramfs.log 2>&1" 3. Look in initramfs.log for "Calling hook resume" and send th

Bug#921518: flash-kernel: [PATCHv2] Adding-definition-of-Raspberry-Pi-Family

2019-02-06 Thread Ben Hutchings
Debian architecture that can run on the Pi 0/1, not the name of a kernel flavour. We do not yet have any kernel flavour for these yet, and it is unlikely to be "armel". We tend to use the architecture name as a kernel flavour name only if it can support most hardware for that architecture.

Bug#887159: initramfs-tools can use busybox as complete replacement for klibc

2019-02-06 Thread Ben Hutchings
ot; or "-C" options nfsmount should be replaceable with mount Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain. - Lily Tomlin signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#921556: busybox: Enable more applets to support initramfs-tools

2019-02-06 Thread Ben Hutchings
Package: busybox Version: 1:1.27.2-3 Severity: wishlist Once we have busybox 1.28.0, we could enable these extra applets on Linux: ipconfig [CONFIG_IPCONFIG] nuke [CONFIG_NUKE] resume[CONFIG_RESUME] run-init [CONFIG_RUN_INIT] Ben. -- System Information: Debian

Bug#921540: busybox: New upstream release (1.28.0)

2019-02-06 Thread Ben Hutchings
Control: retitle -1 busybox: New upstream release (1.30.0) On Wed, 2019-02-06 at 16:27 +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > Package: busybox > Version: 1:1.27.2-3 > Severity: wishlist > > busybox version 1.28.0 was released in August 2017 and we should > rebase on it. In fact t

Bug#921540: busybox: New upstream release (1.28.0)

2019-02-06 Thread Ben Hutchings
Package: busybox Version: 1:1.27.2-3 Severity: wishlist busybox version 1.28.0 was released in August 2017 and we should rebase on it. Ben. -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable-debug APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500,

Bug#921402: plymouth hide-message does not work

2019-02-04 Thread Ben Hutchings
Package: plymouth Version: 0.9.4-1 Severity: normal Tags: upstream "plymouth hide-message --text=" has no effect when using a framebuffer. I assume it has no effect in text mode either. Ben. -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable-debug APT policy: (500,

Bug#657707: [initramfs-tools] modules for initrd are not stripped

2019-02-04 Thread Ben Hutchings
e signatures. I'm open to adding an option but won't work on it myself. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings If you seem to know what you are doing, you'll be given more to do. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#909643: closed by Ben Hutchings (Re: doing a dist-upgrade from debian7 to debian8 ended with a non bootable system)

2019-02-03 Thread Ben Hutchings
It appears that busybox-cvs was only uploaded once and only included in the Debian 3.1 "sarge" release. It was then obsoleted by newer versions of busybox, but that didn't build the transitional packages needed to cause an automatic upgrade. But I think it is now much to late to do anything about

Bug#894294: Comment in the source of unmkinitramfs is ambiguous

2019-02-03 Thread Ben Hutchings
cpio archive. [...] This code started life in bug #717805 and you can see there that various people found different behaviour. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings If you seem to know what you are doing, you'll be given more to do. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#917524: initramfs-tools: Upgrade from initramfs-tools package fails

2019-02-03 Thread Ben Hutchings
thinking of was only partly fixed in 240-2. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Horngren's Observation: Among economists, the real world is often a special case. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#918818: Additional info

2019-02-03 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 11 Jan 2019 15:20:04 +0600 Tech Knowledge < discover...@gmail.com> wrote: > Just added the information as requested. This might be the same as bug #917607 which was fixed in udev 240-4. Can you check whether upgrading udev fixes this? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Horngren's Ob

Bug#920664: unable to decrypt drive from grub after alpha4 setup)

2019-02-03 Thread Ben Hutchings
ption. > The buster system created by the installer includes aesni-intel.ko, but the > initrd does not. cryptsetup-initramfs should have been installed, and it would add the crypto modules (and other necessary files) to the initramfs. Is it installed? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Horngren's O

Bug#921114: no display on GL applications

2019-02-02 Thread Ben Hutchings
ware, the firmware should be given a new filename. It is not an error to use a new firmware package with an old kernel. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Knowledge is power. France is bacon. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#791609: Error on restoring ledger buffer from desktop file

2019-01-31 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2019-02-01 at 02:59 +, Ben Hutchings wrote: [...] > I've just tested using emacs-gtk version 1:26.1+1-3. ...and ledger version 3.1.2~pre1+g3a00e1c+dfsg1-5+b3. > I can't reproduce > the bug with either a freshly created desktop file or with the desktop > entry quoted in

Bug#791609: Error on restoring ledger buffer from desktop file

2019-01-31 Thread Ben Hutchings
gt; > > > I tried the same recipe with 24.5, but still did not reproduce the > > failure. > > Ben, it seems like David cannot reproduce your issue. Can you check > again? I've just tested using emacs-gtk version 1:26.1+1-3. I can't reproduce the bug with either a fresh

Bug#917864: closed by Gianfranco Costamagna (Re: Fails to build for non-current kernel version)

2019-01-30 Thread Ben Hutchings
M=$(CURDIR) clean Ben. -- Ben Hutchings The two most common things in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#920919: ITP: xoreos-tools -- collection of tools around BioWare's Aurora engine games

2019-01-30 Thread Ben Hutchings
contrib" is right. > The section itself is also not clear to me. It's all about games, > lintian tells me though that packages in the section games must > provide binaries under /usr/games/... I think reverse-engineering would fall under "devel". Ben. -- Ben Hutchings T

Bug#920740: Should crda be shipped in buster?

2019-01-28 Thread Ben Hutchings
drop the regdb for crda > and add a Breaks: crda. This is all wrong, we don't enable direct loading yet. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. - Albert Camus signature.asc De

Bug#920547: Crashes every few hours

2019-01-27 Thread Ben Hutchings
lt. Ben. > I've attached the dmesg from boot and some kernel logs for your perusal, > cleansed from private data. -- Ben Hutchings We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. - Albert Camus signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#920498: [Fwd: Re: Bug#920498: os-prober generates jessy entry with bad UUID]

2019-01-26 Thread Ben Hutchings
Forwarded Message From: Joachim Schmidt To: Ben Hutchings Subject: Re: Bug#920498: os-prober generates jessy entry with bad UUID Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2019 18:42:29 +0100 Message-Id: <2f9387ca-3fa6-63ae-9353-2d18be286...@arcor.de> Hi Ben, > In the jessie installation,

Bug#920498: os-prober generates jessy entry with bad UUID

2019-01-26 Thread Ben Hutchings
> } > > I run update-grub some times with always the same result. > If I change the UUID in the linux line to 28cc.. then I can boot. [...] In the jessie installation, what does /etc/fstab say is the root device? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings I'm not a reverse psychological virus. Please

Bug#920437: ITP: displaylink -- Proprietary driver for DisplayLink devices

2019-01-25 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2019-01-25 at 14:21 -0500, Hanno Stock wrote: > Am Fr, 25. Jan 2019, um 17:03, schrieb Ben Hutchings: > > Please consider choosing a more specific package name. Since we > > have > > free drivers for some DisplayLink devices, we should encourage > > users to &

Bug#920437: ITP: displaylink -- Proprietary driver for DisplayLink devices

2019-01-25 Thread Ben Hutchings
d uses > the opensource evdi kernel module for presenting a virtual graphics > device to the system. [...] Please consider choosing a more specific package name. Since we have free drivers for some DisplayLink devices, we should encourage users to use those where possible. Ben. -- Ben Hu

Bug#900918: debian-installer: Please make the generated images reproducible

2019-01-22 Thread Ben Hutchings
and what's speaking > against > doing that? If it's about CPU time, then maybe it should obey the > parallelization setting of the build process. [...] The general way to communicate this is by wrapping the build in "taskset", and pigz will surely follow that. Ben. -- Ben

Bug#920034: linux-image-4.9.0-3-amd64: system freeze

2019-01-21 Thread Ben Hutchings
, you need to send us the kernel log including the first WARNING and/or BUG messages, not the last ones. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Klipstein's 4th Law of Prototyping and Production: A fail-safe circuit will destroy others. signature.asc Description: This is a digita

Bug#919652: ath10k - QCA6174 - Surface Go - missing board data - fix .bin included extracted form official .msi

2019-01-21 Thread Ben Hutchings
Do not send firmware files to the bug tracking system, as this may be a copyright infringement. All additions to the firmware packages need to come with a clear license from the copyright holder that allows us to redistribute them. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Klipstein's 4th Law of Prototyping

Bug#920032: qemu-user uses wrong struct timeval on sparc

2019-01-21 Thread Ben Hutchings
Package: qemu-user Version: 1:3.1+dfsg-2 Severity: important Tags: patch On sparc (only) Linux defines timeval::tv_usec with type int, not long. However qemu-user's definition of struct target_timeval uses abi_long unconditionally. This results in the syscall translation layer effectively

Bug#917864: closed by Gianfranco Costamagna (Re: Fails to build for non-current kernel version)

2019-01-21 Thread Ben Hutchings
n dpkg -i > it. The bug is in the makefile you provide to module-assistant. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Klipstein's 4th Law of Prototyping and Production: A fail-safe circuit will destroy others. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#919855: s390x executables crash

2019-01-20 Thread Ben Hutchings
Control: severity -1 grave On Sun, 2019-01-20 at 06:39 +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > Source: klibc > Version: 2.0.5-1 > Severity: serious > > While investigating some test failures on klibc upstream, I found that > the new Debian version crashes on s390x. It look

Bug#919921: qemu-user Linux ELF loader fails to handle pure BSS segments

2019-01-20 Thread Ben Hutchings
Package: qemu-user Version: 1:3.1+dfsg-2 Severity: normal Tags: patch I've been building and testing klibc across many architectures using qemu-user, and I found that qemu-user fails to load a few programs on a few architectures, reporting an EINVAL error code. Here's the "readelf -l" output for

Bug#919855: s390x executables crash

2019-01-19 Thread Ben Hutchings
Source: klibc Version: 2.0.5-1 Severity: serious While investigating some test failures on klibc upstream, I found that the new Debian version crashes on s390x. It looks like this is due to an address collision between the build ID in the shared library and the code in the executables. The

Bug#917864: closed by Gianfranco Costamagna (Re: Fails to build for non-current kernel version)

2019-01-18 Thread Ben Hutchings
clean". Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Hoare's Law of Large Problems: Inside every large problem is a small problem struggling to get out. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#919706: RM: linux-signed/experimental -- obsolete

2019-01-18 Thread Ben Hutchings
there. > > linux-signed was removed from unstable in 2017 (#862902). Please > consider removing it from experimental as well. > > Maintainers are CCed for their input. Yes, this "experiment" is over. :-) Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Always try to do things in chrono

Bug#918818: Installed freesh 'Buster' but it always boot into intramfs

2019-01-09 Thread Ben Hutchings
odules. > 2. Then regenerated initrd with update-initramfs. Which version of udev is installed ("dpkg -s udev" shows this)? Please attach the output of "lsinitramfs /boot/initrd.img-4.19.0-1-amd64". Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes

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