Bug#439295: linux-image-2.6.21-2-686: System fails to boot
maximilian attems wrote: bla duplicate report and overrating your own little problem. Just because the problem is easily fixed doesn't mean it didn't cause my system to fail to boot. And when a system doesn't boot, it's essentially broken. So my actual problem is that I can't really recommend Debian to my friends and acquaintances if I think a kernel upgrade will break their system. This little problem of mine can, of course, be easily fixed by not recommending Debian. this due to the new pata driver for sis, just change your boot args to UUID and be happy. se for example that recipe - http://michael-prokop.at/blog/2006/08/11/stable-root-device-aka-uuid/ Thanks, I'll check it out. Vesa ... Luukku Plus paketilla pääset eroon tila- ja turvallisuusongelmista. Hanki Luukku Plus ja helpotat elämääsi. http://www.mtv3.fi/luukku
Bug#439295: linux-image-2.6.21-2-686: System fails to boot
Stephen Gran wrote: Yes, this is probably part of the libata transition. The right way to do this is probably to use filesystem labels for bootup, rather than hard conding device names. I don't think that can be done automagically, so this may just have to be documented in release notes. OK. Maybe these filesystem labels could also be used in the /etc/fstab entries? That looks to me like it decided your drive was UDMA/100 and configured for it correctly. What makes you say it didn't enable dma? Well, that's just what hdparm seems to say: # hdparm -d1 /dev/sda /dev/sda: setting using_dma to 1 (on) HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device Vesa ... Luukku Plus paketilla pääset eroon tila- ja turvallisuusongelmista. Hanki Luukku Plus ja helpotat elämääsi. http://www.mtv3.fi/luukku
Bug#439295: linux-image-2.6.21-2-686: System fails to boot
Package: linux-image-2.6.21-2-686 Version: 2.6.21-6 Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system *** Please type your report below this line *** After upgrading from linux-image-2.6.18-4-686 to linux-image-2.6.21-2-686, the system fails to boot because the kernel now suddenly sees hard drive as /dev/sda while linux-image-2.6.18-4-686 saw the same hard drive as /dev/hda. After editing /boot/grub/menu.lst and changing /dev/hda5 to /dev/sda5, ( title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.22-1-686 root(hd0,4) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-1-686 root=/dev/sda5 ro vga=791 video=vesa:ywrap,mtrr initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-1-686 savedefault ) the system boots O.K with linux-image-2.6.21-2-686, but fails to enable dma for /dev/sda. So I installed linux-source-2.6.22 and compiled a new kernel with my own custom configuration, which saw the hard drive again as /dev/hda and enabled dma without problems. Still, I'd much prefer to use Debian's linux-image packages instead of custom compiled kernels. I also tried linux-image-2.6.22-1-686, which acts just like linux-image-2.6.21-2-686. Vesa lspci: 00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Unknown device 0649 (rev 10) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] PCI-to-PCI bridge 00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS965 [MuTIOL Media IO] (rev 48) 00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] (rev 01) 00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] AC'97 Sound Controller (rev a0) 00:03.0 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 0f) 00:03.1 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 0f) 00:03.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 0f) 00:03.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 2.0 Controller 00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 191 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter 00:05.0 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 182 SATA/RAID Controller (rev 01) 00:06.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] PCI-to-PCI bridge 00:07.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] PCI-to-PCI bridge 00:0b.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host Controller (rev 80) 03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV44 [GeForce 6200 SE TurboCache (TM)] (rev a1) dmesg for linux-image-2.6.21-2-686 after editing /boot/grub/menu.lst (as described above): Linux version 2.6.21-2-686 (Debian 2.6.21-6) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 4.1.3 20070629 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.2-13)) # BIOS-provided physical RAM map: sanitize start sanitize end copy_e820_map() start: size: 0009fc00 end: 0009fc00 type: 1 copy_e820_map() type is E820_RAM copy_e820_map() start: 0009fc00 size: 0400 end: 000a type: 2 copy_e820_map() start: 000e size: 0002 end: 0010 type: 2 copy_e820_map() start: 0010 size: 3fe1 end: 3ff1 type: 1 copy_e820_map() type is E820_RAM copy_e820_map() start: 3ff1 size: 0001 end: 3ff2 type: 3 copy_e820_map() start: 3ff2 size: 000e end: 4000 type: 4 copy_e820_map() start: ff7c size: 0084 end: 0001 type: 2 BIOS-e820: - 0009fc00 (usable) BIOS-e820: 0009fc00 - 000a (reserved) BIOS-e820: 000e - 0010 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0010 - 3ff1 (usable) BIOS-e820: 3ff1 - 3ff2 (ACPI data) BIOS-e820: 3ff2 - 4000 (ACPI NVS) BIOS-e820: ff7c - 0001 (reserved) 127MB HIGHMEM available. 896MB LOWMEM available. found SMP MP-table at 000ff780 Entering add_active_range(0, 0, 261904) 0 entries of 256 used Zone PFN ranges: DMA 0 - 4096 Normal 4096 - 229376 HighMem229376 - 261904 early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges 0:0 - 261904 On node 0 totalpages: 261904 DMA zone: 32 pages used for memmap DMA zone: 0 pages reserved DMA zone: 4064 pages, LIFO batch:0 Normal zone: 1760 pages used for memmap Normal zone: 223520 pages, LIFO batch:31 HighMem zone: 254 pages used for memmap HighMem zone: 32274 pages, LIFO batch:7 DMI 2.3 present. ACPI: RSDP 000FB510, 0024 (r2 ACPIAM) ACPI: XSDT 3FF10100, 003C (r1 A M I OEMXSDT 7000511 MSFT 97) ACPI: FACP 3FF10290, 00F4 (r3 A M I OEMFACP 7000511 MSFT 97) ACPI: DSDT 3FF10430, 4054 (r1 A0231 A02310000 INTL 2002026) ACPI: FACS 3FF2, 0040 ACPI: APIC 3FF10390, 005C (r1 A M I OEMAPIC 7000511 MSFT 97) ACPI: MCFG 3FF103F0, 003C (r1 A M I OEMMCFG 7000511 MSFT 97) ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x808 ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee0 ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01]
Bug#393159: kdebase-bin: kdesu fails to accept a valid root password
If you upgrade to the kdebase in unstable, does the problem go away? (Be sure to also use the kdelibs from unstable). Yes, after upgrading to unstable, the problem seems to go away and kdesu accepts my root password again. ... Luukku Plus paketilla pääset eroon tila- ja turvallisuusongelmista. Hanki Luukku Plus ja helpotat elämääsi. http://www.mtv3.fi/luukku
Bug#393159: kdebase-bin: kdesu fails to accept a valid root password
Package: kdebase-bin Version: 4:3.5.4-2+b1 Severity: important kdesu gives me an error message claiming that the root password I gave it is invalid. But I know that I typed the valid root password. I tried several times with the same result. I think this must be a bug in kdesu. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (800, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-2-686 Locale: LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to fi_FI.UTF-8) Versions of packages kdebase-bin depends on: ii kdelibs4c2a 4:3.5.5a-1 core libraries and binaries for al ii libacl1 2.2.41-1 Access control list shared library ii libart-2.0-22.3.17-1 Library of functions for 2D graphi ii libattr12.4.32-1 Extended attribute shared library ii libaudio2 1.8-2The Network Audio System (NAS). (s ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libfontconfig1 2.4.1-2 generic font configuration library ii libfreetype62.2.1-5 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libgamin0 [libfam0] 0.1.7-4 Client library for the gamin file ii libgcc1 1:4.1.1-13 GCC support library ii libice6 1:1.0.1-2X11 Inter-Client Exchange library ii libidn110.6.5-1 GNU libidn library, implementation ii libjpeg62 6b-13The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG ii libpam-runtime 0.79-3.2 Runtime support for the PAM librar ii libpam0g0.79-3.2 Pluggable Authentication Modules l ii libpng12-0 1.2.8rel-5.2 PNG library - runtime ii libqt3-mt 3:3.3.6-4Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v ii libsm6 1:1.0.1-3X11 Session Management library ii libstdc++6 4.1.1-13 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libx11-62:1.0.0-9X11 client-side library ii libxcursor1 1.1.7-4 X cursor management library ii libxext61:1.0.1-2X11 miscellaneous extension librar ii libxft2 2.1.8.2-8FreeType-based font drawing librar ii libxi6 1:1.0.1-3X11 Input extension library ii libxinerama11:1.0.1-4.1 X11 Xinerama extension library ii libxkbfile1 1:1.0.3-2X11 keyboard file manipulation lib ii libxrandr2 2:1.1.0.2-4 X11 RandR extension library ii libxrender1 1:0.9.1-3X Rendering Extension client libra ii libxt6 1:1.0.2-2X11 toolkit intrinsics library ii libxtst61:1.0.1-5X11 Testing -- Resource extension ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-13 compression library - runtime Versions of packages kdebase-bin recommends: ii gdb6.4.90.dfsg-1 The GNU Debugger -- no debconf information ... Luukku Plus paketilla pääset eroon tila- ja turvallisuusongelmista. Hanki Luukku Plus ja helpotat elämääsi. http://www.mtv3.fi/luukku
Bug#352038: pcmciautils: fails to start PCMCIA netcard automatically
Subject: pcmciautils: fails to start PCMCIA netcard automatically Package: pcmciautils Version: 012-3 Severity: important *** Please type your report below this line *** After updating linux-image-2.6-686 from 2.6.12-10 to 2.6.15-4 in Debian testing (plus I have some packages from unstable), my PCMCIA netcard (eth0) is no longer started automatically at boot time. I noticed the following message in /var/log/boot: Not starting pcmcia-cs since kernel version = 2.6.13 and udev is enabled This is the only error relevant to my problem that I could find while browsing the log files and dmesg. I'm not sure if this actually is a problem in the pcmciautils package but apparently there's something wrong with the way Debian (udev, pcmciautils, whatever) currently manages my PCMCIA netcard. It used to work fine before the kernel upgrade. Here's the output for pccardctl ident: Socket 0: no product info available Socket 1: product info: D-Link, DE-660+, , 0004743118001 function: 6 (network) lsmod shows that the correct kernel module (pcnet_cs) has been loaded and running ifup eth0 manually brings eth0 up but I'd prefer Debian to start my netcard automatically. Vesa Savolainen -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-686 Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15) Versions of packages pcmciautils depends on: ii libc6 2.3.5-8GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libsysfs1 1.3.0-7interface library to sysfs ii module-init-tools 3.2.2-1tools for managing Linux kernel mo Versions of packages pcmciautils recommends: ii udev 0.081-1/dev/ and hotplug management daemo -- no debconf information ... Luukku Plus paketilla pääset eroon tila- ja turvallisuusongelmista. Hanki Luukku Plus ja helpotat elämääsi. http://www.mtv3.fi/luukku
Bug#326504: Sound doesn't work in pysol (etch)
Package: pysol Version: 4.82.1-3 Severity: normal *** Please type your report below this line *** After upgrading pysol and pysol-sounds from 4.82.1-2 to 4.82.1-3 and installing python2.4 and python2.4-tk as dependencies, sound no longer works in pysol. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-686 Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15) Versions of packages pysol depends on: ii python2.4 2.4.1-2An interactive high-level object-o ii python2.4-tk 2.4.1-2Tkinter - Writing Tk applications pysol recommends no packages. -- no debconf information ... Luukku Plus paketilla pääset eroon tila- ja turvallisuusongelmista. Hanki Luukku Plus ja helpotat elämääsi. http://www.mtv3.fi/luukku
Bug#309555: wmdrawer doesn't appear in the Debian menu
Package: wmdrawer Version: 0.10.5-1 Severity: normal *** Please type your report below this line *** The wmdrawer package doesn't install a Debian menu entry. Also, wmdrawer refuses to launch if there is no .wmdrawerrc file in the user's home directory. (However, the package installs /usr/share/doc/wmdrawer/wmdrawerrc.example that can be copied to .wmdrawerrc in the user's home directory.) -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-686 Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15) Versions of packages wmdrawer depends on: ii libc62.3.2.ds1-21GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libgdk-pixbuf2 0.22.0-8The GdkPixBuf image library, gtk+ ii libglib1.2 1.2.10-9The GLib library of C routines ii libgtk1.21.2.10-17 The GIMP Toolkit set of widgets fo ii libx11-6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1 X Window System protocol client li ii libxext6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1 X Window System miscellaneous exte ii libxi6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1 X Window System Input extension li ii xlibs4.3.0.dfsg.1-12 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu -- no debconf information ... Luukku Plus paketilla pääset eroon tila- ja turvallisuusongelmista. Hanki Luukku Plus ja helpotat elämääsi. http://www.mtv3.fi/luukku
