Bug#396520: Proposing a debugging method for this bug

2006-11-14 Thread Jérôme Marant
Le jeudi 09 novembre 2006 16:22, Attilio Fiandrotti a écrit : this is exactly what i do in order not to regenrate the iso every time i have to pull in something new and should work easily. Sorry if I'm late on this, but I'm not sure if I did it properly. Since I have to boot with the newt

Bug#396520: Proposing a debugging method for this bug

2006-11-14 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
Jérôme Marant wrote: Le jeudi 09 novembre 2006 16:22, Attilio Fiandrotti a écrit : this is exactly what i do in order not to regenrate the iso every time i have to pull in something new and should work easily. Sorry if I'm late on this, but I'm not sure if I did it properly. Since I have

Bug#396520: Proposing a debugging method for this bug

2006-11-09 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
Sven Luther wrote: On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 04:26:59PM +0100, Jérôme Marant wrote: Le mardi 07 novembre 2006 19:01, Attilio Fiandrotti a écrit : Unfortunately, nothing changed. I can try to provide a new strace output, as soon as someone unbreaks rootskel. So far we stated this bug -

Bug#396520: Proposing a debugging method for this bug

2006-11-08 Thread Jérôme Marant
Le mardi 07 novembre 2006 19:01, Attilio Fiandrotti a écrit : Unfortunately, nothing changed. I can try to provide a new strace output, as soon as someone unbreaks rootskel. So far we stated this bug - cannot be reproduced on a regular debian system - does not look like it's

Bug#396520: Proposing a debugging method for this bug

2006-11-08 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 04:26:59PM +0100, Jérôme Marant wrote: Le mardi 07 novembre 2006 19:01, Attilio Fiandrotti a écrit : Unfortunately, nothing changed. I can try to provide a new strace output, as soon as someone unbreaks rootskel. So far we stated this bug - cannot

Bug#396520: Proposing a debugging method for this bug

2006-11-08 Thread David Härdeman
On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 04:45:45PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 04:26:59PM +0100, Jérôme Marant wrote: BTW, how do you easily add a binary to the d-i? You wget it from somewhere :) And if you're building a d-i image yourself, you can also change

Bug#396520: Proposing a debugging method for this bug

2006-11-07 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
Jérôme Marant wrote: Le lundi 06 novembre 2006 12:55, Attilio Fiandrotti a écrit : Jerome, if i provide a simple patch for DFB 0.9.25, could you please rebuild the libdirectfb-udeb and see if the crash is fixed? In this case we could backport the fix from DFB 1.0-rc2 to DFB 0.9.25: would

Bug#396520: Proposing a debugging method for this bug

2006-11-07 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
Jérôme Marant wrote: Le mardi 07 novembre 2006 14:30, Attilio Fiandrotti a écrit : Jérôme Marant wrote: Le lundi 06 novembre 2006 12:55, Attilio Fiandrotti a écrit : Jerome, if i provide a simple patch for DFB 0.9.25, could you please rebuild the libdirectfb-udeb and see if the crash is

Bug#396520: Proposing a debugging method for this bug

2006-11-07 Thread Jérôme Marant
Le mardi 07 novembre 2006 14:30, Attilio Fiandrotti a écrit : Jérôme Marant wrote: Le lundi 06 novembre 2006 12:55, Attilio Fiandrotti a écrit : Jerome, if i provide a simple patch for DFB 0.9.25, could you please rebuild the libdirectfb-udeb and see if the crash is fixed? In this

Bug#396520: Proposing a debugging method for this bug

2006-11-06 Thread Jérôme Marant
Le mercredi 01 novembre 2006 12:02, Attilio Fiandrotti a écrit : Hi Jerome Hello, Sorry for the late reply, I've been away for few days. First, thank you for spending time working on the crash at VT switch on AMD64: fixing this bug is really important for the g-i project. You're welcome.

Bug#396520: Proposing a debugging method for this bug

2006-11-06 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
Jérôme Marant wrote: snip/ I ran a lot of them and I could switch back and forth from vt1 to vt7. Nothing crashed at all. BTW, Looking at the strace output, the problem could come from signal usage, like you said. Jerome, thanks for testing: the idea i got is that DFB is not responsable

Bug#396520: Proposing a debugging method for this bug

2006-11-06 Thread Jérôme Marant
Le lundi 06 novembre 2006 12:55, Attilio Fiandrotti a écrit : Jerome, if i provide a simple patch for DFB 0.9.25, could you please rebuild the libdirectfb-udeb and see if the crash is fixed? In this case we could backport the fix from DFB 1.0-rc2 to DFB 0.9.25: would this be possible if

Bug#396520: Proposing a debugging method for this bug

2006-11-06 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
Jérôme Marant wrote: Le lundi 06 novembre 2006 12:55, Attilio Fiandrotti a écrit : Jerome, if i provide a simple patch for DFB 0.9.25, could you please rebuild the libdirectfb-udeb and see if the crash is fixed? In this case we could backport the fix from DFB 1.0-rc2 to DFB 0.9.25: would

Bug#396520: Proposing a debugging method for this bug

2006-11-06 Thread Jérôme Marant
Le lundi 06 novembre 2006 14:51, Attilio Fiandrotti a écrit : How does it need to be fixed? Won't using different signal fix the issue? Using different signals should fix up this specific crash, but basing on this BR [1] by colin watson cdebconf's signal handling mechanism is not very

Bug#396520: Proposing a debugging method for this bug

2006-11-01 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
Hi Jerome First, thank you for spending time working on the crash at VT switch on AMD64: fixing this bug is really important for the g-i project. I've just cloned your original BR as bug 396520 [1] to separate from the french keyboard issue, retitled it, assigned to the directfb package and