Bug#691600: libghc-warp-dev: does not parse request headers correctly

2013-01-27 Thread Steve McIntyre
this into a sizable undertaking. That's a nasty mess there. :-( Do we have any hope of progress on this RC bug? Otherwise it's incredibly tempting to push for removal of libghc-warp-dev considering its tiny popcon and the fact that it has never been in a stable Debian release... -- Steve

Bug#694286: closed by Peter Miller pmil...@opensource.org.au (Bug#694286: fixed in fstrcmp 0.5.D001-1)

2013-01-27 Thread Steve McIntyre
these bugs in unstable. Are you planning on doing anything about getting fixed packages into wheezy? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com ...In the UNIX world, people tend to interpret `non-technical user' as meaning someone who's only ever written one

Bug#696837: marked as done (Missing Depends on python-libtorrent, fails to start)

2013-01-27 Thread Steve McIntyre
dependency for deluged. That will break the use case of running the daemon application on a remote server. Should be fine: deluged depends on deluge-common (same version), which will now bring in python-libtorrent as a dependency. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st

Bug#696837: marked as done (Missing Depends on python-libtorrent, fails to start)

2013-01-29 Thread Steve McIntyre
. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com liw everything I know about UK hotels I learned from Fawlty Towers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#691600: libghc-warp-dev: does not parse request headers correctly

2013-01-29 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 07:11:57PM +0100, Joachim Breitner wrote: Hi, Am Sonntag, den 27.01.2013, 15:09 + schrieb Steve McIntyre: Do we have any hope of progress on this RC bug? Otherwise it's incredibly tempting to push for removal of libghc-warp-dev considering its tiny popcon

Bug#699884: debian-cd: 2013-02-04 i386 weekly builds are unable to boot

2013-02-06 Thread Steve McIntyre
a note on the download page right now to warn people. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Is there anybody out there? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Bug#699890: syslinux breakage causes i386/amd64 boot failure

2013-02-06 Thread Steve McIntyre
Package: cdimage.debian.org Version: weekly-image Severity: grave Tags: d-i syslinux in unstable is broken (#699382) and this means current sid builds of debian-installer for i386 and amd64 are broken for BIOS booting. This ripples through to Debian CD images too. Don't use the current daily-sid

Bug#701099: debian-cd: installer fails with two CD/DVD drives

2013-02-21 Thread Steve McIntyre
to look. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Who needs computer imagery when you've got Brian Blessed? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#517396: cdimage.debian.org: Lenny ppc netinstall cd misses grub-of

2013-03-22 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 10:32:34AM -0400, Milan Kupcevic wrote: Just for the record: wheezy installs fine on Pegasos II machines, without grub. Great, thanks for comfirming that. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Getting a SCSI chain working

Bug#698914: Fixing #698914 for wheezy (grub booting Windows 8 via UEFI)

2013-04-25 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 12:31:41AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 12:11:10AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: [...] This directory only exists if efivars is loaded. I assume that SUSE configures it as built-in, and our kernel package has a patch to trigger autoloading

Bug#734116: debian-installer: don't overwrite debian UEFI entry without asking

2014-01-03 Thread Steve McIntyre
will try to automatically re-use an existing EFI System Partition if it finds one, and add Debian's boot files there. Did you explicitly set up a separate ESP on another disk, or similar? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Getting a SCSI chain working

Bug#735921: issue is not fixed

2014-03-23 Thread Steve McIntyre
=medium + + * debian/patches/12_fix_strcasestr_declaration: Add #define _GNU_SOURCE +as well, to get the definition of strcasestr (closes: #735921). + + -- Steve McIntyre 93...@debian.org Sun, 23 Mar 2014 14:38:44 + + radare2 (0.9.6-3) unstable; urgency=medium * debian/patches

Bug#725531: aptdaemon: FTBFS: Tests failed

2014-03-23 Thread Steve McIntyre
? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#725531: aptdaemon: FTBFS: Tests failed

2014-03-23 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 06:15:55PM +0100, Julian Andres Klode wrote: On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 5:00 PM, Steve McIntyre st...@einval.com wrote: Ping? Over 5 months later with no response. I have just confirmed the problem locally with a test build. Should we remove aptdaemon? The thing

Bug#759309: Must not Provide: libmysqlclient-dev

2014-08-25 Thread Steve McIntyre
Package: libmariadbclient-dev Version: 5.5.39-1 Severity: grave libmariadbclient-dev currently includes Provides: libmysqlclient-dev but does not actually include a libmysqlclient. This is breaking builds on buildds and wasting porter time. Please remove this ASAP. :-( -- System Information:

Bug#759309: [debian-mysql] Bug#759309: Bug#759309: Must not Provide: libmysqlclient-dev

2014-08-26 Thread Steve McIntyre
compatible implementation in all respects - headers, libraries, API and ABI. If you're not, then don't pretend to be in the packaging system. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Support the Campaign for Audiovisual Free Expression: http://www.eff.org/cafe

Bug#768788: Recent installer versions using the wrong GPT partition type GUID for EFI System Partition

2014-11-09 Thread Steve McIntyre
Package: partmen-efi Severity: serious Tags: d-i Not sure if partman-efi is the right place for this bug to be filed, but it's where things are showing up. Maybe parted is a better place? Older versions of the installer (up to and including at least jessie d-i alpha 1, 2014-03-18) use the

Bug#768788: Acknowledgement (Recent installer versions using the wrong GPT partition type GUID for EFI System Partition)

2014-11-09 Thread Steve McIntyre
Control: reassign -1 partman-efi Gah, typos in package names... :-( -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com C++ ate my sanity -- Jon Rabone -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Bug#767037: Grub EFI fallback - patches for review

2014-12-01 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Mon, Dec 01, 2014 at 03:52:51PM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Steve McIntyre st...@einval.com (2014-12-01): Control: severity 767037 serious Control: tag 767037 +patch [ Raising severity to serious as I've heard more and more reports of the problems here recently. ] Hi folks, i

Bug#767037: Grub EFI fallback - patches for review

2014-12-02 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, Dec 02, 2014 at 08:36:31AM +, Ian Campbell wrote: On Mon, 2014-12-01 at 13:57 +, Steve McIntyre wrote: Starting with grub-install-fallback.patch: From e384e597914b6e1b1dcbf96ef6782cf9bcc2313b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 debian/patches/grub-install-extra-removable.patch | 115

Bug#767037: Grub EFI fallback - patches for review

2014-12-02 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, Dec 02, 2014 at 08:51:24AM +, Ian Campbell wrote: On Mon, 2014-12-01 at 13:57 +, Steve McIntyre wrote: grub-installer-rescue-UEFI-removable.patch: diff --git a/debian/grub-installer.templates b/debian/grub-installer.templates index e439ad0..a6af2ec 100644 --- a/debian/grub

Bug#767037: Grub EFI fallback - patches for review

2014-12-03 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, Dec 03, 2014 at 09:42:20AM +, Ian Campbell wrote: On Wed, 2014-12-03 at 01:55 +, Steve McIntyre wrote: On Tue, Dec 02, 2014 at 08:36:31AM +, Ian Campbell wrote: On Mon, 2014-12-01 at 13:57 +, Steve McIntyre wrote: Starting with grub-install-fallback.patch: From

Bug#767037: Grub EFI fallback - patches for review

2014-12-03 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, Dec 03, 2014 at 09:44:08AM +, Ian Campbell wrote: On Wed, 2014-12-03 at 02:10 +, Steve McIntyre wrote: +mountvirtfs () { + fstype=$1 + path=$2 + if grep -q [[:space:]]$fstype\$ /proc/filesystems \ + ! grep -q ^[^ ]\+ \+$path /proc/mounts

Bug#767037: Grub EFI fallback - patches for review

2014-12-03 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, Dec 03, 2014 at 04:18:23PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: A more generic fix would be to add to a list of filesystems that need unmounting, and trap to a new shell function that unmounts that list. Not too hard, I think - I'll see if I can do that and get it tested today. Frankly, I'd also

Bug#771971: dpkg hangs installing init during upgrade from wheezy to jessie

2014-12-03 Thread Steve McIntyre
Package: upgrade-reports Severity: serious Hi, Doing and upgrade in a VM. Started from a fairly minimal wheezy system, then ran apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade to do the upgrade. Things appeared to be running smoothly, until dpkg hung at this point: ... Unpacking libsepol1:amd64 (2.3-2)

Bug#771971: dpkg hangs installing init during upgrade from wheezy to jessie

2014-12-03 Thread Steve McIntyre
-front and the upgrade did *not* block in the same way. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com I've only once written 'SQL is my bitch' in a comment. But that code is in use on a military site... -- Simon Booth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc

Bug#772110: jigdo-lite creates corrupted isos

2014-12-05 Thread Steve McIntyre
files and download mis matching files again. Sorry, but this bug is hardly grave. Important, maybe... jigdo-lite works most of the time for most people. Hmmm, it's probably time that somebody picked up jigdo-file and maintained it I guess. I'll add it to my list. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge

Bug#767037: Grub EFI fallback - patches for review

2014-12-07 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sun, Dec 07, 2014 at 04:38:37PM +, Ian Campbell wrote: Control: tag -1 +pending On Wed, 2014-12-03 at 15:27 +, Steve McIntyre wrote: Cool. I don't (think I) have push access to the git repo, so if you could do the honours and apply, that would be lovely. :-) Done, patches are now

Bug#767037: Grub EFI fallback - patches for review

2014-12-08 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Mon, Dec 08, 2014 at 07:29:56PM +, Ian Campbell wrote: On Mon, 2014-12-08 at 01:36 +, Steve McIntyre wrote: The current package in sid (-17) is unblocked and I think ought to transition tomorrow (or perhaps Tuesday depending on TZ). I propose to upload -18 with this change shortly

Bug#773007: Doesn't work on i386, crashes also

2014-12-16 Thread Steve McIntyre
then are bug fixes. How hard would it be at this point in the game to get an exception to pull 0.11.0 into testing? Depends on how big they are, I guess, and how important they look. There are serious issues here, but not all of the changes are just serious bugfixes AFAICS? -- Steve McIntyre

Bug#773007: Doesn't work on i386, crashes also

2014-12-16 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 02:45:47PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 01:38:34PM -0600, D. Jared Dominguez wrote: Once you test against unstable's efibootmgr, Peter Jones (upstream) can help us try to triage this bug more. Same behaviour using current upstream head - see

Bug#767037: Grub EFI fallback - patches for review

2014-12-21 Thread Steve McIntyre
that for Jessie, hence I've been continuing down this route. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com I used to be the first kid on the block wanting a cranial implant, now I want to be the first with a cranial firewall. -- Charlie Stross -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Bug#767037: Grub EFI fallback - patches for review

2014-12-21 Thread Steve McIntyre
(hardlinks, atomic updates and the like), might want to handle that by installing via the postinst instead of shipping in /boot/EFI. Definitely, yes. dpkg directly on VFAT is a no-go. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Can't keep my eyes from

Bug#768897: MBR disklabels also yield destructive pvcreate

2015-01-26 Thread Steve McIntyre
Control: severity -1 important Control: clone -1 -2 Control: retitle -2 Installation manual should warn about the use of LVM partition types Control: reassign -2 installation-guide On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 04:24:43PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 03:36:19PM -0600, Drake

Bug#776957: Panic at boot on arm64 systems

2015-02-03 Thread Steve McIntyre
Package: src:linux Version: 3.16.7-ckt4-2 Severity: grave Tags: patch upstream The latest upstream stable kernel pull is broken on arm64. The system panics during early boot in arch_timer setup. The cause is simple. Commit 0b46b8a718c6e90910a1b1b0fe797be3c167e186 was pulled into stable, but a

Bug#775689: Do NOT use unetbootin for Debian CD images

2015-01-19 Thread Steve McIntyre
to look into how to detect unetbootin media within d-i so that we can potentially flash up a warning to the user. I *know* it may be a useful tool for some folks (and it used to be very helpful/necessary for USB stuff on older releases), but it's becoming a major PITA. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge

Bug#756253: Upgrade from 2.02~beta2-10 to 2.02~beta2-11 left grub unbootable

2015-01-20 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 07:42:37AM +0900, Mike Hommey wrote: On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 11:37:28AM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: The ENOSPC handling has been bad in the past, but it's not clear that was the cause of your original bug. :-/ *Now* it's a very bad state to be in, and may cause other

Bug#774366: also on wheezy

2015-01-17 Thread Steve McIntyre
. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com ...In the UNIX world, people tend to interpret `non-technical user' as meaning someone who's only ever written one device driver. -- Daniel Pead -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org

Bug#756253: Upgrade from 2.02~beta2-10 to 2.02~beta2-11 left grub unbootable

2015-01-16 Thread Steve McIntyre
is the cause of your problem - your firmware has filled up the EFI variable space, so the system cannot add new EFI variables. I suggest you look for documentation on ow to fix that - it'll depend on the type of computer you have. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st

Bug#756253: Upgrade from 2.02~beta2-10 to 2.02~beta2-11 left grub unbootable

2015-01-16 Thread Steve McIntyre
root 119808 10月 18 10:59 /boot/efi/EFI/debian/grubx64.efi Hi Mike, Have you seen this again recently? Is it still happening for you? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Can't keep my eyes from the circling sky, Tongue-tied twisted, Just

Bug#765540: missing symbol

2015-01-16 Thread Steve McIntyre
nicely too... :-/ -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Getting a SCSI chain working is perfectly simple if you remember that there must be exactly three terminations: one on one end of the cable, one on the far end, and the goat, terminated over

Bug#761815: installation adds entries for USB media to /etc/fstab which confuse udisks

2015-01-17 Thread Steve McIntyre
environments (KDE or GNOME) due to these entries in /etc/fstab. I'm thinking the best way to go with this is to simply drop this misc USB device support altogether from partman-target. Any objections? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com C++ ate my

Bug#764798: grub2: Grub rescue shell with RAID 6 mdadm over 8 disks

2015-01-17 Thread Steve McIntyre
this. Mike: I'm afraid the only way you're going to get your system back properly is to re-arrange your filesystems. Maybe re-shuffle the disks to get a smaller RAID1 for /boot, or add a USB stick/disk for /boot only? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com

Bug#756253: Upgrade from 2.02~beta2-10 to 2.02~beta2-11 left grub unbootable

2015-01-17 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 04:16:56PM +0900, Mike Hommey wrote: On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 10:28:51PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: Hi Mike, Have you seen this again recently? Is it still happening for you? As a matter of fact, it hasn't happened recently. That being said, I'm not upgrading grub

Bug#756253: Upgrade from 2.02~beta2-10 to 2.02~beta2-11 left grub unbootable

2015-01-20 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 06:55:05AM +0900, Mike Hommey wrote: On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 01:44:37PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: The automatic setup of grub-install calling efibootmgr won't be touching the grub entry at all - it's set up to only play with debian entries. So that should be safe

Bug#756253: Upgrade from 2.02~beta2-10 to 2.02~beta2-11 left grub unbootable

2015-01-18 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 08:16:51AM +0900, Mike Hommey wrote: On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 05:22:52PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 04:16:56PM +0900, Mike Hommey wrote: On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 10:28:51PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: Hi Mike, Have you seen this again

Bug#725417: This would not be a simple fix

2015-01-18 Thread Steve McIntyre
. Well, as another person with a chiark account I can see that Neil is still using his login there and has been active in the last week. Whether or not he's reading email there, I don't know... I'll prod too. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com We're

Bug#756253: Upgrade from 2.02~beta2-10 to 2.02~beta2-11 left grub unbootable

2015-01-18 Thread Steve McIntyre
or directory\n, 26) = 26 The behaviour of efivar looks a little odd here too - after the ENOSPC on write(), it then appears to be trying to modify the new var that it failed to create. Not great. :-/ -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Armed with Valor

Bug#768897: MBR disklabels also yield destructive pvcreate

2015-01-18 Thread Steve McIntyre
easier, I'll be honest, so that's my plan for now. As a point of information, you weren't sure what the K tag means in the d-i partitioner. Ironically, it's short for Keep, i.e. don't touch this partition... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Since

Bug#775689: Do NOT use unetbootin for Debian CD images

2015-01-18 Thread Steve McIntyre
Source: unetbootin Severity: serious Tags: d-i Justification: wasting massive amounts of developer and user time I've already added one wishlist bug for d-i to add code to detect unetbootin usage and complain about it, but I've not got there yet. unetbootin used to be a helpful tool for many

Bug#777712: i386 kernel list out of date

2015-02-11 Thread Steve McIntyre
builds, just not in the archive yet for v3.1.17. Expecting an upload shortly. Again, curious why you're looking at 3.1.13... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Is there anybody out there? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ

Bug#778810: grub-efi-amd64-bin: boot/bootx86.efi problems

2015-02-20 Thread Steve McIntyre
command manually under strace. In fact, for EFI just grub-install -v should tell you a lot more. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com I've only once written 'SQL is my bitch' in a comment. But that code is in use on a military site... -- Simon Booth

Bug#771971: dpkg hangs installing init during upgrade from wheezy to jessie

2015-01-31 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 02:47:20AM +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: Hi! On Sun, 2015-01-25 at 20:34:48 +, Steve McIntyre wrote: I still have my backup of the VM image at the time, so it should be possible to try upgrading it using snapshot.d.o from that time too, if it's likely to be useful

Bug#771971: dpkg hangs installing init during upgrade from wheezy to jessie

2015-01-25 Thread Steve McIntyre
Control: tags -1 -moreinfo On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 12:30:51PM +0100, Niels Thykier wrote: Control: tags -1 moreinfo On Thu, 4 Dec 2014 00:56:48 + Steve McIntyre st...@einval.com wrote: This is reproducible on demand \o/ I realised that the VM image had a few unneeded packages, so I did

Bug#761815: installation adds entries for USB media to /etc/fstab which confuse udisks

2015-01-25 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 11:45:40PM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Steve McIntyre st...@einval.com (2015-01-17): I'm thinking the best way to go with this is to simply drop this misc USB device support altogether from partman-target. Any objections? Not from me. OK, cool. Committing shortly

Bug#772778: abcde: diff for NMU version 2.6-1.1

2015-01-11 Thread Steve McIntyre
. :-) I was more tempted to do some version-detection code for eyeD3, but this is safer right now I guess. Thanks! -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com The two hard things in computing: * naming things * cache invalidation * off-by-one errors

Bug#775235: Repeatable failure to start on i386 running under kvm

2015-01-12 Thread Steve McIntyre
Package: gnome-shell Version: 3.14.2-3+b1 Severity: serious Hi, During testing of the Jessie d-i RC1 CD build, I installed lots and lots of different variations of virtual systems using KVM. All the others worked OK given sufficient packages (access to a mirror, etc.), but installing Gnome on

Bug#761815: fixed in partman-target 94

2015-03-19 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 11:03:26PM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Hi, Christian Perrier bubu...@debian.org (2015-01-26): partman-target (94) unstable; urgency=medium . [ Steve McIntyre ] * Don't add entries for random USB media to /etc/fstab, they're not useful. Closes: #761815

Bug#761815: fixed in partman-target 94

2015-03-19 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 01:23:26PM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: (Adding Ansgar to the loop since he already commented on this bug report.) Steve McIntyre st...@einval.com (2015-03-19): Maybe we've got a misunderstanding here. The change is only expected to stop *other* USB devices from showing

Bug#780858: Massive I/O data corruption on Marvell Armada XP machines

2015-03-20 Thread Steve McIntyre
Package: src:linux Version: 3.16.7-ckt7-1 Severity: grave Tags: upstream Hi folks, We've upgraded a couple of our Marvell Armada XP based (armel/armhf) buildd machines to Jessie, and they've almost immediately fallen over with symptoms of really bad data corruption. On further investigation and

Bug#761815: installation adds entries for USB media to /etc/fstab which confuse udisks

2015-03-30 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 11:21:08PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 11:45:40PM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Steve McIntyre st...@einval.com (2015-01-17): I'm thinking the best way to go with this is to simply drop this misc USB device support altogether from partman-target

Bug#780858: Massive I/O data corruption on Marvell Armada XP machines

2015-03-23 Thread Steve McIntyre
Control: tag -1 +pending On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 04:13:20PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: Package: src:linux Version: 3.16.7-ckt7-1 Severity: grave Tags: upstream Hi folks, We've upgraded a couple of our Marvell Armada XP based (armel/armhf) buildd machines to Jessie, and they've almost

Bug#771971: dpkg hangs installing init during upgrade from wheezy to jessie

2015-01-25 Thread Steve McIntyre
. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Can't keep my eyes from the circling sky, Tongue-tied twisted, Just an earth-bound misfit, I... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#761815: installation adds entries for USB media to /etc/fstab which confuse udisks

2015-04-01 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, Apr 01, 2015 at 08:08:50PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Steve McIntyre st...@einval.com (2015-04-01): As it stands, this is only for removable media which people have not already set up as part of their systems. The whole issue here is that this is not useful any more. If anybody

Bug#784761: Missing arm64 DTBs

2015-05-08 Thread Steve McIntyre
Package: linux-image-4.0.0-trunk-arm64 Version: 4.0-1~exp1 Severity: serious As mentioned on IRC, this package is missing all the DTBs for arm64 machines. Looks like it's a change to the DTB layout in the upstream tree causing it. -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.8 APT prefers

Bug#784344: Buggy DTB causes imx53 SATA failure

2015-05-05 Thread Steve McIntyre
Package: src:linux Version: 3.16.7-ckt9-3~deb8u1 Severity: serious Hi guys, Just debugged on harris.debian.org (imx53, Debian porter box) - there's a missing patch that's needed for the imx53 sata controller to work. At some point, it looks like the code in drivers/ata/ahci_imx.c has changed and

Bug#761815: installation adds entries for USB media to /etc/fstab which confuse udisks

2015-04-01 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, Apr 01, 2015 at 07:20:02PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Hi Steve, Steve McIntyre st...@einval.com (2015-03-30): Right, it seems that was too conservative and still left hd-media devices listed. We probably don't want those either. Let's try this: don't add *any* USB devices to /etc

Bug#787708: Build ignores crashes in the test suite

2015-06-04 Thread Steve McIntyre
Package: src:acpica-unix Version: 20150515-2 Severity: serious Tags: upstream Hi, Prompted by kernel log messages on the buildd (arm-linaro-03), I can see that aapits is crashing a lot during the package build on arm64. The test suite crashing is worrying; the package build continuing on is

Bug#795844: armel and armhf images missing kernel and initramfs

2015-08-17 Thread Steve McIntyre
Package: cdimage.debian.org Severity: serious Tags: d-i As mentioned by bwh: existing armel and armhf installer CDs are currently missing vmlinuz and the initramfs... -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.1 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Bug#497471: sarge images have syslinux binaries without source

2015-11-13 Thread Steve McIntyre
archive >rather than having to rebuild the Sarge images themselves. ACK, thanks for the suggestion. I could also check the files that were in use and compare to the stuff on snapshot.d.o for the dates in question. It would be very hard to rebuild the sarge images now after such a long time, a

Bug#802025: /etc/mtab is not a symlink or not pointing to /proc/self/mounts

2015-10-17 Thread Steve McIntyre
t release stretch with that behaviour, but having it in >stretch/sid for a while is probably ok. Right now, it's going to stop people from being able to install stretch at all. Please take out this retarded mis-feature. By all means, complain and warn about the problem, but hanging hard is

Bug#797135: gnome-software downloads updates automatically by default

2015-08-28 Thread Steve McIntyre
for upgrades in place without needing reboots like this. I strongly object to this kind of crap being added to Debian for the sake of certain broken upstream software. This is making things materially worse for our users. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com

Bug#795844: tagging 795844

2015-09-12 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 04:30:21AM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: >Steve McIntyre <st...@einval.com> (2015-08-27): >> tags 795844 + pending >> thanks > >Is it OK for me to assume this is fixed for Stretch Alpha 3? That >doesn't seem obvious while looking at

Bug#815258: Bug fixed

2016-06-05 Thread Steve McIntyre
Control: notfound -1 4.12-3 I didn't close this automatically with 4.12-3, was waiting to see it worked. Closing now. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com You lock the door And throw away the key There's someone in my head but it's not me

Bug#815258: Bug fixed

2016-06-05 Thread Steve McIntyre
Control: close -1 4.12-3 Gah, not awake yet today. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com You raise the blade, you make the change... You re-arrange me 'til I'm sane...

Bug#813124: debootstrap calling mknod with --mode option, not supported in busybox

2016-01-29 Thread Steve McIntyre
Package: debootstrap Version: 1.0.77 Severity: grave Tags: d-i patch The fix for #812811 is broken and shows a lack of adequate testing. Using the --mode=$mode argument for mknod is fine on a normal system, but in d-i we're using busybox mknod and it doesn't support the long option --mode at all.

Bug#813131: Daily builds broken due to debootstrap breakage - DO NOT USE

2016-01-29 Thread Steve McIntyre
Package: cdimage.debian.org Severity: grave Tags: d-i Version: daily-image-20160129 There's a major bug in debootstrap today (#813124) which will cause all installations to fail. A fix has been uploaded, but DO NOT USE the daily images until that has hit the archive - wait until 30th January at

Bug#810478: konsole: can't start konsole

2016-02-20 Thread Steve McIntyre
stem at all. Could you tell us a little more about your setup please? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "C++ ate my sanity" -- Jon Rabone

Bug#822489: armhf ABI detection crashing ldconfig on arm64

2016-04-25 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 09:57:00AM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: >On 2016-04-25 00:30, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> Package: libc6-bin >> Severity: serious >> Version: 2.22-7 >> Tags: patch >> >> Hi folks, >> >> Steev has reported some crashing

Bug#822489: armhf ABI detection crashing ldconfig on arm64

2016-04-26 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 12:33:38AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 09:57:00AM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > >>Could you please ensure that all the binaries in the archive that still >>needs these patches are rebuilt? > >I'll look again for broken/ol

Bug#822489: armhf ABI detection crashing ldconfig on arm64

2016-04-24 Thread Steve McIntyre
fix - enforce using ELF32 types for all arches. It seems that we still have some older packages without the ABI flags attached - libshout3 is one such. :-( -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "I can't ever sleep on planes ... call it irrat

Bug#822725: Bug#822724: efitools: FTBFS on i386: efibind.h: No such file or directory

2016-04-29 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 07:31:11PM +0200, pollux wrote: >On 04/29/2016 06:58 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 06:20:55PM +0200, pollux wrote: >>> Indeed, on PC architectures, EFI executables are 64-bits EXE files. >> >> Ummm, what? 32-bit i386 (

Bug#822725: Bug#822724: efitools: FTBFS on i386: efibind.h: No such file or directory

2016-04-29 Thread Steve McIntyre
cover only the >embedded EFI files, not the tools to access UEFI variables. >That said, these tools use the efivars pseudo-filesystem and will only >work on Linux. > >So, I think the next upload will restrict the package to linux-amd64 only. Please don't do that. There are *4* Debian L

Bug#853793: dpkg: ABI mismatch detector is too strict on armel/armhf

2017-02-02 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hi, On Thu, Feb 02, 2017 at 05:10:14AM +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: >On Wed, 2017-02-01 at 15:34:04 +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> >> Please don't go down that route, the ABI flags are intended to save >> people from that. I'm curious what's going wrong with libgsm1 he

Bug#853793: dpkg: ABI mismatch detector is too strict on armel/armhf

2017-02-02 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, Feb 01, 2017 at 05:03:13PM +0100, Jens Reyer wrote: >On 02/01/2017 04:34 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> >> Please don't go down that route, the ABI flags are intended to save >> people from that. I'm curious what's going wrong with libgsm1 here >> such that we'r

Bug#853793: dpkg: ABI mismatch detector is too strict on armel/armhf

2017-02-02 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Thu, Feb 02, 2017 at 02:42:26PM +0100, Jens Reyer wrote: >On 02/02/2017 02:30 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> Dropping the -nostdlib argument to the gcc call inside sonames2elf >> makes a difference - it'll add libc6 to the mix and force the output >> to match the system you

Bug#853793: dpkg: ABI mismatch detector is too strict on armel/armhf

2017-02-01 Thread Steve McIntyre
worried about EABIv4, does the logic of the dpkg checker not match the checks we added in glibc itself? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Mature Sporty Personal More Innovation More Adult A Man in Dandism Powered Midship Specialty

Bug#852037: debian-installer: Download after mirror selection not possible: problems to resolve DNS

2017-01-23 Thread Steve McIntyre
) > >Kernel: Linux 4.8.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) >Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) >Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash >Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) > > -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.co

Bug#852513: grub-efi-amd64: during configuration: "No space left on device"

2017-01-30 Thread Steve McIntyre
hile that's not implemented, at the very least I'm thinking about error checking in grub-install. Simply suggesting the user looks in /sys/fs/pstore and maybe delete things would be better than the current "can't boot" issue. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.

Bug#853234: grub-install ignores errors from efibootmgr

2017-01-30 Thread Steve McIntyre
Package: grub2-common Version: 2.02~beta2-22+deb8u1 Severity: serious Tags: upstream Hi, As can be seen in #852513 (for example), grub-install will happily ignore errors from efibootmgr and claim "Installation finished. No error reported". This is clearly bogus, and can lead to users with

Bug#756253: Upgrade from 2.02~beta2-10 to 2.02~beta2-11 left grub unbootable

2017-01-30 Thread Steve McIntyre
efibootmgr I have a simple fix for this which I'm about to post upstream. * #853237 (efibootmgr): ENOSPC errors should be more helpful Data from you would be helpful here! Thanks! -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Welcome my son, welcome

Bug#853234: grub-install ignores errors from efibootmgr

2017-01-30 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 06:32:00PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: >Package: grub2-common >Version: 2.02~beta2-22+deb8u1 >Severity: serious >Tags: upstream > >Hi, > >As can be seen in #852513 (for example), grub-install will happily >ignore errors from efibootmgr and c

Bug#795690: NMU diff for libcdio

2017-01-28 Thread Steve McIntyre
I'm uploading this to unstable now rather than to DELAYED; there's not been any obvious maintainer activity here for ages... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "Since phone messaging became popular, the young generation has lost the ability to

Bug#811311: grub2-common: after grub-install grub reads wrong grub.cfg

2017-01-28 Thread Steve McIntyre
y --recheck >--efi-directory but with no luck. > > * What outcome did you expect instead? > >I expected grub to use 'main's grub.cfg instead of 'rescue's. How exactly are you booting each of the systems? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com You raise the blade, you make the change... You re-arrange me 'til I'm sane...

Bug#848927: mount: bad option.

2017-01-28 Thread Steve McIntyre
and it seemed to work OK for me. Could you give us more information about exactly what you did to trigger this please? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "We're the technical experts. We were hired so that management could ignore our recommendations and tell us how to do our jobs." -- Mike Andrews

Bug#846679: NMU diff

2017-01-28 Thread Steve McIntyre
Simple fix for build failure is to add --no-dynamic-linker to the linker command lines. Here's the NMU diff; this is in incoming now... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "You can't barbecue lettuce!" -- Ellie Crane diff -Nru syslinux

Bug#777439: Dropping severity for now

2017-01-29 Thread Steve McIntyre
Control: severity -1 important Agreed that this is important, but we don't have lots of similar reports since jessie d-i RC1 ~two years ago. Heiko - could you possibly try a newer version of the installer and see if the problem still exists please? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK

Bug#851790: installation-reports: DNS not working

2017-01-19 Thread Steve McIntyre
do to fail the build if versions are out of sync, rather than let a broken build through? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com < Aardvark> I dislike C++ to start with. C++11 just seems to be handing rope-creating factories for users to hang multiple instances of themselves.

Bug#851790: installation-reports: DNS not working

2017-01-18 Thread Steve McIntyre
S server returns the correct response, but this is being ignored >or lost by the D-I initrd. For the sake of completeness, I can confirm that the same problem shows up when running on a different network too. I also see this using the oldest amd64 daily I can grab (from 2017-01-17) which has the 4.

Bug#806068: linaro-image-tools: diff for NMU version 2014.11-1.1

2016-09-26 Thread Steve McIntyre
+ + * NMU + * Fix build for dpkg-buildpackage -A. Thanks to Santiago Vila for the +patch. Closes: #806068 + + -- Steve McIntyre <93...@debian.org> Mon, 26 Sep 2016 12:08:40 -0700 + linaro-image-tools (2014.11-1) unstable; urgency=medium * New upstream release. diff -Nru linaro-image

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