Initramfs image triggers a segmentation fault at startup

2006-03-06 Thread Émeric Maschino
Hi, Is there currently a problem with initramfs image? The generated initramfs image (by the debian-installer or during kernel image update) triggers a segmentation fault on my hp workstation zx6000 at startup and I'm left in a BusyBox environment (complete trace recorded on a serial console at th

Corrupt initramfs-tools and unworking yaird?

2006-08-31 Thread Émeric Maschino
Hi,I'm running up-to-date Debian Etch on my hp workstation zx6000 and mkinitramfs generates unbootable initrd images (errors regarding various links during the image building process, /dev hierarchy completely depopulated and kernel panic at boot time). So the symptoms are different than those repo

Re: Corrupt initramfs-tools and unworking yaird?

2006-09-03 Thread Émeric Maschino
Hi,2006/9/1, Ian Wienand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: $ ldd /bin/dashyou'll see that dash starts up and the output is corrupt.  Frommemory, I extracted a fresh ldd from the current libc deb and copiedthat overThanks for the workaround Ian. BTW, ldd is definitely the culprit: replacing /usr/bin/ldd with the

Re: Etch/i2000

2007-04-16 Thread Émeric Maschino
Hi Paul, I don't know for sure, but IIRC the linux-image-itanium* were for the Merced generation and the linux-image-mckinley* for the McKinley processors. Since there are linux-image-mckinley* packages in Etch, I suppose that your i2000 will be supported. Regarding 3D hardware acceleration, tha

Broken initrd image

2007-08-22 Thread Émeric Maschino
Hi, I'm running up-to-date Debian Lenny on my hp workstation zx6000. Today, initramfs-tools was updated and a new initrd image was created by the update-initramfs script. Unfortunately, the generated initrd image segfaults and my system was unbootable. Using the backup copy of my previous initrd i

Re: Broken initrd image

2007-08-23 Thread Émeric Maschino
eless reinstalled all the current gcc-4.1-base and related glibc and libstdc++ since then. Émeric 2007/8/23, Mike Bird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Wednesday 22 August 2007 15:23, Émeric Maschino wrote: > > I'm running up-to-date Debian Lenny on my hp workstation zx6000. To

Re: Broken initrd image

2007-08-29 Thread Émeric Maschino
nel 2.6.22-1-mckinley). Cheers, Émeric 2007/8/24, Émeric Maschino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hi Mike, > > Thanks for your answer. > > Partition usage on /boot is only 25%. Enough for hosting at least 3 > different initrd images. > > BTW, I just remember that

Re: Broken initrd image

2007-09-11 Thread Émeric Maschino
Hi, Just to let you know that libklibc 1.5.7-1 solved the problem for me. Cheers, Émeric 2007/8/29, Émeric Maschino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hi again, > > Well, I probably didn't mess anything. Indeed, it seems to me that I'm > experiencing bug #

Strange atof and strtof behaviors

2008-07-14 Thread Émeric Maschino
Hi, I don't know exactly when the change occurs (was it with gcc 4.1, 4.2, 4.3?), but I'm experiencing problems with the atof and strtof functions since then. In one of my C++ projects, I'm using atof to recover data from an ASCII file to convert them into a float value. But, string s( "0.549" )

Re: Strange atof and strtof behaviors

2008-07-15 Thread Émeric Maschino
Hi Zan and others, I don't believe this is a IA64 problem. Have you checked on i386 or > x86_64? Yes, as pointed in my initial post, the exact same code runs as expected on a standard x86 PC, not running Debian unfortunately, but with gcc 4.3 too. So I can't make a direct comparison since the L

iceweasel 3.0.1 unstable?

2008-07-28 Thread Émeric Maschino
Hi, I'm running up-to-date Debian Testing (Lenny?) on a hp workstation zx6000. Friday or Saturday updates (I don't remember exactly) have upgraded iceweasel from 3.0~rc1 to 3.0.1, with several related packages too (e.g. xulrunner, mozplugger, libflash-mozplugin from memory). Since then, iceweasel

Re: iceweasel 3.0.1 unstable?

2008-07-29 Thread Émeric Maschino
Dann, >From your point of view, and independently of the architecture, is iceweasel 3.0.1-1 crashing more frequently than 3.0~rc1 then? Thank you for your input. Emeric 2008/7/28 dann frazier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 09:04:39AM +0200, ?meric Maschino wrote: > > Hi, >

Re: iceweasel 3.0.1 unstable?

2008-08-01 Thread Émeric Maschino
All, The culprits seem to be libflash0c2 and libflash-mozplugin. I've replaced them with gnash and mozilla-plugin-gnash and iceweasel is running fine now. Regards, Émeric 2008/7/29 Émeric Maschino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Dann, > > From your point of view, and

Re: iceweasel 3.0.1 unstable?

2008-08-02 Thread Émeric Maschino
Ah! No problem for me at this time. And what's your opinion on the swfdec-mozilla / libswfdec-0.6-90 combo? Émeric 2008/8/2 dann frazier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 10:48:51PM +0200, ?meric Maschino wrote: > > All, > > > > The culprits seem to be libflash0c2 and libflash-

Re: Strange atof and strtof behaviors

2008-08-07 Thread Émeric Maschino
Hi, I have free time to play Fedora 9 "Sulphur" on my hp workstation zx6000. The exact same C++ project (since the source code is on a separate partition) runs as expected on Fedora. gcc version is 4.3.0 20080428. My Debian Lenny installation comes with gcc 4.3.1. Has something changed between gcc

Re: Strange atof and strtof behaviors

2008-08-09 Thread Émeric Maschino
incorrectly! Is there any significant patch applied by Debian on the gcc 4.3.1 upstream code (or any related package) that could explain this situation? Best regards, Émeric 2008/8/8 Émeric Maschino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hi, > > I have free time to play Fedora 9 &qu

Re: Strange atof and strtof behaviors

2008-08-10 Thread Émeric Maschino
. So, the problem isn't at compile time, but at runtime, and only on the Debian installation. I'm still wondering what's going wrong, since a simple C++ program with a single call to atof runs flawlessly on my Debian installation. Best regards, Émeric 2008/8/9 Émeric M

Re: Strange atof and strtof behaviors

2008-08-10 Thread Émeric Maschino
can be reproduced on a non-ia64 system. Best regards, Émeric 2008/8/10 Émeric Maschino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hi, > > Today, I ran on the Fedora installation the binary produced with the Debian > installation. Guess what? Yes, it worked like a charm! > > Now the stran

Re: Strange atof and strtof behaviors

2008-08-26 Thread Émeric Maschino
Hi, Would you like to know the end of the story? Here is it: http://lists.trolltech.com/qt4-preview-feedback/2008-01/thread00033-0.html Sorry for the noise, this wasn't an ia64-, nor a Debian-specific problem. Best regards, Émeric 2008/8/10 Émeric Maschino <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Unbootable linux-image-2.6.26-1-mckinley on hp workstation zx6000

2008-08-29 Thread Émeric Maschino
Hi, Today's Lenny updates came with linux-image-2.6.26-1-mckinley (build 2.6.26-3) onboard. But I can't boot my hp workstation zx6000 using the provided image. The last line displayed on the screen is "Loading file \EFI\debian\initrd.img...done". Then, nothing happens and I must manually shutdown

Re: Unbootable linux-image-2.6.26-1-mckinley on hp workstation zx6000

2008-09-01 Thread Émeric Maschino
Hi, I can confirm that build 2.6.26-4 has fixed the problem. Thank you for pointing this out to me. Best regards, Émeric 2008/8/30 dann frazier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 11:08:39PM +0200, ?meric Maschino wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Today's Lenny updates came with linux-ima

Broken Lenny kernel?

2008-12-07 Thread Émeric Maschino
Hi, I've just updated my Lenny installation on my hp zx6000 workstation. There was a kernel update. Now at reboot, the system keeps waiting for /dev to be fully populated and eventually crashes. Is there anybody out there experiencing the same issue? Emeric

Re: Broken Lenny kernel?

2008-12-09 Thread Émeric Maschino
Hi, Kernel was updated from linux-image-2.6.26-1-mckinley 2.6.26-10 to 2.6.26-11. Upon completion, the system can't be restarted properly. I mean, the reboot sequence doesn't ignite, neither by entering reboot as root nor by pressing the Ctrl+Alt+Del keys. I must switch off and on the system. ini

Re: Broken Lenny kernel?

2008-12-09 Thread Émeric Maschino
Hi, Please find below the interesting part of the kernel trace that I've recorded on a serial console: Begin: Running /scripts/local-bottom ... done. done. Begin: Running /scripts/init-bottom ... done. INIT: version 2.86 booting Starting the hotplug events dispatcher: udevd[ 34.138095] udevd

Re: Broken Lenny kernel?

2008-12-16 Thread Émeric Maschino
Hi Dann, I wonder if this is caused by the same thing as #508820. The fact that > you couldn't reboot suggests that it might. Can you collect the same > information I requested in that report? > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=508820#12 > > Can you try booting another non-2.6.26

System clock problem

2009-01-05 Thread Émeric Maschino
Hi Gang and Happy New Year! For several kernel builds now (I don't remember exactly when this first appeared), I'm getting the following error at boot time: Setting the system clock. Cannot access the Hardware Clock via any known method. Use the --debug option to see the details of our search for

Re: System clock problem

2009-01-22 Thread Émeric Maschino
> > > Ah - this is actually because the common config has switched to > > RTC_CLASS drivers, and that cause the other rtc drivers to be > > disabled (including efirtc). > > > > I've got a simple rtc-efi module working, I'll try and get it > > accepted. > > Should be fixed in 2.6.26-13. > Yep, that

Can't start the GNOME settings daemon

2009-06-04 Thread Émeric Maschino
Hi, Are there known problems with the GNOME settings daemon on ia64 (and maybe other architectures too)? I can't find a valid recent entry in the Debian bug tracking system. I'm running daily-updated Debian Squeeze on my hp workstation zx6000, and it seems that gnome-settings-daemon can't be star

Unable to start Eclipse

2009-07-05 Thread Émeric Maschino
Hi, While trying to startup Eclipse, I'm getting the following error popup dialog and the IDE is never displayed: JVM terminated. Exit code=127 /usr/lib/jvm/java-gcj/bin/java -Djava.library.path=/usr/lib/jni -Dgnu.gcj.precompiled.db.path=/var/lib/gcj-4.2/classmap.db -Dgnu.gcj.runtime.VMClassLoade

Advice on Debien bug #546655

2009-11-14 Thread Émeric Maschino
Hi, I would like to know your opinion on Debian bug #546655 ( http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=546655). In message #30 (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=546655#30), Julien advises me to post on the dri-devel list but he's not fully certain that my problem is due to

GNOME desktop status on Debian IA-64

2009-11-14 Thread Émeric Maschino
Hi, Are there people running Itanium workstations with the GNOME desktop environment out there? I'm experiencing several problems with my daily-updated Debian Squeeze installation. The most "serious" is Debian bug #537572 ( http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=537572) that I initiall

Re: GNOME desktop status on Debian IA-64

2009-12-06 Thread Émeric Maschino
Hi, Altering the preferences of the Nautilus browser by clicking on the > Edit/Preferences menu makes Nautilus crash. This is with current nautilus > 2.26.3-1 package and may be related to bug #537572. > FYI, the switch from Nautilus 2.26 to 2.28 with latest Debian Squeeze updates has fixed this

Cannot build initramfs

2010-05-08 Thread Émeric Maschino
Hi, With yesterday's Sarge updates, I'm getting: Paramétrage de initramfs-tools (0.93.4) ... update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated) Traitement des actions différées (« triggers ») pour « initramfs-tools »... update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-3-mckinley and the

Re: Cannot build initramfs

2010-05-26 Thread Émeric Maschino
file a bug report against initramfs-tools package? Cheers, Emeric 2010/5/8 Émeric Maschino : > Hi, > > With yesterday's Squeeze updates, I'm getting: > > Paramétrage de initramfs-tools (0.93.4) ... > update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated) > Trait

Re: Cannot build initramfs

2010-05-27 Thread Émeric Maschino
have been made available for upgrade in the meantime, I don't know who's the culprit. Trying the latest kernel 2.6.34 Debian packages didn't help either. Any suggestion? Thanks, Emeric 2010/5/26 Émeric Maschino : > Hi, > > It's even worse with latest initramfs-too

Re: Cannot build initramfs

2010-05-30 Thread Émeric Maschino
see my initial post) and a lot of packages have > been made available for upgrade in the meantime, I don't know who's > the culprit. Trying the latest kernel 2.6.34 Debian packages didn't > help either. > > Any suggestion? > > Thanks, > >      Emeric >

Debian 6.0 "Squeeze" installation feedback on zx6000

2011-02-09 Thread Émeric Maschino
Hi, For interested people, please find below my comments on Debian 6.0 "Squeeze" installation on my hp workstation zx6000. First, it's noteworthy that Squeeze can't be installed as is! I've tried the network (debian-6.0.0-ia64-netinst.iso) and regular (debian-6.0.0-ia64-CD-1.iso) install media wi

Re: Debian 6.0 "Squeeze" installation feedback on zx6000

2011-02-09 Thread Émeric Maschino
Hello Alan, 2011/2/9 A. Devine : > On the GDM bug, when switching back to GDM from GDM3 can you actually use > the Settings-Daemon or does it still gobble 100% CPU on restart? Does using > GDM break any other dependences? Switching back to gdm doesn't solve the problem, the GNOME settings daemon

Re: FTBFS libidn 1.20 on ia64

2011-03-01 Thread Émeric Maschino
Hi, IA-64 architects out there will probably answer better than me. However, here's the output of stat /dev/null on my hp workstation zx6000: emeric@longspeak:~$ stat /dev/null File: `/dev/null' Size: 0 Blocks: 0 IO Block: 16384 character special file Device: 5h/5d

-z defs ld flag breaks gnome-settings-daemon

2011-03-14 Thread Émeric Maschino
Hi, I spent my whole week-end performing regression tests to find out what was preventing the GNOME settings daemon from working properly on the IA-64 platform (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=537572). It's noteworthy that this problem is still present in current Debian Testing.

Re: Bug#620546: IA64 apt-get update segfaults at TimeRFC1123(long) in libapt-pkg.so.4.10

2011-04-04 Thread Émeric Maschino
Hi, FYI, manually installing apt 0.8.13.1 (dated 2011-04-03) using dpkg -i made apt happy again. Regards, Émeric 2011/4/2 NODA, Kai : > Package: apt > Version: 0.8.13 > Severity: grave > > # export LANG=C > # gdb `which apt-get` -ex 'run update' > GNU gdb (GDB) 7.2-debian > Copyright (C)

Re: -z defs ld flag breaks gnome-settings-daemon

2011-04-04 Thread Émeric Maschino
ake their own assessment on the > correct "fix" anyhow. > > > Alan > > > > On 14/03/2011 20:56, Émeric Maschino wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I spent my whole week-end performing regression tests to find out what >> was preventing the GNOME

Re: Debian 6.0 "Squeeze" installation feedback on zx6000

2011-05-11 Thread Émeric Maschino
mpletely install from fresh for various reasons but the > "upgrade" from a running OS does.  Unfortunately the gdm/gdm3 bug is still > there!? > > > Alan > > > On 09/02/2011 15:33, Émeric Maschino wrote: >> >> Hello Alan, >> >> 2011/2/9 A. De

Re: Debian 6.0 "Squeeze" installation feedback on zx6000

2011-05-20 Thread Émeric Maschino
Hi Alan, > Any insight on whats going on with this one? I followed the bug thread but > wasnt clear to me. No insight on this, except that r300g with KMS is broken on IA-64. I don't ever know whether it's a regression or if it didn't work at all. Emeric -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Unbootable initramfs in Testing?

2011-06-15 Thread Émeric Maschino
Hi, It all started with hundreds of udevd[325]: unable to receive ctrl connection: Function not implemented at boot time. System eventually allowed me to log in. I thus made backup copies of my initrd.img and vmlinuz and re-run elilo, thinking this could fix the udevd issue. At reboot, I'm le

Unbootable linux-image-2.6.39-2-mckinley (was Re: Unbootable initramfs in Testing?)

2011-06-21 Thread Émeric Maschino
Hi, Just to warn you that linux-image-2.6.39-2-mckinley in today's Debian "Wheezy" Testing updates fails to boot my hp workstation zx6000. Same problem than a week ago: > It all started with hundreds of > > udevd[325]: unable to receive ctrl connection: Function not implemented > > at boot time.

Re: HP zx6000 graphics - FireGL X1/Z1

2011-07-30 Thread Émeric Maschino
Hi, Did you try without a xorg.conf file at all? I have the exact same hardware and X probes and initializes my display (graphics adapter and monitor) correctly. Cheers, Émeric 2011/7/23 Mark Benson : > Hi, > > I have a HP zx6000 workstation and am trying to use Debian 6.0 'squeeze' on >

Re: Unbootable initramfs in Testing (was Re: Unbootable linux-image-2.6.39-2-mckinley)

2011-08-07 Thread Émeric Maschino
ber that other tools were available in the past (yaird comes to memory). If initramfs-tools is still the correct utility, do I have to file a bug report? I can't find something similar with the currently open initramfs-tools issues, but I may be wrong. Cheers, Émeric 2011/6/22 Émeric Ma

Re: Unbootable initramfs in Testing (was Re: Unbootable linux-image-2.6.39-2-mckinley)

2011-08-17 Thread Émeric Maschino
/bugreport.cgi?bug=638068). Cheers, Emeric 2011/8/7 Émeric Maschino : > Hi, > > Just to let you know that the culprit is definitely initramfs-tools 0.99. > > Indeed, my system successfully booted with > linux-image-2.6.39-2-mckinley, but initrd.img had to be created with

Re: DRM/DRI accelerated (3D) graphics?

2011-08-17 Thread Émeric Maschino
Hi, I have a hp workstation zx6000 with ATI FireGL X1 (256MB) AGP running daily-updated Debian "Wheezy" Testing. I don't know for the r200 (for your Radeon 7500) or r600 drivers (for your HD5450), but here's the situation for the r300 driver of my FireGL X1. Please keep in mind that zx6000 sports

Iceweasel 5.0-6 segfaults. How to debug?

2011-08-18 Thread Émeric Maschino
Hi, With today's "Wheezy" Testing updates, Iceweasel was upgraded from 3.5.19-3 to 5.0-6. However, this new Iceweasel instantly segfaults at startup, even without ~/.mozilla folder or with -safe-mode passed on command line. I would like to get a stacktrace, but even with iceweasel-dbg (and relate

Re: DRM/DRI accelerated (3D) graphics?

2011-08-18 Thread Émeric Maschino
Hi Marco, > I have several card cages at my disposal, PCI/PCI-X and AGP & PCI/PCI-X. > They work both fine in my rx2600 and rx2620 systems.  (Under HP-UX and > Windows at least, with proper acceleration at least.) Interesting. Do you think that these cages will also work in rx2620? > Thank you f

Re: DRM/DRI accelerated (3D) graphics?

2011-08-22 Thread Émeric Maschino
Hello Marco, Sorry to ask, but did you check your Debian 6.0.2.1 CD/DVD image? Indeed, Squeeze 6.0.2.1 ships with kernel 2.6.32 IIRC (http://packages.debian.org/fr/squeeze/linux-image-2.6-mckinley). I thus don't understand how the setup program ends up with 2.6.26 kernel modules! Or maybe the Li

Re: DRM/DRI accelerated (3D) graphics?

2011-08-23 Thread Émeric Maschino
Hi, > Huh, I just forgot about an important thing in my previous message! > > KMS, even with current kernel, still complains about AGP bind memory > problem. (As a result?) GPU acceleration is disabled and AGP mode > forced to PCI. > > This issue has been fixed in agp/amd-k7 for the AMD platform.

Re: DRM/DRI accelerated (3D) graphics?

2011-08-24 Thread Émeric Maschino
Hi Alan, > Thanks again for the troubleshooting and patches. I applied your patch to my > Gentoo (just trying it out I swear!) 2.6.39 system, compiled with KMS on by > default on my zx6000 / RV610 (Radeon HD2400) system. > I did notice this error in dmesg, but its still working fine as above: > >

Re: DRM/DRI accelerated (3D) graphics?

2011-08-24 Thread Émeric Maschino
Hi again, > Thanks again for the troubleshooting and patches. I applied your patch to my > Gentoo (just trying it out I swear!) 2.6.39 system, compiled with KMS on by > default on my zx6000 / RV610 (Radeon HD2400) system. > [drm:radeon_agp_init] *ERROR* Unable to acquire AGP: -19 > [drm] Forcing

Re: DRM/DRI accelerated (3D) graphics?

2011-09-02 Thread Émeric Maschino
Hi Alan, > [drm:radeon_agp_init] *ERROR* Unable to acquire AGP: -19 > > This error is always there no matter the patch or not. Good news at tleast that the patch isn't introducing a new regression. About this error, did you check that the hp zx1 AGP GART is either compiled into the kernel or as

Re: DRM/DRI accelerated (3D) graphics?

2011-09-12 Thread Émeric Maschino
> > No "unaligned access" this time, except for the "Network Manager." However, > nothing seems to come up on the screen.  (Except a blinking cursor.) > > I tried to reset things like GDM, delete the tempora

Re: DRM/DRI accelerated (3D) graphics?

2011-09-19 Thread Émeric Maschino
0 for agpgart >>> Linux agpgart interface v0.103 >>> >>> >>> I get a DRM error in dmesg however: >>> [drm] Initialized radeon 1.33.0 20080528 for :80:00.0 on minor 0 >>> [drm:drm_mmap_locked] *ERROR* Could not find map >>> >&

Re: DRM/DRI accelerated (3D) graphics?

2011-10-04 Thread Émeric Maschino
Hi Marco, 2011/10/1 MG : > Dear Émeric et al, > > Unfortunately, I still hadn't had time yet to reinstall Debian yet. > In the meantime, could you perhaps publish screenshots? Well, sure, I can. But what kind of screenshot do you need? > Also, besides the FireGL X1, what are the chances for the

Re: DRM/DRI accelerated (3D) graphics?

2011-11-06 Thread Émeric Maschino
Hi Marco, > First off, excuse me for the long 'radio silence'.  I have been very busy > with > university and what time I spent on my IA-64 hardware was mostly with > OpenVMS. No problem. I didn't know that there was an ia64 port of OpenVMS. Did you get 3D hardware acceleration with this? > Abou

Re: Bug#647825: udevd[XXX]: unable to receive ctrl connection: Function not implemented

2011-11-10 Thread Émeric Maschino
2011/11/10 Ben Hutchings : >> > But I do not understand why nobody else noticed this, unless you are the >> > first person to install wheezy on ia64. >> >> That seems entirely plausible. Definitely since: - netinst Wheezy CD-ROM is unbootable on ia64 (although Squeeze was fine) - initramfs-tools 0

Re: Bug#647825: udevd[XXX]: unable to receive ctrl connection: Function not implemented

2011-11-11 Thread Émeric Maschino
2011/11/11 Ben Hutchings : >> --- a/arch/ia64/include/asm/unistd.h    2011-03-15 02:20:32.0 +0100 >> +++ b/arch/ia64/include/asm/unistd.h    2011-11-10 21:27:31.0 +0100 >> @@ -315,11 +315,12 @@ >>  #define __NR_fanotify_init             1323 >>  #define __NR_fanotify_mark          

Re: Bug#647825: udevd[XXX]: unable to receive ctrl connection: Function not implemented

2011-11-11 Thread Émeric Maschino
2011/11/11 Ben Hutchings : > That version just calls the libc implementation of accept4(), which > won't work until libc is rebuilt.  You need to define __NR_accept4 and > call syscall(__NR_accept4, ...) in the test program instead. Isn't Wheezy eglibc 2.13-21 supposed to already implement accept4

Re: Bug#647825: udevd[XXX]: unable to receive ctrl connection: Function not implemented

2011-11-12 Thread Émeric Maschino
2011/11/11 Ben Hutchings : > On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 07:48:24PM +0100, Émeric Maschino wrote: >> 2011/11/11 Ben Hutchings : >> Isn't Wheezy eglibc 2.13-21 supposed to already implement accept4()? > > That is a little difficult when the system call is not even defined >

[PATCH] ia64: Add accept4() syscall

2011-11-12 Thread Émeric Maschino
From: Émeric Maschino Subject: ia64: Add accept4() syscall While debugging udev > 170 failure on Debian Wheezy (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=648325), it appears that the issue was in fact due to missing accept4() in ia64. This patch simply adds accept4() to ia64. The a

Re: DRM/DRI accelerated (3D) graphics?

2011-12-18 Thread Émeric Maschino
Hi Marco, > What kind of IA-64 systems do you have?  One, or the one, you spoke > of was an HP zx6000 (zx1-based), correct?  VMS runs on it, it even > identifies the zx6000 as such in "$ SHOW SYSTEM /NOPROCESSES /FULL" > and in the SDA. > > There's 3D acceleration, but there aren't many graphics a

Re: HP ZX6000 & Debian "testing"

2012-01-13 Thread Émeric Maschino
Hi Patrick, And welcome aboard :-) Aren't you hitting this issue? http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=638068 In this case, the only solution at this time is to downgrade initramfs-tools from 0.99 to 0.98.8. But you'll have to downgrade kernel too, as Debian kernels > 2.6.39 require

Re: Debian ia64 on hp zx6000 xorg hang on start randomly

2012-01-13 Thread Émeric Maschino
Mmmh, strange. I'm also running a hp workstation zx6000 with AGP FireGL X1 256p graphics adapter. X "normally" locks up when you're running OpenGL. In this case, forcing AGP to PCI mode might help. But if your system freezes with simple desktop rendering, there's something else. Did you install

Re: HP ZX6000 & Debian "testing"

2012-01-13 Thread Émeric Maschino
ve any experience > with IA64 assembly, unfortunately, but I can do quite a bit in C. > > Patrick > > > On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 2:12 PM, Émeric Maschino > wrote: >> >> Hi Patrick, >> >> And welcome aboard :-) >> >> Aren't you hitting th

Re: HP ZX6000 & Debian "testing"

2012-01-13 Thread Émeric Maschino
écrit : > It looks like a lot of shell scripty stuff. Not outside of my domain, but > not my specialty. I can check it out... > > > On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 3:30 PM, Émeric Maschino > wrote: >> >> Well, I've bisected and reported the offending commit. >>

Re: HP ZX6000 & Debian "testing"

2012-01-15 Thread Émeric Maschino
rget to redo the above steps or you'll end up once again with an unbootable system! Hope this helps, Emeric Le 15 janvier 2012 19:04, Patrick Baggett a écrit : > Yes, I am. I'll look into that, good thought! > > Patrick > > > On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 4:13 PM, Ém

Unstable desktop experience with kernel > 2.6.38

2012-01-17 Thread Émeric Maschino
Hi, Since there's a workaround allowing us to go kernel > 2.6.38 (http://lists.debian.org/debian-ia64/2012/01/msg00013.html), I obviously updated my Testing system to current linux-image-3.1.0-1-mckinley_3.1.8-2_ia64.deb. Well, graphical desktop experience is _unstable_. When I say "desktop exper

Re: [bisected] Unstable desktop experience with kernel > 2.6.38

2012-01-28 Thread Émeric Maschino
Hi, Just to let you know that I've bisected this issue to commit 37a9d912b24f96a0591773e6e6c3642991ae5a70 (futex: Sanitize cmpxchg_futex_value_locked API). Émeric Le 17 janvier 2012 23:11, Émeric Maschino a écrit : > Hi, > > Since there's a workaround allowing us to

Re: [bisected] Unstable desktop experience with kernel > 2.6.38. PulseAudio involved

2012-02-04 Thread Émeric Maschino
7;t appear in the > inputs/outputs list). From looking at the x86 version (agh, inline asm is > hard to parse), it does modify the return value based on whether the > comparison was a success or not, and the return value is certainly used by > the callers. > > Patrick > > O

Re: [bisected] Unstable desktop experience with kernel > 2.6.38

2012-02-05 Thread Émeric Maschino
tex change and that renders IA-64 barely usable at this time. Émeric Le 4 février 2012 19:32, Émeric Maschino a écrit : > Hi, > > Just to let you know that, as could have been guessed from my initial > post (http://lists.debian.org/debian-ia64/2012/01/msg00016.html), > PulseAu

Re: [bisected] Unstable desktop experience with kernel > 2.6.38

2012-02-11 Thread Émeric Maschino
or not, and the return value is certainly used by > the callers. > > Patrick > > On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 6:43 AM, Émeric Maschino > wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> Just to let you know that I've bisected this issue to commit >> 37a9d912b24f96a0591773e6e6c3

Re: Unstable desktop experience with kernel > 2.6.38

2012-03-11 Thread Émeric Maschino
Hi, Le 2 mars 2012 12:49, MG a écrit : >> Well, graphical desktop experience is _unstable_. When I say "desktop >> experience", I'm talking about basic desktop tasks, not fancy OpenGL >> rendering. I have at least two reproducible scenari (I'm running Gnome >> Classic): >> - random X restart whil

Iceweasel 10 eats 100% CPU

2012-03-17 Thread Émeric Maschino
Gang, I don't know if you tried latest Iceweasel 10 currently in Testing, but it randomly freezes, eating 100% CPU. For example, while reading emails, GMail suddenly stops working. I initially thought that Iceweasel crashed, but GDB didn't agree with me. top by contrast reports a huge CPU activity

Re: Debian "testing" no boot

2012-04-11 Thread Émeric Maschino
Hi, > I just switched to "testing" on a HP ZX6000 (2x Itanium "Madison" CPUs) and > when I rebooted, it failed to boot. I have a few questions: Welcome aboard ;-) Out of curiosity: did you switch to Wheezy from a running Squeeze system, or did you perform a clean installation from the Debian Ins

Re: [bisected] Unstable desktop experience with kernel > 2.6.38

2012-04-15 Thread Émeric Maschino
Hi, Patch proposed by Tony Luck in https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42757 works for me :-) Bug report updated accordingly. Emeric Le 11 février 2012 16:54, Émeric Maschino a écrit : > Hi, > > Time to track this issue: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cg

Re: AMD/ATI HD series PCI

2012-05-01 Thread Émeric Maschino
> I used a HD 4650 with AGP, 1GB VRAM. It required a 6-pin l PCIe power > connection, which clearly doesn't exist in a ZX6000, so I hacked together a > separate 80W AC/DC adapter and tied the grounds to the built-in PSU. Not > recommended for the faint of heart. Surprisingly, it works without burni

Re: AMD/ATI HD series PCI

2012-05-03 Thread Émeric Maschino
2012/5/1 Patrick Baggett : > Ah, I might have spoken too soon then. I'm still running unpatched, so I > assumed this was the issue since on the Radeon 7000 it works fine. How do I > switch it? Maybe not! If it runs fine with Radeon 7000, it's thus probably a different issue than the one I'm experi

Re: ia64 porters still active?

2012-05-03 Thread Émeric Maschino
Hi Matthias, Like Patrick, I'm only an IA-64 end-user but already had reported bugs, some bisected. I had contributed to 2-3 patches in the past, but that's all. Is this what you expect from an IA-64 porter? Or maybe is there a Debian resource explaining in details his/her duties? Emeric 2

Re: [bisected] Unstable desktop experience with kernel > 2.6.38

2012-05-10 Thread Émeric Maschino
Emeric 2012/4/15 Émeric Maschino : > Hi, > > Patch proposed by Tony Luck in > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42757 works for me :-) > > Bug report updated accordingly. > >     Emeric > > > Le 11 février 2012 16:54, Émeric Maschino a écrit &g

Re: Debian IA-64

2012-06-28 Thread Émeric Maschino
Hello, 2012/6/25 MG : >> I'm running Debian on a 2003 hp workstation zx6000 with two >> 1.5GHz McKinley CPUs > > Those are "Madison" processors actually, but I assume you > run the "McKinley" kernel? Yes, I'm running the McKinley kernel. >> 24GB RAM, three stock 15000rpm SCSI U320 73GB HDDs and

Re: Re: ia64 qualification for Wheezy

2012-08-27 Thread Émeric Maschino
Hi, It would also be nice to have a look at 659186 gnome-shell: Segmentation fault in libmozjs185.so.1.0 at startup. Indeed, it seems to be a general issue with Javascript on IA64 (cf. 657351 js/src/shell/js segfaults on ia64). From what I understand, a "similar" issue was fixed in Iceweasel on IA

Re: Apt-get dist-upgrade squeeze->wheezy

2012-09-24 Thread Émeric Maschino
Hi, Is the console output set to VGA console or COM port? Emeric 2012/9/24 Bettoni Fabio : > Sorry, the update was from squeeze to wheezy > > -Messaggio originale- > Da: Bettoni Fabio [mailto:fabio.bett...@telecomitalia.it] > Inviato: lunedì 24 settembre 2012 11.22 > A: 'debian-ia6

Re: Apt-get dist-upgrade squeeze->wheezy

2012-09-25 Thread Émeric Maschino
wing to Boot: prompt > console=ttyS0,9800n8 > console=ttyS1,9800n8 > console=ttyS2,9800n8 > > and they didn't work > > > -Messaggio originale- > Da: Émeric Maschino [mailto:emeric.masch...@gmail.com] > Inviato: lunedì 24 settembre 2012 20:41 > A: Bettoni Fabio &g

Re: Apt-get dist-upgrade squeeze->wheezy

2012-10-01 Thread Émeric Maschino
Hi, > If I boot old installed squeeze kernel I get a loop of: > > udevd[437]: unable to receive ctrl connection: Function not implemented This has been fixed in recent kernels. See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=647825 > Do you have any idea how to go on ? I can imagine two wo

Re: Apt-get dist-upgrade squeeze->wheezy

2012-10-06 Thread Émeric Maschino
Well, I don't understand what's going wrong with your system. I can confirm that both 3.3.8-gentoo and current Squeeze kernels are booting fine on my zx6000. Did you try to rebuild Squeeze kernel using 3.3.8-gentoo .config file? Emeric 2012/10/4 Bettoni Fabio : > > Hi, > > I tried to boot

Re: Apt-get dist-upgrade squeeze->wheezy

2012-10-06 Thread Émeric Maschino
Sorry, I mean Wheezy kernel in my previous post. Emeric 2012/10/6 Émeric Maschino : > Well, > > I don't understand what's going wrong with your system. > I can confirm that both 3.3.8-gentoo and current Squeeze kernels are > booting fine on my zx6000. > >

Re: GDB problem on Debian ia64

2012-10-29 Thread Émeric Maschino
Hi Stephan, This vaguely reminds me something... Yes, back in February, while I was still chasing what in the end was missing accept4 syscall, I experienced a similar issue (http://lists.debian.org/debian-ia64/2012/01/msg00016.html). From this post, this was with linux-image-3.1.0-1-mckinley_3.1.8

Re: GDB problem on Debian ia64

2012-10-30 Thread Émeric Maschino
> run GDB in GDB and then we can..." -- doh). > > Patrick > > On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 3:11 PM, Émeric Maschino > wrote: >> >> Hi Stephan, >> >> This vaguely reminds me something... Yes, back in February, while I >> was still chasing what in the

Re: GDB problem on Debian ia64

2012-10-30 Thread Émeric Maschino
h -- you think it might have to do with the accept4() >> syscall? Any other hints? (For a second, I was about to write, "let's just >> run GDB in GDB and then we can..." -- doh). >> >> Patrick >> >> >> On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 3:11 PM, Éme

Re: GDB problem on Debian ia64

2012-10-30 Thread Émeric Maschino
Patrick, I'm currently running stock Debian Testing kernel on my system. accept4 syscall has been reported upstream, at least in 3.0 and 3.2 branches [1]. Émeric [1] http://marc.info/?l=linux-ia64&m=133720558502738&w=2 2012/10/30 Patrick Baggett : > Also odd -- when I use strace on a "H

Radeon KMS removed from linux-image-3.2.0-4-mckinley 3.2.35-2

2013-01-07 Thread Émeric Maschino
Hi and a happy new year, Back from a break, I've updated my Wheezy setup, just to discover that Xorg.0.log complains that [KMS] drm report modesetting isn't supported. And indeed, grep KMS /boot/config-3.2.0-4-mckinley reports CONFIG_DRM_RADEON_KMS is not set :-( Any reason for this? I had no prob

Re: Radeon KMS removed from linux-image-3.2.0-4-mckinley 3.2.35-2

2013-01-15 Thread Émeric Maschino
n.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=628972#10 2013/1/13 Stephan Schreiber : > Quoting Émeric Maschino: > >> Back from a break, I've updated my Wheezy setup, just to discover that >> Xorg.0.log complains that [KMS] drm report modesetting isn't >> supported. >> And i

Re: Radeon KMS removed from linux-image-3.2.0-4-mckinley 3.2.35-2

2013-01-18 Thread Émeric Maschino
2013/1/17 Ben Hutchings : > On Wed, 2013-01-16 at 09:52 -0600, Patrick Baggett wrote: > > OK, I'll enable it for everything but powerpc. Sorry for the > disruption. > > Ben. No problem. Thanks Ben. Emeric -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-ia64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: Radeon KMS removed from linux-image-3.2.0-4-mckinley 3.2.35-2

2013-02-21 Thread Émeric Maschino
Hi, Ben, is such a kernel image readily available? Wheezy release is slowly coming (first RC of Wheezy installer is out)... Thanks, Émeric 2013/1/17 Ben Hutchings : > On Wed, 2013-01-16 at 09:52 -0600, Patrick Baggett wrote: >> >> >> On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 8:07 AM, Ben Hutchings >> wrot

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