Bug#414690: package description amendment for greater clarity

2007-03-13 Thread petes-bugs
Package: linux-image-2.6-686 Version: 2.6.18+6 The package description (and similarly that of linux-image-2.6-686-bigmem, linux-image-2.6.18-4-686, linux-image-2.6.18-4-686-bigmem packages) is this: 'Linux kernel 2.6 image on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/P4 This package depends on the latest binary

Bug#414689: linux-image-2.6.18-4-amd64: usb-storage process stuck in state D after massive IO

2007-03-13 Thread Dominique Dumont
Package: linux-image-2.6.18-4-amd64 Version: 2.6.18.dfsg.1-11 Severity: normal Hello I've launched a command to remove a massive amount of file on an usb disk. Roughly speaking ~20 files for ~ 10Gb of data. The command worked fine for several minutes, but now the rm process is stuck: $

Bug#414695: module package descriptions don't say you need firmware

2007-03-13 Thread petes-bugs
Package: ipw2100-modules-2.6-686 Version: 2.6.18-4+etch1 All the ipw2100-modules-* package descriptions in Etch don't say that the Intel Firmware is required to get these chipsets to work. I suggest they instead say: 'The Debian 4.0/Etch 2.6.18 kernel includes version 1.1.0(?) of these modules.

Bug#414696: module package descriptions don't say you need firmware

2007-03-13 Thread petes-bugs
Package: ipw2200-modules-2.6-686 Version: 2.6.18-4+etch1 All the ipw2200-modules-* package descriptions in Etch don't say that the Intel Firmware is required to get these chipsets to work, nor do they provide module version numbers, both of which would be extremely useful to know when perusing

Bug#414714: linux-image-2.6-686: SATA disk appears both as hdg and sda on VIA motherboard with JMicron controller

2007-03-13 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Package: linux-image-2.6-686 Version: 2.6.18+6 Severity: important I have a VIA motherboard with a JMicron SATA controller. A quirk settings in the kernel enables both the IDE and SATA interface to the controller. As a result, my hard disk appears both as /dev/sda and /dev/hdg. I access the hard

Planning kernel updates in etch

2007-03-13 Thread dann frazier
hey, I'd like to start a discussion on how we will go about doing updates to etch after its initial release. Security Updates Security updates will happen in dists/etch-security in svn and I'll continue to coordinate those. However, I'd

Bug#414773: firmware-nonfree: FTBFS

2007-03-13 Thread Adrian Bunk
Package: firmware-nonfree Version: 0.3 Severity: serious The build dependency on linux-support-2.6.17-2 can't be fulfilled in unstable or testing. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686)

Processed: Re: Bug#414742: Kernel panic when quitting X under amd64

2007-03-13 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: reassign 414742 linux-2.6 Bug#414742: Kernel panic when quitting X under amd64 Bug reassigned from package `xserver-xorg-video-i810' to `linux-2.6'. thank you Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Debian bug tracking

Bug#404148: i'm not convinced release notes are enough

2007-03-13 Thread Peter Green
despite the best intentions of debian i am convinced that most users will not read the release notes and over the lifetime of the etch release having large ammounts (just how much is needed to trigger this bug btw) of memory will become more and more common. what does the sarge kernel do when

Bug#410010: linux-image-2.6.18-3-amd64: Panic When BNX2 Ring Buffer Fills

2007-03-13 Thread Steaphan Greene
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 03:09:18PM +0100, Frederik Schueler wrote: On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 08:51:58PM -0500, Steaphan Greene wrote: The Linux kernel in Etch does not yet contain the following patch: http://www.mail-archive.com/netdev@vger.kernel.org/msg28143.html I'll have a look at

Bug#412748: Patch works nicely

2007-03-13 Thread Rene Mayrhofer
And just for completeness, I want to add that the patch works nicely. drbd8 and ocfs2 can be used together with no visible side-effects. If anybody of the kernel team has time to add this, it would help admins trying to create highly available file systems. Rene pgpAQNifxHZhA.pgp

Bug#404148: i'm not convinced release notes are enough

2007-03-13 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 09:01:03PM +, Peter Green wrote: despite the best intentions of debian i am convinced that most users will not read the release notes and over the lifetime of the etch release having large ammounts (just how much is needed to trigger this bug btw) of memory will

Bug#414742: Kernel panic when quitting X under amd64

2007-03-13 Thread Troy Davis
We really need to see the panic message, there is no way to debug without it. Next time you see it on screen, please take a photo with a digital camera. Note that having a small font might help since you will have much more lines on the screen :) No luck with netconsole, but I was finally

Bug#404148: i'm not convinced release notes are enough

2007-03-13 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hi. Sorry that I've ignored the last answers to the bug but I somehow missed the mail. First of all,.. there is still no other solution than iommu=soft (at least as of my knowledge) and we had even someone on the bugreport at bugzilla.kernel.org who claimed that _only_ iommu=soft helped, but not

Bug#414839: mkvmlinuz fails with undefined reference to zlib_inflate_blocks* against 2.6.18-4-powerpc

2007-03-13 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Subject: mkvmlinuz fails with undefined reference to zlib_inflate_blocks* against 2.6.18-4-powerpc Package: mkvmlinuz Version: 32 Severity: normal i'm not using mkvmlinuz as my sole bootloader: i am considering it as an alternate. However, running it by hand with a stock kernel and an initrd

Bug#401916: udev: Add support for the ROOTDELAY parameter

2007-03-13 Thread David Härdeman
Package: udev Version: 0.105-3 Severity: normal Tags: patch Hi, maks downgraded #401916 (and #366175) from RC severity with the understanding that something like the attached patch would be applied to the udev initramfs script before the release of Etch to allow people with affected systems