Re: Debian Kernel Group Meeting / Xen Dom0 support

2009-10-21 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 01:00:21AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Tue, 2009-10-20 at 23:19 +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 01:31:06PM +0100, Vincent Sanders wrote: xen dom 0 + Upstream development is splintered but Bastian Blank is willing to

Re: Debian Kernel Group Meeting

2009-10-21 Thread Bastian Blank
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 01:31:06PM +0100, Vincent Sanders wrote: xen dom 0 + Upstream development is splintered but Bastian Blank is willing to implement the patch for squeeze. Final decision on inclusion subject to building. Current status: The tree is building and running in my

Bug#551579: Intel 5350 AGN (Echo Peak) refuses to associate with hardware accelerated encryption enabled

2009-10-21 Thread maximilian attems
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 07:44:39PM -0700, Daniel Moerner wrote: I have firmware-iwlwifi version 0.18 installed. The above fix actually doesn't work for me reliably. I still can't associate with a lot of unprotected wireless networks. This is what dmesg shows me: [ 239.024909]

Bug#551728: closed by maximilian attems m...@stro.at (Re: Bug#551728: initramfs-tools: Fails to boot with encrypted root after upgrade)

2009-10-21 Thread maximilian attems
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 06:10:18AM +0200, Adam wrote: However the real and remaining problem is a initramfs for 2.6.30-2 that doesn't boot (wasn't stated properly in my previous email). The old initramfs for -2 (initrd.img-2.6.30-2-powerpc.bak) boots as well as both -1 images. I guess a new

Processed: reopening 551728

2009-10-21 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: reopen 551728 Bug #551728 {Done: maximilian attems m...@stro.at} [initramfs-tools] initramfs-tools: Fails to boot with encrypted root after upgrade End of message, stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Debian bug

Re: RFC: Bug handling policy

2009-10-21 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk [2009-10-17 17:14]: 1. Required information Submitters are expected to run reportbug or other tool that runs our 'bug' script under the kernel version in question. The response to reports without this information should be a request to follow-up using

Re: RFC: Bug handling policy

2009-10-21 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 01:21:20PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: Another exception that should be added here is for devices which have well-defined hardware components. For example, I don't need hardware information for a QNAP TS-209 because it's a consumer NAS machine and you cannot change

Re: Debian Kernel Group Meeting / Xen dom0

2009-10-21 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 11:45:52AM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 01:31:06PM +0100, Vincent Sanders wrote: xen dom 0 + Upstream development is splintered but Bastian Blank is willing to implement the patch for squeeze. Final decision on inclusion subject to

Re: Setting vm.mmap_min_addr for lenny?

2009-10-21 Thread dann frazier
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 01:10:21PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: I wonder if it makes sense to set vm.mmap_min_addr to 4096 (instead of 0) for lenny. It seems to me that unstable already made this switch, and given the apparently neverending sequence of kernel NULL dereferences, this might be

Re: Stable update?

2009-10-21 Thread dann frazier
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 09:37:42PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 13:24 -0600, dann frazier wrote: On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 07:37:33PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: I've collected quite a few bug fixes for 2.6.26-20. It seems like it might be worth uploading to

Re: Setting vm.mmap_min_addr for lenny?

2009-10-21 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
On 2009-10-21, dann frazier da...@dannf.org wrote: I was thinking that in the pending DSA[1] we could warn users that this default will change in the next point release, and provide instructions for making a local configuration change now. Maybe link to a wiki page w/ instructions, so that we

Processed: Reproducible here with current kernel and udev

2009-10-21 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: retitle 535130 race causes failure to kill udevd in initramfs script with set -e, cascading problems ensue Bug #535130 [linux-2.6] linux-image-2.6.30-1-686: fails with lenny's udev Changed Bug title to 'race causes failure to kill udevd in

Bug#535130: Reproducible here with current kernel and udev

2009-10-21 Thread Josh Triplett
retitle 535130 race causes failure to kill udevd in initramfs script with set -e, cascading problems ensue reassign 535130 udev affects 535130 + linux-2.6 thanks I reproduce this problem every few boots lately. Diagnosis below, which seems to point to udev; reassigning accordingly. Note that

Bug#551804: linux-image-2.6.30-2-686: Booting with PAT enabled crashes kernel in OpenGL apps

2009-10-21 Thread Bram Senders
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 11:30:05PM +0200, maximilian attems wrote: On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 09:51:19PM +0200, Bram Senders wrote: Package: linux-image-2.6.30-2-686 Version: 2.6.30-8 Severity: normal Running OpenGL apps crashes my kernel when PAT is enabled (which is the case in the

increasing default value of mmap_min_addr

2009-10-21 Thread dann frazier
hey, The kernel team is discussing the possibility of increase the default value of mmap_min_addr in lenny (it has already been done for sid). Obviously this has implications for the wine and dosemu packages (are there others?) The current proposal is to notify users in the next kernel DSA that

Bug#538158: Still a problem as of 5.0.3

2009-10-21 Thread Arcady Genkin
Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk writes: Can you test whether this also occurs in Linux 2.6.30? You can install this from unstable without replacing the current kernel package and without pulling in any dependencies from unstable and. We have already put the two servers into production,

Bug#551579: marked as done (Intel 5350 AGN (Echo Peak) refuses to associate with hardware accelerated encryption enabled)

2009-10-21 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:37:15 -0700 with message-id 4adf9b2b.4050...@gmail.com and subject line Re: Bug#551579: Intel 5350 AGN (Echo Peak) refuses to associate with hardware accelerated encryption enabled has caused the Debian Bug report #551579, regarding Intel 5350 AGN (Echo

Processed: tagging 538158

2009-10-21 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: tags 538158 moreinfo Bug #538158 [linux-image-2.6.26-2-686-bigmem] BUG: soft lockup - CPU#5 stuck for 62s with 2.6.26-2-686-bigmem kernel Ignoring request to alter tags of bug #538158 to the same tags previously set End of message, stopping

Bug#538158: Still a problem as of 5.0.3

2009-10-21 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 17:01 -0400, Arcady Genkin wrote: Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk writes: Can you test whether this also occurs in Linux 2.6.30? You can install this from unstable without replacing the current kernel package and without pulling in any dependencies from unstable

Bug#551952: initramfs-tools: make the order of script execution more robust/flexible/intelligent

2009-10-21 Thread Christian Pernegger
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.92o Severity: normal At the moment the order boot scripts are executed in depends solely on 'prereqs' that are - at least in the scripts on my system - rather static. While the admin can *add* scripts under /etc/initramfs-tools there is no elegant way to

Bug#541389: linux-2.6: please enable CONFIG_NUMA_EMU

2009-10-21 Thread Ben Hutchings
CONFIG_NUMA_EMU seems to be mostly harmless. It adds something like 22 bytes of static data per NUMA node and we currently support up to 64 nodes on amd64. It seems to add a fair amount of code, but virtually all of that is marked __init so it doesn't use up memory after boot. I would like to

Bug#541389: Use of CONFIG_NUMA_EMU

2009-10-21 Thread Ben Hutchings
The Debian kernel team received a request to enable this config option in our packaged kernels for x86-64, with reference to Documentation/x86/x86_64/fake-numa-for-cpusets. This document seems to encourage the use this option in production. However, the Kconfig help text for this says (as it has