Bug#1057399: firmware-amd-graphics: Unintended consequence of /usr merge - video output ceases

2023-12-04 Thread Arthur Marsh
Package: firmware-amd-graphics Version: 20230625-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? A long time ago on a motherboard far away lived an AMD graphics card code-named Cedar. Cedar

Bug#861151: W: initramfs-tools configuration sets RESUME=UUID=... warning even though RESUME=none

2017-04-26 Thread Arthur Marsh
Ben Hutchings wrote on 26/04/17 12:41: Control: tag -1 moreinfo On Tue, 25 Apr 2017 17:18:28 +0200 Sven Joachim <svenj...@gmx.de> wrote: On 2017-04-25 12:52 +0930, Arthur Marsh wrote: Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.129 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, *** Reporter, please co

Bug#861151: W: initramfs-tools configuration sets RESUME=UUID=... warning even though RESUME=none

2017-04-26 Thread Arthur Marsh
Sven Joachim wrote on 26/04/17 00:48: On 2017-04-25 12:52 +0930, Arthur Marsh wrote: Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.129 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? set RESUME=none

Bug#861151: W: initramfs-tools configuration sets RESUME=UUID=... warning even though RESUME=none

2017-04-24 Thread Arthur Marsh
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.129 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? set RESUME=none in /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf but still get messages: W: initramfs-tools

Bug#818646: linux-image-4.4.0-1-amd64: CONFIG_ZONE_DMA is not set

2016-03-19 Thread Arthur Marsh
Julien Cristau wrote on 19/03/16 20:09: On Sat, Mar 19, 2016 at 15:46:46 +1030, Arthur Marsh wrote: I usually run custom kernels based off the configuration of recent Debian kernels. I notice that as of 4.4.0-1-amd64 (and hence also linux-image-4.5.0-rc7-amd64) that CONFIG_ZONE_DMA

Bug#818646: linux-image-4.4.0-1-amd64: CONFIG_ZONE_DMA is not set

2016-03-18 Thread Arthur Marsh
Package: src:linux Version: 4.4.6-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? I usually run custom kernels based off the configuration of recent Debian kernels. I notice that as of

Bug#808567: linux-image-4.3.0-1-686-pae: eata module required for DPT SCSI adapter fails, lack of response upstream

2015-12-20 Thread Arthur Marsh
This is no way an acceptable patch. The driver needs to be converted properly to the Linux 2.6+ device model, instead of adding further kluges to it. Ben. Thanks, that patch wasn't provided by me. The old driver just broke during other updates and that patch was provided as a workaround

Bug#808567: linux-image-4.3.0-1-686-pae: eata module required for DPT SCSI adapter fails, lack of response upstream

2015-12-20 Thread Arthur Marsh
Package: src:linux Version: 4.3.3-2 Severity: normal Tags: upstream patch Dear Maintainer, *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? Attempting to load a kernel later than 4.2.0. * What exactly did you do (or not do)

Bug#764572: initramfs-tools: fails to finish booting with dirty filesystem(s)

2015-12-06 Thread Arthur Marsh
Ben Hutchings wrote on 07/12/15 09:33: Control: reassign -1 src:linux 3.17-1~exp1 Control: tag -1 moreinfo On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 23:42:56 +1030 Arthur Marsh <arthur.ma...@internode.on.net> wrote: [...] Hi, I still have the issue that with initramfstools later than 0.116 (ie 0.117 and

Bug#781239: initramfs-tools: when fsck of root file system forced, no feedback / fsck

2015-03-28 Thread Arthur Marsh
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.119 Followup-For: Bug #781239 Dear Maintainer, *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? After reproducing the problem by using: tune2fs -C 99 on the root filesystem of my machine

Bug#763516: initramfs-tools: fails to boot with dirty root filesystem

2015-03-28 Thread Arthur Marsh
Package: initramfs-tools Followup-For: Bug #763516 Dear Maintainer, *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** version 0.119 of initramfs-tools fixed this problem but left one without any feedback on the progress of a forced fsck of the root filesystem nor

Bug#764572: initramfs-tools: fails to finish booting with dirty filesystem(s)

2014-10-18 Thread Arthur Marsh
Ben Hutchings wrote, on 13/10/14 06:16: On Mon, 2014-10-13 at 02:38 +1030, Arthur Marsh wrote: Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.116 Followup-For: Bug #764572 Dear Maintainer, *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up

Bug#764572: initramfs-tools: fails to finish booting with dirty filesystem(s)

2014-10-12 Thread Arthur Marsh
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.116 Followup-For: Bug #764572 Dear Maintainer, *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? Another datapoint. I have a hard disk whose filesystems are *not* mounted at start-up, but after

Bug#762306: lockup when accessing cifs-mounted file on 3.17.0-rc1 and later when remote samba server is restarted

2014-10-03 Thread Arthur Marsh
-10-01 15:34 GMT+04:00 Arthur Marsh arthur.ma...@internode.on.net: I managed to complete a git bisect -- fs/cifs: git bisect good 69cebd75606f8b9162ad5d0104367370ceabeeba is the first bad commit commit 69cebd75606f8b9162ad5d0104367370ceabeeba Author: Pavel Shilovsky pshilov...@samba.org Date

Bug#762306: lockup when accessing cifs-mounted file on 3.17.0-rc1 and later when remote samba server is restarted

2014-10-03 Thread Arthur Marsh
restarting Samba? On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 12:34 PM, Arthur Marsh arthur.ma...@internode.on.net wrote: Hi, I just did: aplay file-on-server.wav where the file was several minutes long and I could repeatedly restart the samba server if I wanted to, but if I had a crash it happened on the first

Bug#762306: lockup when accessing cifs-mounted file on 3.17.0-rc1 and later when remote samba server is restarted

2014-10-02 Thread Arthur Marsh
Pavel Shilovsky wrote, on 02/10/14 19:03: 2014-10-01 15:34 GMT+04:00 Arthur Marsh arthur.ma...@internode.on.net: I managed to complete a git bisect -- fs/cifs: git bisect good 69cebd75606f8b9162ad5d0104367370ceabeeba is the first bad commit commit 69cebd75606f8b9162ad5d0104367370ceabeeba

Bug#762306: lockup when accessing cifs-mounted file on 3.17.0-rc1 and later when remote samba server is restarted

2014-10-01 Thread Arthur Marsh
Pavel Shilovsky wrote, on 01/10/14 10:32: 2014-09-30 18:49 GMT+04:00 Arthur Marsh arthur.ma...@internode.on.net: Pardon the top post but I tried the same thing on my dual core Pentium 4 machine mounting via cifs a filesytem on my AMD64 (quad core) machine, then running aplay /mnt

Bug#762306: lockup when accessing cifs-mounted file on 3.17.0-rc1 and later when remote samba server is restarted

2014-09-30 Thread Arthur Marsh
before with the client being on the quad-core AMD64 machine and the server being the Pentium 4 machine, a nasty lock-up pointing to similar code. Has anyone else been able to reproduce this problem? Regards, Arthur Marsh. Arthur Marsh wrote, on 27/09/14 01:45: Arthur Marsh wrote on 16/09/14 03

Bug#762306: lockup when accessing cifs-mounted file on 3.17.0-rc1 and later when remote samba server is restarted

2014-09-27 Thread Arthur Marsh
, 2014 at 9:15 AM, Arthur Marsh arthur.ma...@internode.on.net wrote: Arthur Marsh wrote on 16/09/14 03:17: Arthur Marsh wrote, on 14/09/14 21:15: On 3.16.0 kernels, whether compiled by myself or the stock Debian kernel, if I have program accessing a file on a CIFS-mounted file system

Bug#762306: lockup when accessing cifs-mounted file on 3.17.0-rc1 and later when remote samba server is restarted

2014-09-26 Thread Arthur Marsh
Arthur Marsh wrote on 16/09/14 03:17: Arthur Marsh wrote, on 14/09/14 21:15: On 3.16.0 kernels, whether compiled by myself or the stock Debian kernel, if I have program accessing a file on a CIFS-mounted file system (specifically playing an audio file), and restart the samba server

Bug#762306: lockup when accessing cifs-mounted file on 3.17.0-rc1 and later when remote samba server is restarted

2014-09-26 Thread Arthur Marsh
Steve French wrote on 27/09/14 02:02: cifs mount (default mount options) or mount with SMB2 or SMB3 (vers=2.02 or vers=3.0)? On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 9:15 AM, Arthur Marsh arthur.ma...@internode.on.net wrote: Arthur Marsh wrote on 16/09/14 03:17: Arthur Marsh wrote, on 14/09/14 21:15

Bug#762306: lockup when accessing cifs-mounted file on 3.17.0-rc1 and later when remote samba server is restarted

2014-09-26 Thread Arthur Marsh
, Steve French smfre...@gmail.com wrote: cifs mount (default mount options) or mount with SMB2 or SMB3 (vers=2.02 or vers=3.0)? On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 9:15 AM, Arthur Marsh arthur.ma...@internode.on.net wrote: Arthur Marsh wrote on 16/09/14 03:17: Arthur Marsh wrote, on 14/09/14 21:15

Bug#749955: linux-image-3.14-1-rt-amd64: locks up at Switched to clocksource hpet

2014-05-30 Thread Arthur Marsh
Package: src:linux Version: 3.14.4-1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? Attempting to boot linux-image-3.14-1-rt-amd64 on this machine. Last message displayed before lock-up

Bug#551393: drmRadeonCmdBuffer: -12. Kernel failed to parse or rejected command stream

2012-01-15 Thread Arthur Marsh
Jonathan Nieder wrote, on 15/01/12 11:38: tags 551393 + moreinfo quit Hi Arthur, Andres Salomon wrote: Arthur Marsharthur.ma...@internode.on.net wrote: I attempted to run extremetuxracer on this machine with radeon9200se and radeon driver and received the following output: How

Bug#649873: linux-tools: how to create for a new kernel release

2011-11-24 Thread Arthur Marsh
Package: linux-tools Severity: wishlist I'd like to be able to build a linux-tools package for a kernel built from git source. Is that currently possible? -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers oldstable APT policy: (500, 'oldstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500,

Bug#624217: linux-image-2.6.39-rc4-686-pae: many BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for ... errors in 2.6.39-rc4

2011-05-09 Thread Arthur Marsh
maximilian attems wrote, on 10/05/11 04:24: On Wed, 27 Apr 2011, Arthur Marsh wrote: Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.39~rc4-1~experimental.1 Severity: normal In both the Debian and kernel.org 2.6.39-rc? kernels, I am experiencing numerous BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for xxs! errors

Bug#541656: linux-image-2.6.30-1-686: Failed to symbolic-link boot/initrd.img-2.6.30-1-686 to initrd.img

2010-02-01 Thread Arthur Marsh
maximilian attems wrote, on 02/02/10 00:38: tags 541656 moreinfo stop On Sat, 15 Aug 2009, Arthur Marsh wrote: Package: linux-image-2.6.30-1-686 Version: 2.6.30-6~snapshot.14108 Severity: normal When attempting to upgrade I get: Setting up linux-image-2.6.30-1-686 (2.6.30-6~snapshot

Bug#540022: linux-image-2.6.31-rc5-686: pcspkr no longer included, but snd-pcsp fails to load - no beeps

2009-12-30 Thread Arthur Marsh
Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote, on 2009-12-30 11:51: On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 05:59:25PM +0930, Arthur Marsh wrote: Package: linux-image-2.6.31-rc5-686 Version: 2.6.31~rc5-1~experimental.1~snapshot.14082 Severity: normal In recent kernel builds, pcspkr is not included as a compiled module

Bug#551393: drmRadeonCmdBuffer: -12. Kernel failed to parse or rejected command stream

2009-10-17 Thread Arthur Marsh
Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.31-1~experimental.2 Severity: normal I attempted to run extremetuxracer on this machine with radeon9200se and radeon driver and received the following output: $ etracer Extreme TuxRacer SVN Development -- http://www.extremetuxracer.com (c) 2007 The ETRacer team

Bug#541656: linux-image-2.6.30-1-686: Failed to symbolic-link boot/initrd.img-2.6.30-1-686 to initrd.img

2009-08-15 Thread Arthur Marsh
Package: linux-image-2.6.30-1-686 Version: 2.6.30-6~snapshot.14108 Severity: normal When attempting to upgrade I get: Setting up linux-image-2.6.30-1-686 (2.6.30-6~snapshot.14108) ... Running depmod. Running update-initramfs. Other valid candidates: update-initramfs mkinitrd.yaird

Bug#524643: closed by Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk (Re: linux-2.6: enabling APIC on Asus M3A78 Pro motherboard causes disk i/o problems and corruption)

2009-05-31 Thread Arthur Marsh
and corruption From: Arthur Marsh arthur.ma...@internode.on.net Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 03:20:01 +0930 To: Debian Bug Tracking System sub...@bugs.debian.org To: Debian Bug Tracking System sub...@bugs.debian.org Package: linux-2.6 Severity: normal I recently purchase a pc with a dual-core AMD64 cpu

Bug#524643: linux-2.6: enabling APIC on Asus M3A78 Pro motherboard causes disk i/o problems and corruption

2009-04-18 Thread Arthur Marsh
Package: linux-2.6 Severity: normal I recently purchase a pc with a dual-core AMD64 cpu and Asus M3A78 Pro motherboard. I experienced very poor disk i/o performance and filesystem corruption when I enabled the BIOS option ACPI APIC Support, to the extent that an ext3 filesystem had

Bug#524643: Acknowledgement (linux-2.6: enabling APIC on Asus M3A78 Pro motherboard causes disk i/o problems and corruption)

2009-04-18 Thread Arthur Marsh
I should also mention that this disk i/o and filesystem corruption with ACPI APIC enabled was apparent when using the 2.6.26 kernel but not necessarily restricted to just that kernel. Arthur. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/1473/ causes kernel to only use 1 cpu core on Asus M3A78 Pro motherboard

2009-04-18 Thread Arthur Marsh
in the RSDT pointer list. Regards, Arthur Marsh. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#524534: initramfs-tools: returns error when attempting to remove an already removed initrd

2009-04-18 Thread Arthur Marsh
maximilian attems wrote, on 2009-04-19 01:31: On Sat, 18 Apr 2009, Arthur Marsh wrote: Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.93.2 Severity: normal I was trying to remove a 2.6.27 kernel I had built from source and somehow the initrd was removed before initramfs-tools tried to remove

Re: http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/1473/ causes kernel to only use 1 cpu core on Asus M3A78 Pro motherboard

2009-04-18 Thread Arthur Marsh
Arthur Marsh wrote, on 2009-04-19 03:39: Hi, I just went through a kernel bisection to find out why my Asus M3A78 Pro motherboard with dual core AMD64 cpu was only seeing one cpu core on 2.6.29 kernels, but showed and used both cores on earlier kernels such as 2.6.26. The kernel

Bug#524534: initramfs-tools: returns error when attempting to remove an already removed initrd

2009-04-17 Thread Arthur Marsh
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.93.2 Severity: normal I was trying to remove a 2.6.27 kernel I had built from source and somehow the initrd was removed before initramfs-tools tried to remove it. This resulted in a failure to remove the kernel from the packaging system. See also bug

Bug#494009: linux-2.6: are the ATI firmware-nonfree files available?

2009-03-10 Thread Arthur Marsh
Ben Hutchings wrote, on 10/03/09 14:13: On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 01:56 +1030, Arthur Marsh wrote: Package: linux-2.6 Followup-For: Bug #494009 I couldn't find any files containing ATI firmware at http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/non-free/f/firmware-nonfree/ Are these files available

Bug#494009: linux-2.6: are the ATI firmware-nonfree files available?

2009-03-05 Thread Arthur Marsh
Package: linux-2.6 Followup-For: Bug #494009 I couldn't find any files containing ATI firmware at http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/non-free/f/firmware-nonfree/ Are these files available anywhere? -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500,

Bug#511057: FTBFS: cpia2 module fails

2009-01-06 Thread Arthur Marsh
Package: linux-source-2.6.28 Version: 2.6.28-1~experimental.1~snapshot.12545 Severity: normal I copied the kernel config from the most recent 686 binary to the 2.6.28 source directory, ran make menuconfig only changing some unrelated cpu options, leaving drivers at default, then make-kpkg

Bug#506835: [Fwd: Patch added to scsi-rc-fixes-2.6: [SCSI] eata: fix the data buffer accessors conversion regression]

2008-12-23 Thread Arthur Marsh
...@kernel.org To: Arthur Marsh arthur.ma...@internode.on.net,FUJITA Tomonori fujita.tomon...@lab.ntt.co.jp,James Bottomley james.bottom...@hansenpartnership.com,sta...@kernel.org Your commit: [SCSI] eata: fix the data buffer accessors conversion regression This fixes

Bug#506835: BUG: bad: [58e2a02eb18393e76a469580fedf7caec190eb5e] [SCSI] eata: convert to use the data buffer accessors

2008-12-22 Thread Arthur Marsh
02:38:16 +1030 Arthur Marsh arthur.ma...@internode.on.net wrote: I've recently installed Debian on a PII-266 machine with DPT2044W SCSI controller. Kernels 2.6.18-2.6.22 work fine, and kernels 2.6.23-2.6.27 lock up after loading the eata module using modprobe, with the error: modprobe exited

Bug#506835: BUG: bad: [58e2a02eb18393e76a469580fedf7caec190eb5e] [SCSI] eata: convert to use the data buffer accessors

2008-12-22 Thread Arthur Marsh
FUJITA Tomonori wrote, on 22/12/08 12:39: Sorry about the problem. Can you try this patch? diff --git a/drivers/scsi/eata.c b/drivers/scsi/eata.c index a73a6bb..976cdd5 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/eata.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/eata.c @@ -1626,8 +1626,15 @@ static void map_dma(unsigned int i,

Bug#506835: BUG: bad: [58e2a02eb18393e76a469580fedf7caec190eb5e] [SCSI] eata: convert to use the data buffer accessors

2008-12-21 Thread Arthur Marsh
I've recently installed Debian on a PII-266 machine with DPT2044W SCSI controller. Kernels 2.6.18-2.6.22 work fine, and kernels 2.6.23-2.6.27 lock up after loading the eata module using modprobe, with the error: modprobe exited with preempt_count 1 I've run a git bisection and have a few

Bug#506835: [Fwd: Re: BUG: bad: [58e2a02eb18393e76a469580fedf7caec190eb5e] [SCSI] eata: convert to use the data buffer accessors]

2008-12-21 Thread Arthur Marsh
fujita.tomon...@lab.ntt.co.jp To: arthur.ma...@internode.on.net CC: linux-s...@vger.kernel.org, ballabio_da...@emc.com References: 494e69f0.3060...@internode.on.net On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 02:38:16 +1030 Arthur Marsh arthur.ma...@internode.on.net wrote: I've recently installed Debian on a PII-266 machine

Bug#506835: started git bisection

2008-12-18 Thread Arthur Marsh
I've obtained adsl2+ service and re-partitioned my hard disk and have commenced a git bisection based on: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.23.y.git;a=summary 2.6.23test/.git/refs/bisect$ cat bad good* 4367388f04eea72e78347dc9b299698bf4275f92

Bug#506835: DPT2044W SCSI adaptor with disk installed but no /dev/sd* devices created

2008-12-09 Thread Arthur Marsh
Arthur Marsh wrote, on 2008-12-08 19:58: I'm still trying to get to the source of the bug that prevents me from using a DPT2044W SCSI card that uses the eata module, and have narrowed down the working and non-working Debian kernel images to between linux-image-2.6.22-3-686 version 2.6.22-6

Bug#506835: Info received ([Fwd: Re: DPT2044W SCSI adaptor with disk installed but no /dev/sd* devices created])

2008-11-28 Thread Arthur Marsh
I tried booting kernel 2.6.18-4-686 version 2.6.18.dfsg.1-12etch2 and was able to successfully modprobe eata and get the device files created. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#506835: DPT2044W SCSI adaptor with disk installed but no /dev/sd* devices created

2008-11-28 Thread Arthur Marsh
Arthur Marsh wrote, on 28/11/08 20:33: The 2.6.18.dfsg.1-12etch2 kernel allowed me to modprobe eata and I received similar messages to those quoted above. The next newest kernel I can download is 2.6.24-etchnhalf.1-686. kernel 2.6.24-etchnhalf.1-686 had problems after modprobe eata

Bug#506835: [Fwd: Re: DPT2044W SCSI adaptor with disk installed but no /dev/sd* devices created]

2008-11-27 Thread Arthur Marsh
Forwarded from Debian-user: Original Message Subject: Re: DPT2044W SCSI adaptor with disk installed but no /dev/sd* devices created Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 17:02:35 +1030 From: Arthur Marsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: gmane.linux.debian.user References: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#506835: Acknowledgement (linux-image-2.6.26-1-686: DPT SCSI controller module eata not automatically loaded, modprobe eata locks up)

2008-11-26 Thread Arthur Marsh
I tried compiling the kernel with scsi and eata built-in and suffered the same problem. Error messages I saw included: note: scsi_scan0[240] exited with preempt_count 1 and the lock-up occurred after the message: clock source tsc unstable Arthur. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Bug#506835: linux-image-2.6.26-1-686: DPT SCSI controller module eata not automatically loaded, modprobe eata locks up

2008-11-24 Thread Arthur Marsh
Package: linux-image-2.6.26-1-686 Version: 2.6.26-11~snapshot.12403 Severity: normal I have a DPT 2044W SCSI adaptor in this machine. Module eata does not get loaded automatically, and when I try to load it manually with modprobe I get a kernel stack trace then lock-up. lspci -vv 00:0a.0

Bug#502049: linux-source-2.6.27: image built with .config from image .deb needs zlib1g-dev

2008-10-13 Thread Arthur Marsh
Package: linux-source-2.6.27 Version: 2.6.27~rc9-1~experimental.1~snapshot.12290 Severity: normal I tried to build the above source using the .config from linux-image-2.6.27-rc9-686 but hit errors due to zlib1g-dev not being installed. zlib1g-dev isn't recommended or even suggested by the

problems with cirrusfb.ko

2008-08-20 Thread Arthur Marsh
I've reported this to [EMAIL PROTECTED] but wondered if anyone has experienced any successes or failures in using framebuffer support with the Cirrus Logic GD 5465 [Laguna] VGA card. Arthur. Arthur Marsh wrote, on 2008-08-20 16:23: I'm running the Linux kernel 2.6.27-rc3. When trying

Bug#481525: linux-image-2.6.25-2-686: task hald-addon-stor blocked for more than 120 seconds

2008-06-24 Thread Arthur Marsh
Package: linux-image-2.6.25-2-686 Version: 2.6.25-5 Followup-For: Bug #481525 This sounds like the problem I've had with an MSI cd-rw drive going bad: Jun 24 09:03:13 victoria kernel: [39238.824892] INFO: task hald-addon-stor:3675 blocked for more than 120 seconds. Jun 24 09:03:13 victoria

Bug#472698: initramfs-tools: more serious than important

2008-03-26 Thread Arthur Marsh
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.91e Followup-For: Bug #472698 Thanks to the previous poster I was able to recover a system that wouldn't boot. My method of recovery was to use the Etch installation CD in recovergui mode, pick the correct root filesystem, chroot into it and run aptitude

Bug#459767: linux-source-2.6.23: FTBFS with gcc-4.3

2008-01-09 Thread Arthur Marsh
maximilian attems wrote, on 2008-01-09 06:32: did you try 2.6.24-rc7 from trunk, see apt lines - http://wiki.debian.org/DebianKernel No. I am about to download it and try to compile it with gcc-4.3 please report back on it, by default we currently use gcc-4.1 Same error: CC

Bug#459767: linux-source-2.6.23: FTBFS with gcc-4.3

2008-01-09 Thread Arthur Marsh
Bastian Blank wrote, on 09/01/08 21:32: On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 02:40:56AM +1030, Arthur Marsh wrote: When compiling for Athlon using gcc-4.3: gcc-4.3 --version gcc-4.3 (Debian 4.3-20080104-1) 4.3.0 20080104 (experimental) [trunk revision 131316] Does Linux upstream already bless gcc 4.3

Bug#459767: linux-source-2.6.23: FTBFS with gcc-4.3

2008-01-08 Thread Arthur Marsh
Package: linux-source-2.6.23 Version: 2.6.23-3~snapshot.10051 Severity: normal When compiling for Athlon using gcc-4.3: gcc-4.3 --version gcc-4.3 (Debian 4.3-20080104-1) 4.3.0 20080104 (experimental) [trunk revision 131316] and make-kpkg --initrd linux-image modules-image compilation

Bug#459767: linux-source-2.6.23: FTBFS with gcc-4.3

2008-01-08 Thread Arthur Marsh
maximilian attems wrote, on 2008-01-09 03:06: On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 02:40:56AM +1030, Arthur Marsh wrote: Package: linux-source-2.6.23 Version: 2.6.23-3~snapshot.10051 Severity: normal grrr reportbug-ng misses quite a lot of important info, thinking of automaticaly dropping such, please

Bug#394974: linux-source-2.6.18: had to recompile modules when upgrading from 2.6.18-5 to 2.6.18-6

2006-11-24 Thread Arthur Marsh
Package: linux-source-2.6.18 Version: 2.6.18-6 Followup-For: Bug #394974 As I've read in the bug reports, it appears that from time to time module compatibility breaks with minor version upgrades. In my case when I tried to load ALSA and realtime-lsm modules compiled against 2.6.18-5 source

Bug#382740: /usr/sbin/mkinitramfs: line 206: [: /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume: binary operator expected

2006-08-12 Thread Arthur Marsh
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.73d Severity: important When installing initramfs-tools I get: Setting up initramfs-tools (0.73d) ... update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.17 /usr/sbin/mkinitramfs: line 206: [: /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume: binary operator expected I:

Bug#376699: linux-image-2.6.17-1-686: locks up when playing MIDI file to EMU10K1 soundcard and hard disk activity

2006-07-04 Thread Arthur Marsh
Package: linux-image-2.6.17-1-686 Version: 2.6.17-2 Severity: important Please refer to: [Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#376382: ALSA MIDI playback lock-up on kernel 2.6.17-686, not on kernel 2.6.16-2-686 The 2.6.17-1-686 has lockups when I attempt to play MIDI files to a SoundBlaster Live! 5.1 model

Bug#376699: linux-image-2.6.17-1-686: locks up when playing MIDI file to EMU10K1 soundcard and hard disk activity

2006-07-04 Thread Arthur Marsh
maximilian attems wrote: On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 08:51:54PM +0930, Arthur Marsh wrote: Severity: important over exagerated. ok, but is the only thing that has locked up Debian for me (-: Please refer to: [Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#376382: ALSA MIDI playback lock-up on kernel 2.6.17-686

Bug#376699: FIXED Bug#376699: linux-image-2.6.17-1-686: locks up when playing MIDI file to EMU10K1 soundcard and hard disk activity

2006-07-04 Thread Arthur Marsh
By recompiling and installing the ALSA modules with the alsa-timer-irqsave-patch available at http://www.lxtec.de/debarchiv for kernel 2.6.17-1-686, I no longer have problems with MIDI playback on my SoundBlaster Live! 5.1 model 0220 sound card under kernel 2.6.17-1-686. Regards, Arthur.

Bug#375492: linux-image-2.6.17-1-686: bug #374145 still applies (module lp no installed automatically after parallel port detected)

2006-06-26 Thread Arthur Marsh
Package: linux-image-2.6.17-1-686 Version: 2.6.17-1 Severity: normal I still have to manually add lp to /etc/modules for /dev/lp0 to be created, even though the parallel port is detected, previously reported for linux-image-2.6.16-2-686 as bug #374145. Regards... -- System Information:

Bug#374145: linux-image-2.6.16-2-686: parallel port detected but not reported until much later

2006-06-17 Thread Arthur Marsh
card, are there any ways to pinpoint the problem? Regards, Arthur Marsh. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux

Bug#374145: linux-image-2.6.16-2-686: lp in /etc/modules successful workaround

2006-06-17 Thread Arthur Marsh
Package: linux-image-2.6.16-2-686 Version: 2.6.16-14 Followup-For: Bug #374145 After adding the line: lp to /etc/modules, a reboot enabled /dev/lp0 to be just after printer detection: Jun 18 00:00:54 localhost kernel: parport: PnPBIOS parport detected. Jun 18 00:00:54 localhost kernel:

Bug#345934: linux-image-2.6.15-1-686: postinstal failure observed here also

2006-01-05 Thread Arthur Marsh
Package: linux-image-2.6.15-1-686 Version: 2.6.15-1 Followup-For: Bug #345934 I also noted: -- doing nothing at /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-2.6.15-1-686.postinst line 579. The new kernel is installed and usable, but the package remains listed as partly installed and attempts to complete

Bug#343048: linux-image-2.6.14-2-686: fails to boot

2005-12-12 Thread Arthur Marsh
Package: linux-image-2.6.14-2-686 Version: 2.6.14-5 Followup-For: Bug #343048 Same thing happens here. I also had problems trying to install loop-aes at the same time as upgrading from 2.6.14-4 to 2.6.14-5. The installation went ahead if I upgraded the kernel in aptitude first then the

Bug#336561: linux-image-2.6.14-1-686: CONFIG_SECURITY_CAPABILITIES=y in 2.6.14 prevents realtime-lsm being used with a stock kernel

2005-10-31 Thread Arthur Marsh
Package: linux-image-2.6.14-1-686 Version: 2.6.14-1 Severity: normal Tags: patch Hi, I tried to build the realtime-lsm against 2.6.14 and it complained that it couldn't do so unless CONFIG_SECURITY_CAPABILITIES was built into the kernel as a module. Fix: CONFIG_SECURITY_CAPABILITIES=m I'm

Bug#336561: linux-image-2.6.14-1-686: CONFIG_SECURITY_CAPABILITIES=y in 2.6.14 prevents realtime-lsm being used with a stock kernel

2005-10-31 Thread Arthur Marsh
fine without realtime). It's not a big problem, just that I hadn't seen the discussion on the change to CONFIG_SECURITY_CAPABILITIES. Regards, Arthur. Sven Luther wrote: reassign 336561 realtime-lsm thanks On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 06:32:58PM +1030, Arthur Marsh wrote: Package: linux-image

Bug#303970: kernel-image-2.6.11-1-386: in /lib/modules, source - /home/dilinger/src/kernel/kernel-image/2.6.11-2/kernel-image-2.6.11-i386-2.6.11/install-386

2005-04-09 Thread Arthur Marsh
Package: kernel-image-2.6.11-1-386 Version: 2.6.11-2 Severity: normal /lib/modules/2.6.11-1-386 as installed has the following symbolic link: source - /home/dilinger/src/kernel/kernel-image/2.6.11-2/kernel-image-2.6.11-i386-2.6.11/install-386 -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT