Bug#755503: linux-image-3.2.0-4-amd64: ProLiant ML350p Gen8

2016-02-18 Thread berni elbourn
Package: src:linux Version: 3.2.68-1+deb7u6 Followup-For: Bug #755503 Dear Maintainer, *** Please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? rsync backups from kvm guests to nfs mounted usb drive all on this host. * What exactly did you do

Bug#681089: firmware-linux-nonfree: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5722 dropped packets

2013-01-07 Thread Berni Elbourn
On 06/01/13 02:44, Ben Hutchings wrote: If I understand your original report correctly, the tg3 driver in Debian kernel version 2.6.32-45 fails periodically and the driver in version 3.2.20-1~bpo60+1 does not. So we need to look for a fix to the driver that was made between those versions.

Bug#681089: Some progress

2012-07-23 Thread Berni Elbourn
The combination of Squeeze, and the current driver from Broadcom seems to be stable. Note: The hardware is a HP ML115. $ sudo ifconfig eth0 [sudo] password for elbournb: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:21:5a:d3:d0:0c inet addr:192.168.2.10 Bcast:192.168.2.255

Bug#681089: Some progress

2012-07-23 Thread Berni Elbourn
On 23/07/12 07:58, Berni Elbourn wrote: The combination of Squeeze, and the current driver from Broadcom seems to be stable. Note: The hardware is a HP ML115. $ sudo ifconfig eth0 [sudo] password for elbournb: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:21:5a:d3:d0:0c inet addr:192.168.2.10 Bcast

Bug#681089: Broadcom tg3 3.122n no improvement

2012-07-16 Thread Berni Elbourn
Just to confirm again no real improvement after installing the latest software from the broadcom site... $ sudo ethtool -i eth0 driver: tg3 version: 3.122n firmware-version: 5722-v3.07, ASFIPMI v6.02 bus-info: :11:00.0 I note the firmware version has not changed. And there are dropped

Bug#681089: off the network

2012-07-11 Thread Berni Elbourn
Today with this driver: $ sudo ethtool -i eth0 driver: tg3 version: 3.121 firmware-version: 5722-v3.07, ASFIPMI v6.02 bus-info: :11:00.0 eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:21:5a:d3:d0:0c inet addr:192.168.2.10 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr:

Bug#681089: firmware-linux-nonfree: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5722 dropped packets

2012-07-10 Thread Berni Elbourn
Package: firmware-linux-nonfree Version: 0.35~bpo60+1 Severity: normal With standard squeeze kernel seemingly once a day the nic stops working. Looking at the switch port it seems the nic is transmitting (or retransmitting) something as fast as possible. A simple ifdown/ifup seems to cure for

automount - hung task - bug?

2012-01-25 Thread Berni Elbourn
Hi, Some spookiness last night: Jan 25 00:06:04 sv42 kernel: [40921.884095] INFO: task automount:4367 blocked for more than 120 seconds. Jan 25 00:06:04 sv42 kernel: [40921.884103] echo 0 /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs disables this message. Jan 25 00:06:04 sv42 kernel:

Bug#636306: mount.nfs: page allocation failure. order:4, mode:0xc0d0

2011-10-26 Thread Berni Elbourn
On 24/10/11 16:24, Anders Boström wrote: Hi! We have got this problem on a NFS-server running Debian stable amd64. The server has 8Gbyte memory and at times quite high load, but mostly NFSv3. However, I can't experiment with the patch, this server is too important and it is hard to schedule

Bug#636306: mount.nfs: page allocation failure. order:4, mode:0xc0d0

2011-09-07 Thread Berni Elbourn
The trick to do task || task in cron did work several times. I am very grateful but (would you believe it) only yesterday the system was moved onto something with far more memory. :-( I doubt it will suffer the problem again. If this becomes an issue for others I would be happy to set-up a

Bug#636306: mount.nfs: page allocation failure. order:4, mode:0xc0d0

2011-08-10 Thread Berni Elbourn
Instead of switching to cifs, I tried swapiness=100, and just doubling up on the backup job: 25 23 * * * disk-backup || (sleep 100; disk-backup) Last night the first backup failed, second backup worked. Yippee. The first backup failed by a simple test for the presence of a file the nfs

Bug#636306: mount.nfs: page allocation failure. order:4, mode:0xc0d0

2011-08-02 Thread Berni Elbourn
Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.32-35 Severity: normal The mount failure occures on this system about 1 in 10. Subsequent mounts work just fine. This never happened on Lenny. Sorry if this is a duplicate but bts was down when I ran reportbug. Google seems to go for this:

Bug#636306: Correction: missing parameter reference

2011-08-02 Thread Berni Elbourn
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Bug#636306: mount.nfs: page allocation failure. order:4, mode:0xc0d0

2011-08-02 Thread Berni Elbourn
On 02/08/11 11:49, Ben Hutchings wrote: Does this system have swap enabled? Afraid so... elbournb@sv22:~$ free -m total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 184172 11 0 5 69 -/+ buffers/cache: 98

Bug#570350: linux-image-2.6.26-2-amd64: kernel BUG at kernel/exit.c:822! PATCHES

2010-06-29 Thread Berni Elbourn
The bug is still present in Google Chrome Stable version: 5.0.375.86 Ben Hutchings wrote: snip I think we should actually apply a second patch. So, please try the two attached patches snip Please test this fix by following the instructions at

Bug#570350: linux-image-2.6.26-2-amd64: kernel BUG at kernel/exit.c:822!

2010-06-29 Thread Berni Elbourn
Just a snippet on the Google Sandbox. From here: http://blog.chromium.org/2008/10/new-approach-to-browser-security-google.html The entire HTML rendering and JavaScript execution is isolated to its own class of processes; the renderers. These are the ones that live in the sandbox. ...perhaps

Re: (was Bug#570350) Google Chrome

2010-06-28 Thread Berni Elbourn
Ben Hutchings wrote: On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 06:50:57PM +0100, Berni Elbourn wrote: [...] PS: For future how does one build the official headers common package on Amd64? Do a full package build with 'pkg-buildpackage -B'. Ben. Wow. Thanks. Also it seems:- # fakeroot debian/rules binary

Re: (was Bug#570350) Google Chrome

2010-06-27 Thread Berni Elbourn
On 27/06/10 03:02, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Fri, 2010-06-25 at 12:01 +0100, Berni Elbourn wrote: Re: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=570350 Sorry but the patch at the bottom of the thread doesn't seem to like me: Preparation: apt-get source linux-2.6 apt-get install build

FIXED: Re: Bug#570350: Google Chrome

2010-06-25 Thread Berni Elbourn
Strangely none of the updates to the original bug came through on email ... I am so sorry but I missed the testing requests there. The bug is now archived. So I am posting just to close the case (as it were) for me. A whole new version google-chrome-stable is now in the google's repositories

Re: FIXED: Re: Bug#570350: Google Chrome

2010-06-25 Thread Berni Elbourn
Berni Elbourn wrote: Strangely none of the updates to the original bug came through on email ... I am so sorry but I missed the testing requests there. The bug is now archived. So I am posting just to close the case (as it were) for me. A whole new version google-chrome-stable is now

Re: (was Bug#570350) Google Chrome

2010-06-25 Thread Berni Elbourn
Re: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=570350 Sorry but the patch at the bottom of the thread doesn't seem to like me: Preparation: apt-get source linux-2.6 apt-get install build-essential fakeroot apt-get build-dep linux-2.6 cd linux-2.6-2.6.26 fakeroot debian/rules source

Bug#570350: linux-image-2.6.26-2-amd64: kernel BUG at kernel/exit.c:822!

2010-02-27 Thread Berni Elbourn
Ben Hutchings wrote: There are some questions on the Chrome/Chromium bug report http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=35440. Could you please have a look and try to answer them? Chrome duly bug updated. I was able to do quite a lot of chrome browsing including flash without

Bug#570350: linux-image-2.6.26-2-amd64: kernel BUG at kernel/exit.c:822!

2010-02-22 Thread Berni Elbourn
Ben Hutchings wrote: On Thu, 2010-02-18 at 09:33 +, Berni Elbourn wrote: Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.26-21lenny3 Severity: normal This may relate to #542115. This system kernel is new (HP ML115) and most definitely not tainted with ndiswrappers or nvidia. I am logging the report just

Bug#570350: linux-image-2.6.26-2-amd64: kernel BUG at kernel/exit.c:822!

2010-02-18 Thread Berni Elbourn
Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.26-21lenny3 Severity: normal This may relate to #542115. This system kernel is new (HP ML115) and most definitely not tainted with ndiswrappers or nvidia. I am logging the report just prior to repooting. System seems stable enough. This could be pretty grim for

Bug#542115: Also chrome Tainted: P 2.6.26-2-amd64

2009-11-21 Thread Berni Elbourn
Just a quickie...the tainting here comes from ndiswrapper 1.55 compiled from source...needed for my wireless tricky to test without it. But similar: Nov 20 10:08:22 hp6715 kernel: [ 3785.742833] Not cloning cgroup for unused subsystem ns Nov 20 10:09:15 hp6715 kernel: [ 3838.702413]

Re: RFC: Bug handling policy

2009-10-28 Thread Berni Elbourn
Andres Salomon wrote: 2. Severities Many submitters believe that their bug meets one of the following criteria for high severity. We interpret them as follows and will downgrade as appropriate: 'critical: makes unrelated software on the system (or the whole system) break...' The bug must

Re: RFC: Bug handling policy

2009-10-17 Thread Berni Elbourn
I'm new here. And all this looks good to me. I particularly value clarification to try and use reportbug on all submissions. Already fallen foul of that one ;-) sorry. Please be aware though that in time constrained situations (real users wanting there systems back etc) we may not be able to

Bug#517449: Found in Debian 5.0.3 - Linux version 2.6.26-2-amd64 (Debian 2.6.26-19)

2009-10-05 Thread Berni Elbourn
Sorry but after running for weeks with no problems using this kernel: Linux version 2.6.26-2-amd64 (Debian 2.6.26-17lenny1) (da...@debian.org) (gcc version 4.1.3 20080704 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.2-25)) #1 SMP Sun Jul 26 20:35:48 UTC 2009 On a Quad-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 2372 HE

Bug#517449: Found in Debian 5.0.3 - Linux version 2.6.26-2-amd64 (Debian 2.6.26-19)

2009-10-05 Thread Berni Elbourn
Ben Hutchings wrote: Please note that the 'task name:pid blocked for more than time' messages are *symptoms* and in no way indicate a particular bug. The more people add to this bug report, the less meaningful it becomes. snip Cool. What do you really want from from us use to help pin this

Bug#517449: Found in Debian 5.0.3 - Linux version 2.6.26-2-amd64 (Debian 2.6.26-19)

2009-10-05 Thread Berni Elbourn
Berni Elbourn wrote: ;-) Gibberish: That is good to hear. How can I help here to help me to stabilise our systems? How can I help you to help me stabilise our systems? Berni -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#517449: Found in 2.6.30

2009-08-07 Thread Berni Elbourn
Grim news there is the same behaviour using 2.6.30... ski:~# cat /proc/version Linux version 2.6.30-bpo.1-amd64 (Debian 2.6.30-5~bpo50+1) (no...@debian.org) (gcc version 4.3.2 (Debian 4.3.2-1.1) ) #1 SMP Wed Aug 5 11:07:47 UTC 2009 And logs: Aug 6 22:54:39 ski kernel: [ 2160.704087] INFO:

Bug#517449: Found in standard Lenny kernel

2009-08-06 Thread Berni Elbourn
Linux sv28 2.6.26-2-amd64 #1 SMP Fri Mar 27 04:02:59 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux CPU0: Quad-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 2372 HE stepping 02 Once again during the monthly mdadm re-sync ... And it started at the time of normal system backups. Here's the log snippet: Aug 6 04:03:04 sv28

Bug#517586: Found in 2.6.26-2-amd64

2009-08-06 Thread Berni Elbourn
See also Bug #517449 Linux sv28 2.6.26-2-amd64 #1 SMP Fri Mar 27 04:02:59 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux CPU0: Quad-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 2372 HE stepping 02 Seemingly during the monthly mdadm re-sync ... And it started at the time of normal system backups. Here's the log snippet: Aug

Bug#517449: Found in standard Lenny kernel

2009-08-06 Thread Berni Elbourn
dann frazier wrote: On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 08:14:07AM +0100, Berni Elbourn wrote: Linux sv28 2.6.26-2-amd64 #1 SMP Fri Mar 27 04:02:59 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux Please include the output of /proc/version, it is difficult to map this back to an actual kernel version. But.. it looks like you

Bug#517586: Found in 2.6.26-2-amd64

2009-08-06 Thread Berni Elbourn
dann frazier wrote: On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 08:24:40AM +0100, Berni Elbourn wrote: See also Bug #517449 Note that soft lockups are a class of bug, they can have many causes. If you think this is related to the SCHED_IDLE issue, please let us know why - I don't see a relation myself. I am

Bug#517449: Found in standard Lenny kernel

2009-08-06 Thread Berni Elbourn
Berni Elbourn wrote: dann frazier wrote: 2009.06.10 according to: http://packages.qa.debian.org/l/linux-2.6.html Thanks for the heads up. I am now testing this: Linux version 2.6.26-2-amd64 (Debian 2.6.26-17lenny1) (da...@debian.org) (gcc version 4.1.3 20080704 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.2

Bug#517449: linux-image-2.6.26-1-amd64: SCHED_IDLE issues (tasks blocked for more than 120 seconds)

2009-06-11 Thread Berni Elbourn
Hai Zaar wrote: On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 5:12 AM, Ben Hutchingsb...@decadent.org.uk wrote: You found some scheduling changes made post-2.6.28 which seemed to deal with this bug. However, that cannot be the full story because they are modifying code which was added after 2.6.26. The attached

How to build a Debian xen dom0 kernel with patches?

2009-06-10 Thread Berni Elbourn
Hi, Re: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=517449 Can I help move this forward? I have two systems suffering this pain... There are some patches mentioned for 2.6.26 and also mention of 2.6.29. I am sorry because I can not get Google to tell me how Debian Xen kernels are patched

Bug#517449: Update: during monthly mdadm check using 2.6.26-2-xen-amd64

2009-06-07 Thread Berni Elbourn
This also happened in a Lenny Dom0 last night during the monthly mdadm check. I had to drive to the site and magic-sysrq the system back into life: Linux sv28 2.6.26-2-xen-amd64 #1 SMP Fri Mar 27 07:12:15 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux Jun 7 00:59:00 sv28 kernel: [1305825.753958] INFO: task

Bug#517449: Found in lenny 2.6.26-2-686 domU + workround?

2009-05-14 Thread Berni Elbourn
I ran a stress in a Lenny 2.6.26-2-686 hvm domu as follows: # stress --cpu 16 --io 16 --vm 16 --hdd 16 --timeout 3600 Ok its a pretty heavy test for a dual core 2Gb domain...but I got the same blocked task behaviour: INFO: task stress:9878 blocked for more than 120 seconds. Also: hda:

Bug#509733: A work round?

2009-03-29 Thread Berni Elbourn
Thanks, but is there a work round for this bug? Berni PS: How did you come up with 1.4 from 1:7.3+18? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#509733: Confirmed for lenny

2009-03-27 Thread Berni Elbourn
Known, some problem in the /dev/mem logic. As only X.org 1.4 still uses this interface, I tend to ignore it until someone provides a patch. Newer versions uses the /sys/bus/pci/devices/*/resource* interface, can you please check if at least this works? I can confirm this bug in stable: Lenny

Bug#453678: linux-image-2.6.22-3-amd64: shutdown ok but no power off on my HP6715 laptop

2007-12-02 Thread Berni Elbourn
dann frazier wrote: Berni, A 2.6.23 should be uploaded to sid today - please test that when its available and let us know if it also fixes this issue for you. In the meantime, it would also be useful if you could test one of the 2.6.23 snaphots. See http://wiki.debian.org/DebianKernel for

Bug#453678: linux-image-2.6.22-3-amd64: shutdown ok but no power off on my HP6715 laptop

2007-12-02 Thread Berni Elbourn
Berni Elbourn wrote: dann frazier wrote: Berni, A 2.6.23 should be uploaded to sid today - please test that when its available and let us know if it also fixes this issue for you. In the meantime, it would also be useful if you could test one of the 2.6.23 snaphots. See http://wiki.debian.org

Bug#453678: linux-image-2.6.22-3-amd64: shutdown ok but no power off on my HP6715 laptop

2007-11-30 Thread Berni Elbourn
Berni Elbourn wrote: Package: linux-image-2.6.22-3-amd64 Version: 2.6.22-6 Severity: normal The last report on the console is disable non boot CPUs. I don't recall that from earlier versions. Console reponds to show_memory combination. Problem occurs with ndiswrapper removed, also and gdm

Bug#453678: linux-image-2.6.22-3-amd64: shutdown ok but no power off on my HP6715 laptop

2007-11-30 Thread Berni Elbourn
Package: linux-image-2.6.22-3-amd64 Version: 2.6.22-6 Severity: normal The last report on the console is disable non boot CPUs. I don't recall that from earlier versions. Console reponds to show_memory combination. Problem occurs with ndiswrapper removed, also and gdm stopped. Significantly