Bug#980205: #980205 installation missing "non free" drivers.

2021-03-04 Thread Dave Dyer
I no longer have the (damaged and useless) installation attempt that led to this report. I recall that when I succeeded in supplying brcmfmac43340-sdio.bin, the next installation attempt presented the same type of error message, asking for brcmfmac43340-sdio.txt I found a file with that name

Bug#980205: #980205 installation missing "non free" drivers.

2021-01-20 Thread Dave Dyer
r brcm/brcmfmac43340-sdio.bin > >Dave Dyer wrote: >> At 05:40 AM 1/18/2021, Holger Wansing wrote: >> >> 3) in my particular case, the driver is brcm/brcmfmac43340-sdio.bin, which >> >> *also* requires a text file, brcm/brcmfmac43340-sdio.txt. I know this >>

Bug#890343: fq_codel as a default

2020-04-24 Thread Dave Taht
pfifo_fast vs sch fq over here, with the most relevant comment here: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/9725#issuecomment-413369212 -- Make Music, Not War Dave Täht CTO, TekLibre, LLC http://www.teklibre.com Tel: 1-831-435-0729

Bug#952660: src:linux: macvlan multicast/broadcast regression in stretch

2020-04-07 Thread Dave Page
Hi there, We've been able to work around this thanks to Ben's help, but are Debian planning on releasing an update to fix this regression caused by the 9.12 point release? Cheers, Dave -- Dave Page, Operations Team ManagerCodethink Ltd Telephone: +44 7762 840 414

Bug#930631: linux-image-4.19.0-5-amd64: Fresh Buster install fails to boot to desktop

2019-06-16 Thread dave
Package: src:linux Version: 4.19.37-3 Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system Dear Maintainer, I performed a fresh install using the image debian-testing-amd64-xfce-CD-1.iso and after installation I could not boot to the desktop, I was left with a black screen. I entered tty1

Bug#885570: More info

2017-12-31 Thread Dave
.  I also have a dell laptop that has Intel Graphics HD 520 that I upgraded to the 4.9.0-4-amd kernel and the problem does not seem to affect it.  Looks like it might be some incompatibility between the 4.9.0-4 kernel and the intel 5500 graphics? Thanks Dave

Bug#868699: OOPS with kernel (4.9) in debian stable stretch:

2017-07-17 Thread Dave Goel
Package: linux-image-4.9.0-3-amd64 Version: 4.9.30-2+deb9u2 OOPS with kernel (4.9) in debian stable stretch: When trying to boot with new debian stable (kernel 4.9), I get a kernel oops: http://imgur.com/a/CybMP It seems probably related to nouveau, as you see in the backtrace. (I end up

Bug#868697: OOPS with kernel (4.9) in debian stable stretch:

2017-07-17 Thread Dave Goel
Package: linux-image-3.16.0-4-amd64 Version: 3.16.43-2+deb8u2 OOPS with kernel (4.9) in debian stable stretch: When trying to boot with new debian stable (kernel 4.9), I get a kernel oops: http://imgur.com/a/CybMP It seems to be related to nouveau, as you see in the backtrace. (I end up

Bug#868696: OOPS with kernel (4.9) in debian stable stretch:

2017-07-17 Thread Dave Goel
Package: linux-image-3.16.0-4-amd64: Version: 3.16.43-2+deb8u2 OOPS with kernel (4.9) in debian stable stretch: When trying to boot with new debian stable (kernel 4.9), I get a kernel oops: http://imgur.com/a/CybMP It seems probably related to nouveau, as you see in the backtrace. (I end up

Bug#864368: Expand kernel serial port configuration

2017-06-07 Thread Dave Hansen
On 06/07/2017 01:14 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Wed, 2017-06-07 at 18:10 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: >>> CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_RUNTIME_UARTS=16 >> That seems reasonable. > [...] > > Actually, having looked further at what this does, I'm unconvinced > about changing it. It can always be

Bug#864368: Expand kernel serial port configuration

2017-06-07 Thread Dave Hansen
Package: linux-image-4.9.0-3-amd64 Severity: medium When my system boots the Debian installer, it appears to hang at a blank screen. There are two reasons for this, and two kernel configuration parameters need to be modified: CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_RUNTIME_UARTS=16 CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_MID=y There

Bug#864143: closed by Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> (Re: Bug#864143: initramfs-tools: missing dependency on busybox?)

2017-06-05 Thread Dave Love
I guess I wrote that badly. busybox isn't actually required by cryptsetup, just recommended, but it should be required by something. The example shows it's possible to make packages uninstallable, if they pull the initramfs trigger, by removing busybox, which you can do cleanly as far as apt is

Bug#864143: initramfs-tools: missing dependency on busybox?

2017-06-04 Thread Dave Love
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.130 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, initramfs-tools-core recommends busybox, but it appears to be required. I got this with an update after it was removed: Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.130) ... update-initramfs: Generating

Bug#802885: [3.16] xfs: allow inode allocations in post-growfs disk space

2015-12-13 Thread Dave Chinner
kt: > > commit 9de67c3ba9ea961ba420573d56479d09d33a7587 > Author: Eric Sandeen <sand...@redhat.com> > Date:   Thu Jul 24 20:51:54 2014 +1000 > > xfs: allow inode allocations in post-growfs disk space Acked-by: Dave Chinner <da...@fromorbit.com> -- Dave Chinner da...@fromorbit.com

Bug#774579: linux-image-3.16.0-4-amd64: Kernel fails to boot - cannot find root

2015-01-06 Thread Dave Williams
OK - narrowed it down. tested the pre-built 3.15.5-1~exp1 which works, and 3.16~rc5-1~exp1, and the latter breaks in the way I'm seeing. Dave On 6 January 2015 at 10:36, Ian Campbell i...@debian.org wrote: On Mon, 2015-01-05 at 23:34 +, Dave Williams wrote: Hi Ben, OK - so far I've

Bug#774579: linux-image-3.16.0-4-amd64: Kernel fails to boot - cannot find root

2015-01-05 Thread Dave Williams
it depends on), then I can try them. Otherwise I'll just keep doing what I'm doing... Next one I've downloaded source for is 3.16.2. I'll let you know how that one pans out. Cheers, Dave On 4 January 2015 at 19:51, Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote: Control: tag -1 moreinfo Control

Bug#774579: linux-image-3.16.0-4-amd64: Kernel fails to boot - cannot find root

2015-01-04 Thread Dave
information on request (please let me know where I can find the info when asking for it though) or try out patched kernels (preferably supplied as '.deb' packages please :-) ). Thank you for your time! Dave -- Package-specific info: ** Kernel log: boot messages should be attached ** Model

Bug#754294: Re; Kernel release

2014-07-30 Thread Dave Ewart
. Dave. -- Dave Ewart da...@ceu.ox.ac.uk Computing Manager, Cancer Epidemiology Unit University of Oxford N 51.7516, W 1.2152 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#714974: [PATCH] jfs: avoid misuse of cookie value of 2

2013-08-15 Thread Dave Kleikamp
0, 1 and 2 for a rewind, and the . and .. entries. jfs was using 0 and 1 for . and .., but 2 for a regular entry. This patch makes jfs conform by using 1 and 2 for . and .. and fixes any regular entry using the value 2. Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp dave.kleik...@oracle.com diff --git a/fs/jfs

Bug#714974: [PATCH] jfs: avoid misuse of cookie value of 2

2013-08-15 Thread Dave Kleikamp
On 08/15/2013 02:09 AM, Christian Kujau wrote: On Wed, 14 Aug 2013 at 21:29, Christian Kujau wrote: On Wed, 14 Aug 2013 at 22:54, Dave Kleikamp wrote: It looks like the problem is that jfs was using a cookie value of 2 for a real directory entry, where NFSv4 expect 2 to represent

Bug#714974: [PATCH] jfs: fix readdir cookie incompatibility with NFSv4

2013-08-15 Thread Dave Kleikamp
entry. This incompatibility can result in the nfs client reporting a readdir loop. This patch doesn't change the value stored internally, but adds one to the value exposed to the iterate method. Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp dave.kleik...@oracle.com --- fs/jfs/jfs_dtree.c | 31

Bug#714974: [PATCH] jfs: fix readdir cookie incompatibility with NFSv4

2013-08-15 Thread Dave Kleikamp
On 08/15/2013 04:26 PM, Christian Kujau wrote: On Thu, 15 Aug 2013 at 15:48, Dave Kleikamp wrote: This patch replaces the one I posted yesterday. I like this better since it doesn't require fixing existing on-disk cookies or skipping a position in the in-inode index table. Thanks. Applied

Bug#695182: [RFC] Reproducible OOM with just a few sleeps

2013-01-30 Thread Dave Hansen
On 01/30/2013 04:51 AM, Pavel Machek wrote: Are you saying that HIGHMEM configuration with 4GB ram is not expected to work? Not really. The assertion was that 4GB with no PAE passed a forkbomb test (ooming) while 4GB of RAM with PAE hung, thus _PAE_ is broken. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#695182: [RFC] Reproducible OOM with just a few sleeps

2013-01-17 Thread Dave Hansen
On 01/17/2013 01:04 PM, paul.sz...@sydney.edu.au wrote: On my large machine, 'free' fails to show about 2GB memory ... You probably have a memory hole. ... The e820 map (during early boot in dmesg) or /proc/iomem will let you locate your memory holes. Now that my machine is running an amd64

Bug#695182: [RFC] Reproducible OOM with just a few sleeps

2013-01-14 Thread Dave Hansen
On 01/11/2013 07:31 PM, paul.sz...@sydney.edu.au wrote: Seems that any i386 PAE machine will go OOM just by running a few processes. To reproduce: sh -c 'n=0; while [ $n -lt 1 ]; do sleep 600 ((n=n+1)); done' My machine has 64GB RAM. With previous OOM episodes, it seemed that running

Bug#695182: [RFC] Reproducible OOM with just a few sleeps

2013-01-14 Thread Dave Hansen
On 01/14/2013 12:36 PM, paul.sz...@sydney.edu.au wrote: I understand that more RAM leaves less lowmem. What is unacceptable is that PAE crashes or freezes with OOM: it should gracefully handle the issue. Noting that (for a machine with 4GB or under) PAE fails where the HIGHMEM4G kernel

Bug#695182: [RFC] Reproducible OOM with partial workaround

2013-01-11 Thread Dave Hansen
On 01/10/2013 05:46 PM, paul.sz...@sydney.edu.au wrote: ... I don't believe 64GB of RAM has _ever_ been booted on a 32-bit kernel without either violating the ABI (3GB/1GB split) or doing something that never got merged upstream ... Sorry to be so contradictory: psz@como:~$ uname -a

Bug#695182: [RFC] Reproducible OOM with partial workaround

2013-01-10 Thread Dave Hansen
On 01/10/2013 01:58 PM, paul.sz...@sydney.edu.au wrote: I developed a workaround patch for this particular OOM demo, dropping filesystem caches when about to exhaust lowmem. However, subsequently I observed OOM when running many processes (as yet I do not have an easy-to-reproduce demo of

Bug#695182: [RFC] Reproducible OOM with partial workaround

2013-01-10 Thread Dave Hansen
On 01/10/2013 04:46 PM, paul.sz...@sydney.edu.au wrote: Your configuration has never worked. This isn't a regression ... ... does not mean that we expect it to work. Do you mean that CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G is deprecated, should not be used; that all development is for 64-bit only? My last 4GB

Re: [RFC] Simplifying kernel configuration for distro issues

2012-07-13 Thread Dave Jones
years ago Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120713210240.gg1...@redhat.com

Re: [RFC] Simplifying kernel configuration for distro issues

2012-07-13 Thread Dave Jones
more on the niche platforms, but x86[64] ? I'm sceptical they're used at all) Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120713215546.gh1

Bug#644876: initramfs-tools: Boot failure from software RAID1 + LVM2 by timing of mdadm + lvm initiation

2012-03-13 Thread Dave Whitla
was a symlink to /sbin/udevadm which has been absent from Debian since Lenny. Try editing this file to replace the above with: if [ -x $(command -v udevadm) ]; then verbose log_begin_msg Waiting for udev to process events udevadm settle --timeout=10 verbose log_end_msg fi Dave This email

Re: Re: Need multiarch aware linux-libc-dev when using 'make deb-pkg'

2012-01-15 Thread Dave Witbrodt
upstream who is responsible for the deb-pkg infrastructure? Thanks, Dave W. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f138823.8080...@sbcglobal.net

Re: [PATCH 1/2] lockdep,rtmutex,bug: Show taint flags on error

2011-11-16 Thread Dave Jones
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 09:52:36PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: Please could you ack or nak this? Ben. sorry, thought I already had. Reviewed-by: Dave Jones da...@redhat.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Bug#512679: initramfs-tools: 'more' pager is broken in initramfs shell

2011-11-06 Thread Dave Whitla
Wow. Almost 3 years later and this is still broken. Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/c59d3f5c-850f-4e61-a470-2b3ea2b97...@ocean.net.au

Re: [PATCH] module,bug: Add TAINT_OOT_MODULE flag for modules not built in-tree

2011-10-26 Thread Dave Jones
() ? Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111027015528.ga19...@redhat.com

Re: [PATCH] module,bug: Add TAINT_OOT_MODULE flag for modules not built in-tree

2011-10-25 Thread Dave Jones
, as dynamic debug lockdep are separate things, though this was the only thing in kernel/module.c's history this year that sounds similar) Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: [PATCH] module,bug: Add TAINT_OOT_MODULE flag for modules not built in-tree

2011-10-24 Thread Dave Jones
. Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk --- Debian has been carrying this for the last few kernel versions. The recent thread '[RFC] virtualbox tainting.' and discussions at KS suggest that this might be more generally useful. Looks good to me. Reviewed-by: Dave Jones da

Bug#614221: iMac-G3 fails to boot with 2.6.37-1-powerpc (Bug#614221)

2011-03-07 Thread Dave Airlie
. Benjamin Herrenschmidt (CC'd) was        working on a fix for this, any progress Ben?      * Come to think of it, the OFfb handover probably only works for        me thanks to a patch drm/radeon: Add early unregister of        firmware fb's by BenH. Ben/Dave, what's the status

Bug#600031: updating kernel causes slow write speed to raid

2010-10-15 Thread Dave Clarke
On 15 October 2010 02:33, Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote: On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 15:16 +0100, Dave Clarke wrote: Ben That has solved it. Now getting around 27MB/s write on ext4 and 97MB/s read with the experimental kernel. I'm happy with these speeds on this hardware. It is still

Bug#600031: updating kernel causes slow write speed to raid

2010-10-14 Thread Dave Clarke
and vm.dirty_ratio. Do you think there is any merit in adjusting these? Thanks Dave On 14 October 2010 03:46, Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote: On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 00:31 +0100, Dave Clarke wrote: Running bonnie++ locally. Have formatted / as ext3 and /home/ as ext4. using raid5. Also to note

Bug#600031: updating kernel causes slow write speed to raid

2010-10-13 Thread Dave Clarke
(ext4 won't mount with 2.6.26 kernel). And meminfo for both kernels taken when the system is loaded and unloaded. Dave On 13 October 2010 00:15, Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote: On Tue, 2010-10-12 at 23:07 +0100, Dave Clarke wrote: Package: linux-image Version: 2.6.32-5-686 After dist

Bug#596767: nfs-kernel-server does not check the ucf registry for conflicting package, registrations.

2010-09-13 Thread Dave Rawks
Package: nfs-kernel-server Version: 1:1.1.2-6lenny2 Severity: important In the maintaner scripts included in nfs-kernel-server ucf is used to detect whether the configfiles managed by the scripts have been changed via a local edit. However the postinst makes no inquiry against ucf

Bug#596767: nfs-kernel-server does not check the ucf registry for conflicting package, registrations.

2010-09-13 Thread Dave Rawks
On 09/13/2010 03:30 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Mon, 2010-09-13 at 14:38 -0700, Dave Rawks wrote: Package: nfs-kernel-server Version: 1:1.1.2-6lenny2 Severity: important In the maintaner scripts included in nfs-kernel-server ucf is used to detect whether the configfiles managed

Bug#596767: nfs-kernel-server does not check the ucf registry for conflicting package, registrations.

2010-09-13 Thread Dave Rawks
On 9/13/10 5:20 PM, Steve Langasek wrote: severity 596767 wishlist thanks On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 02:38:25PM -0700, Dave Rawks wrote: In the maintaner scripts included in nfs-kernel-server ucf is used to detect whether the configfiles managed by the scripts have been changed via

Bug#566574: linux-2.6: Yet another acpi_enforce_resources=lax victim

2010-08-24 Thread Dave Witbrodt
Package: linux-2.6 Severity: normal I believe this is another case of a user needing acpi_enforce_resources=lax in their kernel boot parameters. Ferry, can you try the advice provided here, http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=568126#44 and see if it helps. HTH, Dave W

Bug#576408: looks like acpi_enforce_resources again

2010-08-21 Thread Dave Witbrodt
I'm no expert on kernel matters, but this looks like another instance of someone being affected by the relatively recent change in upstream kernel policy toward ACPI resource overlaps. Possibly adding this to the kernel boot parameters would help: acpi_enforce_resources=lax HTH, Dave W

[Thank you] Banzai!

2010-08-16 Thread dave
Thanks for an awesome foundation. Big Love. -- This is message was sent to you from http://thanks.debian.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: [PATCH] viafb: Add transitive dependencies via gpiolib

2010-07-13 Thread Dave Airlie
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 9:30 AM, Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote: FB_VIA now selects GPIOLIB, but that is not available on all architectures.  Change FB_VIA dependencies to include GPIOLIB dependencies. If you can find a via chipset on anything not x86 I'd be impressed. Dave

Bug#582107: mounts default to version 4, don't fall back automatically

2010-05-20 Thread Dave Witbrodt
, in case it is helpful in some way. I will soon be adding NFSv4 support to my home network -- long overdue -- and the nfsvers=3 workaround wasn't very difficult to use anyway.) Dave W. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (350

Bug#576913: further info on Sata raid 1 errors

2010-04-12 Thread Dave Edwards
Hi Please cancel this bug. The disk has had a catastrophic failure so the reports in the log were valid. Sorry for any investigation work this has incurred. Kind regards -- .. Dave Edwards (G7RAU) email: d...@g7rau.co.uk Web: http://g7rau.demon.co.uk

Bug#576913: Sata raid 1 errors

2010-04-08 Thread Dave Edwards
in Debian and try then no problems at all and data access is fast. I have flashed the Mb to the latest version and replaced all the sata cables but no improvement. This looks like a bug to me, anybody have any ideas? Kind regards -- .. Dave Edwards (G7RAU) email: d

Bug#576913: further info on Sata raid 1 errors

2010-04-08 Thread Dave Edwards
better raid performance (mysql record inserts are intermittant / slow and reads are slow) and I have a feeling this is all relating to the same thing but I cannot identify what it is Kind regards -- .. Dave Edwards (G7RAU) email: d...@g7rau.co.uk Web: http

Bug#574401: udevadm trigger crashes system

2010-03-18 Thread Dave Williams
kernel install. for the time being i've just blacklisted the module. Best regards Dave Williams - Original message - reassign 574401 linux-2.6 thanks On Mar 17, Dave Williams d.r.williams...@cantab.net wrote: If 'udevadm trigger' is run once the system is booted and running

Bug#568126: lm-sensors: Resource conflicts policy in kernel has changed

2010-02-05 Thread Dave Witbrodt
kernel boot line in GRUB. HTH, Dave W. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (350, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32.2-0git+k10temp+f71889fg+r600fix.091222.desktop.kms (SMP w/4 CPU cores; PREEMPT

Re: Re: Upgrade script for libata transition

2009-12-29 Thread Dave Witbrodt
that confusion here had anything to do with it, but now I have something else to look into, at least. The machine doesn't roll over and die, so I can still get in with 'ssh' and do the downgrade. Just haven't had time to gather info and debug the issue yet.) HTH, Dave W. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Bug#561309: needs firmware for module r8169 (/rtl8168d-{1, 2}.fw)

2009-12-18 Thread Dave Witbrodt
to get the 60 sec delay that Stefan referred to. (Only delay I experienced was that it takes 5 times longer to build one of these kitchen-sink kernels than with my carefully crafted custom config! ;) Thanks for investigating this, Dave W. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT

Bug#561309: needs firmware for module r8169 (/rtl8168d-{1, 2}.fw)

2009-12-17 Thread Dave Witbrodt
Ben Hutchings wrote: On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 11:49 -0500, Dave Witbrodt wrote: [...] May I provide evidence to the contrary? I compile my own kernels, and use them exclusively unless some problem arises which forces me to use another kernel. Therefore, I keep a stock Debian kernel installed

Bug#561309: needs firmware for module r8169 (/rtl8168d-{1, 2}.fw)

2009-12-16 Thread Dave Witbrodt
a new bug report, or is merely providing this anecdote sufficient? HTH, Dave W. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (350, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-0git091206.desktop.vesa (SMP w/4 CPU

Bug#561309: needs firmware for module r8169 (/rtl8168d-{1, 2}.fw)

2009-12-16 Thread Dave Witbrodt
Ben Hutchings wrote: On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 11:49 -0500, Dave Witbrodt wrote: When 2.6.32-truck (AMD64 here) was released, I tried switching to that for my Debian backup kernel... but it hangs in boot, with some very nasty backtracing. It does print the warning about missing firmware

Re: Re: Debian Kernel Group Meeting

2009-10-17 Thread Dave Witbrodt
On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:02:09 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 09:49:11AM -0400, Dave Witbrodt wrote: [...] Has the kernel team decided to no longer make DEBs available for upcoming versions of kernels? Or will the 'experimental' distribution be used to make

Re: Debian Kernel Group Meeting

2009-10-16 Thread Dave Witbrodt
that your notes from the Plumber's Conference do not seem to mention the loss of 'kernel-archive' at all. Was this not discussed at all? Is 'kernel-archive' gone permanently? Sincerely, Dave W. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: unreachable: http://kernel-archive.buildserver.net/

2009-09-15 Thread Dave Witbrodt
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 09:39:59 +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: It is down after a catastrophic UPS failure. Wow... bummer. Will it be resuscitated or has it been abandoned? Dave W. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Question about custom kernels and linux-libc-dev

2009-07-24 Thread Dave Witbrodt
to be versioned dependencies, so hopefully everything has been OK all along?) Sincere thanks, Dave W. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#524876: sata_mv: frozen/hard reset on 4-port 5041 chip

2009-04-20 Thread Dave Alitz
Package: linux-image-2.6.26-2-686 Version: 2.6.26-15 Severity: important After upgrading a SuperMicro SuperServer 5013-MT server from etch to lenny I started getting numerous hard resets on all of the sata ports. The 4-port sata controller is a Marvell MV88SX5041. Looking around a bit it seems

Bug#504426: closed by Bastian Blank [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Re: Bug#504426: linux-image-2.6.26-1-xen-amd64 does not boot)

2008-11-04 Thread Dave Page
description for the Xen kernel to mention this, or for the package to depend or recommend the full Xen system? A simple description line reading If you want to run this kernel as a Xen host (dom0), look at the xen-linux-system-2.6.26-1-xen-amd64 package would help. Dave -- Dave Page [EMAIL

Bug#493479: linux-image-2.6.26-1-amd64: Update on status of this bug

2008-11-04 Thread Dave Witbrodt
Package: linux-image-2.6.26-1-amd64 Version: 2.6.26-* Followup-For: Bug #493479 After originally filing this bug report here on the Debian BTS, I performed a kernel bisection and took my findings to the LKML. About 3 weeks later, the problem had finally been correctly diagnosed: changes between

Bug#504426: linux-image-2.6.26-1-xen-amd64 does not boot

2008-11-03 Thread Dave Page
, it's what I'm using to submit this bug report ;) Dave -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF

Bug#504426: closed by Bastian Blank [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Re: Bug#504426: linux-image-2.6.26-1-xen-amd64 does not boot)

2008-11-03 Thread Dave Page
if that just told me to install a kernel documentation package. Dave -- Dave Page [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#502383: Acknowledgement (linux-image-2.6.26-1-amd64: BUG at fs/jfs/jfs_metapage.c:742 assert(mp-count))

2008-10-17 Thread Dave Kleikamp
On Thu, 2008-10-16 at 07:24 -0700, Tom Epperly wrote: When I shutdown after reporting the bug, the machine didn't shutdown smoothly. This is common after seeing a BUG() in the kernel. The trapping kernel thread terminates without cleaning up after itself. It may be holding locks that cause

Bug#502383: linux-image-2.6.26-1-amd64: BUG at fs/jfs/jfs_metapage.c:742 assert(mp-count)

2008-10-17 Thread Dave Kleikamp
On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 22:49 -0700, Tom Epperly wrote: I followed up in /var/log/syslog and found: Oct 15 21:09:12 faerun kernel: [11052.080364] BUG at fs/jfs/jfs_metapage.c:742 assert(mp-count) Oct 15 21:09:13 faerun kernel: [11052.080424] [ cut here ] Oct 15

Bug#493479: linux-image-2.6.26-1-amd64: Fix for regression coming soon

2008-08-23 Thread Dave Witbrodt
.) - If upstream does not push the fix into stable 2.6.26.X, but Debian is interested in a patch, would you folks be more interested in a patch that reverts back to 2.6.25 behavior (safer?) or a patch which applies the new fix which uses a (possibly riskier?) quirk-based approach? Dave W

Bug#493479: linux-image-2.6.26-1-amd64: Problem possibly traced to RCU-related programming error

2008-08-08 Thread Dave Witbrodt
sources, then it could lead to all sorts of other problems down the road. Thanks, Dave Witbrodt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#493479: linux-image-2.6.26-1-amd64: Found boot parameters which allow stock kernel to boot

2008-08-03 Thread Dave Witbrodt
Package: linux-image-2.6.26-1-amd64 Version: 2.6.26-1 Followup-For: Bug #493479 I worked on finding a config for 2.6.26 last night that would allow it to boot, until I got too tired to continue. As mentioned previously, the stock kernel freezes on this system early during the boot process; my

Bug#493479: linux-image-2.6.26-1-amd64: [SOLVED] Problem was HPET

2008-08-03 Thread Dave Witbrodt
Package: linux-image-2.6.26-1-amd64 Version: 2.6.26-1 Followup-For: Bug #493479 After removing all of the boot parameters for debugging as mentioned in my last message, I then began removing the parameters which disable kernel features one at time. The result was that I could remove all of the

Bug#493479: linux-image-2.6.26-1-amd64: 2.6.26-1 freezes soon after boot, a regression compared to 2.6.25-2

2008-08-02 Thread Dave Witbrodt
Package: linux-image-2.6.26-1-amd64 Version: 2.6.26-1 Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system [NB: I refer below to self-compiled kernels a bit, but this report IS against the stock kernel.] I saw that there is a push to get 2.6.26 into Lenny, so when

Bug#493479: linux-image-2.6.26-1-amd64: Correction, and list of CONFIG_* candidates for the problem

2008-08-02 Thread Dave Witbrodt
Package: linux-image-2.6.26-1-amd64 Version: 2.6.26-1 Followup-For: Bug #493479 CORRECTION: The motherboard on the machine where linux-image-2.6.26-1-amd64 refuses to boot is an ECS AMD690GM-M2, not ECS AMD790GM-M2 (a little misspelling there). The last kernel I compiled before filing the bug

Bug#493479: linux-image-2.6.26-1-amd64: Failed to identify CONFIG_* options causing boot failure

2008-08-02 Thread Dave Witbrodt
Package: linux-image-2.6.26-1-amd64 Version: 2.6.26-1 Followup-For: Bug #493479 Well, I really believed I had found a way to isolate the config option that was causing the kernel to freeze. Of the list of options I listed in my previous message, I found that only 7 could be manually configured

Bug#428895: No way to use serial console with Xen kernel

2007-06-14 Thread Dave Pifke
Package: linux-image-2.6.18-4-xen-amd64 Version: 2.6.18.dfsg.1-12etch2 It appears that the 2.6.18-4 kernel in Etch does not support 8250 serial devices. I see the following messages in dmesg when I boot up: Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled 8250_pnp:

Re: [RFT] [SPARC] Emulate cmpxchg like parisc

2007-05-26 Thread Dave Airlie
My knowledge of the DRM is weak, but as I understand it, the only time it is used is by the ioctl handlers, and not by userspace. I've added Dave Airlie to the CC list, hopefully he can enlighten us as to where else cmpxchg is used. Unless something %100 inside of the kernel will be the only

Bug#402876: [fuse-devel] FUSE not working on ARM? Hangs during stat64

2006-12-22 Thread Dave Hylands
Posting to list... Please direct further discussion on this topic to my mail on linux-kernel. Thanks. Which can be found here: http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/21/157 Excellent explanation. -- Dave Hylands Vancouver, BC, Canada http://www.DaveHylands.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Bug#363322: Missing advansys SCSI driver

2006-04-18 Thread Dave Carrigan
Package: linux-image-2.6.16-1-686 Version: 2.6.16-7 Severity: normal The advansys module (for advansys SCSI cards) is no longer part of the package. It was available in linux-image-2.6.15-1-686. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500,

Bug#349857: linux-image-2.6-sparc64-2.6.15-1-sparc64: panics on boot on v210

2006-01-25 Thread Dave Love
Package: linux-image-2.6-sparc64-2.6.15-1-sparc64 Severity: important I get the following trying to boot on a v210: ... scsi1 : sym-2.2.1 SCSI device sda: 71132959 512-byte hdwr sectors (36420 MB) SCSI device sda: drive cache: write through SCSI device sda: 71132959

Bug#348332: linux-image-2.6.15-1-sparc64: suggests non-existent package

2006-01-16 Thread Dave Love
Package: linux-image-2.6.15-1-sparc64 Version: 2.6.15-2 Severity: minor The package linux-doc-2.6.15 that is suggested doesn't exist. I assume that should be linux-manual-2.6.15. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers stable APT policy: (900, 'stable') Architecture: sparc

Bug#344664: sarge kernel package upgrade fails on vfat-based /boot

2005-12-24 Thread Dave Chinner
or hard links. Hence failing to make a backup link for the existing kernel image should not be a fatal error for installing the package. At least, not a fatal error that can't be overridden somehow, as --force-all still fails... Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Bug#317756: Framebuffer settings

2005-07-25 Thread Dave Love
Jurij Smakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: To test whether the problems you are experiencing are due to the wrong MCLK value, you can try setting it by adding a kernel boot argument video=atyfb:mclk=100 The framebuffer output is similar, just in bigger characters (fewer lines per screen).

Bug#317756: 2.6.12 testers wanted

2005-07-15 Thread Dave Love
Jurij Smakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thanks for testing. Can you try tweaking you X configuration file as described in http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-288023.html, and see if it helps in any way with the mouse problem? The only difference between the mouse section given there and mine

Bug#317756: kernel-image-2.6.11-1-sparc64: console and mouse breakage

2005-07-11 Thread Dave Love
Package: kernel-image-2.6.11-1-sparc64 Version: 2.6.11-5 Severity: normal I have this kernel running OK on a headless system, but it seems to be non-useful on the console. This is on a Blade 100 running OBP 4.15.7, in case that's relevant. The console output is messed up. The first column is

Bug#298099: please allow building AGP_INTEL on x86_64

2005-03-15 Thread Dave Jones
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 07:43:54PM +0900, Horms wrote: Thanks, I have CCed the relevant maintainers for their comment. The AGP change already went into Linus' tree, along with removal of the _MCH driver. Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#268208: still a problem with kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686-smp

2005-02-20 Thread Dave Cohrs
, but they include reports of problems with both SMP and RAID (not just XFS, even with EXT3, which I use), so I don't see that as being an option either, even if I were to put something from unstable on my system. I really hope a working kernel gets into sarge. dave [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#284535: kernel / usb bug

2004-12-06 Thread Dave Bingham
[c0105e6e] ret_from_fork+0x6/0x14 [ca9bb9cf] hub_thread+0x0/0xe4 [usbcore] [c0116fb4] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x3a [c01041e1] kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0xb Code: 0f 0b 66 05 d2 e2 25 c0 8b 6d 00 8b 45 00 8d 74 26 00 81 fd Regards, Dave Bingham

Bug#271396: Kernel help typo

2004-09-14 Thread Dave Jones
://www.chambersharrap.co.uk/chambers/chref/chref.py/main?query=programmetitle=21st Americans use program for everything, so using programme here is wrong for everyone ;-) 'program' is what I plumped for too, and thats whats currently in cpufreq-bk. Dave

2.6.3-1-k7 invalid operand errors

2004-04-01 Thread Dave Trudgian
. Similar problems have happened with kernel-image-2.4.25-1-k7, I'm now going down to kernel-image-2.4.25-1-386 to see if that helps. Definitely not heat related, bios reported temps of 41 deg C afterwards. Memory has passed 10 passes of memtest86 too. Any ideas? -- Dave Trudgian - Cornish