Bug#1034648: postinst runs linux-update-symlinks before initrd exists

2023-04-24 Thread Joey Hess
Ben Hutchings wrote: > This behaviour is intentional. The expectation is that these symlinks > are used by programs that update the boot loader configuration later > on, and those will be run only after the initramfs has been generated. > What do you think will go wrong here? Ok, I am probably

Bug#1034648: postinst runs linux-update-symlinks before initrd exists

2023-04-20 Thread Joey Hess
Source: linux Version: 6.1.20-2 Severity: normal I was upgrading a slow arm board and noticed this: Setting up linux-image-6.1.0-7-armmp-lpae (6.1.20-2) ... I: /vmlinuz.old is now a symlink to boot/vmlinuz-5.18.0-4-armmp-lpae I: /initrd.img.old is now a symlink to

Bug#1030037: fsck.repair=yes is not documented

2023-01-30 Thread Joey Hess
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.142 Severity: wishlist I wanted automatic fsck for problems on the root filesystem, and it was difficult to disconver that fsck.repair=yes on the kernel cmdline is the way to configure that. initramfs-tools was made to support the same configuration used by

Bug#996962: enable CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_XR

2021-10-21 Thread Joey Hess
Package: src:linux Version: 5.10.46-4 Severity: wishlist I am currently having to use the out of tree Exar USB Serial Driver (xr_usb_serial_common) to talk to a modbus communication cable. Last year, a reimplementation of that driver finally made mainline, as CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_XR. Looking at the

Bug#908438: Info received (Bug#908438: cubietruck wifi reversion)

2018-09-28 Thread Joey Hess
Tried with a different cubietruck and it did not have this problem. Also, 4.14 failed on the cubietruck that I had been using, and I think it was the same failure I was seeing with the newer kernel there. So, I think this may be a case of somehow failing hardware on my cubietruck. Here it is

Bug#908438: cubietruck wifi reversion

2018-09-09 Thread Joey Hess
Source: linux Version: 4.17.17-1 Severity: normal On a cubietruck board, the linux-image-4.17.0-3-armmp-lpae kernel kernel fails to enable the builtin wifi: Sep 09 17:52:52 honeybee kernel: brcmfmac: brcmf_fw_alloc_request: using brcm/brcmfmac43362-sdio for chip BCM43362/1 Sep 09 17:52:52

Bug#900201: please enable iio humidity sensor Si7020

2018-05-27 Thread Joey Hess
Source: linux Version: 4.16.5-1 Severity: normal The Si7020 family of humidity and temperature sensors are available for a few dollars and easily connected to the i2c bus of an arm board. The iio subsystem has a module, config SI7020, but it is not enabled (none of the iio humidity modules are

Bug#895340: enable W1_SLAVE_DS2438

2018-04-09 Thread Joey Hess
Source: linux Severity: normal This is a fairly recent driver for a temperature and A/D sensor, useful for projects such as https://skyboo.net/2017/03/ds2438-based-1-wire-humidity-sensor/ (Also I wonder why not just enable all the W1_* modules?) -- System Information: Debian Release:

Bug#844056: hard coded mac address

2017-07-26 Thread Joey Hess
My cubietruck needs this file for wifi to work. However, the MAC address hardcoded in the file is not used. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#652459: too little, too late?

2014-09-24 Thread Joey Hess
We're starting to have to work around this bug in d-i, by eg making separate /usr a harder situation to get into when installing Debian. My calendar says 10 days until freeze start. I sincerely hope someone does something. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#727778: reversion in i915 brightness

2013-10-26 Thread Joey Hess
Package: src:linux Version: 3.11.5-1 Severity: normal Booting 3.11, the backlight is off, and the brightness control keys do nothing. I did notice that if I hit the power button, the screen manages to come back on during the shutdown process, probably after X exits. Setting

Bug#727655: Elantech touchpad not properly recognised

2013-10-24 Thread Joey Hess
Package: linux-image-3.2.0-4-686-pae Version: 3.2.51-1 Severity: normal The Acer Aspire V5-131 has an Elantech clickpad. The kernel seems to misdetect this, similar to described in #633595. The button areas at the bottom do not work, and it's not possible to click with one finger and drag with

Bug#721871: i915 backlight quirk needed for Lenovo Yoga 11s

2013-09-04 Thread Joey Hess
Package: src:linux Version: 3.10.5-1 Severity: normal The Lenovo Yoga 11s laptop boots to a black screen (backlight off) when i915 loads. This is due to the common backlight control inversion problem, and can be worked around with i915.invert_brightness=1 This should be enough information to add

Re: Plan of action for Secure Boot support

2013-08-13 Thread Joey Hess
Cyril Brulebois wrote: (Sorry, I'm new to all this) do you mean (1) the regular linux image packages are getting a signature added, and we're using those like we do today, or (2) that we'll have additional linux image packages with the signatures to be used instead of the usual linux image

Bug#711470: more motivation for adding these firmwares

2013-07-22 Thread Joey Hess
The htc_9271.fw and htc_7010.fw can be used with hostapd and some USB wifi adapters to run in access point mode. It's been hard enough to find any USB wifi that works with hostapd; now we can have a fully free stack. Another url for it: http://ryf.fsf.org/TPE-N150USB/ -- see shy jo

Re: Dropping support for the smallest armel machines

2013-06-24 Thread Joey Hess
I don't think anyone is going to greatly miss support for the nslu2. It can no longer be installed using d-i anyway. I imagine most of the deployments where it makes sense to still be using a nslu2 are ones where running an old kernel version doesn't much matter. The iop32x boxes are rather more

Re: Mount options for procfs

2012-06-13 Thread Joey Hess
Ben Hutchings wrote: Since linux version 3.2.20-1, it is possible to set a 'hidepid' mount option on procfs, which restricts the visibility of unprivileged users to see other users' processes. initscripts correctly applies this option if present in /etc/fstab. Should d-i allow procfs

Re: Moving default module/package lists out of kernel-wedge

2011-12-01 Thread Joey Hess
Ben Hutchings wrote: It's fairly obvious that the default module lists for Linux should be moved to the linux-2.6 source package. We can do that right now and use relative paths to include them in the per-architecture/flavour lists. However the #include foo-modules syntax would then be

Bug#647586: FTBFS on alpha: missing module crc32

2011-11-04 Thread Joey Hess
Michael Cree wrote: The Alpha installer has had no work done on it since Lenny I suspect. Right -- particularly linux-kernel-di-alpha-2.6 was last uploaded in 2009. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: s390 kernel-wedge failure

2011-09-27 Thread Joey Hess
Ben Hutchings wrote: The first upload of linux-2.6 using kernel-wedge failed to build on s390 because 'kernel-wedge find-dups' failed. To summarise, the duplicated modules were: Aside from dasd_mod, I don't understand these failures. (As for other architectures: so far amd64, i386, ia64

Re: [PATCH kernel-wedge 3/3] Allow configuration files to be placed in a subdirectory

2011-09-21 Thread Joey Hess
Other patches applied. Ben Hutchings wrote: In a kernel source package, which will be non-native, the kernel-wedge configuration should be placed under the debian/ directory. copy-modules, gen-control, gen-deps, install-files: Allow the configuration directory to be specified as a

Re: [PATCH kernel-wedge] Add support for building within a kernel package

2011-09-04 Thread Joey Hess
I don't want to waste your time, but there are enough changes here that a split patchset would improve reviewing. if [ $os = linux ] ; then - if [ ! -e $moddir/modules.dep ]; then - echo no $moddir/modules.dep. This file is required by kernel-wedge 2 - exit 1 +

Bug#621375: backup_initramfs=yes

2011-04-06 Thread Joey Hess
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.98.8 Severity: normal I recently suffered 2 weeks of downtime of a machine in a location that made fixing it hard, caused by a broken initramfs due to bug #621137. This highlighted to me that there are many things that can go wrong and break an initramfs when

Re: For discussion: security support strategy for the wheezy kernel

2011-02-06 Thread Joey Hess
Well, I have a few horses in this race in between testing-security, d-i, and CUT, as well as having been a Release Assistant in the past, and I think this proposal stinks from every perspective. Michael Gilbert wrote: The biggest problem I saw during the squeeze development cycle was that

Bug#610302: Fails to load non-free firmware for RT8169 (10ec:8168 rev3)

2011-01-17 Thread Joey Hess
Jan-Marek Glogowski wrote: The installer correctly detects and installs the firmware, if it is provided by the firmware-realtek (0.28) package on a VFAT USB stick. But the kernel is unable to load the rtl8168d-2.fw. I don't see how this can be anything but a bug in the firmware-realtek

Bug#608538: btrfs root installation results in initramfs busybox prompt

2011-01-03 Thread Joey Hess
I hope this can be dealt with, it seems to be the only remaining issue in getting Debian to support btrfs root filesystems. This is easily reproducible, I installed from a recent daily build netinst, put /boot on ext3 and / on btrfs and same problem on boot. The problem is that btrfs depends on

Bug#574145: confusing use of debconf for license agreement

2010-03-16 Thread Joey Hess
Package: firmware-ipw2x00 Severity: normal Tags: d-i On installation, debconf is used to display the license, as type note. When the dialog frontend is used, this means the user gets a dialog box, with a big scary license and an OK button. One would expect then, that selecting OK means one

Bug#567065: avoid mount -t unknown

2010-01-27 Thread Joey Hess
maximilian attems wrote: right that sounds good, will merge soon. Thanks. also it should no longer use the gone udev vol_id, but blkid, haven't come around to see it's invocation pattern, that should fix it also. If you have blkid on the initramfs, you can use: FSTYPE=$(blkid -o value -s

Bug#567065: avoid mount -t unknown

2010-01-26 Thread Joey Hess
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.93.4 Severity: normal Tag: patch Since fstype does not support btrfs (#548047), and since udev 150, vol_id no longer exists, get_fstype sets FSTYPE to unknown, and then the root filesystem is mounted using mount -t unknown /dev/hda2 /root. Of course, that

Bug#566056: problem with hook script with - in the name

2010-01-20 Thread Joey Hess
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.93.4 Severity: normal I was suprised that my hook script /etc/initramfs-tools/hooks/kvm-hosting-rsync was not run until I renamed it to not have dashes in the name. (The hook script consisted of a single call to rsync, FWIW.) -- Package-specific info: --

Bug#563036: fails to boot on thecus n2100

2010-01-02 Thread Joey Hess
Martin Michlmayr wrote: I just booted that kernel on my N2100 and it works fine. Can you hook up a serial coonsole to yours to see what's going on? +RST=No Transfer to factory test Mode : No Reset default set:Normal Thecus: Found PCI device Vendor ID=0x10EC Vendor0x10ec Device

Bug#563036: fails to boot on thecus n2100

2010-01-02 Thread Joey Hess
Martin Michlmayr wrote: I used the kernel from the archive. However, the oops during boot only shows up under certain conditions (having root on RAID or lvm seems to do the trick, which I don't have on my N2100). Neither do I! I do have home on LVM, could that cause it? -- see shy jo

Bug#561309: Thecus n2100, d-i and #561309

2009-12-29 Thread Joey Hess
The Thecus n2100 uses r8169 for ethernet. Per #561309, in 2.6.32, that module requests two firmware files (that are not packaged and are nonfree anyway), even when they are not needed by the actual hardware. (The n2100 doesn't need them.) In d-i, check-missing-firmware is run by ethdetect and

Bug#563036: fails to boot on thecus n2100

2009-12-29 Thread Joey Hess
Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.32-3 Severity: normal Without a serial console, all I can tell is that the root disk is accessed briefly and then the boot must fail as there is no further disk activity. I wonder if bug #561309 is really fixed. -- Package-specific info: ** Kernel log: boot

Bug#561309: Thecus n2100, d-i and #561309

2009-12-29 Thread Joey Hess
Ben Hutchings wrote: On Tue, 2009-12-29 at 23:02 -0500, Joey Hess wrote: The Thecus n2100 uses r8169 for ethernet. Per #561309, in 2.6.32, that module requests two firmware files (that are not packaged and are nonfree anyway), even when they are not needed by the actual hardware

Bug#560263: postinst crashes if current kernel has no /proc/modules

2009-12-09 Thread Joey Hess
Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.31-2 Severity: normal Setting up linux-image-2.6.31-1-amd64 (2.6.31-2) ... Running depmod. Label not found for last FIRMWARE_CHECK at /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-2.6.31-1-amd64.postinst line 792. dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.31-1-amd64 (--configure):

Bug#560266: ugly messages if /proc/modules DNE

2009-12-09 Thread Joey Hess
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.93.4 Severity: minor I have no /proc/modules because the system is running a modular kernel. These messages are all due to the firmware checker, and can be avoided safely by skipping the grep if /proc/modules DNE. r...@wren:/tmpupdate-initramfs -k all -u

Re: Removal of cramfs support

2009-12-05 Thread Joey Hess
Bastian Blank wrote: I intent to remove the cramfs support from the kernel and the cramfsprogs package. Current kernels supports squashfs, which is a far more advanced replacement. It is currently in use by the debian-installer for mips and the powerpc floppies. cramfsprogs is still used

Bug#351685: udev storm: pcmcia CF adapter device file constantly deleted, recreated

2009-08-21 Thread Joey Hess
Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: Joey, does this still persist? Dug the ancient laptop out; cannot reproduce with the 2.6.26 from 2008 that is on it. Can't tell if that's due to udev's mitigation of the kernel bug, or the kernel bug being fixed though. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description:

Bug#539140: debconf: Add explicit (Y/n) question to kernel remove safeguard

2009-08-01 Thread Joey Hess
Jari Aalto wrote: Abort kernel removal? SUGGESTION Please spell out the last question explicitly: Abort kernel removal (Y/n)? How this is displayed is a function of your debconf frontend. You seem to have chosen to use the readline frontend, and do not have

Bug#538159: CONFIG_X86_PAT=y breaks bogl-bterm, d-i

2009-07-24 Thread Joey Hess
maximilian attems wrote: On Thu, 23 Jul 2009, Joey Hess wrote: The simplest fix seems to be to turn PAT off, especially since its Kconfig mentions that it can lead to boot crash, boot hang, spontaneous reboots) or a non-working video driver. that was the case for = 2.6.29, The quote

Bug#538159: CONFIG_X86_PAT=y breaks bogl-bterm, d-i

2009-07-24 Thread Joey Hess
Users have now confirmed this bug on real hardware: It breaks d-i on a Compaq DC9600. Probably the tip of the iceberg. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#538159: CONFIG_X86_PAT=y breaks bogl-bterm, d-i

2009-07-23 Thread Joey Hess
Package: linux-2.6 Severity: normal Tags: d-i Tested on both 2.6.30 and 2.6.31-rc3, enabling PAT leads to this printk when bogl-bterm tries to mmap /dev/fb0, and the mmap fails. [ 802.000124] bterm:814 map pfn expected mapping type uncached-minus for a-b, got write-back With PAT

Bug#494363: thecus nic driver multicast issue

2008-08-11 Thread Joey Hess
maximilian attems wrote: please test on 2.6.26 image from sid. Already did, see my followup -- problem still present. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#494363: thecus nic driver multicast issue

2008-08-08 Thread Joey Hess
Package: linux-image-2.6.25-2-iop32x Version: 2.6.25-7 Severity: normal Apparently the nic driver for my thecus n2100 has a problem with multicast packets. It ignores them unless put in promisc or allmulti mode. This means that IPV6 doesn't work right by default, since ipv6 relies on multicast

Bug#494363: Acknowledgement (thecus nic driver multicast issue)

2008-08-08 Thread Joey Hess
also affects 2.6.26-1-iop32x -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#464910: Bug#485064: clock-setup: Detect if --directisa option is needed?

2008-06-12 Thread Joey Hess
# hwclock select() to /dev/rtc to wait for clock tick timed out Just FWIW, my laptop, which has had this problem with 2.6.24 since February, doesn't seem to have the problem with 2.6.25. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#350510: loads ohci-hcd; breaks resume from software suspend

2008-05-27 Thread Joey Hess
maximilian attems wrote: as there is no second reporter and kernel really quite ancient. The bug report was confirmed by someone else (using different hardware), in 2006. EspeonEefi [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#350510: loads ohci-hcd; breaks resume from software suspend

2008-05-15 Thread Joey Hess
maximilian attems wrote: Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-686 could we have an update on a recent kernel aka = 2.6.24 This will be hard for me to try to reproduce; that laptop is now being used as a diskless server that is never hibernated. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital

Re: [PATCH] tasksel: add kerneloops to the 3 desktop tasks

2008-04-29 Thread Joey Hess
kerneloops has already been present in the desktop task for a while in svn. (Which is why this bug is pending.) It would be redundant to add it to the other 3 files. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#447611: [PATCH] updated patch

2008-04-02 Thread Joey Hess
Raphael Hertzog wrote: I think the patch lacks the triggers files itself. Indeed, here's a fixed patch. -- see shy jo From a71ad25d0aeebc67835cc6a6f586e3e3593d6a65 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 15:26:52 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] use dpkg-trigger

Bug#447611: [PATCH] updated update-initramfs trigger patch

2008-04-02 Thread Joey Hess
maximilian attems wrote: funnily my lintian version spits: W: initramfs-tools: unknown-control-file triggers Yeah, already bugged lintian about this. expect upload around weekend. Nice. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#447611: [PATCH] updated patch

2008-04-01 Thread Joey Hess
tag 447611 patch thanks The attached patch is against current git, and has been tested with the trigger-enabled dpkg in experimental. This patch is ready to be applied immediately. -- see shy jo From c4a58806cb810a54cfe2b0b85c7e59d7dfd34220 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joey Hess [EMAIL

Bug#434040: thank you

2008-02-27 Thread Joey Hess
I've always wanted a system where this works: #include string.h #include apm.h But this blows up horribly: #include apm.h #include string.h I'd like to congradulate all involved maintainers in making this possible, and on avoiding doing anything on this bug for longer than I'd have imagined

Bug#464962: immediate crash on boot on TM5800

2008-02-12 Thread Joey Hess
maximilian attems wrote: on shiny fujitsu p700 lifebook, with a Crusoe processor. FWIW, I misremembered the model number. It's a not-so-shiny P2110. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#464910: FWD: time messed up since last kernel update

2008-02-12 Thread Joey Hess
Perhaps it's time to upgrade this bug to serious? - Forwarded message from Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 08:21:26 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: time messed up since last kernel update User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13

Bug#464962: immediate crash on boot on TM5800

2008-02-12 Thread Joey Hess
H. Peter Anvin wrote: Okay, the faulting instruction is the following: c0383360: 0f 1f 40 00 nopl 0x0(%eax) The Crusoe code morphing software apparently doesn't recognize these long noops, and (presumably) the rest of the hinting NOOP group. gcc didn't use to

Bug#464962: immediate crash on boot on TM5800

2008-02-12 Thread Joey Hess
H. Peter Anvin wrote: maximilian attems wrote: On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 12:32:27PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: INT 6 is #UD, undefined instruction. If you could send me a copy of your vmlinux file (not bzImage), it would speed things up. cp -l

Bug#464962: immediate crash on boot on TM5800

2008-02-12 Thread Joey Hess
maximilian attems wrote: thanks for quick feedback, have prebuild 2.6.25-rc1-git2 (they contain the security fix, but don't seem to suspend here) anyway please test for boot - http://charm.itp.tuwien.ac.at/~mattems/2.6.25-rc1-git2/ Still fails the same. if those again don't boot please file

Bug#464910: another report of this bug

2008-02-11 Thread Joey Hess
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2008/02/msg01213.html -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#464962: immediate crash on boot on TM5800

2008-02-10 Thread Joey Hess
maximilian attems wrote: i haven't yet compiled latest git21 (will do later today), in the menatime i have i386 snapshots of git15, can you try there the -686 http://charm.itp.tuwien.ac.at/~mattems/git15/ if upstream fixed this bug inbetween? Nope, still fails. -- see shy jo signature.asc

Bug#464958: too large to fit in flash on the nslu2

2008-02-10 Thread Joey Hess
Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-02-09 21:14]: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1337692 Feb 7 14:04 vmlinuz-2.6.24-1-ixp4xx The Kernel mtd block device on the nslu2 is 1310720 bytes. Are you sure about this? I'm pretty sure the official Debian images use 1441792

Bug#464958: too large to fit in flash on the nslu2

2008-02-10 Thread Joey Hess
Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-02-10 14:15]: Think I should try to flash the new kernel via upslug? Or flash a d-i image and then mount the disk and write the kernel to flash. Ok, I have a fixed partition size now, and of course it fits. mtd3: 0016

Bug#464910: hwclock doesn't work with this kernel

2008-02-09 Thread Joey Hess
Package: linux-image-2.6.24-1-686 Version: 2.6.24-3 Severity: normal [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/joeyhwclock --show --debug hwclock from util-linux-ng 2.13.1 Using /dev interface to clock. Last drift adjustment done at 1202584540 seconds after 1969 Last calibration done at 1202584540 seconds after

Bug#464958: too large to fit in flash on the nslu2

2008-02-09 Thread Joey Hess
Package: linux-image-2.6.24-1-ixp4xx Version: 2.6.24-3 Severity: serious Once again this image has gotten too large to fit in flash on the nslu2. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1265484 Nov 13 04:56 vmlinuz-2.6.22-3-ixp4xx -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1337692 Feb 7 14:04 vmlinuz-2.6.24-1-ixp4xx The Kernel

Bug#464962: immediate crash on boot on TM5800

2008-02-09 Thread Joey Hess
Package: linux-image-2.6.24-1-686 Version: 2.6.24-3 Severity: important As soon as the kernel is booted from grub, before it prints any normal messages, it crashes as follows: BUG: Int 6: CR2 EDI ESI 1000 EBP 0020 ESP c0373f54 EBX c03e5140 EDX

Bug#464962: -486 kernel ok

2008-02-09 Thread Joey Hess
The 486 build of the same kernel boots ok. Is something going on with the 686 build that might make it not work with crusoe processors? -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#464018: /sys/class/power_supply/CMB1 reports nonsense values for charge_now, voltage_now

2008-02-04 Thread Joey Hess
Package: linux-image-2.6.24-1-686 Version: 2.6.24-2 Severity: normal Ever since I resumed my laptop from sleep this morning, /sys/class/power_supply/CMB1 has had nonsensical values for *_now: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/sys/class/power_supply/CMB1cat charge_now 0 [EMAIL

Re: Beta1 missing decisions and possible timeline

2008-02-01 Thread Joey Hess
Otavio Salvador wrote: We have 2.6.22 as a safe bed on lenny now and their udebs are there too however since EtchAndHalf intends to release with 2.6.24 and it has been uploaded to sid already I'm considering a better option to us to release with it. linux-2.6 has been built

Bug#447611: update-initramfs triggerisation

2007-10-22 Thread Joey Hess
maximilian attems wrote: no i-t uses cdbs, please add to debian/initramfs-tools.install but maybe i misread and there is no cdbs support for that yet?? More simply, debhelper supports it as of version 5.0.59. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#447611: update-initramfs triggerisation

2007-10-22 Thread Joey Hess
Ian Jackson wrote: Content-Description: message body text + test x$DPKG_MAINTSCRIPT_PACKAGE != x \ I take it that this is a magic flag variable set by dpkg when running a postinst? J/C. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#426395: patch

2007-06-05 Thread Joey Hess
@@ +initramfs-tools (0.89) UNRELEASED; urgency=low + + * Include libgcc_s.so.1 on arm since glibc always tries to load it on that +architecture. Closes: #426395 + + -- Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue, 05 Jun 2007 16:57:00 -0400 + initramfs-tools (0.88) unstable; urgency=low [ maximilian

Bug#426591: ide-cs segfaults insmod on load

2007-05-29 Thread Joey Hess
Package: linux-image-2.6.21-1-686 Version: 2.6.21-3 Severity: normal [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/joeyinsmod /lib/modules/2.6.21-1-686/kernel/drivers/ide/legacy/ide-cs.ko zsh: segmentation fault insmod /lib/modules/2.6.21-1-686/kernel/drivers/ide/legacy/ide-cs.ko I can reproduce this on multiple

Bug#426395: libc dlopening libgcc on arm

2007-05-28 Thread Joey Hess
Just spent half an hour since my slug wouldn't boot and I had to reflash an old initramfs. This bug should be fixed ASAP before it breaks a lot of systems. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/initramfsmkinitramfs -o out -k Working files in /root/tmp/mkinitramfs_tj3082 and overlay in

Bug#381104: not limited only to qemu and slow machines

2007-05-08 Thread Joey Hess
My laptop is fairly fast, but I can still reproduce this bug easily enough, by booting it with a DVD in the drive. When the initramfs first runs udev to prior to mounting the root filesystem, it scans all drives including the DVD drive, this involves spinning up the DVD, and my laptop's DVD drive

Bug#422920: usplash is started, but not stopped

2007-05-08 Thread Joey Hess
Package: usplash Version: 0.4-43-2 Severity: important The initramfs-tools script starts usplash unless the kernel is booted with nosplash, but the init script inconsistently stops it only if the kernel is booted with splash. Therefore, if the kernel is booted with neither parameter, usplash is

Bug#422924: incomplete man page

2007-05-08 Thread Joey Hess
Package: usplash Version: 0.4-43-2 Severity: normal The usplash man page fails to document at least -v, -x, and -y. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.20-1-686

Re: arm FTBFS for 2.6.20-2

2007-04-20 Thread Joey Hess
Gordon Farquharson wrote: I uploaded a patch to fix the FTBFS on arm for 2.6.20-2. Currently, the kernel includes several modules that do not build on ARM. The first set were marked as broken in patches/bugfix/arm/disable-broken-config-options.patch. This patch marks two more modules as

Bug#419458: ata_piix and piix claim same pci ids

2007-04-15 Thread Joey Hess
Package: linux-image-2.6.20-1-686 Version: 2.6.20-1 Severity: grave Upon upgrading to this kernel, about 1/3rd of the time when I boot, the internal drive of my laptop becomes /dev/sda. The rest of the time, it remains /dev/hda. This seems to happen because both ata_piix and piix claim the same

Bug#410853: linux-2.6: please add support for armel architecture

2007-02-24 Thread Joey Hess
Martin Michlmayr wrote: I'll add armel support to SVN trunk in the next few weeks based on your patches (thanks). 2.6.18 is frozen for etch so I'm not sure it makes sense to add it at this point (although it probably also wouldn't break anything). Would it greatly help to have this in the

Bug#410853: linux-2.6: please add support for armel architecture

2007-02-13 Thread Joey Hess
Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.18.dfsg.1-10 Severity: normal Tags: patch User: debian-arm@lists.debian.org Usertags: eabi The armel architecture is a new port of arm built with an incompatible abi. To generate kernel images for armel, I've based things on the existing arm setup, with these

Bug#410853: Softfloat on ARM?

2007-02-13 Thread Joey Hess
Aurelien Jarno wrote: Nice work. I was working on a patch, but you have been faster than me! Thanks for your work. Would it be possible to enable the versatile flavour on armel? It is disabled on arm due to limited build daemon ressources. But it seems this is not the case on armel. The

Re: Solving the linux-2.6 firmware issue

2007-01-05 Thread Joey Hess
Frederik Schueler wrote: Does this create any trouble, beside the package having to go through the NEW queue? If it's only a renaming of the source package, and not a change to the form of the binary package names, then I don't see any problem from a d-i or debian-cd POV. -- see shy jo

Bug#398962: [2.6.18] Platform devices incorrectly provide $MODALIAS?

2006-11-27 Thread Joey Hess
Frans Pop wrote: He has suggested working around this by excluding loading drivers for platform devices in udev. However, Sven Luther noted that e.g. the Pegasos marvell gigabit ethernet port is a platform device for which the driver should be loaded. udev 0.103-1 works around the problem

Bug#398962: ircgate

2006-11-22 Thread Joey Hess
Md joeyh: I remember talking about #398962 with waldi, IIRC platform devices in recent kernels provide $MODALIAS while they should not. so udev will always try loading again the driver after it has been loaded Md I suppose I could add a workaround in udev since I do not know about any platform

Bug#398962: i82365 driver behaves very badly in vmware

2006-11-16 Thread Joey Hess
Package: linux-image-2.6.18-2-486 Version: 2.6.18-5 Severity: important Tags: d-i Testing d-i with a 2.6.18 kernel in vmware, pcmciautils's init script doesn't see any pcmcia bridge, so it falls back to trying to load i82365. The modprobe of this module seems to hang for some time, as does a

Bug#398962: i82365 driver behaves very badly in vmware

2006-11-16 Thread Joey Hess
Joey Hess wrote: I doubt that this problem is specific to either vmware or the d-i environment, probably any system w/o pcmcia, that tries to load the module, whether by pcmciautuls or manually, will see this behavior. I also see it in qemu. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description

Bug#396388: should allow hooks to abort build

2006-10-31 Thread Joey Hess
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.84 Severity: normal mkinitramfs is not a set -x script, and so when call_scripts runs a hook script, any error is ignored. In some cases, a hook script needs to abort the initramfs build. For example, then nslu2-tools hook script can detect issues, like a

Bug#384811: seems to want a /dev/.initramfs that DNE

2006-08-26 Thread Joey Hess
Package: usplash Version: 0.3e Severity: normal After installing usplash, when I reboot each lsb output line is followed by an error message: chdir: no such file or directory I do not get any kind of graphical display, just lots of copies of that error message. I get the same error several

Bug#384812: /etc/lsb-base-logging.sh contains ubuntuism

2006-08-26 Thread Joey Hess
Package: usplash Version: 0.3e Severity: minor # Default init script logging functions suitable for Ubuntu. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-13 Thread Joey Hess
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: ramdisk package list has no support for per-flavour module selection, and you have to end up with stuff like the netboot64 list, which has as sole usage to add the ibm power hypervisor and virtualization modules, all an ugly mess. Something to improve. No

Bug#376926: new kernel is too large for nslu2

2006-07-06 Thread Joey Hess
Bastian Blank wrote: On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 06:53:35PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: I tried with 2.6.17 and it's ok; the size reductions made in this version bring it back down to being small enough (although it's close; see below). I hope a new version of the 2.6.16 kernel can

Bug#376926: new kernel is too large for nslu2

2006-07-05 Thread Joey Hess
Package: linux-image-2.6.16-2-nslu2 Severity: normal Tags: d-i Severity: serious util/arm/nslu2/slugimage -p -k ./dest/nslu2/netboot/vmlinuz-2.6.16-2-nslu2 -r ./dest/nslu2/netboot/initrd.gz -o dest/nslu2/netboot/di-nslu2.bin padBytes error: data (1057236) is longer than total_len (1048576) at

Bug#376926: new kernel is too large for nslu2

2006-07-05 Thread Joey Hess
Bastian Blank wrote: tags 376926 pending severity 376926 important thanks On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 02:12:27PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: util/arm/nslu2/slugimage -p -k ./dest/nslu2/netboot/vmlinuz-2.6.16-2-nslu2 -r ./dest/nslu2/netboot/initrd.gz -o dest/nslu2/netboot/di-nslu2.bin padBytes

Bug#376926: new kernel is too large for nslu2

2006-07-05 Thread Joey Hess
I tried with 2.6.17 and it's ok; the size reductions made in this version bring it back down to being small enough (although it's close; see below). I hope a new version of the 2.6.16 kernel can be released with those same changes (I understand that one was turning off selinux support for nslu2).

Bug#376771: kernel-image-2.4-sparc32 in unstable is not installable

2006-07-04 Thread Joey Hess
Package: kernel-image-2.4.27-2-sparc32, ftp.debian.org Severity: grave Tags: d-i It's impossible to do sparc32 installs, and has been for months, because: kernel-image-2.4-sparc32: Depends: kernel-image-2.4.27-3-sparc32 but it is not installable [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~madison

Bug#376174: linux-kbuild-2.6.17 was rejected..

2006-06-30 Thread Joey Hess
The package was rejected on June 26th with the reason: as requested Since this leaves linux-headers-2.6.17-1-686 uninstallable, I'm upgrading this bug severity to serious. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Scheduling 2.6.17-1

2006-06-19 Thread Joey Hess
Bastian Blank wrote: On Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 04:10:30PM -0600, dann frazier wrote: The only technical issue is getting the meta packages to play well. I think rough consensus was to leave the metapackages as-is in linux-2.6.16 and either 1) drop meta packages from linux-2.6 = 2.6.17 or 2)

Re: Scheduling 2.6.17-1

2006-06-19 Thread Joey Hess
Joey Hess wrote: Bastian Blank wrote: On Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 04:10:30PM -0600, dann frazier wrote: The only technical issue is getting the meta packages to play well. I think rough consensus was to leave the metapackages as-is in linux-2.6.16 and either 1) drop meta packages from

Re: Scheduling 2.6.17-1

2006-06-18 Thread Joey Hess
Frederik Schueler wrote: Linux 2.6.17 has been released today, and I would like to upload it to unstable tomorrow (Monday 19.06). I take it that the idea of using 2.6.16.x for etch has been dropped? -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

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