Bug#255149: no initrd: panic on boot

2004-06-19 Thread John Lightsey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm getting the same problem with kernel-image-2.6.6-2-k7. The tail end of the messages before the kernel panics indicate that it can't load /lib/modules/2.6.6-2-k7/modules.dep 2.6.6-1-k7 works fine, and the modules.dep file for -2-k7 is where

Re: powerpc kernel-patch 2.6.6-5 in incoming since over a month !!!

2004-06-19 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 11:01:26PM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: Hi, Sven Luther writes: Well, only 2.4.25 packages, which is why we should make a test for non 2.4 kernels or something such. 2.4 kernels don't have the the necessary mkvmlinuz magic to make it work anyway. You can

Re: Sarge TODO items

2004-06-19 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 10:03:16 +0200, Francesco P Lovergine [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I think the only serious reason to use svn is its similarity with cvs by the human interface point of view. So, using it is straightforward. Arch is quite involuted and underdocumented AFAIK. But, as always

Re: Debian kernel: various issues to discuss

2004-06-19 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 19:52:56 +0200, Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Well, until you count the many not documented subtilities, and the I use arch daily for my Debian work, and I am not sure what you are talking about. fact that the arch people claim that the tutorial is mostly

Re: Debian kernel: various issues to discuss

2004-06-19 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 01:19:49AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 19:52:56 +0200, Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Well, until you count the many not documented subtilities, and the I use arch daily for my Debian work, and I am not sure what you are talking

Re: Debian kernel: various issues to discuss

2004-06-19 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Sven Luther wrote: But again, feel free to setup the initial arch repository, and give some easy instructions on how to use it for us non-arch familiar people. John Goerzen already has an arch mirror of the kernel sources at http://arch.debian.org/arch/linux . --

Re: powerpc kernel-patch 2.6.6-5 in incoming since over a month !!!

2004-06-19 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Sven Luther writes: how would mkvmlinuz act if there were no vmlinux installed, but only a vmlinuz ? It exits with a non-zero exit status. Since the postinst comes from kernel-package, you need to sort this out with Manoj. Well, that would be a possibility. The other possibility

Re: powerpc kernel-patch 2.6.6-5 in incoming since over a month !!!

2004-06-19 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 09:41:58AM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: Hi, Sven Luther writes: how would mkvmlinuz act if there were no vmlinux installed, but only a vmlinuz ? It exits with a non-zero exit status. Which would kill dpkg, right ? Not such a good idea. Friendly, Sven Luther

Bug#255149: no initrd: panic on boot - also for 686 packages

2004-06-19 Thread Helen Faulkner
I've just got this same thing with the 2.6.6-2-686 kernel packages. The same message on failing to boot. The vmlinuz and initrd.img symlinks all look fine: vmlinuz - boot/vmlinuz-2.6.6-2-686 initrd.img - boot/initrd.img-2.6.6-2-686 I'm using ext3 with a pentium M processor running debian unstable.

Re: powerpc kernel-patch 2.6.6-5 in incoming since over a month !!!

2004-06-19 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 11:10:46AM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: Hi, Sven Luther writes: how would mkvmlinuz act if there were no vmlinux installed, but only a vmlinuz ? It exits with a non-zero exit status. Which would kill dpkg, right ? Have you actually tried this?

Re: powerpc kernel-patch 2.6.6-5 in incoming since over a month !!!

2004-06-19 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Sven Luther writes: how would mkvmlinuz act if there were no vmlinux installed, but only a vmlinuz ? It exits with a non-zero exit status. Which would kill dpkg, right ? Have you actually tried this? If not, please do so. If it does not work as expected, try again with the

Re: powerpc kernel-patch 2.6.6-5 in incoming since over a month !!!

2004-06-19 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Sven Luther writes: Please tell me what you gain by not having a depends there ? what is the benefit in _NOT_ installing it ? No cruft on the many systems where it is not needed at all. If you are really going to insist in doing it this way, i would insist that we create at least a

Re: Bug#254264: Inserting CF card causes udev/hotplug to create/remove device repeatedly

2004-06-19 Thread Marco d'Itri
reassign 254264 kernel-image-2.6.6-1-686 thanks On Jun 14, Steven Gardner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Attached is part of my /var/syslog. Please note the it just keeps repeating until I remove the card. udev does what the kernel asks it to do, so I think this is a kernel bug. -- ciao, | Marco

Bug#255174: kernel-image-2.6.6-2-686: Kernel fails to boot

2004-06-19 Thread John Lewis
Package: kernel-image-2.6.6-2-686 Version: 2.6.6-2 Severity: normal ** Please type your report below this line *** Kernel boots to point where it does the calculating module dependencies, then reports error: Module does not exist in /proc/modules/ This error is repeated for numerous modules

Bug#255175: kernel-image-2.4.26-1-686: oops under unknown circumstances (cron task?)

2004-06-19 Thread Javier Fernndez-Sanguino Pea
Package: kernel-image-2.4.26-1-686 Version: 2.4.26-2 Priority: normal I really don't know what caused this (the computer in which this was found is turned on 24h a day and I didn't see the oops, I just found it unresponsive at that time). Digging in the logs (today, now that I had time) I

Re: Bug#255180: module-init-tools: removal of modprobe.conf breaks mkinitrd

2004-06-19 Thread Marco d'Itri
reassign initrd-tools 255180 thanks On Jun 19, Henning Glawe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: after installing module-init-tools 3.1-pre2-1 mkinitrd, which is needed for the debian-prepackaged kernels, ceases to work. this is cause by the removal of modprobe.conf generation in

Re: powerpc kernel-patch 2.6.6-5 in incoming since over a month !!!

2004-06-19 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Sven Luther writes: Please tell me exactly in how far you feel that this would be so much of a hindrance compared to the benefit of having kernel-image installation work out of the box on non-pmac subarches ? mkvmlinuz serves the purpose of making some systems bootable given an

Bug#255174: kernel-image-2.6.6-2-686: it also happens with kernel-image-2.6.6-2-k7 but not with kernel-image-2.6.6-1-*

2004-06-19 Thread txemi
Package: kernel-image-2.6.6-2-686 Version: 2.6.6-2 Severity: normal Followup-For: Bug #255174 it also happens with kernel-image-2.6.6-2-k7 but not with kernel-image-2.6.6-1-686 or kernel-image-2.6.6-1-k7 I tried it on some sid machines. I will use kernel-image-2.6.6-1-* by now. -- System

Re: Bug#255180: module-init-tools: removal of modprobe.conf breaks mkinitrd

2004-06-19 Thread Jens Schmalzing
reassign module-init-tools 255180 merge 255180 254950 thanks Hi, Marco d'Itri writes: reassign initrd-tools 255180 thanks On Jun 19, Henning Glawe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: after installing module-init-tools 3.1-pre2-1 mkinitrd, which is needed for the debian-prepackaged kernels,

Processed: reassign 255180 to initrd-tools

2004-06-19 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: # Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.7.95.1 reassign 255180 initrd-tools Bug#255180: module-init-tools: removal of modprobe.conf breaks mkinitrd Bug reassigned from package `module-init-tools' to `initrd-tools'. End of

Processed: merge 2.6.6-2-* fails initrd/boot

2004-06-19 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: reassign 255149 kernel-image-2.6.6-i386,kernel-image-2.6.6-2-k7,kernel-image-2.6.6-2-686 Bug#255149: no initrd: panic on boot Bug reassigned from package `kernel-image-2.6.6-i386' to

Processed: the problem seems to be about module-init-tools

2004-06-19 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: reassign 255149 module-init-tools Bug#255149: no initrd: panic on boot Bug#255174: kernel-image-2.6.6-2-686: Kernel fails to boot Bug reassigned from package `kernel-image-2.6.6-i386,kernel-image-2.6.6-2-k7,kernel-image-2.6.6-2-686' to

Bug#255199: missing files

2004-06-19 Thread Lior Kaplan
Package: kernel-image-2.6.6-2-k7 Version: 2.6.6-2 While installing kernel-image-2.6.6-2-k7 (over kernel-image-2.6.6-1-k7) I got two error messages from cpio about missing files: /etc/modprobe.conf /lib/modules/modprobe.conf I tired to touch them in order that cpio cound access them and reinstall

Re: powerpc kernel-patch 2.6.6-5 in incoming since over a month !!!

2004-06-19 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 01:02:39PM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: Hi, Sven Luther writes: Please tell me exactly in how far you feel that this would be so much of a hindrance compared to the benefit of having kernel-image installation work out of the box on non-pmac subarches ?

Re: kernel-source-2.6.7

2004-06-19 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 01:05:08PM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: Hi, Sven Luther writes: Going to fix this then over working on dpatchified kernel-source-2.6.7 though. Am I understanding correctly that you are postponing work on kernel-source-2.6.7 in order to fix CHRP booting first?

Re: mkvmlinuz, boot-loaders and powerpc kernels.

2004-06-19 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 01:26:13PM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: Hi, Sven Luther writes: Some kind of alternative dependency on yaboot | quik | mkvmlinuz would take care of fullfilling the dependency, without allowing cruft to be installed, at least without needing yaboot and quik

Re: Sarge TODO items

2004-06-19 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Christoph Hellwig [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-06-03 12:43]: Fine with me. So let's create an alitoh project for the kernel, and a subversion repo. Anyone is already looking into this ? Ok, Martin? I wanted to ask for a debian-kernel project but I see that Sven has requested a kernel project

Re: Other kernel packages

2004-06-19 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* tbm [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-06-14 17:05]: There are some other kernel related packages that have to be taken care of: cramfs initrd-tools kernel-image-*-alpha kernel-image-*-i386 kernel-kbuild-* kernel-source-* modules-scyld-source-0.1 Jeff Bailey was interested in helping with

Processed: Re: Bug#255180: module-init-tools: removal of modprobe.conf breaks mkinitrd

2004-06-19 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: severity 255180 grave Bug#255180: module-init-tools: removal of modprobe.conf breaks mkinitrd Severity set to `grave'. reassign 255180 module-init-tools Bug#255180: module-init-tools: removal of modprobe.conf breaks mkinitrd Bug reassigned from

Re: powerpc kernel-patch 2.6.6-5 in incoming since over a month !!!

2004-06-19 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Sven Luther writes: i don't see how you are caring for anything [...] No, no, no, you don't understand. [...] you seem to make a fanatical issue out of it, [...] i haven't heard yet one single valable reason That about ends the discussion for me. Stop whining, implement a solution

Re: kernel-source-2.6.7

2004-06-19 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Sven Luther writes: it doesn't make much sense for me to have a non-working 2.6.7 package over a non-working 2.6.6 one. Well. Is the work you have done on kernel-source-2.6.7 available in some repository? If not, can you please send it to me? Regards, Jens. -- J'qbpbe, le m'en fquz

Bug#255199: missing files

2004-06-19 Thread Jens Schmalzing
tags 255199 patch thanks Hi, Lior Kaplan writes: While installing kernel-image-2.6.6-2-k7 (over kernel-image-2.6.6-1-k7) I got two error messages from cpio about missing files: /etc/modprobe.conf /lib/modules/modprobe.conf The ramdisk works nonetheless, provided the modprobe bug is fixed.

Re: Other kernel packages

2004-06-19 Thread Francesco Paolo Lovergine
On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 08:30:59PM +0200, Francesco Paolo Lovergine wrote: On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 03:13:44PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * tbm [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-06-14 17:05]: There are some other kernel related packages that have to be taken care of: cramfs

Re: Other kernel packages

2004-06-19 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 08:30:59PM +0200, Francesco Paolo Lovergine wrote: On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 03:13:44PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * tbm [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-06-14 17:05]: There are some other kernel related packages that have to be taken care of: cramfs

Bug#251861: fixed in 2.6.7-final

2004-06-19 Thread William Lee Irwin III
This is fixed in 2.6.7-final and various other fixes from the Debian sources are also included there. I'm preparing a 2.6.7-final -based package to address this. -- wli