Bug#903838: Unable to mount ext4 filesystem with meta_bg flag

2018-07-17 Thread Ben Hutchings
unt a filesystems affected by this bug as read-only and then remount it read-write. In this case the consistency checks do not prevent mounting. (This is probably a bug in itself!) Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse. From: Theodore Ts&#

Contact for Martin Suszczynski

2018-07-17 Thread Ben Hutchings
Is Martin Suszczynski (smartin-guest on Salsa) subscribed to this list, or does anyone have a contact address I can use? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#903934: regression: 3.16.57-2 fails to boot libvirt guests on Xeon E3-1225

2018-07-16 Thread Ben Hutchings
either case, but it may help to track down the bug. I originally tested on a desktop Sandy Bridge system with the updated microcode installed.) Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#903679: Processed: severity of 903679 is grave

2018-07-16 Thread Ben Hutchings
drm/drm_vblank.c:1073 > drm_wait_one_vblank+0x16e/0x180 [drm] > Severity set to 'grave' from 'normal' > > thanks This is not a grave bug. It might make the package unusable for you, but it does not make the package unusable in general. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings The program is ab

Bug#903800: linux-image-4.9.0-7-amd64: general protection fault / kernel panic at boot

2018-07-14 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2018-07-15 at 02:27 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > Package: src:linux > Version: 4.9.110-1 > Severity: critical > Justification: breaks the whole system > > After upgrade to Debian 9.5, I get a kernel panic with 4.9.0-7-amd64: [...] Are you running it on Xen? Ben.

Uploading linux (4.17.6-1)

2018-07-10 Thread Ben Hutchings
e ABI changes This might require an ABI bump, but I think it's avoidable. In any case, it will require a trip through NEW to add the linux-bootwrapper package. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings The world is coming to an end. Please log off. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Bug#903122: debian-installer-9-netboot-amd64: Please add char/virtio_console module (paravirtualized serial) to netinst

2018-07-09 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, 2018-07-10 at 02:32 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Control: reassign -1 src:linux > Control: tag -1 patch > > Ben Hutchings (2018-07-09): > > I would say virtio-modules. All the virtio class drivers depend on > > virtio and virtio_ring, which means that

Re: Bug#903122: debian-installer-9-netboot-amd64: Please add char/virtio_console module (paravirtualized serial) to netinst

2018-07-09 Thread Ben Hutchings
I would say virtio-modules. All the virtio class drivers depend on virtio and virtio_ring, which means that adding them to any other package would require that package to depend on virtio-modules. (The Xen-specific drivers don't have this issue only because xenbus unfortunately has to b

Bug#903096: Cross-building for powerpc, powerpcspe, ppc64 fails

2018-07-05 Thread Ben Hutchings
Package: src:linux Version: 4.17.3-1 Severity: normal Several powerpc platforms require 'wrapper' tools to post-process the kernel image for use with the platform's boot loader. For historical reasons the source for these is included in the kernel tree and we include the tools in linux-image pack

Bug#902229: reassign rather than close?

2018-07-04 Thread Ben Hutchings
but it sure requires a fix. > > So shouldn't this bug be reassigned rather than closed? Because the bug was already fixed in timidity version 2.14.0-4. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Every program is either trivial or else contains at least one bug signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#902939: Retry linux 4.17.3-1 build on s390x

2018-07-03 Thread Ben Hutchings
Package: release.debian.org Severity: normal The build on s390x was aborted—the log shows: E: ABORT: Received TERM signal (requesting cleanup and shutdown) This doesn't seem to be a real build failure, so please retry it: gb linux_4.17.3-1 . s390x . Ben. -- System Information: Debian Rele

Bug#869939: [Hyper-V] Feature request: pick up PTP Hyper-V timesync source from upstream 4.12

2018-07-02 Thread Ben Hutchings
tested backport of this. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Make three consecutive correct guesses and you will be considered an expert. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Uploading linux (4.17.3-1)

2018-07-01 Thread Ben Hutchings
I intend to upload linux version 4.17.3-1 to unstable later today (Monday). This is a new stable upstream version which means an ABI bump. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Make three consecutive correct guesses and you will be considered an expert. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed

Bug#866122: slapd-mtread crash on ppc64{,el} in stretch/sid

2018-06-30 Thread Ben Hutchings
errenschmidt Date: Wed Aug 16 16:01:14 2017 +1000 powerpc: Fix VSX enabling/flushing to also test MSR_FP and MSR_VEC Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Q. Which is the greater problem in the world today, ignorance or apathy? A. I don't know and I couldn't care less. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#878274: linux-image-4.9.0-3-powerpc64le: Kernel hangs

2018-06-30 Thread Ben Hutchings
in the Mellanox network drivers you were using, which are not part of this package. But the network hang might be a symptom of an earlier failure. Are you able to use the in-tree drivers for this hardware? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Q. Which is the greater problem in the world today, ignorance o

Bug#883294: linux-image-4.13.0-1-amd64: Kernel panic prevents boot: regression (apic)

2018-06-30 Thread Ben Hutchings
> - Instead of not using IO-APIC completly, could you try to boot with > kernel parameter "no_timer_check" ? > > Does it help ? -- Ben Hutchings Q. Which is the greater problem in the world today, ignorance or apathy? A. I don't know and I couldn't care les

Re: linux wrongly treated as passing autopkgtests

2018-06-29 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2018-06-29 at 23:21 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > Looking at > <https://ci.debian.net/data/autopkgtest/testing/amd64/l/linux/225215/log.gz>. > > I see the result: > > selftestsSKIP Test requires machine-level isolation but > te

linux wrongly treated as passing autopkgtests

2018-06-29 Thread Ben Hutchings
gation purposes. That's really not right - if a package's tests can't be run, I think this should be treated the same as a package missing tests. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Sturgeon's Law: Ninety percent of everything is crap. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: linux/unstable failing to build on mips

2018-06-29 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2018-06-29 at 23:27 +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > On 2018-06-29 21:29, Ben Hutchings wrote: [...] > > Has there been any attempt to diagnose the hang? If so, does it seem > > to be due to memory exhaustion and extreme swapping, or a software bug, > > or some other

Re: Arch qualification for buster: call for DSA, Security, toolchain concerns

2018-06-29 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2018-06-29 at 22:33 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Fri, 2018-06-29 at 22:31 +0200, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote: > > Niels Thykier wrote: > > > If the issues and concerns from you or your team are not up to date, > > > then please follow up to this email (keepi

Re: Arch qualification for buster: call for DSA, Security, toolchain concerns

2018-06-29 Thread Ben Hutchings
currently tenable to have a release architecture without a kernel. We still don't have a way to interactively install multiarch amd64/i386 systems. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Sturgeon's Law: Ninety percent of everything is crap. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

linux/unstable failing to build on mips

2018-06-29 Thread Ben Hutchings
hese build hosts? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Sturgeon's Law: Ninety percent of everything is crap. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#902661: linux-image-4.16.0-2-amd64: kernel BUG at /build/linux-uwVqDp/linux-4.16.16/mm/usercopy.c:100!

2018-06-29 Thread Ben Hutchings
iver is in version 390.67-1 [...] And the bug should have been reported against that. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Sturgeon's Law: Ninety percent of everything is crap. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#902544: linux-image-4.16.0-2-amd64: Kernel installation fails when /boot is FAT partition

2018-06-28 Thread Ben Hutchings
reason, Debian does not support /boot being on FAT or similarly limited filesystems, and the conventional location for mounting the EFI boot partition is /boot/efi. (Certain Debian derivatives do support your configuration by not having any packages that install files in /boot.) Ben. -- Ben Hutching

Bug#901492: Bug#901134: RFS: anbox-modules/0.0~git20180608-1 [ITP]

2018-06-22 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2018-06-20 at 16:04 +0800, Shengjing Zhu wrote: > Hi Ben, > > On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 10:46 AM Shengjing Zhu wrote: > > > > On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 01:09:39AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > I agree, I don't think it makes much sense to build these O

Bug#901932: linux-image-4.16.0-2-amd64: Blank screen after update kernel 4.16.16

2018-06-20 Thread Ben Hutchings
] You are using nvidia drivers which are not part of this package. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Horngren's Observation: Among economists, the real world is often a special case. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Bug#865153: reportbug: please include kernel taint flags

2018-06-19 Thread Ben Hutchings
or renumbered (although one flag was renamed to be more general). So I think that this is quite a stable interface. For any new and unknown flag, you could report it by number e.g. print 8393216 (bits 9, 12, 23 set) as "W O [23]". Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Klipstein's 4th Law of Prototyping and Production: A fail-safe circuit will destroy others. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#901420: ksoftirqd/0: page allocation failure: order:1, mode:0x2284020(GFP_ATOMIC|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOTRACK)

2018-06-13 Thread Ben Hutchings
pages where it previously fit into 1. You might be able to reduce the likelihood of this error by increasing the vm.min_free_kbytes sysctl. Or by running fewer services. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere. - Anne Morrow Lindberg signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#901420: ksoftirqd/0: page allocation failure: order:1, mode:0x2284020(GFP_ATOMIC|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOTRACK)

2018-06-12 Thread Ben Hutchings
S-209 [...] Only 256 MB RAM. (That big swap partition isn't going to help much.) What applications are you running? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere. - Anne Morrow Lindberg signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#900581: linux: Enable Buster kernel features for newer ARM64 servers.

2018-06-04 Thread Ben Hutchings
> > > Architecture: arm64 (aarch64) > > > > > > Kernel: Linux 4.16.12 (SMP w/224 CPU cores) > > > > Cheeky. I take that means Debian kernel works well on you plaform. > > Seems to be working good with the kernel config updates. > -- Ben Hutchings Larkinson's Law: All laws are basically false. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#900349: linux-image-4.9.0-6-amd64 does not support RAID controller (530-4i Flex) of Lenovo ThinkSystem SN550 servers

2018-05-29 Thread Ben Hutchings
, present > in kernel versions 4.11 and newer. [...] Is it sufficient to apply that single commit? I'm attaching a slightly modified version that applies to stretch. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Anthony's Law of Force: Don't force it, get a larger hammer. From: Sasikumar Chandr

Bug#878829: initramfs-tools: system freezes at boot with MODULES=dep

2018-05-28 Thread Ben Hutchings
least this is needed on the Fujitsu Lifebook U757... maybe it > should be generally added. Right, this is like bug #795839 but for the MODULES=dep case. It seems like we should add this dependency to hidden_dep_add_modules. (Although i8042 is usually built-in on x86, so we would also ne

Bug#900031: linux-image-4.9.0-6-amd64: task blocked for more than 120 seconds

2018-05-25 Thread Ben Hutchings
W O > 4.9.0-6-amd64 #1 Debian 4.9.88-1+deb9u1 [...] This indicates that the kernel logged an earlier WARNING message. All the other messages are likely to be symptoms of the same problem, and we need that WARNING message (all the way down to the 'cut here' line) to have some

Bug#898021: linux-image-4.16.0-1-amd64: kernel 4.16 infinite wait after dm login on ivy bridge and bay trail

2018-05-20 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2018-05-17 at 18:22 +0200, Holger Schröder wrote: > Any news to fix this behavior? > > > Greetings... The bug causing (at least some) problems with starting GUIs is #898088; that's not a kernel bug. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Horngren's Observation:

Bug#899027: Calling sendfile(2) on sparse files on tmpfs allocates space for them

2018-05-20 Thread Ben Hutchings
Control: tag -1 upstream Please report this upstream. I would suggest sending to Alexander Viro and . Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Horngren's Observation: Among economists, the real world is often a special case. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#898825: linux-image-4.16.0-1-amd64: KMS/graphics not working on Lenovo P50 with 4.16

2018-05-20 Thread Ben Hutchings
r() This is included in stable update 4.16.9. You can test it now by applying the attached patch, following the instructions at: https://kernel-handbook.debian.net/ch-common-tasks.html#s-common-official Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Horngren's Observation: Among economists, the real

Bug#898825: linux-image-4.16.0-1-amd64: KMS/graphics not working on Lenovo P50 with 4.16

2018-05-20 Thread Ben Hutchings
u should be able to work around these by moving the pointing device for a few seconds. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Horngren's Observation: Among economists, the real world is often a special case. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#898778: hooks/btrfs fails

2018-05-20 Thread Ben Hutchings
share/initramfs-tools/hooks/btrfs btrfs-progs: /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/btrfs Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Horngren's Observation: Among economists, the real world is often a special case. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Updating x86 microcode in stable

2018-05-16 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2018-05-16 at 14:57 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Tue, 15 May 2018, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > I notice that amd64-microcode and intel-microcode haven't been updated > > in stable this year. (Indeed, amd64-microcode hasn't been updated at > >

Updating x86 microcode in stable

2018-05-14 Thread Ben Hutchings
porting these changes to jessie, so microcode updates would be useful there too. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Unix is many things to many people, but it's never been everything to anybody. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [linux-stable-3.16.y] tun: allow positive return values on dev_get_valid_name() call

2018-05-14 Thread Ben Hutchings
> [2] > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=5c25f65fd1e42685f7ccd80e0621829c105785d9 > [3] > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=0ad646c81b2182f7fa67ec0c8c825e0ee165696d > [4] https://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/m

Re: Fixing Linux getrandom() in stable

2018-05-13 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2018-05-13 at 23:48 +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Wed, May 09, 2018 at 11:46:00PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: [...] > > # Options for a new fix > > > > It is unlikely that any further fix will be forthcoming on the kernel > > side, so I believe that we need to

Bug#898446: Please reconsider enabling the user namespaces by default

2018-05-13 Thread Ben Hutchings
Control: tag -1 - moreinfo On Sun, 2018-05-13 at 19:19 +0200, Frederik Himpe wrote: > On Sun, 13 May 2018 00:33:02 +0100 Ben Hutchings > wrote: > > Control: tag -1 moreinfo > > > > On Fri, 2018-05-11 at 20:44 +0200, Laurent Bigonville wrote: > > > Sour

Re: Fixing Linux getrandom() in stable

2018-05-13 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2018-05-13 at 11:27 +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > On Wed, 2018-05-09 at 23:46 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > It is unlikely that any further fix will be forthcoming on the kernel > > side, so I believe that we need to do one of: > > > > 1. Add entrop

Bug#898525: linux: add MIPS CI20 support

2018-05-12 Thread Ben Hutchings
log, including "Closes: #nn" for the relevant bug number. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere. - Anne Morrow Lindberg signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#898446: Please reconsider enabling the user namespaces by default

2018-05-12 Thread Ben Hutchings
nothing else. > > Is it a possibility to reenable these for buster? User namespaces *are* enabled - but by default, they can only be created by root. It is still possible to change that with a sysctl. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.

Bug#897802: linux: ftbfs with GCC-8

2018-05-09 Thread Ben Hutchings
3: error: passing argument 1 to restrict-qualified parameter aliases with argument 5 [-Werror=restrict] snprintf(buf, buflen, "INTERNAL ERROR: strerror_r(%d, %p, %zd)=%d", errnum, buf, buflen, err); ^~~~ cc1: all warnings being treated as errors These seem to be genuine bugs. Ben.

Fixing Linux getrandom() in stable

2018-05-09 Thread Ben Hutchings
from the release team and the systemd maintainers on these options. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings The obvious mathematical breakthrough [to break modern encryption] would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers. - B

Bug#884601: Raspberry pi 3 and 2 hang at boot with kernel 4.14

2018-05-09 Thread Ben Hutchings
ly recommend using the arm64 kernel.) Ben. > I am planning to put out a guide for 32-bit and 64-bit how to install > Debian desktop on Raspberry, but I have another Debian bug 897925 > which means web browsers do not work for 32-bit. -- Ben Hutchings The obvious mathematical breakt

Bug#897631: [Fwd: Re: Kernel update breaks GDM]

2018-05-07 Thread Ben Hutchings
Forwarded Message From: silvio.s...@gmail.com To: Ben Hutchings Subject: Re: Kernel update breaks GDM Date: Tue, 08 May 2018 01:07:55 +0200 Message-Id: <1525734475.1800.1.camel@localhost> > Control: tag -1 moreinfo > > On Thu, 03 May 2018 18:59:36 +0200 silvio

Bug#897572: urandom hang in early boot

2018-05-07 Thread Ben Hutchings
ow reads from /dev/urandom can end up blocking. (For the time being I've concentrated on fixing stretch, so I haven't done substantial testing in unstable.) Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Never attribute to conspiracy what can adequately be explained by stupidity. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#898100: linux-image-3.16.0-6-amd64: SCTP IPv4/v6 mixed mode socket doesn't return peer adresses anymore (with sctp_getpaddrs())

2018-05-07 Thread Ben Hutchings
know if i should add a separate bug report ? [...] No need; the bug tracking system can handle multiple versions. It looks like this was fixed upstream by: commit 9302d7bb0c5cd46be5706859301f18c137b2439f Author: Jason Gunthorpe Date: Tue May 26 17:30:17 2015 -0600 sctp: Fix mangled IPv4 a

Bug#898088: arc4random_buf() may block for a long time

2018-05-06 Thread Ben Hutchings
Source: libbsd Version: 0.8.7-1 Severity: serious Tags: upstream The manual page for arc4random_buf() says "High quality 32-bit pseudo-random numbers are generated very quickly." This promise is false, and it can never be true in general! On recent Linux kernel versions arc4random_buf() uses the

Bug#897631: Kernel update breaks GDM

2018-05-06 Thread Ben Hutchings
for a few seconds? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans. - John Lennon signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#897572: linux-image-4.16.0-1-amd64 breaks plymouth LUKS prompt

2018-05-06 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2018-05-06 at 17:22 +0200, Laurent Bigonville wrote: > On Sat, 05 May 2018 20:01:45 +0100 Ben Hutchings > wrote: > > On Fri, 2018-05-04 at 12:20 +1200, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: > > > On 04/05/18 11:52, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: > > > > - Pressing

Bug#898067: Division by zero in microcode loader when booting on EC2 c3.large/r3.large

2018-05-06 Thread Ben Hutchings
Package: src:linux Version: 3.16.56-1 Severity: important Tags: upstream fixed-upstream patch The following crash at boot was reported to me by someone who has had trouble submitting it using reportbug: [0.819406] divide error: [#1] SMP [0.821156] Modules linked in: [0.822474] CP

Bug#897572: linux-image-4.16.0-1-amd64 breaks plymouth LUKS prompt

2018-05-05 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2018-05-06 at 12:33 +1200, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: > On 06/05/18 07:01, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > I wonder if this is related to the recent RNG changes. It seems that > > many programs have started using blocking RNG functions like > > getentropy(), and now th

Bug#897572: linux-image-4.16.0-1-amd64 breaks plymouth LUKS prompt

2018-05-05 Thread Ben Hutchings
e conservative in its initial entropy estimation they can block for a long time. Keyboard or mouse input adds entropy. At a guess, plymouth is starting the X server and the X server wants random bits for MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE authentication. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings W

Bug#897967: linux-image-4.9.0-6-amd64: Kernel 4.9.0-6-amd64 boot failed

2018-05-05 Thread Ben Hutchings
pecific info: > ** Kernel log: boot messages should be attached [...] You forgot to fill in this information. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. - Albert Camus signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#897893: Strange kernel panics on linux-image-4.9.0-6-amd64 with mlx4_en driver

2018-05-04 Thread Ben Hutchings
r > GRO. Also I see list_add double add => list_del corruption. Can I do > anything to get more detailed logs? What additional information do > you need for better problem diagnostics? The WARNING messages show that there are out-of-tree modules (i.e. not part of the kernel package) lo

Bug#897163: Remove CONFIG_SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYS="debian/certs/b...@debian.org.cert.pem"

2018-04-29 Thread Ben Hutchings
ificate to replace it with, which should happen soon. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings [W]e found...that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought. I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in

Uploading linux (4.16.5-1)

2018-04-27 Thread Ben Hutchings
. * [arm64] Enable features to support Pinebook and other A64 systems: * [arm64] Add patch enabling simplefb LCD on A64. * [hppa] Switch to self-decompressing kernel to save disk space in /boot * [amd64] enable AMD 10GbE Ethernet driver (CONFIG_AMD_XGBE=m) Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Reality is just a

Archiving the kernel group repositories on Alioth

2018-04-27 Thread Ben Hutchings
g> Hi, please remove your old, unused repos on alioth, so that we don't have to archive them. For darcs, bzr and mecurial do this until 2018-05-09 for all other VCS until 2018-05-16. Thanks for your attention Alex -- Ben Hutchings Reality is just a crutch for people who can'

Bug#896881: CPU: 8 PID: 1 Comm: init Not tainted 4.9.0-0.bpo.6-amd64

2018-04-25 Thread Ben Hutchings
ernel Offset: Ox37e0 from 0xffffffff810O > (relocation ran > ge: 0x8O00-0xbfff) > [ 33.5222341 Rebooting in 1 seconds.. > -- Ben Hutchings Design a system any fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: linux backport in jessie LTS

2018-04-24 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, 2018-04-24 at 15:44 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Sun, 22 Apr 2018, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > Therefore, would it make sense to add a Linux 4.9 backport to the > > regular jessie and jessie-security suites? > > Yes, I think so. It's also interesting to

linux backport in jessie LTS

2018-04-22 Thread Ben Hutchings
running jessie with Linux 4.9 and expecting to continue doing so through the LTS period? (Maintaining kernel backports is generally quite easy once the suite they are backported from is stable.) Ben. -- Ben Hutchings It is easier to write an incorrect program than to understand a correct one

Bug#895819: [qnapomv.maxwellpreston.com] linux-headers-4.15.0-0.bpo.2-amd64: header package depends on version of linux-compiler-gcc-6-x86 not available in stretch backports

2018-04-19 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2018-04-19 at 11:55 +0200, Markus Lindberg wrote: > On Mon, 16 Apr 2018 15:27:15 +0100 Ben Hutchings wrote: > > The dependencies are all there. You need to use: > > > > # apt-get install -t stretch-backports linux-headers-4.15.0-0.bpo.2-amd64 > > >

Re: CONFIG_AQTION in 4.14.0-2-amd64

2018-04-18 Thread Ben Hutchings
he vendor is enabled (CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_AQUANTIA), though it > is redundant as CONFIG_AQTION is the only suboption. > > Can this be enabled? I'll do this in the next upload. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings It's easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. signature.asc Des

Bug#891039: libusbip: error: port number exceeds 128

2018-04-18 Thread Ben Hutchings
I_HC_PORTS to 15, the maximum allowed for SuperSpeed hubs (Closes: #878866) Ben. -- Ben Hutchings It's easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#895362: Acknowledgement (Testing CD/DVD Missing algif_skcipher on Power64LE (so cannot use encrypted volumes))

2018-04-18 Thread Ben Hutchings
x27;ve just tested that the ppc64el snapshot starts working if I only add ecb. So I won't add algif_skcipher. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Logic doesn't apply to the real world. - Marvin Minsky signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#895976: src:linux: Add i2c_exynos5 to kernel-image udeb for network support on Odroid

2018-04-18 Thread Ben Hutchings
er way around. At the moment i2c-core is actually built-in, but if that ever changes the this dependency inversion would break the build. So I think i2c_exynos5 belongs in i2c-modules, and that's where I'll put it. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Logic doesn't apply to the real world. -

Re: [PATCH] [armel] Add KuroBox Pro to long description of marvell kernels.

2018-04-18 Thread Ben Hutchings
2Big Network, etc. I think it might make more sense to refer to a wiki page here, than to try listing the many supported models. I just updated https://wiki.debian.org/ArmEabiPort with a model list for kirkwood. Ben. > [marvell_image] > recommends: u-boot-tools -- Ben Hutchings Logic do

Uploading linux (4.15.17-1)

2018-04-17 Thread Ben Hutchings
about missing regulatory.db - [armhf] Enable auto-loading of imx6q-cpufreq module where appropriate - Security fixes for ext4 and libsas - Bump ABI number to 3 Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Logic doesn't apply to the real world. - Marvin Minsky signature.asc Description: This is a digitally s

Re: Bug#823107: marked as done (linux: make deb-pkg fails: No rule to make target 'debian/certs/b...@debian.org.cert.pem')

2018-04-16 Thread Ben Hutchings
oblem? The solution is to not use the config files you find in /boot. The linux-source- packages include configuration files based on the ones we use for official packages, but with settings that won't work in a custom kernel - like this one - removed. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Kids! Bringin

Re: Accepted linux 4.9.82-1+deb9u3~bpo8+1 (all source) into jessie-backports->backports-policy, jessie-backports

2018-04-16 Thread Ben Hutchings
> linux build-depends on missing: > > - gcc-4.9:amd64 (>= 4.9.2-10+deb7u1) > The jessie-backports auto-builders seem to be misconfigured - they won't install build-dependencies from the security archive. Ben.

Re: [ad...@alioth-lists.debian.net: Notice of mailing list closure: kernel-svn-changes]

2018-04-04 Thread Ben Hutchings
On 4 April 2018 11:04:33 BST, maximilian attems wrote: >Dear Ben, > >Anything we'd want to migrate from the old list? [...] All VCS changes on Salsa are mailed out via tracker.debian.org so there's no need for a new mailing list. Ben. -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excu

Bug#894525: linux: computer frozen on "reboot: power down" on power off

2018-03-31 Thread Ben Hutchings
ut of: grep . /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id/{bios,board,product}* Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Horngren's Observation: Among economists, the real world is often a special case. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [PATCH v4] scripts/package/builddeb: split generating packaging and build

2018-03-28 Thread Ben Hutchings
ing clever like that. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Who are all these weirdos? - David Bowie, on joining IRC signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: armel not to be released anymore? (was: armel/marvell kernel size)

2018-03-27 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, 2018-03-27 at 21:21 +0200, W. Martin Borgert wrote: > Quoting Ben Hutchings : > > Still, as armel will not be a release architecture any more, I > > suppose > > it can diverge further from the normal configuration. > > I didn't know, that this already has

Re: armel/marvell kernel size

2018-03-27 Thread Ben Hutchings
ort back the DNS323, that would be amazing... :-) > > I guess that I will look into those LTO patches in the future... > > OK, I am sending this to see if those ideas make sense, to offer my > help and, of course, to get some feedback. -- Ben Hutchings For every complex problem there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#893935: /lib/modules/4.9.0-6-amd64/kernel/drivers/mmc/host/rtsx_usb_sdmmc.ko: Idle load from rmmod rtsx_usb_sdmmc

2018-03-26 Thread Ben Hutchings
using behaviour. (I already made that change in one place in rtsx_usb_ms.) Ben. -- Ben Hutchings When in doubt, use brute force. - Ken Thompson signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#894030: Acknowledgement (linux-image-4.15.0-2-amd64: kernel memory leak while recording with audacity)

2018-03-26 Thread Ben Hutchings
acity stores working data in /tmp/audacity-. If you have a tmpfs mounted on /tmp then this probably explains the growth in "noncache" kernel memory usage. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings When in doubt, use brute force. - Ken Thompson signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#894089: linux-image-4.9.0-6-amd64: Please fix max supported i915 screen (not display) resolution

2018-03-26 Thread Ben Hutchings
Control: tag -1 upstream Control: severity -1 wishlist Talk to the upstream developers (intel-...@lists.freedesktop.org) if you want this to change. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings When in doubt, use brute force. - Ken Thompson signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Accepted linux-latest 80+deb9u4~bpo8+1 (all source) into jessie-backports->backports-policy, jessie-backports

2018-03-26 Thread Ben Hutchings
Urgency: high Maintainer: Debian Kernel Team Changed-By: Ben Hutchings Description: linux-doc - Linux kernel specific documentation (meta-package) linux-headers-4kc-malta - Header files for Linux 4kc-malta configuration (meta-package) linux-headers-586 - Header files for Linux 586

Re: armel/marvell kernel size

2018-03-23 Thread Ben Hutchings
.] As I see it, the point of installing Debian on little NAS boxes is to break out of the restrictions of an embedded system. We try to provide, so far as possible, the same features across all architectures. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Man inve

Re: armel/marvell kernel size

2018-03-22 Thread Ben Hutchings
rrently 4.15.y) or master (4.16-rcN, for experimental). But in a few weeks 4.16 will be ready for unstable and it will probably result in further code growth, so you might as well work on master. Ben. > Hope to have some luck with my 1st armel adventures, > > > Rogério Brito. > -- Be

Accepted linux 4.16~rc6-1~exp1 (all source) into experimental, experimental

2018-03-21 Thread Ben Hutchings
-arm linux-compiler-gcc-7-s390 linux-compiler-gcc-7-x86 Architecture: all source Version: 4.16~rc6-1~exp1 Distribution: experimental Urgency: medium Maintainer: Debian Kernel Team Changed-By: Ben Hutchings Closes: 886693 892786 893451 Description: acpi-modules-4.16.0-rc6-686-di - ACPI support

Re: How to access LUKS header files during initramfs/initrd phase?

2018-03-16 Thread Ben Hutchings
ome problems > when the main system boots. It says something about "resources busy" when it > comes to mounting of the /boot/ partition. So how to unmount the /boot/ > partition in the initramfs/initrd phase before the root filesystem is mounted > but after it was decrypted?

Bug#886693: linux: please reinstate ia64 for the linux kernel package

2018-03-15 Thread Ben Hutchings
Control: tag -1 - moreinfo Control: tag -1 pending I got fed up of seeing ia64 build failures so I've re-added ia64 configurations on the master branch. On Wed, 2018-01-17 at 01:20 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > Control: tag -1 moreinfo > > On Mon, 2018-01-08 at 19:04 -0500, J

Re: KASAN: use-after-free Read in set_page_dirty_lock

2018-03-15 Thread Ben Hutchings
de > #include > #include > #include > > long r[2]; > void loop() > { > memset(r, -1, sizeof(r)); > syscall(__NR_mmap, 0x2000, 0x447000, 3, 0x32, -1, 0); > if (syscall(__NR_pipe, 0x201c2000) != -1) > r[0] = *(uint32_t*)0x201c2004; > memcpy((void*)0x

Accepted linux 4.16~rc5-1~exp1 (all source) into experimental, experimental

2018-03-13 Thread Ben Hutchings
: 4.16~rc5-1~exp1 Distribution: experimental Urgency: medium Maintainer: Debian Kernel Team Changed-By: Ben Hutchings Closes: 879072 883432 Description: acpi-modules-4.16.0-rc5-686-di - ACPI support modules (udeb) acpi-modules-4.16.0-rc5-686-pae-di - ACPI support modules (udeb) acpi-modules

Re: Migrating to Salsa

2018-03-11 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2018-02-23 at 01:13 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: [...] > 4. Update all references to Alioth: >- Configure anonscm.debian.org to forward to Salsa I have sent a merge request for AliothRewriter to do this: https://salsa.debian.org/salsa/AliothRewriter/merge_requests/232 >

Re: Migrating to Salsa

2018-03-11 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2018-02-23 at 01:13 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > We need to move everything from Alioth to Salsa some time before the > end of May. > > There is already a "kernel-team" group on Salsa, and the members of the > "kernel" group on Alioth have been adde

Bug#892407: initramfs-tools: scripts/local: ignore /dev/ram*

2018-03-08 Thread Ben Hutchings
quot; > between each) to find another ramdisk on /dev/ramX I'm pretty sure "break" does what you need. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings compatible: Gracefully accepts erroneous data from any source signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#892407: initramfs-tools: scripts/local: ignore /dev/ram*

2018-03-08 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2018-03-09 at 00:55 +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > Control: tag -1 moreinfo > > Are you trying to fix the LAVA health check? A longer and possibly more helpful answer: 1. initramfs-tools is primarily meant for booting a "real" system. The "root" kernel par

Bug#892407: initramfs-tools: scripts/local: ignore /dev/ram*

2018-03-08 Thread Ben Hutchings
Control: tag -1 moreinfo Are you trying to fix the LAVA health check? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings compatible: Gracefully accepts erroneous data from any source signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Debian i40e driver broken?

2018-03-03 Thread Ben Hutchings
sues. > > Any chance to get a newer version of this driver into the standard > Debian kernel? IMHO i40e 1.6.16 obviously broken. Please run 'reportbug kernel' to open a bug report. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings [W]e found...that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thoug

Bug#890999: VirtualBox modules built against headers version 4.14.17-1 cannot be loaded by kernel version 4.14.13-1: Unknoe: Bug#890999: VirtualBox modules built against headers version 4.14.17-1 cann

2018-02-26 Thread Ben Hutchings
esult in functionality loss until a reboot can be carried > out? If by "removing" you mean unloading a module from the kernel, I agree that it should not do this. If you mean replacing the module on disk, I disagree; it should build modules for the installed kernel version.

Re: #881834 [n|M+| ] [nfs-common] systemd: lib/systemd/systemd-remount-fs fails with /dev/nfs in fstab

2018-02-25 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2018-02-24 at 23:59 +, Duncan Hare wrote: > Classified: > Outstanding bugs -- Normal bugs; More information needed (2 bugs) > > What information is needed to resolve this bug? I don't think you need to provide more information. I'll remove the tag for that. B

Re: Migrating to Salsa

2018-02-23 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2018-02-23 at 15:24 +0100, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: > Hello > > Thanks Ben for pushing that forward. > > On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 11:40:37AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Fri, 2018-02-23 at 08:03 +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: > > > On Fri, Feb 23,

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