Bug#542275: rtc-generic not working on Apple PowerBook G4

2009-08-31 Thread Ben Hutchings
clock\n); + hctosys: unable to read the hardware clock (%d)\n, err); rtc_class_close(rtc); --- END --- Ben. -- Ben Hutchings If at first you don't succeed, you're doing about average. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Applying e1000e patch to the Debian 2.6.26 kernel

2009-09-01 Thread Ben Hutchings
and will be in the next stable update (5.0.3) which should be released about a week from now. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings If at first you don't succeed, you're doing about average. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#544592: linux-image-2.6.30-1-686: sometimes failed to boot

2009-09-01 Thread Ben Hutchings
drivers that both supported your disk controller. In this case the kernel effectively chooses one driver at random. In packaged kernel images we try to avoid this by avoiding such duplication or blacklisting alternate drivers by default. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings If at first you don't succeed

Bug#543308: parameter

2009-09-01 Thread Ben Hutchings
. You will at least see different errors reported, which we might be able to help with. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings If at first you don't succeed, you're doing about average. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#501118: linux-image-2.6.26-1-686: Thinkpad i1300/1310: kernel panic on boot

2009-09-01 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2009-08-30 at 21:20 +0800, Clayton wrote: On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 19:48:51 +0100 Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote: On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 21:53 +0800, Clayton wrote: Still locking up as of linux-image-2.6.30-1-686. Here is the last screen I get at lock-up

Bug#544169: linux-image-2.6.30-1-amd64: linux-kernel 2.6.30 regression to 2.6.26 - re-suspend on wakeup.

2009-09-01 Thread Ben Hutchings
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Bug#543308: linux-image-2.6.30-1-amd64: Normal boot with default options

2009-09-02 Thread Ben Hutchings
for kernel packages does not automatically gather this information if the running kernel version is not the same as the version you are reporting about. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings If at first you don't succeed, you're doing about average. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message

Bug#514691: problem with the module r8169

2009-09-03 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2009-09-02 at 15:26 +0530, amol verule wrote: hi, which is ethernet card may be it require r8168 driver. [...] The r8169 driver included with the kernel includes the functionality of Realtek's r8168 driver. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings If at first you don't succeed, you're doing

Bug#544592: linux-image-2.6.30-1-686: sometimes failed to boot

2009-09-03 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 22:17 +0200, Davide Prina wrote: Ben Hutchings wrote: On Tue, 2009-09-01 at 20:44 +0200, Davide Prina wrote: Package: linux-image-2.6.30-1-686 Version: 2.6.30-6 Severity: important Are you actually using the above packaged kernel or a custom kernel? normally

Bug#539406: linux-image-2.6.30-1-alpha-smp: fails to load fw for 1st scsi adapter

2009-09-03 Thread Ben Hutchings
, successful boot? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings If at first you don't succeed, you're doing about average. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#539406: linux-image-2.6.30-1-alpha-smp: fails to load fw for 1st scsi adapter

2009-09-03 Thread Ben Hutchings
of just the first one. So this appears to be timing-related, rather than a one-time failure. Could the problem be simply that udev gets a huge backlog of device insertions to handle? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings If at first you don't succeed, you're doing about average. signature.asc Description

Bug#545231: linux-image-2.6.30-1-amd64: 18 minutes wait until X is ready to launch, instead of normal ~45 sec

2009-09-05 Thread Ben Hutchings
-1-amd64 and then use 'reportbug' to send a follow-up to this bug. Your follow-up should then automatically include more information. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat. - John Lehman, Secretary of the US Navy 1981-1987 signature.asc

Bug#527250: linux-image-2.6.26-2-686: Same issue here

2009-09-06 Thread Ben Hutchings
disconnecting it or turning it off. Whenever you do this, you risk losing data. While the kernel should be resilient to this, I consider a warning in this case to be a minor bug. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans

Bug#542250: repeatable crashes while copying 500G from NFS mount to local logical volume

2009-09-06 Thread Ben Hutchings
if 2.6.26-19 still contains #542250, I should not allow it into our servers. It does. The fix should be included in the next upload to stable-proposed-updates (2.6.26-20) and then the next point release. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans

Debian-installer use of initrd (was Re: CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM=y)

2009-09-06 Thread Ben Hutchings
. If it's not, I'll change it to a module. 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#516374: INFO: task * blocked for more than 120 seconds. in numerous non-SCHED_IDLE workloads

2009-09-06 Thread Ben Hutchings
, and can be caused by any kernel component. One such case was fixed in version 2.6.26-16: * Fix soft lockups caused by one md resync blocking on another due to sharing the same device (closes: #514627) Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans

Bug#543308: dmesg lspci from 2.6.26-2

2009-09-06 Thread Ben Hutchings
a bug in the PCI bus scanning code. Please can you report this at bugzilla.kernel.org as a bug in the PCI subsystem, attaching the dmesg and lspci output for both kernel versions as in the Debian bug report. Also, please let us know the bug number so we can track its progress. Ben. -- Ben

Bug#545417: linux-image-2.6.30-1-amd64: please enable CONFIG_PCIEASPM

2009-09-06 Thread Ben Hutchings
. Given that it depends on EXPERIMENTAL and defaults to N, I would think that it is not stable enough to enable yet. There are some devices and bridges that have broken ASPM and I'm not sure that the blacklist is sufficiently complete yet. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Life is what happens to you while you're

Bug#540923: after suspend to ram wicd cannot find any networks anymore

2009-09-06 Thread Ben Hutchings
that would be fine. kernel: 2.6.31-rc5 Debian/sid Which driver are you using? 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

Bug#516374: INFO: task * blocked for more than 120 seconds. in numerous non-SCHED_IDLE workloads

2009-09-07 Thread Ben Hutchings
for more than 120 seconds messages and the following function call traces. 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

Bug#515982: Bug#511703: text_poke_early crash and noreplace-paravirt

2009-09-07 Thread Ben Hutchings
) : ebx, ecx, edx, memory); } --- END --- 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#542116: linux-image-2.6.30-1-amd64: media players sometimes fail to open audio device

2009-09-07 Thread Ben Hutchings
Please cc 542...@bugs.debian.org on all mail concerning this bug report. On Mon, 2009-08-24 at 10:23 +0200, Michal Suchanek wrote: 2009/8/23 Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk: On Tue, 2009-08-18 at 08:33 +0200, Michal Suchanek wrote: 2009/8/18 Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk: On Mon

Re: looking for kernel-maintainer

2009-09-08 Thread Ben Hutchings
packages. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Who are all these weirdos? - David Bowie, about L-Space IRC channel #afp signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

[Fwd: Packaging Linux BoF has been accepted for LPC 2009]

2009-09-08 Thread Ben Hutchings
Forwarded Message From: Darrick J. Wong djw...@us.ibm.com Reply-to: djw...@us.ibm.com To: b...@decadent.org.uk Subject: Packaging Linux BoF has been accepted for LPC 2009 Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 12:55:54 -0700 Hi, I'm Darrick Wong, the BoF session organizer for LPC 2009. Your

Re: Driver for HP arry P410I ZM SAS array controller

2009-09-08 Thread Ben Hutchings
the Debian kernel? If you cannot save it to a file, please take a photograph. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Who are all these weirdos? - David Bowie, about L-Space IRC channel #afp signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#444043: [Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#444043: Bug#444043: network-manager: Unconnected USB ethernet device is made to take priority over connected wireless!

2009-09-08 Thread Ben Hutchings
the link state. Please could you test the attached patch against Linux 2.6.30? The Debian kernel handbook explains how to do this: http://kernel-handbook.alioth.debian.org/ch-common-tasks.html#s-common-official. I can also prepare a patch against Linux 2.6.26 if you want. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings

Re: Debian-installer use of initrd (was Re: CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM=y)

2009-09-09 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2009-09-06 at 19:03 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: Marco d'Itri wrote: Why? The /dev/ram* devices are not needed anymore for the early boot with 2.6 kernels, unless there is something fundamental I am missing this driver should become modular. Apparently it used to be needed

Bug#514691: problem with the module r8169

2009-09-10 Thread Ben Hutchings
that you already have the necessary networking modules loaded. 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

Bug#545981: linux-image-2.6.30-1-amd64: Wrong data in /proc/uptime

2009-09-10 Thread Ben Hutchings
. Signed-off-by: Michael Abbott michael.abb...@diamond.ac.uk Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky schwidef...@de.ibm.com We probably will not update 2.6.30 to fix this. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Unix is many things to many people, but it's never been everything to anybody. signature.asc

Bug#546041: linux-image-2.6.30-1-amd64: DHCP server started by ifup -a even though no Ethernet cable has been plugged in

2009-09-10 Thread Ben Hutchings
of the initial link status, which was mostly benign until a recent change to the networking core. These drivers have mostly been fixed in 2.6.31, and e1000e certainly has. We probably will not update 2.6.30 to fix this. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Unix is many things to many people, but it's never been

Re: Debian 5 32bit PAE kernel ?

2009-09-10 Thread Ben Hutchings
don't know about 5.0.1. You can also use a 64-bit amd64 flavour of the kernel with an i386 user-space. This should perform better than a PAE kernel. This is on CD 4 of Debian 5.0.3 for i386. (CD listings are here: http://atterer.net/jigdo/jigdo-search.php?list) Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Unix

Update of Linux 2.6.30?

2009-09-13 Thread Ben Hutchings
, 2.6.30 has had more stable updates, and there are many other bugs with patches available (the most important being #541307). I propose that we should make another upload of 2.6.30, although this will change the kernel ABI. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Time is nature's way of making sure that everything

Bug#488022: linux-image-2.6.25-2-486: Does not boot on Vortex86SX (BUG: Int 6: CR2 00000000)

2009-09-13 Thread Ben Hutchings
Piotr, Has this been fixed? Does the current linux-image-2.6.26-2-486 work on this system? (If it crashes in text_poke_early() instead of behaving as before, that is a separate bug that we have a fix for.) Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't

Bug#546213: severity of 546213 is normal

2009-09-13 Thread Ben Hutchings
workaround. This doesn't even come close to being important. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#278729: kernel-image-2.6-k7: kernel-image-2.6*-k7* and 2.6*-686* should recommend libc6-i686

2009-09-14 Thread Ben Hutchings
applied to both i386 and amd64 architectures if i386 was processed first. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#546809: [Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#546809: listing contents of remote directory does not show all content and can cause kernel panic

2009-09-16 Thread Ben Hutchings
? Instructions for rebuilding a Debian kernel package are here: http://kernel-handbook.alioth.debian.org/ch-common-tasks.html#s-common-official. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings This sentence contradicts itself - no actually it doesn't. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#488022: linux-image-2.6.25-2-486: Does not boot on Vortex86SX (BUG: Int 6: CR2 00000000)

2009-09-17 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2009-09-17 at 13:17 +0200, Raúl Sánchez Siles wrote: Hello: On Domingo, 13 de Septiembre de 2009 20:51:40 Ben Hutchings escribió: Piotr, Has this been fixed? Does the current linux-image-2.6.26-2-486 work on this system? (If it crashes in text_poke_early() instead

Bug#546809: [Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#546809: listing contents of remote directory does not show all content and can cause kernel panic

2009-09-18 Thread Ben Hutchings
. The linux hosted share shows all folder content and doesn't seem to cause errors?? Are you interested in trying to reproduce and find a fix for the bug? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. - Donald Knuth signature.asc Description

Bug#547129: Debian testig: real unstable system

2009-09-18 Thread Ben Hutchings
or other error messages. Try adding vga=6 to the kernel command line to fit more text on the screen. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. - Donald Knuth signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Kernel version for Lenny 5.1?

2009-09-20 Thread Ben Hutchings
around December, there is no time for a 'lenny and a half' release, so we will continue making minor changes to 2.6.26 for point releases. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings I haven't lost my mind; it's backed up on tape somewhere. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Good bye

2009-09-20 Thread Ben Hutchings
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Re: Kernel version for Lenny 5.1?

2009-09-20 Thread Ben Hutchings
team members will be meeting at LPC in Portland next week, where we will discuss this among ourselves and should also be able to talk to other distributions' developers. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings I haven't lost my mind; it's backed up on tape somewhere. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally

Re: Kernel version for Lenny 5.1?

2009-09-20 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2009-09-20 at 18:47 +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: Hi, On Sonntag, 20. September 2009, Ben Hutchings wrote: We don't have any such plans. Given the planned freeze around December, there is no time for a 'lenny and a half' release I don't think the December 2009 freeze is still

Re: nic problems

2009-09-21 Thread Ben Hutchings
work under Debian 5.0, please file a bug using reportbug. Ask your provider which distributions are tested and known to be working with this hardware, so we can compare the driver versions. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings I haven't lost my mind; it's backed up on tape somewhere. signature.asc

Re: firmware-linux package non-free?

2009-09-25 Thread Ben Hutchings
. Is it possible to split that package? There is no point; it all belongs in non-free. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Horngren's Observation: Among economists, the real world is often a special case. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: firmware-linux package non-free?

2009-09-25 Thread Ben Hutchings
are licensed under MIT and http://wiki.debian.org/DFSGLicenses tells me that MIT license is considered DFSGL compatible. This is true only if the source code is available. The MIT licence allows us to distribute source code but in this case we cannot actually do that. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings

DKMS in squeeze

2009-09-27 Thread Ben Hutchings
modules will be included in the linux-2.6 source package - we will encourage maintainers of other out-of-tree module packages to support DKMS The result is that DKMS may become more widely used in Debian in the near future. Please be prepared for this! Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Any sufficiently

Bug#548466: real kernel is undependable

2009-09-27 Thread Ben Hutchings
No, the binary package names must change for every ABI change, just as for shared libraries. Surely there are other options that I do not see. It would be very nice if this problem could be resolved. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature

Re: vserver patches for newer kernel

2009-09-28 Thread Ben Hutchings
that it is not fully supported and likely to be removed in the following release. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: firmware-linux package non-free?

2009-09-28 Thread Ben Hutchings
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Bug#548745: linux-image-2.6.30-1-686: Edgeport firmware fails to load.

2009-09-28 Thread Ben Hutchings
to distribute this firmware. It is labelled as licenced under GPLv2, but we do not have source for it. I'm going to make this a wishlist bug in firmware-linux. It may be possible to get upstream to fix the licence. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Who are all these weirdos? - David Bowie, about L-Space

Bug#549018: linux-image-2.6-686: Network unresponsive from certain hosts

2009-09-30 Thread Ben Hutchings
of the following commands after this problem occurs: dmesg ip addr show ip link show grep -r . /sys/class/net/bond* Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Who are all these weirdos? - David Bowie, about L-Space IRC channel #afp signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#548397: linux-image-2.6.30-2-686-bigmem: Random Lockup with automount, mysqld, and kswapd0 error messages.

2009-09-30 Thread Ben Hutchings
of it. Attach the log from your original bug report http://bugs.debian.org/548397. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Who are all these weirdos? - David Bowie, about L-Space IRC channel #afp signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Kernel panic with 64G High Memory Support enabled

2009-10-01 Thread Ben Hutchings
. So it's important to know which ATA interface you have. If you don't know the answer to that, just include the output of lspci -vv in your report. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Who are all these weirdos? - David Bowie, about L-Space IRC channel #afp signature.asc Description: This is a digitally

Bug#548290: 2.6.30 cannot find root file system

2009-10-01 Thread Ben Hutchings
wrong with this process. Could you try to reproduce this bug, and then, at the initramfs shell, run: ls /dev/disk/by-* That might help us to work out what's going wrong. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Who are all these weirdos? - David Bowie, about L-Space IRC channel #afp signature.asc Description

Re: Query on Netlink sockets on debian etch

2009-10-02 Thread Ben Hutchings
) = 0 ioctl(4, SIOCSIFNETMASK, 0xff97ca88)= 0 So the address and netmask configuration are two separation operations that are notified separately. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Who are all these weirdos? - David Bowie, about L-Space IRC channel #afp signature.asc Description

Re: Query on Netlink sockets on debian etch

2009-10-03 Thread Ben Hutchings
. So you need to handle RTM_DELADDR too. This is really off-topic for debian-kernel now. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Always try to do things in chronological order; it's less confusing that way. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#414690: Revised descriptions for i386 package flavours

2009-10-03 Thread Ben Hutchings
: AMD64 and Intel 64 I believe these should make it clearer which flavour to choose. However, I think the template itself should be improved to allow for expanded explanation of the differences between flavours. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Always try to do things in chronological order; it's less

Bug#538372: [PATCH] net: Support inclusion of linux/socket.h before sys/socket.h

2009-10-03 Thread Ben Hutchings
that are now defined for user-space by sys/socket.h, but __GLIBC__ is not defined if no libc headers have yet been included. It seems safe to drop support for libc 5 now. Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk --- This patch was previously mentioned on netdev by Manuel Prinz, but without a full

Bug#549002: linux-image-2.6.26-2-xen-amd64: Kernel Oops - autofs5 nfs4 mount

2009-10-04 Thread Ben Hutchings
page (RSI = 8800c7be5000 which is page-aligned). This could happen with any NFSv4 mount and is not specific to autofs. The fix is to use strlcpy() instead of memcpy(). Ben. -- Ben Hutchings I say we take off; nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure. signature.asc

Bug#549002: [PATCH] nfs: Avoid overrun when copying client IP address string

2009-10-04 Thread Ben Hutchings
with strlcpy() not memcpy(). Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk --- diff --git a/fs/nfs/client.c b/fs/nfs/client.c index 75c9cd2..f525a2f 100644 --- a/fs/nfs/client.c +++ b/fs/nfs/client.c @@ -1073,7 +1073,7 @@ static int nfs4_init_client(struct nfs_client *clp

Debian extra modules

2009-10-04 Thread Ben Hutchings
Not candidates for staging. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings I say we take off; nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#549591: Bug scripts for image metapackages

2009-10-04 Thread Ben Hutchings
Package: linux-latest-2.6 Severity: wishlist Currently we get bug reports on e.g. linux-image-2.6-686 which do not include any of the useful information that is automatically gathered by bug scripts in the real image packages. The image metapackages should either link to the bug scripts for the

Bug#549606: [linux-image-2.6.30-1-amd64] VIA-Rhine II network interface lost connectivity

2009-10-04 Thread Ben Hutchings
. [...] Is this a new problem or did it occur with earlier kernel versions? Can you try to reproduce this without the nvidia or virtualbox modules loaded? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings I say we take off; nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally

Bug#549002: [PATCH] nfs: Avoid overrun when copying client IP address string

2009-10-04 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2009-10-04 at 18:33 -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote: On Sun, 2009-10-04 at 14:25 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: As seen in http://bugs.debian.org/549002, nfs4_init_client() can overrun the source string when copying the client IP address from nfs_parsed_mount_data::client_address

Bug#549606: [linux-image-2.6.30-1-amd64] VIA-Rhine II network interface lost connectivity

2009-10-04 Thread Ben Hutchings
to be disabled. Please can you send more of the kernel log from before the TX watchdog warning? Also, if this happens again, please send the contents of /proc/interrupts. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings I say we take off; nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure. signature.asc Description

Bug#545800: linux-image-2.6.26-2-amd64: Kernel panic Aiee, killing interrupt handler

2009-10-04 Thread Ben Hutchings
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Bug#544698: linux-image-2.6.26-2-amd64: agp does not work on nforce3 250gb. amd64_agp and agpgart not found.

2009-10-04 Thread Ben Hutchings
into the kernel in this version. Xorg unable to use agp and disables dri. The only way to use dri is to set the bus type to pci in xorg.conf. [...] Please undo this change and restart the X server. Then send the X server log (/var/log/Xorg.0.log) so we can try to work out why it's failing. Ben. -- Ben

Bug#544461: linux-image-2.6.30-1-486: kernel failed to start : raid45: unknown target type

2009-10-04 Thread Ben Hutchings
send a photograph of the boot messages. Also send the kernel command line configured in GRUB (/boot/grub/grub.cfg or /boot/grub/menu.lst) or LILO (/etc/lilo.conf) for this kernel version. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings I say we take off; nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure

Bug#545800: linux-image-2.6.26-2-amd64: Kernel panic Aiee, killing interrupt handler

2009-10-04 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 02:37 +0100, Philip Ashmore wrote: Ben Hutchings wrote: [...] You're using the Atheros proprietary driver (aka madwifi), which we do not have source for and so cannot debug. I suspect that this may be responsible for at least some of the crashes. Please can you

Bug#543308: Kernel bug (Debian bug #543308)

2009-10-04 Thread Ben Hutchings
was stalled for a while last week. Have you received your account confirmation now? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings This sentence contradicts itself - no actually it doesn't. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#539844: ath5k: ath5k and orinoco 802.11b/g pcmcia card works on i686 kernel but not bigmem version

2009-10-04 Thread Ben Hutchings
the ath5k driver or the madwifi driver under 2.6.26-2-i686? I can't see any reason why ath5k would work in only one of these configurations. Tried the backports 2.6.30-bigmem and failed, but with a different error(radio not supported). [...] Again, please provide the kernel log. Ben. -- Ben

Re: Debian extra modules

2009-10-04 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2009-10-04 at 16:58 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: As discussed at LPC, Debian currently has the following extra modules: aufs2 - A union filesystem implementation; used by the Debian and Ubuntu live CDs. The 'standalone' (modular) version could be a candidate for staging

Bug#538158: Still a problem as of 5.0.3

2009-10-04 Thread Ben Hutchings
this was fixed upstream. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings I say we take off; nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#496893: Please export dm_disk symbol

2009-10-04 Thread Ben Hutchings
for not submitting it is that it's not ready, then it's not ready for Debian either.) Ben. -- Ben Hutchings I say we take off; nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#299567: kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686-smp: x86 has no uncompressed vmlinux (for oprofile)

2009-10-04 Thread Ben Hutchings
') vmlinux.write(vmlinuz_to_image(vmlinuz)) ### END ### -- Ben Hutchings I say we take off; nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Query on Netlink sockets on debian etch

2009-10-05 Thread Ben Hutchings
, as it's not Debian-specific. As I have tried my level best on this, otherwise could you please let me know the appropriate forum you want me to post this query. Could you please help me out with your thoughts on this. You could try net...@vger.kernel.org. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings I say we take

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

2009-10-05 Thread Ben Hutchings
(Debian 2.6.26-17lenny1) [...] You are falling for the fallacy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_hoc_ergo_propter_hoc. Please do not discourage people from installing security updates. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings I say we take off; nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure

Bug#549647: hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x21 errors on VIA VT82C686 chipset

2009-10-05 Thread Ben Hutchings
on this hardware? Please send a longer kernel log showing the errors related to hda (the section below is full of firewall messages). Then, try replacing the cable to the HD. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings I say we take off; nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure. signature.asc

Re: Debian extra modules

2009-10-05 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 15:51 -0700, Greg KH wrote: On Sun, Oct 04, 2009 at 04:58:15PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: As discussed at LPC, Debian currently has the following extra modules: aufs2 - A union filesystem implementation; used by the Debian and Ubuntu live CDs

Bug#541828: linux-2.6: Please export symbols for aufs2 (or unionfs2).

2009-10-05 Thread Ben Hutchings
happy with aufs2 then we may as well go with that. On the other hand, it appears that unionfs2 is actually headed for inclusion upstream, so if we select that now then we don't need to change again later. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings I say we take off; nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way

Bug#549606: [linux-image-2.6.30-1-amd64] VIA-Rhine II network interface lost connectivity

2009-10-05 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 14:05 +0200, Jens-Michael Hoffmann wrote: On Monday, 5. October 2009 01:29:39 Ben Hutchings wrote: On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 00:15 +0100, Antonio Marcos López Alonso wrote: Is this a new problem or did it occur with earlier kernel versions? No, it happened also

Bug#544461: linux-image-2.6.30-1-486: kernel failed to start : raid45: unknown target type

2009-10-05 Thread Ben Hutchings
will improve the performance of your system over the -486 version. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings I say we take off; nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#299567: kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686-smp: x86 has no uncompressed vmlinux (for oprofile)

2009-10-05 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 11:57 +0200, Michal Suchanek wrote: 2009/10/5 Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk: While we still aren't providing an uncompressed vmlinux image, it is now possible to extract one from vmlinuz. The following Python script does the job; give it the filename

Kernel packagers' list

2009-10-05 Thread Ben Hutchings
on packaging. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings I say we take off; nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#544698: linux-image-2.6.26-2-amd64: agp does not work on nforce3 250gb. amd64_agp and agpgart not found.

2009-10-05 Thread Ben Hutchings
them; otherwise they should be in /var/log/messages. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings I say we take off; nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#544698: linux-image-2.6.26-2-amd64: agp does not work on nforce3 250gb. amd64_agp and agpgart not found.

2009-10-06 Thread Ben Hutchings
enable the IOMMU option in the BIOS setup [0.004000] This costs you 64 MB of RAM Try following this instruction... Ben. -- Ben Hutchings To err is human; to really foul things up requires a computer. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#549002: linux-image-2.6.26-2-xen-amd64: Kernel Oops - autofs5 nfs4 mount

2009-10-06 Thread Ben Hutchings
this bug down and a fix should be in the next stable update. Although the fix is obvious to me looking at the code, it would be better if you could verify the fix on your system. Are you happy to build and install a new kernel package, given instructions? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings To err is human

Bug#549002: linux-image-2.6.26-2-xen-amd64: Kernel Oops - autofs5 nfs4 mount

2009-10-06 Thread Ben Hutchings
-tasks.html#s-common-official. Make sure that APT downloads the source from stable-security, not from unstable. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings To err is human; to really foul things up requires a computer. From: Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk Date: Sun, 04 Oct 2009 14:25:50 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] nfs: Avoid

Bug#544698: linux-image-2.6.26-2-amd64: agp does not work on nforce3 250gb. amd64_agp and agpgart not found.

2009-10-06 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, 2009-10-06 at 14:52 +0200, Daniel Rodríguez wrote: El mar, 06-10-2009 a las 13:02 +0100, Ben Hutchings escribió: On Tue, 2009-10-06 at 11:49 +0200, Daniel Rodríguez wrote: [0.004000] AGP bridge at 00:00:00 [0.004000] Aperture from AGP @ f000 size 4096 MB (APSIZE 0

Bug#544698: linux-image-2.6.26-2-amd64: agp does not work on nforce3 250gb. amd64_agp and agpgart not found.

2009-10-06 Thread Ben Hutchings
2008 -0700 x86: agp_gart size checking for buggy device I'm not sure whether this is sufficiently low-risk for a stable update. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings To err is human; to really foul things up requires a computer. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#549606: [linux-image-2.6.30-1-amd64] VIA-Rhine II network interface lost connectivity

2009-10-06 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, 2009-10-06 at 23:26 +0100, Antonio Marcos López Alonso wrote: On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 1:26 AM, Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote: [...] Could you try adding 'noapic' to the kernel command line? Sure. Here is /proc/interrupts using irqpoll + noapic (yet no much time has

Bug#531368: [firmware-linux] breaks xserver-xorg-video-radeon

2009-10-06 Thread Ben Hutchings
installed. When I remove firmware-linux, everything is fine. Here is my Xorg.0.log with firmware-linux and without. The old is with firmware-linux. There are some weird binary characters in the old. Please also send the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings To err is human

Bug#501118: linux-image-2.6.26-1-686: Thinkpad i1300/1310: kernel panic on boot

2009-10-06 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2009-09-14 at 22:02 +0800, Clayton wrote: On Wed, 02 Sep 2009 03:51:54 +0100 Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote: [...] Either you made an error in transcribing c6 ac as e6 ae, or that code has been corrupted on disk or in memory. No transcription error, I just tried again

Bug#550010: linux-image-2.6.26-1-amd64: default kernel CONFIG_LBD=n, should get with the times and change to 'y'

2009-10-06 Thread Ben Hutchings
reasonably fix this in a stable update, but we should be able to prevent mounting HFS+ partitions larger than 2TB, and so avoid data loss. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings To err is human; to really foul things up requires a computer. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#550010: hfsplus corrupts filesystems 2TB

2009-10-06 Thread Ben Hutchings
) { + pr_err(hfs: volumes larger than 2TB are not supported yet\n); + return -EINVAL; + } while (1) { bh = sb_bread512(sb, part_start + HFSPLUS_VOLHEAD_SECTOR, vhdr); if (!bh) --- END --- Ben. -- Ben Hutchings To err is human; to really foul

Re: Kernel version for Lenny 5.1?

2009-10-07 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2009-10-07 at 21:46 +0200, Ola Lundqvist wrote: Hi Ben How was the meeting at LPC in Portland? Or more specifically, did you conclude any good plans for Debian :-) Yes. A summary will be posted to d-d-a soon. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings To err is human; to really foul things up

Bug#550010: hfsplus corrupts filesystems 2TB

2009-10-07 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2009-10-07 at 09:27 -0600, dann frazier wrote: On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 03:37:18AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: This is my suggested change, so far only compile-tested: --- a/fs/hfsplus/wrapper.c +++ b/fs/hfsplus/wrapper.c @@ -99,6 +99,10 @@ if (hfsplus_get_last_session

Bug#549606: [linux-image-2.6.30-1-amd64] VIA-Rhine II network interface lost connectivity

2009-10-07 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2009-10-07 at 11:38 +0100, Antonio Marcos López Alonso wrote: 2009/10/6 Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk On Tue, 2009-10-06 at 23:26 +0100, Antonio Marcos López Alonso wrote: On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 1:26 AM, Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk

Bug#550010: HFS Plus supports a maximum volume size just south of 8EiB

2009-10-07 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2009-10-07 at 17:10 -0400, Dan Dennison wrote: FWIW, HFS Plus has a maximum size of (2^63 - 2^31) bytes, which is just shy of 8EB. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2422 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HFS_Plus I know. I'm talking about the Linux implementation. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings

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