Re: [D-I] Supporting 2.6.14 kernels in base-installer

2005-11-15 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 15 November 2005 13:23, Sven Luther wrote: Jonas, does it actually know how to look into /target/etc/fstab and not /etc/fstab ? This of course is a completely irrelevant question as d-i runs the initrd generators in a chroot on /target. So, yes, effectively it _does_ look in

Bug#340508: missing modules on s390/s390x

2005-11-23 Thread Frans Pop
Submitter reported additional information re initramfs-tools to d-s390 mailing list [1]. Most relevant information (console messages) duplicated below. Freeing unused kernel memory: 120k freed Loading, please wait... Begin: Initializing /dev ... /sbin/udevsynthesize: 13:

Re: 2.6.14 kernel udebs and d-i

2005-11-25 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 25 November 2005 09:11, Sven Luther wrote: And Frans, no, insulting porters and complaining they don't do their job is no way to get this solved, and i find joeyh remark that only 6 d-i architectures support 2.6 kernels, while thanks to the common architecture, all debian official

Re: where can i get latest kernel-source-2.6.*

2005-11-26 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 27 November 2005 01:52, Roger Fernandes wrote: I have a simple question... where can i get the latest kernel-source-2.6.* package? Look for linux-source. Packages were renamed starting from 2.6.12. Cheers, FJP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: 2.6.14 status summary, and upcoming 2.6.15 ...

2005-11-28 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 28 November 2005 12:45, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: The following problems are known for yaird currently in sid: Add: * Does not work for drivers that don't have sysfs support, like BusLogic We do not have _automated_ workarounds, which it seems you imply and I clearly didn't above.

Re: ancient ieee80211/ipw2200 drivers in recent kernel (2.6.14)

2005-11-30 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 30 November 2005 11:44, Maximilian Attems wrote: On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 06:22:17PM +0900, Horms wrote: Ok, so I should just go ahead and put my patch into the 2.6.14 branch? Or should we leave it as 2.6.15 probably isn't that far away... maybe depends if d-i will base itself

Bug#341392: linux-2.6: kernel BUG at mm/slab.c:1807!

2005-11-30 Thread Frans Pop
Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.14-4 Severity: serious The following error happens on Debian Installer boot in vmware (386 kernel). This problem was not present in -3. The system does come up after the error, but it looks so basic (memory management AFAICT) that I've set RC severity anyway. Feel

Re: ancient ieee80211/ipw2200 drivers in recent kernel (2.6.14)

2005-11-30 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 30 November 2005 16:06, Maximilian Attems wrote: better ntfs support, up2date ipw2XXX, vfs support shared subtree, fbcon console rotation + usual bunch of fixes and driver upgrades. no acpi change. Nothing that should give us problems I think. Thanks. FB console rotation could be

Re: Bug#341393: linux-image-2.6.14-2-686 does not boot on HP Compaq nx8220 Laptop

2005-11-30 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 30 November 2005 17:01, Maximilian Attems wrote: [annoying footer blurb] wtf your message is public, keep away such strange footers. won't help your much. Ppl sending from corporate mail accounts mostly cannot control such footers. They are added by the mail servers after the

Re: ancient ieee80211/ipw2200 drivers in recent kernel (2.6.14)

2005-11-30 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 30 November 2005 21:04, Sven Luther wrote: Are there major changes from .14 to .15? If not, we should be able to change over to .15 relatively fast. .15 will bring a non-negligible amount of change to powerpc, going from ARCH=ppc|ppc64 to ARCH=powerpc, which may entail

Re: Graphical installer - invitation to get involved

2005-12-03 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 03 December 2005 18:18, Colin Watson wrote: usplash works fine on x86/vga16fb, x86/vesafb, and powerpc/offb at least. It just uses bogl (like d-i) so it should be straightforward to port nearly anywhere. What happens on sercon installations? pgpGJjcoEh2vp.pgp Description: PGP

Re: automatic custom kernels?

2005-12-04 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 04 December 2005 11:18, Andreas Barth wrote: So, my question is: Is there some way to tell everytime a new kernels appears at $location, please apply all patches in $directory, and compile it with this and that config for me? If not, which would be the way to do this? I would think

Bug#340508: missing modules on s390/s390x (mkinitramfs for 2.6.14)

2005-12-04 Thread Frans Pop
(CC to d-s390 as there may be people who can provide additional information.) On Friday 02 December 2005 22:58, you wrote: can you please retest if that device gets created? OK. I've done some testing and made some progress. First, the following modules need to be available in the initrd: -

Bug#340508: missing modules on s390/s390x (mkinitramfs for 2.6.14)

2005-12-04 Thread Frans Pop
Some additional info. I've done my research from a system (Hercules emulator) running 2.4.27. For 2.4.27, the dasd modules are built into the kernel. The option to set the dasd devices is therefore passed from the zipl bootloader. The dasd= option in the [debian_26] section was of course

D-I image status and test result overview

2005-12-04 Thread Frans Pop
Yesterday a lot of issues relevant for the sid_d-i images were fixed. This means that today we have the first images without major issues using 2.6.14 (x86 and sparc64) after a few days without new CD builds. I have tested netboot installations for both x86 (in vmware 5.5) and sparc64. Both

Bug#342057: initramfs-tools: initrd fails to load BusLogic module on boot

2005-12-04 Thread Frans Pop
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.41 After a test in vmware installing 2.6.14-4-686 using initramfs-tools, the system failed to reboot. AFAICT the initrd (udev?) failed to load the BusLogic module even though it is included in the initrd. Note that BusLogic is known to be missing sysfs

Bug#341392: kernel BUG at mm/slab.c:1807!

2005-12-05 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 06 December 2005 05:23, Jurij Smakov wrote: It's not kernel's fault. I have just booted the 2.6.14 off today's sid_d-i daily netinst, and it has the bug. The bug appears because the af_unix_init function is invoked twice, and it normally should not happen. This function is the init

Status of d-i kernel transition for 2.6.14

2005-12-07 Thread Frans Pop
] 2.6.14-2 does not boot on IA64, waiting for 2.6.15 NOTE A new 2.4.27 kernel for x86 has just been accepted into unstable so 2.4 kernel udebs will also need updating soon. Cheers, Frans Pop pgpRvcHnLlHMI.pgp Description: PGP signature

Bug#342925: initramfs-tools: [sparc64] generated initrd fails to boot

2005-12-11 Thread Frans Pop
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.42 Severity: important After yaird failed to generate an image for the latest 2.6.14 kernel (2.6.14-5), I tried initramfs-tools. The initrd was generated, but the boot failed: /dev/hda1 not present. The following modules were loaded correctly (from cat

Re: intent to change kernel ABI in sarge/updates

2005-12-15 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 15 December 2005 17:55, dann frazier wrote: As far as I can tell, an ABI change only breaks d-i if it is incorporated into a point release - updates to security.debian.org should be safe. Yes, that is correct. There is no problem for d-i until the new kernel enters the main

Re: Preparing 2.6.14-6 release, getting 2.6.15-rc into shape

2005-12-19 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 19 December 2005 22:54, Maximilian Attems wrote: currently d-i unstable uses 2.6.12/2.6.14 depending on arch - next beta is planed for 2.6.15 so latest 2.6.15 is more important. OTOH the time to test with 2.6.15 will probably be quite short, so testing d-i for hppa with 2.6.14 (using

Bug#342925: missing ide-generic

2005-12-23 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 23 December 2005 14:34, maximilian attems wrote: please try the attached patch, should load ide-generic even if udev didn't yet bring it up: Although my initial report was for Sparc (which I will test tomorrow, I've also tested it on my laptop. ide-generic is loaded, but ide-disk is

Bug#342925: missing ide-generic

2005-12-24 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 24 December 2005 04:32, Frans Pop wrote: On Friday 23 December 2005 14:34, maximilian attems wrote: please try the attached patch, should load ide-generic even if udev didn't yet bring it up: Although my initial report was for Sparc (which I will test tomorrow) The patch does

Bug#342925: fails to load ide-disk, doesn't find hdd

2005-12-28 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 29 December 2005 02:48, maximilian attems wrote: could you try the attached hook file, please place it under /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/init-premount/ The ide hook file in #344754 works for me on both my Sparc and laptop. Cheers, FJP pgpNkM6YunuqH.pgp Description: PGP

Re: more current kernels for sarge in volatile?

2005-12-29 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 29 December 2005 13:04, Sven Luther wrote: To add to that the fact that with a minimal rebuild of support tools (yaird and backported udev for me), the etch/sid/experimental kernels install just fine on a sarge system. I run all my sarge systems like this, and it works just fine.

Re: initramfs generator selection

2005-12-29 Thread Frans Pop
(CC to d-kernel and yaird-devel for comments. Topic is a question in Debian Installer regarding the initramfs generator to use. For the start of the thread see: http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2005/12/msg01228.html) On Thursday 29 December 2005 09:07, Christian Perrier wrote: by which

Re: [Yaird-devel] Re: initramfs generator selection

2005-12-29 Thread Frans Pop
(Please do not CC me; I'm subscribed to all lists relevant here) On Thursday 29 December 2005 16:34, Sven Luther wrote: I would have thought it the other way around, there is no reason to use initramfs-tools for a new install, since we are then not upgrading from 2.4 kernels. That is not a

Re: [Yaird-devel] Re: initramfs generator selection

2005-12-29 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 29 December 2005 17:27, Sven Luther wrote: What if we defaulted to yaird, we know that yaird, by design, will fail at install time and not at boot time, and give an error message, which we can grab and append to the log messages or whatever. It does not in all cases, like for

Re: initramfs generator selection

2005-12-29 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 29 December 2005 18:39, Ross Boylan wrote: On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 04:01:15PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: Here are the settings I propose to upload the new version of base-installer with: - Question asked at medium priority - Default generator settings (based on [1] and klibc

Re: [Yaird-devel] Re: initramfs generator selection

2005-12-30 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 30 December 2005 02:46, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: I believe the non-failure with non-sysfs was a bug that got fixed in 0.0.12. Please test: To my knowledge yaird should now fail if not satisified with its findings (and drivers lacking sysfs support does not satisify!) Sorry to

Re: initramfs generator selection

2005-12-30 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 30 December 2005 08:49, Sven Luther wrote: Still, now that Jonas confirmed yaird will fail in the presence of non-sysfs drivers, my initial proposal of trying out yaird and reverting to initramfs-tools if yaird can't produce a suitable ramdisk is again more interesting than your

Re: initramfs generator selection

2005-12-30 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 29 December 2005 21:49, Joey Hess wrote: Frans Pop wrote: It also makes the installer independent of the default dependency set in kernel-image packages. I'm not sure if this last is really an advantage. I'd rather leave the decision of which is default up to the kernel people

Re: bits from the release team

2006-01-03 Thread Frans Pop
(forgot to CC d-kernel on this) On Tuesday 03 January 2006 22:02, Sven Luther wrote: We will have a kernel which is outdated by two versions at release time with this plan, since there are about 1 kernel upstream release every 2 month. 2.6.8 is not an optimal kernel, but largely due to timing

Re: bits from the release team

2006-01-03 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 03 January 2006 23:01, Sven Luther wrote: Indeed. The d-i team usually says no outright to any kind of proposal of this kind, so it is up to the kernel team to come up with an implementation which convinces them :) Bullshit. We (d-i team, mainly Joey) gave very good reasons why we

Re: bits from the release team

2006-01-03 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 03 January 2006 23:52, Sven Luther wrote: The current proposal is about simply using the same .udeb organisation and move it inside the linux-2.6 common package, which is something that works out just fine for ubuntu even, but which the current linux-2.6 common package

Bug#347482: initramfs-tools: Fails to boot with / on LVM and /boot on separate partition

2006-01-10 Thread Frans Pop
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.48 The new option in Debian Installer to automatically partition using LVM creates a system where / and most other partitions are on LVM, but /boot is a separate real partition. The initrd created using initramfs-tools fails to boot with this setup and

Bug#347482: initramfs-tools: Fails to boot with / on LVM and /boot on separate partition

2006-01-10 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 11 January 2006 03:11, you wrote: can you say what was the exact boot failure? what where the last messages on the console.. SCSI, CDROM and USB have been loaded. Begin: Mounting root file system... Begin: Running /scripts/local-top Done. ALERT! /dev/mapper!Debian-root does not

Bug#347482: initramfs-tools: Fails to boot with / on LVM and /boot on separate partition

2006-01-10 Thread Frans Pop
retitle 347482 Does not support ! separator in /dev/mapper names severity 347482 important thanks On Wednesday 11 January 2006 03:44, you wrote: what were the boot args? cat /proc/cmdline root=/dev/mapper!Debian-root ro The problem seems to be in the !. The lvm script expects / there.

Re: cleaning old suggests

2006-01-11 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 11 January 2006 20:25, maximilian attems wrote: * boot loader: grub | lilo (= 19.1) grub is widely deployed by d-i and most actively used. lilo has almost no active dev. lilo isn't supported by xen. grub still does not support some cases (mainly XFS on / IIRC) and in those

Re: cleaning old suggests

2006-01-11 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 11 January 2006 21:07, Maximilian Attems wrote: sorry for the confusion current suggest is lilo (= 19.1) | grub. i would propose to swith to the aboves named order, not drop. Ack that. pgpj4iOTyD7Hl.pgp Description: PGP signature

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

2006-01-25 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 349857 klibc merge 349857 347902 thanks On Wednesday 25 January 2006 18:51, Dave Love wrote: I get the following trying to boot on a v210: run-init: statfsKernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! /: error 22 I've seen the same error on my Sparc Ultra 10. The problem is in

Bug#350482: [hppa] module xfs relocation of symbol freeze_bdev is out of range

2006-01-29 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 29 January 2006 00:51, Julien Louis wrote: I notice that xfs filesystem is unusable during installation, i've found in the log file those lines: Jan 28 20:55:24 modprobe: FATAL: Error inserting xfs (/lib/modules/2.6.14-2-parisc/kernel/fs/xfs/xfs.ko): Invalid module format Jan 28

Re: Kernel 2.4 for etch or not

2006-01-29 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 29 January 2006 00:30, Holger Levsen [1] wrote:     - it's not sensible to have powerpc and amd64 flavors, and probably       others. So this kernel package will not be arch any. (Which is not       really a problem, but unusual.) Probably hppa, ia64 and also alpha won't need 2.4 for

Re: Kernel 2.4 for etch or not

2006-01-30 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 30 January 2006 03:29, Alexander Schmehl wrote: Wouldn't it then be possible then to drop D-I support for 2.4 and ask user to install the old kernel, if needed after the installation? At least if supporting 2.4 for D-I is getting to complicate... Switching from 2.4 to 2.6 (and vice

Re: Kernel 2.4 for etch or not

2006-02-05 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 05 February 2006 15:57, Holger Levsen wrote: hhpa has dropped 2.4 support for sarge... s390 also doesnt seem sensible. 2.6 support for S/390 has missing pieces (mainly hardware configuration stuff). Waldi has been working on this recently, but a full switch to 2.6 is not yet an

Re: Bug#351692: mips-tools doesn't build on powerpc and hppa

2006-02-06 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 06 February 2006 22:25, Martin Michlmayr wrote: architecture.mk convert the architecture name in case the name in Debian and the name in the kernel tree is different, which is the case for powerpc (ppc), and hppa (parisc). Manoj, maybe you can take a look at the build failures on

Re: Kernel 2.4 for etch or not

2006-02-07 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 07 February 2006 12:21, Marco d'Itri wrote: Do you understand that next year 2.4 kernels will probably not installable on a large fraction of the then current hardware? This whole discussion is not about current hardware. It is specifically about older hardware and about some

Re: linux-2.6_2.6.15-6_i386.changes ACCEPTED

2006-02-10 Thread Frans Pop
Allow me to wonder a bit about the way the last two kernel uploads were handled. - 2.6.15-5 was pushed because it solved a remote security issue (CVE-2006-0454), however it was uploaded with urgency LOW - next day, 2.6.15-6 that has a new upstream release is uploaded Wouldn't it have made

Re: linux-2.6_2.6.15-6_i386.changes ACCEPTED

2006-02-10 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 10 February 2006 21:33, Sven Luther wrote: Well, and let one vulnerable remote security update open for a day more, this is not acceptable. Even if only one user gets compromised because of this, then it is enough to warrant the upload. Please read what I said. I did not say that

Bug#352654: installation-reports

2006-02-13 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 352654 grub tags 352654 + patch severity 352654 serious thanks On Monday 13 February 2006 21:12, Frans Pop wrote: ALERT! does not exist. Dropping to a shell! This is the real problem. It should have the name of the root device in that message. What is the output of 'cat /proc

Re: initramfs-tools vs yaird on a server

2006-02-14 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 14 February 2006 18:39, sdbteam wrote: i've had serious issues when installing the linux-image-2.6.15-1-686-smp (testing) on our production server. i don't know if it's because of udev or initramfs-tools but my lvm2 partitions over a raid5 array didn't work anymore. i also had many

Re: initramfs-tools vs yaird on a server

2006-02-14 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 15 February 2006 00:19, you wrote: But as I read bug#352654 it concerns defining the _root_ device (which to my knowledge is the only device ever defined in the GRUB menu.lst file, so choking on LVM _device_ names in GRUB shouldn't relate to /boot). No it does not relate to

Bug#352753: udev: ide-generic no longer loaded on boot

2006-02-14 Thread Frans Pop
/initd.d/hdparm failed IMO it would be good to suppress such messages as, in my experience, they will only lead to unnecessary installation and bug reports. maks suggested to re-add the silence_exec_error patch for Beta2 and maybe come back to this issue after that? Thanks, Frans Pop

Re: initramfs-tools vs yaird on a server

2006-02-14 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 14 February 2006 21:18, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: You may have been hit by http://bugs.debian.org/352654 I suspect not - GRUB can read RAID1 devices only, not RAID5 AFAIK. Hmm. Shouldn't it work if /root is on RAID but /boot is a separate normal partition? pgpklpWjmEfif.pgp

Re: Bug#352274: Udev error messages on boot

2006-02-14 Thread Frans Pop
(forgot to CC d-kernel; already sent to BR) On Tuesday 14 February 2006 11:56, maximilian attems wrote: the faulty Xu patch was removed long ago, still lots of common intel/via hardware needs ide-generic. otherwise no ide driver is loaded for them. Not quite correct: the driver (in my case

Re: Bug#352753: udev: ide-generic no longer loaded on boot

2006-02-15 Thread Frans Pop
Marco, Attached is the info you requested, at least I hope it is. You asked for 'udevtest -a -p /sys/block/hdetc', but udevtest only gave me systax errors or 'could not open file' errors. udevinfo did give a result with those parameters, so I decided you probably mistyped. If you actually want

Re: Bug#352274: Udev error messages on boot

2006-02-15 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 15 February 2006 08:18, Sven Luther wrote: Ok, i guess you just volunteered for helping us investigate what really is happening here, and in particular why the piix driver cannot do it all by itself instead of the ide-generic driver ? Is this correct, that you would be willingto

Bug#353065: linux-image-2.6.15-1-k7: update of 2.6.15-1-k7 results in unstartable system

2006-02-15 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 15 February 2006 23:48, Chris Searle wrote: I have no idea how to go about debugging this and of course - since it can't find the disks - no logs to look in :( Please try the following at the shell prompt: # modprobe ide-generic # echo /dev/hda* Are your partitions listed now? If

Re: linux-image-2.6.14-2 fails to purge

2006-03-06 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 06 March 2006 21:52, Justin Pryzby wrote: I recently updated to linux-image-2.6.15-1, and now I want to remove linux-image-2.6.14-2, but the postinst hangs reading from a pipe during the call to purge(). I'm presently in state Config-files, and I don't know how to debug it further.

Bug#353111: linux-image-2.6.15-1-sparc64-smp: 2.6.15 kernel can't find root disk /dev/sda1, won't boot

2006-03-08 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 08 March 2006 06:42, Blars Blarson wrote: Since the system isn't bootable it's hard to check the contents of that file. You could try the rescue mode of the installer to get a chroot into your root directory to generate a new initrd. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Draft of documenting the ide-generic problem

2006-03-08 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 07 March 2006 18:43, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: I have startet a wiki page to document the ide-generic problem with the Linux kernel (and thus the ramdisk tools as well). The page is here: http://wiki.debian.org/LinuxKernelIdeProblem I am not completely sure that ide-generic really is

Re: My understanding of the IDE mess, and why it does not make sense to apply the proposed patch

2006-03-09 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 09 March 2006 07:35, Jurij Smakov wrote: Looking at the code I cannot see how the native drivers can depend in any way on the ide-generic being loaded before them. This has never been the claim. The issue is that the real driver needs to be loaded but that devices will not become

Re: My understanding of the IDE mess, and why it does not make sense to apply the proposed patch

2006-03-09 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 09 March 2006 18:15, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: Jurij Smakov wrote: While I have not thoroughly tested 2.6.15 in this respect, in 2.6.8 and 2.6.12 some IDE drivers, on some hardware, absolutely does[0]. Maybe this is fixed in 2.6.15/16. I've forwarded this message to [EMAIL

Re: Bug#345067: My understanding of the IDE mess, and why it does not make sense to apply the proposed patch

2006-03-10 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 10 March 2006 15:29, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: If modular-ide is the sole source of trouble here, then what worked in 2.6.14-4 and earlier? =2.6.12 used initrd-tools and that must still contain the correct magic to deal with this. 2.6.14 was the first kernel tested with yaird and

Re: timeline for next kernel update round

2006-03-14 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 15 March 2006 00:15, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: The update is built and tested, it'll appear soon. It contains three ABI changing security fixes, so the ABI will be bumped. I can't speak for d-i. ABI changes are for both 2.6 and 2.4 kernel, correct? Or is the ABI change only for

linux-image-2.6.16-rc5 installation problems on S/390

2006-03-16 Thread Frans Pop
I don't really understand what's happening here. 2.6.15 images install perfectly and use initramfs-tools, but 2.6.16 seems to get totally confused and tries to use yaird instead. The system is running 2.4.27. ii initramfs-tools 0.55btools for generating an initramfs ii udev

Re: linux-image-2.6.16-rc5 installation problems on S/390

2006-03-16 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 16 March 2006 18:41, Frans Pop wrote: I don't really understand what's happening here. 2.6.15 images install perfectly and use initramfs-tools, but 2.6.16 seems to get totally confused and tries to use yaird instead. After creating the initramfs manually using mkinitramfs

Bug#340508: missing modules on s390/s390x

2006-03-16 Thread Frans Pop
Thanks Bastian. On Thursday 16 March 2006 17:29, Bastian Blank wrote: On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 04:13:21PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: Only problem was that the network interface did not come up. Trying to manually start it resulted in: You need a 2.6.16-rc5 kernel and sysconfig-hardware. Yes

Re: linux-image-2.6.16-rc5 installation problems on S/390

2006-03-16 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 16 March 2006 19:26, Bastian Blank wrote: Yes, this is the definition until now. If you don't want to wait for the next snapshot, you have to force it with /etc/kernel-img.conf. Shouldn't it at least have seen that initramfs-tools was installed and used that as yaird was not even

Bug#354458: Kernel panic after upgrading initramfs-tools

2006-03-17 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 17 March 2006 23:34, Manuel Bilderbeek wrote: Hey! The problem with the no init found is gone! So, the cause was in the initrd after all! Altough, it booted a lot further, it still didn't complete it: when it wants to mount the root fs, it gives an error that it can't find /dev/hda6

Bug#358510: linux-image: SCSI/SATA boot problem

2006-03-23 Thread Frans Pop
severity 358510 important thanks On Thursday 23 March 2006 00:57, Glenn English wrote: When it comes time, during the boot process, to mount the root partition, sda has become a SATA drive. The boot kernel says sda3 doesn't exist, and drops to a shell (or when the SCSI has only one partition,

Re: Modules packaging policy - call for discussion

2006-03-23 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 23 March 2006 21:30, Sven Luther wrote: There are some minor technical hurdles to it, and a strong irrational opposition to it though, so it is probably going to stay a problem. You don't learn, do you? pgppU8gwjUm0D.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Modules packaging policy - call for discussion

2006-03-24 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 24 March 2006 15:29, Max Vozeler wrote: My question is: How can I determine the subset of flavours that are used in -di packages and that it makes sense to build module udebs for? All flavors d-i builds udebs from for all architectures can be found in the d-i SVN archive in

Re: Bug#359164: [powerpc64] d-i fails, base-installer/initramfs/no-generator

2006-03-26 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 27 March 2006 00:42, Shyamal Prasad wrote: (X-Debbugs-CC to debian-kernel at Sven Luther's request, perhaps this should have been filed against initramfs-tools directly) This is not an initramfs-tools problem, but the result of powerpc daily d-i builds, for which Sven himself is

Re: Bug#359164: [powerpc64] d-i fails, base-installer/initramfs/no-generator

2006-03-27 Thread Frans Pop
with local (Exim 4.50) id 1FNgsa-Xp-6p for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mon, 27 Mar 2006 03:50:48 +0200 Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 03:50:43 +0200 To: Frans Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: d-i daily build fails when building initrd (PowerMac7,3) Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL

Re: Bug#359164: [powerpc64] d-i fails, base-installer/initramfs/no-generator

2006-03-27 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 27 March 2006 17:21, Sven Luther wrote: with something like 18 hours of interval between them, which i believe If anybody can tell me where these 18 hours come from, I'll be happy to consider apologizing. I replied two times on the same subject as there was both a thread on d-boot

Bug#357065: linux-image-2.6-r4k-ip22 immediately reboots on Indy 200MHz R4400

2006-03-27 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 27 March 2006 16:58, Thomas Jahns wrote: Please comment. But with non-working PS/2 keyboard and non-working /etc/fstab for both kernel version, the 2.6.16 image is pretty worthless to me at this moment. You could try using the rescue mode [1] of the Etch Beta 2 release [2] of Debian

Bug#360336: linux-2.6: Allows processor to overheat on Toshiba Satellite A40

2006-04-01 Thread Frans Pop
Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.16-4 Severity: important Tags: upstream Up to the latest 2.6.15 kernel I've always had good temperature control for my laptop with the fan starting up and slowing down as needed. Now the fan will not start up anymore until the processor is already overheated.

Re: Bug#361024: note on 2.4 is deprecated

2006-04-13 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 13 April 2006 22:59, Steve Langasek wrote: I think etch should support 2.4 in the sense of upgrade support only; i.e., it should support 2.4 because we need to be able to install etch on systems running sarge 2.4 kernels, not because we'll provide support for 2.4 in etch. What

Bug#363437: initramfs-tools: [S/390] dasd hook script being run twice causes error

2006-04-18 Thread Frans Pop
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.59b I've reported this before, but now I've traced it... During kernel upgrade on S/390 I see this error: ln: creating symbolic link `/tmp/mkinitramfs_laxXYw//etc/modprobe.d/dasd' to `/tmp/initramfs_dasd': File exists The attached trace (which cost me quite

Bug#363997: linux-2.6: Some Toshiba laptops no longer reboot correctly

2006-04-20 Thread Frans Pop
Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.16-1 Tags: patch Please consider applying the patch from: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=7896action=view that belongs to bug: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6395 This patch has already been signed off by the upstream ACPI

Bug#363997: linux-2.6: Some Toshiba laptops no longer reboot correctly

2006-04-20 Thread Frans Pop
severity 363997 important merge 363997 360336 severity 363997 critical thanks On Thursday 20 April 2006 23:24, Frans Pop wrote: Please consider applying the patch from: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=7896action=view that belongs to bug: http://bugzilla.kernel.org

Bug#363997: linux-2.6: Some Toshiba laptops no longer reboot correctly

2006-04-21 Thread Frans Pop
severity 363997 important tags 363997 - patch thanks On Friday 21 April 2006 03:35, Frans Pop wrote: This patch has already been signed off by the upstream ACPI maintainer. Looks like upstream may prefer a different patch that reverses a quirk that was introduced to make the smbus visible

Bug#364301: initramfs-tools: Please show what is being done on upgrades

2006-04-22 Thread Frans Pop
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.60 Something I find extremely annoying at the moment is that initramfs-tools is silent when it generates an initrd during upgrade of, for example, udev. What I get on e.g. my sparc is: Setting up udev (0.090-1) ... Installing new version of config file

Bug#363997: #363997: linux-2.6: Some Toshiba laptops no longer reboot correctly

2006-04-23 Thread Frans Pop
tag 363997 upstream merge 363997 360336 thanks Latest from upstream is that the patch I linked to in [1] will be included in 2.6.10, so I suggest just waiting for that. [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=363997;msg=5 pgpInu0p5G758.pgp Description: PGP signature

Bug#365730: corrupt nvram caused problem, not related to 'via-pmu: Server Mode'

2006-05-04 Thread Frans Pop
merge 365730 364637 thanks On Thursday 04 May 2006 13:52, Toni L. Harbaugh-Blackford [Contr] wrote: Subsequent attempt to boot 5/3/06 daily image made it to the 'Trying to im_free...' hang from bug Bug#365844. That should be #364637 (as #365844 was closed because it was a duplicate). As it now

Re: Lastest klibc breaks rootskel?

2006-11-08 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 08 November 2006 19:10, Joey Hess wrote: Jérôme Marant wrote: I tried to rebuilt rootskel yesterday and I got: Making install in src-bootfloppy make[2]: entrant dans le répertoire « /home/jerome/d-i/packages/rootskel/src-bootfloppy » Making build in bin make[3]: entrant

Bug#398962: i82365 driver behaves very badly in vmware

2006-11-16 Thread Frans Pop
forcemerge 398962 390809 391962 reassign 398962 linux-2.6 severity 398962 serious thanks On Thursday 16 November 2006 21:00, Joey Hess wrote: 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. I'm

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

2006-11-25 Thread Frans Pop
marvell gigabit ethernet port is a platform device for which the driver should be loaded. Can anyone shed some light on this and suggest a solution? See http://bugs.debian.org/398962 for details. Thanks in advance, Frans Pop P.S. Please keep the debian BTS CCed on replies. pgpD5al3SafgU.pgp

Re: 2.6.16.y -stable branch

2006-12-02 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 01 December 2006 23:33, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just noticed that Adrian Bunk's stable 2.6.16.y branch has been removed from Etch, and I think that sucks. Not quite true: Adrian Bunk's tree has never been in Etch. The linux-2.6.16 package contained just the regular 2.6.16 kernel

Re: Bug#401229: installation-reports

2006-12-02 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 401229 initramfs-tools severity 401229 important retitle 401229 [hppa] zalon7xx driver not included in initrd thanks On Saturday 02 December 2006 00:11, Kurt Fitzner wrote: Comments/Problems: A necessary device driver for my system (zalon7xx) was on the install CD, but not included

Bug#401352: Significant delays when booting installer in vmware [486 kernel]

2006-12-02 Thread Frans Pop
Package: linux-2.6 Severity: important Version: 2.6.18-6 Tags: d-i Since d-i switched to 2.6.18 I'm seeing significant delays during boot of the installer in two places. See dmesg fragment below (full dmesg attached). If I boot the installer with an RC1 image (using 2.6.17), there are no

Bug#388696: Bug#390038: this is caused by the use of /sbin/update-grub

2006-12-03 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 03 December 2006 22:34, dean gaudet wrote: the linux-image .postrm script is (through some mechanism) invoking /sbin/update-grub. /sbin/update-grub gives a warning now: You shouldn't call /sbin/update-grub. Please call /usr/sbin/update-grub instead! except that warning is sent

Bug#334104: RFC: workaround for dmfe/tulip module problem

2006-12-03 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 03 December 2006 23:58, Richard Mortimer wrote: but when I boot with dmfe.disable=1 on the commandline the driver gets loaded. pingu:/sys/module/dmfe# cat /proc/cmdline root=/dev/hda7 ro dmfe.disable=1 The dmfe.disable=1 construct was intended for use with the installer which

Bug#401352: Significant delays when booting installer in vmware [486 kernel]

2006-12-06 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 02 December 2006 21:09, Frans Pop wrote: Since d-i switched to 2.6.18 I'm seeing significant delays during boot of the installer in two places. Using git-bisect I have traced the issue to the following upstream commit. Note that this commit was part of a longer series. commit

Re: Scheduling linux-2.6 2.6.18-9

2006-12-15 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 15 December 2006 18:08, Frederik Schueler wrote: Question towards the boot and release teams: is this OK with you? I know this means a further delay of etch because of another round of udebs and various changes in the installer configs, but the Xen issue is odd and really needs a

Bug#403364: SunBlade 150 problems - can anyone confirm?

2006-12-16 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 16 December 2006 17:58, Jurij Smakov wrote: Since you are the only person who reported such a problem so far, I feel that severity is a bit too high, so I'm dropping it to 'important' for now. I'm also CC'ing this message to the debian-sparc mailing list to ask whether anybody else

Re: Bug#403630: installationreport etch

2006-12-18 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 403630 linux-2.6 retitle 403630 Hangs while detecting CD-ROM devices thanks On Monday 18 December 2006 16:23, Hubert Krause wrote: Comments/Problems: There is one internal networkcontroller, that was not detected during install. Your controller 00:07.0 Bridge [0680]: nVidia

Re: Scheduling linux-2.6 2.6.18-9

2006-12-21 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 21 December 2006 12:01, Steve Langasek wrote: Yes, TTBOMK these packages could be binNMUed for a *silent* ABI change. For an ABI change expressed in the package name, they would all need sourceful uploads. For d-i release management I'd actually prefer an ABI change for loop-aes

Bug#404143: Fans unreliable under load, permanent memory leak

2006-12-24 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 24 December 2006 03:07, Frederik Schueler wrote: 2. port 2.6.19 ACPI - noop because way too much work, unless someone crazy enough to accomplish this task. Did you see that Bas Zoetekouw managed [1, #400488] to solve the problem for his box by applying some selected patches from

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