Bug#336454: yaird: Creates initrd with deviating permissions

2005-10-30 Thread Frans Pop
Package: yaird Version: 0.0.11-9 Severity: normal After installing 2.6.14 I noticed that the initrd created by yaird has different permissions from all other initrds on my system. -rw--- 1 root root 1069831 2005-10-30 12:11 initrd.img-2.6.14-1-686 All others have -rw-r--r--. Also all kerne

Re: Bug#331391: Re: ftpmaster: Please remove 2.6.8 kernel images

2005-10-14 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 14 October 2005 07:38, Sven Luther wrote: > I personally favour > dropping the per arch copy of this files which needs individual > modification, in favour of a simpler cpuinfo->flavour mapping and a > single kernel-install file, but joeyh doesn't seem to like that. I'm sure that if you

Re: Bug#331391: Re: ftpmaster: Please remove 2.6.8 kernel images

2005-10-14 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 14 October 2005 02:09, Steve Langasek wrote: > > i386, alpha, s390, sparc, powerpc only use it for 2.4 kernels. > > Does this mean that these archs are now using linux-image-$foo for 2.6 > kernels Yes. > or that we've regressed to hard-coding kernel versions in > places? No, just a ch

Re: 2.6.13, experimental and 2.6.14-rc ...

2005-10-04 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 04 October 2005 15:56, Allyn, Mark A wrote: > I am a little confused. Is experimental the first distro that anything > goes into in order to get into Debian? Experimental is an *optional* testing ground for developers. Changes that are known to break things or very invasive may be uplo

Re: Removing 2.6.8 from the archive, is it time?

2005-10-02 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 27 September 2005 05:11, Horms wrote: > We spoke about this last month (or was it earlier this month, > I forget), and at that time 2.6.8 was still being used by d-i. > It seems that the transition to 2.6.12 is going pretty well, > is the d-i team happy for 2.6.8 to be removed from the a

Bug#330445: do_initrd message fails in noninteractive install

2005-09-30 Thread Frans Pop
(CC'ing Manoj as the bug is no longer assigned to his package) On Friday 30 September 2005 16:10, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > The same seems to happen about the link in boot and other such > > options, which with the new kernels may or not be still uptodate > > default choices, at least i heard so

Bug#330769: linux-image-2.6.12-1-686: Kernel loads radeon before agpgart despite /etc/modules, breaking DRI

2005-09-29 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 29 September 2005 20:51, dann frazier wrote: > On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 11:01 -0700, Chip Salzenberg wrote: > > I've just upgraded to sid, and I've found that the kernel loads the > > radeon module before agpgart, despite my specifically mentioning > > agpgart before radeon in /etc/modules

Re: Removing 2.6.8 from the archive, is it time?

2005-09-27 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 27 September 2005 05:11, Horms wrote: > We spoke about this last month (or was it earlier this month, > I forget), and at that time 2.6.8 was still being used by d-i. > It seems that the transition to 2.6.12 is going pretty well, > is the d-i team happy for 2.6.8 to be removed from the a

Re: In preparation for 2.6.13 - initrd issues

2005-09-15 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 15 September 2005 10:16, Marco d'Itri wrote: > Proper hotplug support is provided by udev itself, hardware detection > should come in ~1 month. Is this enough to start using udev in d-i? Yes, from this thread it looks like we can start testing as soon as the dependency on a hotplug-ud

Bug#271315: kernel-image-2.6.8-2-sparc64: sun keyboard problem : proposed fix

2005-09-13 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 271315 release-notes thanks On Wednesday 14 September 2005 04:19, Horms wrote: > > This is not a bug, but a result of a change in the kernel's > > input/output layer. The Sarge release notes [1] have information on > > this change. > > > > [1]http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/sparc/re

Re: RM: please remove any remnant of 2.6.10 and 2.6.11 kernels from etch/sid

2005-09-13 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 13 September 2005 20:01, Sven Luther wrote: > Also, if there are 2.6.8 kernels in sid/etch still, these can be > removed as well. Note: 2.6.8 should _not_ yet be removed and I understand from Sven on IRC that he did not intend to request that with this mail. 2.6.8 is currently still in

Re: In preparation for 2.6.13 - initrd issues

2005-09-13 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 13 September 2005 19:32, Frans Pop wrote: > Yes, we are aware of that. The missing udev is for hotplug on which the > udev-udeb depends. Eh, s/missing udev/missing udeb/ of course. (/me thinks it is unfortunate that 'v' and 'b' keys are so close to each

Re: In preparation for 2.6.13 - initrd issues

2005-09-13 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 13 September 2005 19:15, Marco d'Itri wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >A udeb for hotplug in unstable? Hmmm, packages.d.o makes no mention of ^^^ > > it and I could not find it on a mirror... > > http://packages.debian.org/unstable/debian-installer/udev-udeb Yes, w

Bug#271315: kernel-image-2.6.8-2-sparc64: sun keyboard problem : proposed fix

2005-09-13 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 13 September 2005 12:07, Emmanuel Kasprzyk wrote: > I encountered also this problem while migrating from the > kernel-image-2.4.19-sun4u (3.0 ) to kernel-image-2.6.8-2-sparc64, on a > un ULTRA 10 with a Type5 keyboard. If you do dpkg-reconfigure > console-data, and then select "Keep kern

Re: In preparation for 2.6.13 - initrd issues

2005-09-13 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 13 September 2005 12:01, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 11:17:44AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > In linux.debian.maint.boot Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Marco d'Itri has also talked about his plans to incorporate coldplug > > >into udev. If we have co

Re: In preparation for 2.6.13 - initrd issues

2005-09-13 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 13 September 2005 00:13, Marco d'Itri wrote: > In linux.debian.kernel Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >The major issue for d-i with 2.6.13 is the dropped devfs support. > > However, there already is support for udev in d-i; what's currently > >

Re: In preparation for 2.6.13 - initrd issues

2005-09-13 Thread Frans Pop
> Should I keep cross-posting, or which of the lists is most relevant for > me to subscribe and for all of us to continue this thread? Let's keep main discussion on d-kernel. Both Joey Hess and I are subscribed there, so no reason to CC us privately. CC'ing d-boot when there are issues specific

Re: In preparation for 2.6.13 - initrd issues

2005-09-12 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 12 September 2005 03:23, Jurij Smakov wrote: > 2. What changes need to be done to integrate a new initrd-generating > tool into the kernel packaging infrastracture. It might be as simple as > switching the postinst of kernel packages from running mkinitrd to > running yaird. I have no ide

Re: Bug#325484: udev >= 0.060-1 and kernels >= 2.6.12

2005-08-30 Thread Frans Pop
(pruning CC list; AFAIK all will still get the message this way) On Tuesday 30 August 2005 04:56, Steve Langasek wrote: > > So we're going to have another release with a very elaborate upgrade > > procedure in the release notes (which a lot of users, especially > > desktop users, don't read anyway

Re: Bug#325484: udev >= 0.060-1 and kernels >= 2.6.12

2005-08-29 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 29 August 2005 12:35, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Aug 29, Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In effect this means that any user having udev installed will have to > > put udev on hold. > > No, if the kernel has not been upgraded yet then preinst will

Fwd: Re: Bug#325484: udev >= 0.060-1 and kernels >= 2.6.12

2005-08-29 Thread Frans Pop
2 Date: Monday 29 August 2005 12:21 From: Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-release@lists.debian.org, Marco d'Itri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Monday 29 August 2005 11:06, Sven Luther wrote: > > * reboot > > * upgrade udev > > This is defini

Re: 3.1 Sarge kernel 2.4 kernel boots Ok, 2.6 fails to detect IDEs.

2005-08-26 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 26 August 2005 23:03, james wrote: > I bought a new PC the other day. P4 3.0G with 64Bit extensions. > I tried the install of the 2.6. kernel and the CD/DVD was not detected. > Looking back through dmesg there was stuff about ide ports already in > use - rubbish. Not rubbish actually, bu

Re: status of first round of sarge kernel updates

2005-08-26 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 26 August 2005 21:50, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 03:22:02PM -0600, dann frazier wrote: > > http://wiki.debian.net/?DebianKernelSargeUpdateStatus > > Read-only, fix that. Must be on your side; no problems here. Added your links. pgpHQzihpyANu.pgp Description: PGP s

Re: removing /etc/hotplug.d/ support

2005-08-25 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 25 August 2005 10:45, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Aug 25, Horms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There are some architectures where 2.4 is required, its > > because of these that it seems that we are stuck with 2.4 for Etch. > > alpha (installer), m68k (2.6 only works on amiga), s390 > > (

Bug#322723: #322723 D-I: 'ip route add' fails w/ "Network is unreachable"

2005-08-21 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 21 August 2005 03:56, Horms wrote: > I've put the following in SVN, so this > should be resolved in the next release. I noticed on IRC that you put a "closes: #322723" in the changelog. I'm wondering if that is correct as I would say there still is a bad bug in gcc-4.0 causing the kerne

Bug#322723: #322723 D-I: 'id route add' fails w/ "Network is unreachable"

2005-08-20 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 19 August 2005 21:01, Bastian Blank wrote: > - the problem is not there in the 686 image. On request from waldi, I've compiled a -386 kernel (using gcc-4.0) with one change in ./debian/arch/i386/config.386: - CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE=y + # CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE is not set The

Re: G5 sound support in 2.6.12-1

2005-08-20 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 20 August 2005 16:55, Brian DeRocher wrote: > I just installed linux-image-2.6.12-1-powerpc64 on a > dual G5 PowerMac7,2 and i'm eager to get the sound > working. Is this possible yet? This is not the correct list for this question. Please ask any follow-up questions on debian-user i

Bug#322723: #322723 D-I: 'id route add' fails w/ "Network is unreachable"

2005-08-18 Thread Frans Pop
With help from waldi I have done some additional tests for this issue yesterday and today. Here are the main results: - the problem is still there if Sarge's 'ip' is used instead of the busybox version - the problem is still there if the new linux-image-2.6.12-1-386 (2.6.12-5) kernel is used

Bug#320053: problem loading i810_audio module fixed in 2.6.12

2005-08-17 Thread Frans Pop
retitle 320053 loading i810_audio module fails on some systems (fixed in 2.6.12) tags 320053 + fixed-upstream thanks Stefan has been doing some tests for this issue. Below are the results. On Wednesday 17 August 2005 22:30, stefan wrote: > hi again... > > > What I think you need to do: > > - apt-

Re: Source for linux-image-2.6.12-1-386

2005-08-17 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 17 August 2005 19:34, Allyn, MarkX A wrote: > I tried to do an apt-cache showsrc for the > linux-image-2.6.12-1-386 package that is in > the testing (Etch) repository and I could > not find anything. Source package is linux-2.6. You may want to get familiar with http://packages.debian

Bug#323143: ip neigh flush (iproute) hangs because CONFIG_ATM_CLIP=y

2005-08-16 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 16 August 2005 19:35, Andres Salomon wrote: > > Regarding this problem with iproute: > > > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=282492 > > > > Would it be possible to include a fix for this, or at least make > > CONFIG_ATM_CLIP a module instead of a yes in the stock kerne

Bug#322533: linux-2.6: no sound: codec_write 0: semaphore is not ready for register

2005-08-11 Thread Frans Pop
tags 322533 + fixed-upstream thanks Hi Steve, On Thursday 11 August 2005 11:14, Steve Langasek wrote: > codec_write 0: semaphore is not ready for register 0x2 > Under 2.6.8, the following modules are loaded: > > snd_intel8x0m 20872 0 > snd_intel8x0 37452 2 I've seen the sam

Bug#320379: Errors during initrd loading when / is on LVM over RAID

2005-08-11 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 11 August 2005 12:41, you wrote: > Given that devfs is very much dead upstream, and the fixes > are cosmetic, I'd prefer not to apply your fixes to Debian. > I've taged the bug as wontfix and downgraded it to wishlist > so others can find it for now. Fine by me. It's good to keep the p

Bug#319755: linux-image-2.6.12-1-686: conflict during boot between genrtc and rtc

2005-08-03 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 319755 initrd-tools retitle 319755 initrd should not load rtc modules severity 319755 important thanks I've discovered that it is not possible to 'modprobe -r genrtc' after the system is up and replace it with the regular rtc module. All in all there seems to be no reason for the initrd

Re: I need to know how to create and use Driver Update Disks

2005-08-02 Thread Frans Pop
nstallation system using the 2.6.12 kernel, but it is not yet sure if users will be able to use that to install Sarge. It very much depends on the nature of the patches if they will be accepted for Sarge. Your interest is very much appreciated though. Cheers, Frans Pop pgpQpqoQ7SUYw.pg

Bug#319755: linux-image-2.6.12-1-686: conflict during boot between genrtc and rtc

2005-08-02 Thread Frans Pop
I've looked at this a bit more and it looks like the initrd is responsible for loading the genrtc module. I doubt that this should be the responsibility of the initrd... pgplCPJpMmVEn.pgp Description: PGP signature

Bug#320379: Errors during initrd loading when / is on LVM over RAID

2005-07-28 Thread Frans Pop
Package: kernel Tags: patch After switching from a 2.4.27 to 2.6.8 kernel for an old desktop Iuse as a server, I noticed the following messages on console and kern.log. Note: the errors are not harmful, just ugly; the system boots normally. kernel: Inspecting /boot/System.map-2.6.8-2-686 kernel:

Re: Bug#320053: kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686: Installing it with sarge leads to failing at booting next time

2005-07-28 Thread Frans Pop
owner 320053 ! thanks On Thursday 28 July 2005 08:48, Horms wrote: > > i don't see why this bug is related to me... > > another developer just mailed me and showed me this bugreport: > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=298623 > > > > and this is exactly my problem g > > Yes, I thi

Bug#310931: your mail

2005-07-26 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 27 July 2005 00:42, Marcin Owsiany wrote: > > acpid is already installed on all systems with acpi (and 2.6 kernels) > > by hw-detect. > > I wonder why it didn't get installed with sarge on my laptop.. Is it > installed in expert mode as well? acpi and acpid are scheduled for installat

Bug#320053: kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686: Installing it with sarge leads to failing at booting next time

2005-07-26 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 26 July 2005 19:27, Stefan Esterer wrote: > After i choose the Sarge install in grub the kernel stops after some > time with : > modprobe: FATAL: Error inserting pciehp > (/lib/modules/2.6.8-2-686/kernel/drivers/pci/hotplug/shpchp.ko): > Operation not permitted > shpchp: can't be loaded

Re: 2.6.12 upload

2005-07-26 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 26 July 2005 20:00, Stephen R Marenka wrote: > daily builds aren't that big of a deal. If one fails because of a > kernel change, you update the config and build it manually or the next > day. This is already what happens with a change in the build-deps (at > least, if you're not watchin

Bug#319878: kernel-image-2.6-686: the entire range of 2.6 debian kernels do not install on m/cs with <= 48mb RAM

2005-07-26 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 26 July 2005 02:06, Steve Langasek wrote: > I believe Joey Hess is the person who has the best handle on what the > actual minimum requirements are for installing sarge. Joey, do you > have anything we could add to the sarge release notes for this, if it's > not already in there? The d

Bug#319755: linux-image-2.6.12-1-686: conflict during boot between genrtc and rtc

2005-07-24 Thread Frans Pop
Package: linux-source-2.6.12 Version: 2.6.12-1 Severity: minor linux-image-2.6.12-1-686 includes both the genrtc and rtc modules. During boot, the genrtc driver is loaded fairly early on. Later, hotplug tries to also load the rtc module which fails. I'm not sure which driver is to be preferred, b

Bug#319753: linux-image-2.6.12-1-686: Long pause during boot while probing ide

2005-07-24 Thread Frans Pop
Package: linux-source-2.6.12 Version: 2.6.12-1 Yesterday I experienced a fairly long pause during boot of my Toshiba Satellite A40 laptop. The pause happens while IDE interfaces are being probed as indicated in the fragment from kern.log below. The pause was long enough (about 10-15 seconds) that

Bug#319657: linux-image-2.6.12-1-686: /vmlinuz and /initrd symlinks were botched after installing 2.6.12

2005-07-23 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 23 July 2005 20:47, Andrew Moise wrote: > After installing linux-image, the automatic run of lilo failed. I > found that that had been because my /vmlinuz symlink pointed to > '/boot/-2.6' and my /initrd.img to '/boot/-2.6'. That should probably be '/boot-2.6' in both cases. At leas

Re: kernel security upgrades

2005-03-26 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 26 March 2005 11:45, Andreas Barth wrote: > system 5. remove old udebs: >breaks businesscard cds the hard way, because they want to retrieve >them You are still somewhat confused Businesscard CD can be broken because it downloads the kernel for the new system and version

Bug#298927: Testers wanted for kernel/discover1

2005-03-24 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 24 March 2005 05:51, Jurij Smakov wrote: > We have a couple of pretty important bugfixes, which I would like to see > tested as soon (and as much) as possible. Those are: > > * Modular IDE in kernel 2.4.27. That change potentially may affect all > sparc machines with IDE controllers

Re: ABI-changing kernel security fixes for sarge

2005-03-23 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 23 March 2005 16:09, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: > My experience with the whole kernel stuff is limited so excuse the > question: Where is the bottleneck? Building the kernels, testing the > kernels or whatever else? IMHO the main problem is that currently loads of other patches are stil

Bug#281591: cannot hit Return at DELAY prompt on SunBlade 100

2005-02-19 Thread Frans Pop
It is not very likely that this is an initrd-tools problem. We have several installation reports for SunBlade 100 that mention that the USB keyboard does not work correctly after booting debian-installer. So it is much more likely that there is a more general problem with kernel support for USB

Bug#295488: [sparc64] [atyfb] No display after boot; monitor is suspended

2005-02-15 Thread Frans Pop
Package: kernel-source-2.6.10 Severity: serious Justification: Serious regression from 2.6.8 Tags: patch As a result of the discussion on switching to 2.6.10 for Sarge, I have tested 2.6.10 on my Sparc Ultra 10. Result was that I discovered a serious regression for the atyfb (Mach64) framebuffe

Bug#277298: Kernel 2.6.x real time clock hang on Dell

2005-02-12 Thread Frans Pop
According to #294938 this problem is fixed in 2.6.10 kernels. I don't know if it would be possible to identify the fix and backport it to 2.6.8 (I understand this is generally quite hard for ACPI problems). Cheers, FJP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscri

Bug#293683: FWD: Re: Bug#293683: My problem!

2005-02-12 Thread Frans Pop
> Mika wrote: > To a different subject how many places for startup config does debian > have? I am having trouble disabling snd_intel8x0 module from to be > loaded at start up. it's on the blacklist... > But this doesent concern you so sorry. There basically are three places: - /etc/modules - disc

Re: irc meeting regarding kernel status d-i RC3

2005-02-06 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 05 February 2005 23:01, maximilian attems wrote: > 2.6.10 needs to be considered if time frame shifts. > 1/2 a year of kernel dev resulting in better hardware support > (acpi newer intel board) should not be thrown away too easily. I came across #291884 today, which blocks the unloadin

Bug#240932: (fwd) RE: ide troubles

2005-01-12 Thread Frans Pop
> Any ideas on how to get the installer to recover from this condition? > Well, this kind of ends my involvement. It's now up to the kernel people to say if this is a kernel problem or, if not, reassign the bug elsewhere. Cheers, FJP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subjec

Bug#240932: (fwd) RE: ide troubles

2005-01-12 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 12 January 2005 01:58, you wrote: > 2) Using "linux debconf/priority=medium", I _only_ loaded the following > modules when detecting my CDROM (because now it asked me...): > ide-detect > ide-disk > ide-cd > isofs > That works - problem solved! Sounds like a driver conflict. If

Bug#240932: (fwd) RE: ide troubles

2005-01-11 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 11 January 2005 20:19, you wrote: > I did see a progress bar that displays all directory names under > /pool/*/*. Hmmm. The log does not really tell us anything new. Here's a few more things to try. For both I advice you to boot the installer with 'linux debconf/priority=medium'. 1.

Bug#240932: (fwd) RE: ide troubles

2005-01-10 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 11 January 2005 01:08, Will Lentz wrote: > In /var/log/syslog I see: > cdrom-detect: Searching for Debian installation media... > cdrom-detect: CDROM-mount succeeded: device=/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 > cdrom-detect: Detected CD 'Debian GNU/Linux testing "Sarge" - Official > Snapshot i386 Binary

Bug#240932: (fwd) RE: ide troubles

2005-01-10 Thread Frans Pop
> - Forwarded message from Will Lentz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - > > Of course, now I get an error message saying: > "Failed to copy file from CDROM, Retry?" > and Alt-F4 shows: > grep: > /cdrom/dists//Release > > : No such file or directory This means that cdrom-detect ("Detect and mount CD-RO

Bug#288046: kernel: NFS fh_verify causes lost output (2.4 kernel)

2004-12-31 Thread Frans Pop
running Sarge with 2.6.8 kernel. [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=110421 Cheers, Frans Pop

aic79xx module (was: Bug#275006: Bug fixed for me in linux26 netinst 20041130)

2004-12-01 Thread Frans Pop
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Forwarding for your information. - -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Bug#275006: Bug fixed for me in linux26 netinst 20041130 Date: Wednesday 01 December 2004 19:28 From: "Deccio, Casey T" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [

Re: status of d-i 2.4.27/2.6.8 kernel transition

2004-09-12 Thread Frans Pop
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 12 September 2004 13:34, Sven Luther wrote: > Yes, you need to checkout d-i, and go into > debian-installer/packages/kernel/linux-kernel-di-hppa and make an upload of > this with the 2.4.27 kernels. > > The rest of the stuff includes some ada

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