Bug#349354: initramfs-tools - kernel -udev dependency loop

2006-01-22 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
Package: initramfs-tools,kernel,udev Currently: - recent linux-image packages depend on 'initramfs-tools | yaird | linux-initramfs-tool', so initramfs-tools is the 'default' alternative - initramfs-tools depends on recent udev - recent udev refuses to install unless recent kernel is

Bug#400439: initramfs-tools: postinst may not update initramfs

2006-11-26 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.85b Severity: normal Looks line postinst script of initramfs-tools package just runs 'update-initramfs -u' This looks to update initramfs image for one of installed linux-image packages, while keeping it as-is for all other packages. This could lead to

Bug#390862: -bigmem version of xen kernels is really needed

2006-11-30 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
severity 390862 important thanks Hello. Currently, debian does not provide any xen kernel with pae enabled. This forces to use xen hypervisor without pae support, which in turn makes it impossible to use more than 3.5G of system RAM. But the very idea of virtualization is to provide better

Bug#390862: -bigmem version of xen kernels is really needed

2006-12-01 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
severity 390862 wishlist thanks On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 03:08:15PM +0300, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: Currently, debian does not provide any xen kernel with pae enabled. And? I've written why it's bad. By this decision, you are breaking important usage scenario, effectively making

Bug#400439: RFC: initramfs-tools postinst causes system inconsistency?

2006-12-02 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
for futher discussion. On Sun, 26 Nov 2006, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: Looks line postinst script of initramfs-tools package just runs 'update-initramfs -u' yes and it will stay like this. This looks to update initramfs image for one of installed linux-image packages, while keeping

Bug#390862: -bigmem version of xen kernels is really needed

2006-12-12 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
What about idea not to *add* pae versions of xen kernels, but to *replace* non-pae versions with pae versions? Rationale: - not increase in archive size or linux-2.6 package build time, - this will improve compatimility with other distros (consider scenario when running FC or RHEL in domU;

Bug#403905: initramfs-tools: update-initramfs depends on outside environment

2006-12-20 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.85c Severity: minor While browsing /usr/sbin/update-initramfs script, I've found that it does not clear 'mode' environment variable that could come from environment. Although nothing serious, better to fix it by adding something like 'unset mode' or 'mode='

Bug#403905: initramfs-tools: update-initramfs depends on outside environment

2006-12-20 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
While browsing /usr/sbin/update-initramfs script, I've found that it does not clear 'mode' environment variable that could come from environment. Although nothing serious, better to fix it by adding something like 'unset mode' or 'mode=' before command-line parsing. And same with 'version'

Bug#464953: ptpatch2008.c does not work

2008-02-11 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
but seems to be another solution which apparently compiles to a kernel module which will catch and report attempts to (ab)use vmsplice at http://home.powertech.no/oystein/ptpatch2008/ptpatch2008.c I've just tried to compile this module. It successfully insmod'ed: Feb 11 12:54:29 zigzag

debian kernel oops on usb bluetooth dongle disconnect

2004-05-25 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
Hello. After upgrading kernel from 2.4 to debian 2.6.6-1-686 package, I suffered 100% reproducable kernel oops whn I unplugged my usb bluetooth dongle. After some search, I found that the problem is known, and may be fixed by applying patch-2.6.6-mh2 from http://www.bluez.org/patches.html. I

Re: debian kernel oops on usb bluetooth dongle disconnect

2004-05-26 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 01:12:03AM +0400, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: Hello. Hello Nikita, After upgrading kernel from 2.4 to debian 2.6.6-1-686 package, I suffered 100% reproducable kernel oops whn I unplugged my usb bluetooth dongle. This kind of stuff belongs not to this list

Re: debian kernel oops on usb bluetooth dongle disconnect

2004-05-28 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 01:12:03AM +0400, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: Hello. After upgrading kernel from 2.4 to debian 2.6.6-1-686 package, I suffered 100% reproducable kernel oops whn I unplugged my usb bluetooth dongle. After some search, I found that the problem is known

Bug#250984: 2.6.7 no longer has this bug

2004-07-10 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I've upgraded to debian 2.6.7 kernel; it seems not to have this bug. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFA78q6sTbPknTfAB4RAqk6AJ9EFOxEzy9cwsoS6SLRUUqPf7cWkACcD7Vc CU+24JJmyxsT3N8ySk+U6XU= =2lg+ -END PGP

unexpected diff between -686 and -k7 config

2007-05-02 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
I've just found that debian/arch/i386/config.686 and debian/arch/i386/config.k7 differ not only in cpu-related keys: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/ svn diff svn://svn.debian.org/kernel/dists/trunk/linux-2.6/debian/arch/i386/config. {686,k7} ... @@ -41,6 +42,12 @@ # CONFIG_PCMCIA_XIRTULIP is not set #

Bug#395288: closed by Bastian Blank [EMAIL PROTECTED] (asm/system.h not exported)

2007-09-10 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
asm/system.h is not on the exported headers list. This means that it is usually not save to use it from userspace. A quick check looks like this is the case. Don't even think about using it. Could you please explain what is 'exported headers list', who maintains it, etc? Also, what is

Bug#501383: domU with 2.6.26 does not see more than 4G of RAM

2008-10-06 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
Package: linux-image-2.6.26-1-xen-686 Version: 2.6.26-5 Severity: normal I've just tried to start kernel from linux-image-2.6.26-1-xen-686 instead of etch xen kernel in a domU. Since that domU runs an application server with 50 KDE session nortmally active, it required much RAM. Current setup is

Bug#501383: domU with 2.6.26 does not see more than 4G of RAM

2008-11-07 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
Hypervisor version is 3.2.0-3~bpo4+2 (from backports.org). xen-utils-3.2-1 in dom0 is 3.2.0-3~bpo4+2. This version is not supported. At least upgrade the hypervisor to 3.2.1 from Lenny. Thanks for your reply. I can't upgrade now, since system in question is running several domUs that are

Bug#501383: This bug is not there with hypervisor/dom0 from lenny

2009-01-10 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
Hello. At last we upgraded hypervisor and dom0 of our servers to lenny/amd64. Now our 32bit domUs correctly see more than 4G of memory. So this bug may be closed. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Bug#511412: clocksource/0: Time went backwards

2009-01-10 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
Package: linux-image-2.6.26-1-xen-686 Version: 2.6.26-12 Severity: normal After upgrading a domU from etch to lenny kernel, I've faced a hard domU lockup that very looks like http://bugzilla.xensource.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1098 after severak hours f running. I've applied the workaround

Bug#513072: update-initramfs: please support running external hooks

2009-01-25 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.92o Severity: wishlist There are different things that could be required to do after initramfs image was created or updated, depending on system setup. That may include copying initramfs to xen dom0 (or external bootserver), updating non-standard bootloader

Bug#513072: update-initramfs: please support running external hooks

2009-01-27 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
right those hooks should be set up by linux-2.6 not initramfs-tools. kernel-package uses /etc/kernel and linux-2.6 should use that structure too. closing as this has no relation with initramfs-tools Sorry, but what linux-2.6 has to do with initramfs update trigged by e.g. mdadm (or random

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

2009-09-06 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
Is there any chance to get this fix into lenny? AFAIU, this bug may affect both i386 and amd64, both dom0 and domU [if domU is running -xen flavour], almost on any hardware with 1 CPUs, and cause system crash... Yes, I have added it to the lenny branch. Hi I don't see any mention of

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

2009-08-18 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
Package: linux-image-2.6.26-2-xen-amd64 Version: 2.6.26-17lenny2 Severity: normal I'm running several servers (Dual Core AMD Opteron, 16G of ram) with Xen. Dom0 is debian lenny adm64. Today I tried to run a large backup in dom0 - copy NFS-mounted partition to a local volume group. buki:~# cd

Bug#542250: Looks like same issue as #516479

2009-08-18 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
This looks like the same issue as reported in #516479 - although not sure. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#542250: Another backtrace of the same

2009-08-19 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
Here is one more backtrace of the same crash. [ 9199.462928] Call Trace: [ 9199.462928] IRQ [80435886] ? _spin_lock+0x3a/0x42 [ 9199.462928] [a00964f4] ? :sata_sil:sil_interrupt+0x2b/0x275 [ 9199.462928] [8025f0e6] ? handle_IRQ_event+0x47/0x8e [ 9199.462928]

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

2009-08-19 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
This asserts that if we spin on a lock after interrupting another spin, and interrupts are enabled, we must be in a softirq. Looking at the bottom of the same file drivers/xen/core/spinlock.c: void xen_spin_kick(raw_spinlock_t *lock, unsigned int token) { unsigned int cpu;

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

2009-08-19 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
tags 542250 +patch thanks ... I may guess that line 74 should check for in_interrupt() instead of in_softirq(). I've tried that and it really fixed the problem. Server already runs the same backup procedure for several hours. Previously it crashed within 15 minutes. Here is the patch I've

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

2009-08-19 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
On Wed, 2009-08-19 at 22:36 +0400, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: tags 542250 +patch thanks ... I may guess that line 74 should check for in_interrupt() instead of in_softirq(). I've tried that and it really fixed the problem. Server already runs the same backup procedure

Re: Linux 3.2 in wheezy

2012-01-29 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
The only featureset provided will be 'rt' (realtime), currently built for amd64 only. If there is interest in realtime support for other architectures, we may be able to add that. We at MSU are definitly interested in -rt for 32-bit x86 (with pae). Before now, we have been building packages