Bug#595094: linux-base: /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume^old causes trouble

2010-08-31 Thread Christian Hammers
Package: linux-base Version: 2.6.33-1~experimental.4 Severity: normal Hello Since upgrading to 2.6.32-5-amd64 my system does not boot every time. It then hangs after identifying all SATA discs in script called local-premount with a message saying that it cannot find the resume drive /dev/sda2

Re: linux-headers-2.6.33-2-amd64 (2.6.33-1~experimental.3) uninstallable

2010-04-11 Thread Christian Hammers
Hello On Sat, 13 Mar 2010, M G Berberich wrote: It is meant as: “packages and tools which are still being developed, and are still in the alpha testing stage.“ It surely shouldn't be a trash-heap for packages that cannot even be installed, because someone forget to upload the dependies.

Bug#517215: 2.6.26 does not detect JMicron SATA controller while 2.6.25 did

2009-02-28 Thread Christian Hammers
On 2009-02-26 maximilian attems wrote: On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 01:56:54PM +0100, Christian Hammers wrote: Package: linux-image-2.6.26-1-amd64 Version: 2.6.26-11 Severity: important Hello After upgrading to linux-image-2.6.26-1-amd64 my computer does not boot anymore. It seems

Bug#516734: linux-headers-2.6.28-1-amd64: Dependency on linux-kbuild-2.6.28 cannot be meet

2009-02-28 Thread Christian Hammers
Hello I'm also wondering why the linux-headers-2.6.28 was uploaded without a proper linux-kbuild but I got a hint that there are packages on http://kernel-archive.buildserver.net/pool/main/l/linux-kbuild-2.6/ HTH, -christian- signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#517215: 2.6.26 does not detect JMicron SATA controller while 2.6.25 did

2009-02-26 Thread Christian Hammers
Package: linux-image-2.6.26-1-amd64 Version: 2.6.26-11 Severity: important Hello After upgrading to linux-image-2.6.26-1-amd64 my computer does not boot anymore. It seems that the SATA hard drive is beeing detected but not recognised as block device. The only suspicious line I could find was: [

Bug#412850: Please add GRUB/sarge conflict for users of backports.org

2007-04-09 Thread Christian Hammers
On 2007-04-07 Jonas Smedegaard wrote: Christian Hammers wrote: Users of sarge+backports.org suffer the problem that their GRUB does not know how to load the hypervisor module. Please add the following to give them a hint:Conflict: grub ( 0.97-16) (This could, of course

Bug#412850: Please add GRUB/sarge conflict for users of backports.org

2007-02-28 Thread Christian Hammers
Package: linux-image-2.6.18-4-xen-686 Version: 2.6.18.dfsg.1-10~bpo.1 Severity: wishlist Hello Users of sarge+backports.org suffer the problem that their GRUB does not know how to load the hypervisor module. Please add the following to give them a hint:Conflict: grub ( 0.97-16) (This could,

Bug#349002: Recent kernel bugs CAN-2005-2709, CAN-2004-1057, CAN-2005-2973...

2006-01-20 Thread Christian Hammers
Package: kernel Severity: grave Tags: security Hello There were some kernel security announcements on bugtrag the last couple of days. As those CAN Ids do not show up on the cross reference or the nonvuln list, I wonder if Debian is affected and when fixed packages can be expected.

Bug#348392: [wishlist] Support for 16 CPUs and 8GB of RAM

2006-01-16 Thread Christian Hammers
Package: linux-image-2.6.15-1-686-smp Severity: wishlist Hello I have a Quad-Dualcore-Hyperthreading Dell 6850 Server with 8GB RAM and even the latest Sid kernel image only supports only half of the CPU and the RAM. Are these options really so expensive that one should use them by default? At

Bug#344511: Please create a backup of the old kernel+initrd image when updating

2005-12-23 Thread Christian Hammers
Package: kernel Severity: wishlist Hello I noticed while upgrading my kernel-image packages to the latest update that no backups of the old image are made. At least for something as critical as kernels it would be nice to have a /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8-2-686.old and

Bug#338497: [wishlist] Please add 3w-xxxx to the initrd's /loadmodules

2005-11-11 Thread Christian Hammers
Hello On 2005-11-10 Sven Luther wrote: So, your real request is that initrd-tools is not including the module in your initrd. So, please add the module to /etc/mkinitrd/modules, and rebuild your initrd (with dpkg-reconfigure kernel-image-2.6.8-...). So the initrd image is rebuild on every

Bug#338497: [wishlist] Please add 3w-xxxx to the initrd's /loadmodules

2005-11-10 Thread Christian Hammers
Package: kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686 Version: 2.6.8-16 Severity: wishlist Hello Please ad the 3w- which is the driver for the commonly used 3ware (P)ATA RAID controller to the list of modules that get loaded automatically because else it won't boot so well... bye, -christian- -- System

Bug#338497: [wishlist] Please add 3w-xxxx to the initrd's /loadmodules

2005-11-10 Thread Christian Hammers
Hello Sven On 2005-11-10 Sven Luther wrote: Please ad the 3w- which is the driver for the commonly used 3ware (P)ATA RAID controller to the list of modules that get loaded automatically because else it won't boot so well... Heu, what exactly are you trying to do here ? what is the

Bug#295678: kernel-image packages with CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G=y enabled

2005-08-10 Thread Christian Hammers
if the option is explicitly called 4GB. Do you have any idea? bye, -christian- -- Christian Hammers WESTEND GmbH | Internet-Business-Provider Technik CISCO Systems Partner - Authorized Reseller Lütticher Straße 10 Tel 0241

A reason against the sysrq feature (maybe disabled by default)?

2004-09-02 Thread Christian Hammers
even if everything else is no longer possible due to a crash. (more features in kernel-source/Documentation/sysrq.txt) Security considerations can be coped with by adding echo 0 /proc/sys/kernel/sysrqecho 0 /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq by default to sysctl.conf. thanks, -christian- -- Christian