Bug#652119: Bad pagetable 000f

2012-01-08 Thread Matthew Wakeling
On Sun, 8 Jan 2012, Jonathan Nieder wrote: Could you point me in the direction of such a livecd please? It looks like no one is making an official Debian livecd with kFreeBSD any more (alas). But it should be possible to grab par2 and its dependencies and run them in the debian-installer[1] re

Bug#652119: Bad pagetable 000f

2012-01-08 Thread Matthew Wakeling
On Thu, 22 Dec 2011, Jonathan Nieder wrote: I'll have to physically attend the machine to do this, which won't happen until January. Even then, testing will involve crashing my machine a few times, so it won't be the first thing I do. No problem; we can wait. Other tests that would be useful m

Bug#652119: Bad pagetable 000f

2011-12-22 Thread Matthew Wakeling
On Thu, 22 Dec 2011, Jonathan Nieder wrote: Can you reproduce this on demand? Yes. It seems to take about two hours to fail. Thinking about it, par2 was accessing about 1400 independent areas of memory on a loop, so it would be causing cache thrash and TLB thrash. I'm thinking it might almost

Bug#652119: linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64: Bad pagetable 000f

2011-12-14 Thread Matthew Wakeling
Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.32-38 Severity: normal Running the par2 program causes a bad pagetable fault which has killed the process and killed the machine on two different occasions. The machine is completely stable running other programs. The problem occurs when running par2 to generate

Bug#520232: See also #532005

2009-06-09 Thread Matthew Wakeling
I think that this bug is related to #532005 which I filed a few days ago. I'm trying to do the opposite to the OP - I'm trying to get annoying beeps. The experience on my computer is that the pc speaker is redirected to the sound card when: * pcspkr is NOT loaded * OR pcspkr is loaded earl

Re: Bug#532005: gnome: Bell beep on PC speaker no longer works

2009-06-08 Thread Matthew Wakeling
On Mon, 8 Jun 2009, Matthew Wakeling wrote: Having had a look over the kernel bugs, it appears that this bug is a duplicate of #520232. Okay, scratch that. I'll try blacklisting the pcspkr module. Just tried blacklisting the pcspkr module and rebooting, and the same problem exist

Bug#532005: gnome: Bell beep on PC speaker no longer works

2009-06-08 Thread Matthew Wakeling
On Mon, 8 Jun 2009, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le lundi 08 juin 2009 à 14:31 +0100, Matthew Wakeling a écrit : After doing a little bit of rebooting, it seems that it is the kernel that is redirecting the sound to the sound card. I'll file a bug there. Feel free to close this one. Let’s

Bug#427841: linux-image-2.6.21-1-amd64: Kernel version 2.6.21-4 breaks USB permissions

2007-06-06 Thread Matthew Wakeling
Package: linux-image-2.6.21-1-amd64 Version: 2.6.21-4 Severity: important The latest version of the kernel package breaks the permissions for access to USB devices, causing the nut-usb package to break. Please see http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/linux/kernel/777580 If I run the nut newhidu