Re: debian 9 s390 security updates

2020-10-06 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Oct 06, 2020 at 11:57:10AM +0200, Konstantin Maksimov wrote: > Are there any plans to add security updates for debian 9 for s390? > http://security.debian.org/debian-security/dists/stretch/updates/main No. Debian 9 reached it's EOL date in july. Debian LTS currently support Stretch, but

Re: Strange build issue on for bart affecting testing migration

2020-09-17 Thread Bastian Blank
On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 11:38:46AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > The package has built before and the latest changes are: > Am I > missing something? It built months before, with a lot of other changes surrounding it. E.g. glibc

Re: Archiving the attic folders from d-i for ports

2018-04-27 Thread Bastian Blank
On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 05:37:25AM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Since there are still some repositories that we need for debian-ports > in the attic, I was wondering whether we should take care of the > attic stuff and move it over to salsa or github. Could you show a list? Just

Re: Bug#886294: transition: nodejs

2018-01-24 Thread Bastian Blank
On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 01:24:06PM +0100, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: > Our baseline is z10, and z196 is newer. So if upstream now requires z196, we > have three options: > > - Revert / fix that so upstream works with z10 again > - Remove nodejs from s390x > - Bump our baseline > > See go and

Re: Linker error "relocati,on truncated to fit"

2017-06-13 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 09:38:44AM +0200, Ole Streicher wrote: > I am slowly re-starting the packaging of IRAF (still not officially > announced yet). When porting to s390x, I however run into a strange > error: IRAF needs a small piece of assembler code (kind-of longjump for > Fortan), which John

Re: Bug#845081: Bug##845081: wmbiff FTBFS on s390x: test failure

2016-12-02 Thread Bastian Blank
Hi Doug On Fri, Dec 02, 2016 at 10:44:05AM -0500, Doug Torrance wrote: > On 12/02/2016 09:26 AM, Bastian Blank wrote: > >You know, Debian actually has a s390x porter machine. You can use it to > >test such problems. > Yeah, I've used porterboxes in the past.

Re: Bug#845081: Bug##845081: wmbiff FTBFS on s390x: test failure

2016-12-02 Thread Bastian Blank
Hi Doug On Thu, Dec 01, 2016 at 09:37:23AM -0500, Doug Torrance wrote: > Thanks for your reply! > I've changed all the shorts to uint16_t's -- hopefully this works! You know, Debian actually has a s390x porter machine. You can use it to test such problems. Regards, Bastian -- Actual war is a

Re: libsecret porting for s390x

2016-07-10 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, Jun 26, 2016 at 10:12:31PM +0200, Andreas Henriksson wrote: > I'd like to ask for your help with looking at the problems building > libsecret on s390x. It's currently the only (release-)architecture > not building and blocking testing migration for a long time. :( What was the result of

Bug#758115: Disabled wait state X'32EE' on IPL of zIPL

2014-08-25 Thread Bastian Blank
On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 10:52:47AM +0200, Michael Holzheu wrote: On Sun, 24 Aug 2014 20:43:30 +0200 Bastian Blank wa...@debian.org wrote: And -fno-delete-null-pointer-checks seems to be the correct option. From the gcc man page: -fdelete-null-pointer-checks In some environments

Re: Bug#726733: av_register_all() segfaults on s390x in some cases (regression, causes FTBFS)

2014-03-01 Thread Bastian Blank
Control: tag -1 confirmed On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 08:14:12AM -0500, Reinhard Tartler wrote: Nevertheless, dear s390x porters, please help with fixing this issue. Some digging shows that relocations are broken in the version running via yorck: | Dump of assembler code for function

Re: Build failure of postgres-xc

2013-11-22 Thread Bastian Blank
On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 04:50:23PM +0100, Michael Meskes wrote: On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 03:24:13PM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: Okay. The reason is the stray -fpic. On s390* this restricts the shared lib to 2^11-1 bytes. And the last setting wins. Got it. I changed the Makefile to not use

Re: Build failure of postgres-xc

2013-10-10 Thread Bastian Blank
On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 01:37:30PM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: On Sun, Oct 06, 2013 at 06:11:42PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: On Sun, Oct 06, 2013 at 04:27:29PM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: The log is here: https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=postgres-xcarch=s390ver=1.1

Re: Build failure of postgres-xc

2013-10-06 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, Oct 06, 2013 at 04:27:29PM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: The log is here: https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=postgres-xcarch=s390ver=1.1-1stamp=1378820737 It uses -fpic instead of -fPIC. Bastian -- I'm a soldier, not a diplomat. I can only tell the truth.

Re: status of s390 toolchain maintenance

2013-07-01 Thread Bastian Blank
On Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 11:42:44AM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: Is this change coordinated with Bastian? I have not been contacted by Aurelian. I've not seen anything on this matter from him. Bastian -- A Vulcan can no sooner be disloyal than he can exist without breathing.

Re: Current and upcoming toolchain changes for jessie

2013-06-22 Thread Bastian Blank
On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 02:51:43PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: GCC 4.8 is now the default on all x86 architectures, and on all ARM architectures (the latter confirmed by the Debian ARM porters). GCC 4.8 seems fine on s390x, it can build a running Linux kernel. On s390 something weird happened

Re: Bug#673590: libxml-libxml-perl: FTBFS on s390x: Failed 1/51 test programs. 0/2419 subtests failed.

2012-05-20 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 10:22:58PM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: you cannot reinterpret a size_t as an int. size_t might be unsigned, might have another length, etc. On 64bit big endian you fill the top bits and leave the lower ones untouched, because size_t is 64bit. So yeah, that code was

Re: dropping bup from s390

2012-05-16 Thread Bastian Blank
On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 03:15:14PM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: My package 'bup' has not made it to testing due to FTBFS on s390: #664185 The test suite allocates too much memory. Nothing mythical about it. _Why_ it does this it up to you to find out. I've asked upstream about it and they don't

Re: dropping bup from s390

2012-05-16 Thread Bastian Blank
retitle 664185 bup: Maps large amounts of memory, FTBFS on s390 thanks On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 04:53:58PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 03:15:14PM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: My package 'bup' has not made it to testing due to FTBFS on s390: #664185 The test suite allocates

Bug#594127: Fix for bug number 590028 is incomplete

2010-08-26 Thread Bastian Blank
severity 594127 important thanks On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 02:17:48PM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: The previous post shows that a *must* directive is being violated. Therefore, setting severity to serious. Don't play bts ping-pong. Bastian -- Earth -- mother of the most beautiful women in the

Re: fsiucv-3.0.0 compilation troubles in 2.6.32 (debian squeeze/sid)

2010-05-24 Thread Bastian Blank
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 12:51:36PM +0400, Mike Kirjanov wrote: We have a problem with the fsiucv-3.0.0 driver compilation under Debian (squeeze/sid ): Please provide a link and show that it was updated in the last 12 months. The kernel API is not supposed to be stable, so every new version

Re: Bug#555540: any news on tokyocabinet's FTBFS?

2010-05-18 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 03:47:58AM +0300, Faidon Liambotis wrote: It seems that on consecutive runs of the test case[1] in question, it aborts at different points each time and even succeeds in one in five runs or so. Moreover, while the combined assert() condition fails, separate assert()

Re: git t7400.24 is failing again

2010-03-25 Thread Bastian Blank
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 10:46:28AM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: The only thing I know of that changed recently is the switch to a 64-bit kernel by the build server for s390. (I am just a regular Joe Schmoe user. I'm not a Debian package maintainer, Debian Developer, or any other kind of

Re: Bug#566649: s390-tools: New upstream version 1.8.3 available

2010-01-27 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 09:53:10PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: I've created a (temporary) git repository that includes all changes relative to the current 1.6.2-1 version: git clone alioth.debian.org:git/s390-tools.git The location of the package is currently

Re: Bug#566649: s390-tools: New upstream version 1.8.3 available

2010-01-27 Thread Bastian Blank
[ Bastian Blank ] * New upstream version. (closes: #566649) * Use 3.0 (quilt) source format. * Use debhelper compat level 7. * Set section to admin. * Don't install the scripts dbginfo.sh, scsi_logging_level and zfcpdbf. * Install ipl tools. [ Frans Pop ] * lstape, chccwdev: use bash

Re: Bug#566649: s390-tools: New upstream version 1.8.3 available

2010-01-27 Thread Bastian Blank
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 07:38:05PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: Bastian Blank wrote: Did you consider also enabling vmur as requested by Adam and Stephen? Not yet, but it is on the list. If you like I can try pushing some of our fixes (and maybe the zipl optional patch?) upstream. The later

Re: Future of the s390 port

2009-10-11 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 02:24:50PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: The addresses are specified this way: | #ifndef __s390x__ | #define IPL_DEVICE(*(unsigned long *) (0x10404)) | #define INITRD_START (*(unsigned long *) (0x1040C)) | #define INITRD_SIZE (*(unsigned long

Re: utmpx hidden

2009-09-04 Thread Bastian Blank
reassign 544838 libc6-dev 2.6-26 thanks On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 08:35:34PM +0700, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan wrote: That is, it's available for loader, but not for linker, despite the fact that utmpx.h is still shipped for applications to call. What would s390 porting team suggest? Is

Re: Future of the s390 port

2009-09-03 Thread Bastian Blank
On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 11:32:14AM +0200, Martin Grimm wrote: So as long as there is no easy manual way to provide anonymized figures without installing software on our production servers we can't deliver such data :-( Hmm. You could collect the /var/lib/dpkg/status files and do a mass submit

Re: Future of the s390 port

2009-09-03 Thread Bastian Blank
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 01:01:24PM -0400, Michael Casadevall wrote: I think a bigger question is where do you find hardware where you can get remote root on; I know at least two posibilites - IBM provides access for evaluation purposes and - OSDL provides access for project work. Bastian --

Future of the s390 port

2009-08-31 Thread Bastian Blank
Hi folks The s390 port was released with Lenny. However it is not in the best condition. There are mainly two problems which needs attention, lack of manpower and a 64 bit userland. The first problem is the worst. Currently only Frans Pop and I do work on it. Frans only does the

Re: Sparc release requalification

2009-08-20 Thread Bastian Blank
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 07:09:44AM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 04:33:32PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: If I understand this correctly, this would need the modification off all library packages to implement biarch semantic. ... which will be needed anyways. So your choice

Re: Sparc release requalification

2009-08-19 Thread Bastian Blank
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 01:16:36PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: I did speak with Martin Zobel at Debconf on how to get there, having two proposals: - define a new sparc64 port, and bootstrap this one using the 32bit port. This is rather easy. I already did a s390x bootstrap using this

Re: Sparc release requalification

2009-08-19 Thread Bastian Blank
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 01:55:24PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: On 19.08.2009 13:42, Bastian Blank wrote: On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 01:16:36PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: I did speak with Martin Zobel at Debconf on how to get there, having two proposals: - have an inplace-transition

Re: Lenny: Unable to mount initrd

2009-08-04 Thread Bastian Blank
On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 03:06:38PM -0300, Peter Senna Tschudin wrote: I've uploaded files to the System Z but kernel was not able to mount the initrd. Which way do you used to upload the files (which exactly?) to the Z? Do you use z/VM? The most strange is that normally after the

Re: Lenny: Unable to mount initrd

2009-08-04 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 10:37:12AM -0300, Peter Senna Tschudin wrote: Which way do you used to upload the files (which exactly?) to the Z? Do you use z/VM? I uploaded the files using x3270-x11. See screenshots below. Yes I do use z/VM. Are you sure that the default record format is fixed?

Re: How to add DASD automatically

2009-02-20 Thread Bastian Blank
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 01:16:14PM +0100, Florian Bilek wrote: Just would like to know how to enabale additional dasd that was added later after the finalisation of the installation. When I start Debian only the DASD that was configured during installation is online. Take a look into

Re: Lenny installer hanging?

2009-01-09 Thread Bastian Blank
On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 03:06:04PM -0600, Adam Thornton wrote: So, is there something I'm doing wrong? Not that I spot anything. This is a perfectly normal (if slow) z/VM development system (yes, it's actually emulated, but for all that, IBM still

Re: Problem with new OSA in HiperSocket mode on Debian

2008-10-16 Thread Bastian Blank
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 01:31:46AM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: debian:~# hwup ccw 0.0.0800 Configuring device 0.0.0800: already configured. /etc/sysconfig/scripts/hardware/hwup-ccw-group: line 69: echo: write error: Operation not permitted Which version of sysconfig-hardware is this? If

Bug#499833: chccwdev cannot set device offline in Lenny

2008-09-23 Thread Bastian Blank
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 04:10:01PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This works just fine in Etch, but fails in Lenny. A device cannot be taken offline dynamically. I fail to see what s390-tools or the chccwdev tools have to do with this problem.

Re: Installation Help on Z9

2008-08-26 Thread Bastian Blank
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 04:59:59PM -0400, THOMAS DELANY wrote: Can anyone out there give me a little nudge in the right direction for getting Debian running on a Z9 in an LPAR? I have tried both Etch and Lenny without any success. I am trying to install from a tape image that I can IPL. I

Re: FCP problem on Debian s390 hardware

2008-06-20 Thread Bastian Blank
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 10:35:47AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: Quite probably it will need some extentions to support FCP, but I think it should be relatively straightforward. If you figure out what/how, please send a patch (by opening a wishlist bug report against the sysconfig-hardware

Re: Bug#474724: [DRE-maint] RC bug #474724

2008-05-11 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 11:51:19PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: Linux/s390 uses s390 and s390x. But the correct way on a Debian system is to use dpkg-architecture outside and the architecture specific defines like __s390__ inside the compiler. The following seems to work. | #if defined

Re: Bug#474724: [DRE-maint] RC bug #474724

2008-05-10 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 12:08:35PM -0300, Antonio Terceiro wrote: So we would only have to get (and I'm sorry, I'm completely lost in this area) the proper CPU string for s390 and add it here. Blindly asking Google makes me believe the proper string for the submitter's environment (64-bit

libc6/s390 - __pthread_mutex_lock: Assertion `mutex-__data.__owner == 0' failed.

2008-05-07 Thread Bastian Blank
Package: libc6 Version: 2.7-10 Severity: important On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 09:34:12AM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: the build failure on s390 is unexpected; is it possible to extract a test case? | java: pthread_mutex_lock.c:71: __pthread_mutex_lock: Assertion `mutex-__data.__owner == 0'

Re: s390x vs. s390

2008-01-07 Thread Bastian Blank
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 09:29:20AM +0100, Torsten Werner wrote: one of our buildd reports s390x instead of s390 for 'uname -m'. Am I correct that both architectures have a 32 bit userland and not 64 bit? Yes. The correct way to determine the debian architecture is dpkg-architecture, not uname.

Re: s390x vs. s390

2008-01-07 Thread Bastian Blank
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 12:19:22PM +0100, Torsten Werner wrote: On Jan 7, 2008 11:05 AM, Bastian Blank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The correct way to determine the debian architecture is dpkg-architecture, not uname. But a software that is portable to many operating systems will probably

Re: s390 Etch install problem

2007-09-11 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 03:04:00PM -0700, GaryR wrote: Well, something IS bizarrely wrong. I get the same error. Is there something wrong with the disk I have allocated for root? It is a minidisk of 1000 cylinders on a real 3390 Mod 3. I CMS formatted it, and did a RESERVE LNX200 MDISK B

Re: s390x (64 bits) support on Debian Etch

2007-09-11 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 06:42:17PM -0300, Gustavo Noronha wrote: [Please CC me and Ronaldo, we're not subscribed to this list] Please set Mail-Followup-To in the mails. I am helping to asses the viability of running Zope/Plone on Debian GNU/Linux Etch in an IBM zSeries. I've searched the

Re: s390 Etch install problem

2007-09-07 Thread Bastian Blank
On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 08:34:39AM -0700, GaryR wrote: I have purchased the Etch s390 DVD's and am having a problem with the installer. Which DVD's? Installation from optical media should work but is mostly untested. RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 No filesystem could mount root,

Re: s390 Etch install problem

2007-09-07 Thread Bastian Blank
On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 01:28:09PM -0700, GaryR wrote: Kernel command line: root=/dev/ram0 ip=off ro debian-installer/ locale=C This is wrong. Neither root= nor ip= is listed in the supplied parmfile. The content is: | ro debian-installer/locale=C checking if image is initramfs...it isn't

Re: Fdasd RAID partition ID

2007-06-15 Thread Bastian Blank
On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 09:23:44AM -0400, Reinaldo wrote: does anyone know what is the ID of the RAID partition type in fdasd? There is none. Bastian -- Beam me up, Scotty, there's no intelligent life down here! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: powertweak 0.99.5-16 on s390

2007-03-14 Thread Bastian Blank
On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 12:33:53PM +, Mark Brown wrote: According to buildd.debian.org[1] powertweak 0.99.5-16 was built successfully for s390 over a month ago but the packages have still not appeared in the archive. Could you please have a look and see what's going on there? According

Re: coreutils 5.97-5.2

2007-01-20 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 01:20:10AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Looking at the build logs, I see the test pwd-long failed on s-390. I need help diagnosing the problem, and was wondering if someone could help getting this resolved. The relevant bug report is #380552, which was

Re: Who is actively porting the Debian architectures?

2006-12-27 Thread Bastian Blank
On Mon, Dec 25, 2006 at 11:40:02PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: S/390: add Bastian Blank S/390: remove Gerhard Tonn, he stepped back Bastian -- But Captain -- the engines can't take this much longer! signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: xorg-server FTBFS under S390 with error Unrecognized opcode: `sti'

2006-09-17 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 09:44:39PM -0400, José Parrella wrote: a) Current versions of binutils and gcc in Sid interoperate badly (which seems possible and actually other -already solved- bugs give hints on this direction, like #376832) Nope, this was s390x specific assembler instructions for

Re: s390 hardware config

2006-03-26 Thread Bastian Blank
On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 07:35:24PM -0600, Stephen Frazier wrote: It would seem that for a hot plug CTC device. You would set it up to test for the presence of the other one of the pair. If they are not both present then dont do anything. Thus in your example when 0A00 became available

Re: s390 hardware config

2006-03-24 Thread Bastian Blank
On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 02:38:05PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: I've not been able get udev to set up the hardware though. I've created a file '/etc/sysconfig/hardware/config-ccw-0.0.0a00' with: CCWGROUP_CHANS=(0.0.0a00 0.0.0a01) but that does not seem to do anything. Hmm, I think I know the

Re: s390 hardware config

2006-03-24 Thread Bastian Blank
On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 03:40:46PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: I guess you mean that ctc will be loaded as part of the processing of /sys/bus/ccw/devices/0.0.0a00 so loading it manually in /etc/modules is no longer needed? Exactly. But there is another problem left: A race condition happens if

Re: s390 hardware config

2006-03-24 Thread Bastian Blank
On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 04:23:46PM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: # echo /sys/bus/ccw/devices/0.0.0a00/uevent Should be # echo /sys/bus/ccw/devices/0.0.0a00/uevent Bastian -- It would be illogical to kill without reason. -- Spock, Journey to Babel, stardate 3842.4

Re: missing modules on s390/s390x

2006-03-16 Thread Bastian Blank
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. The new kernel properly loads the network modules, the later is used to

Re: missing modules on s390/s390x

2006-03-16 Thread Bastian Blank
On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 07:23:40PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: I see that the experimental kernel image does not depend on sysconfig-hardware. Should it (to ensure that users upgrading from Sarge will have it installed)? Hmm. It is no dependency as the kernel can work without. Also it needs a

Re: Bug#340508: missing modules on s390/s390x

2006-03-16 Thread Bastian Blank
On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 07:33:59PM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: Hmm. It is no dependency as the kernel can work without. Also it needs a converter for chandev to the new config format. Which will only work automaticaly in the easiest config: only one device/type as there is not longer any order

Re: RFH - Debian/S390

2006-02-09 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 12:13:03AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: - switch to 2.6 for installations If I understand Bastian correctly this mainly requires automatic configuration. I think he started that with his last s390-tools upload. dasd configuration support is still missing in that IIUC.

s390 hardware config

2006-01-27 Thread Bastian Blank
Hi folks I finaly finished a rudimentary hardware configuration. It have some similarities with the redhat and suse sysconfig. (This was the simplest schema I found.) You can find the sources via https://lophos.multibuild.org/svn/sysconfig/trunk. It currently lacks documentation, but the

RFH - Debian/S390

2006-01-08 Thread Bastian Blank
Hi folks I wrote a TODO[1] and RfC for a possible etch release of the s390 port about 2 months ago, and did not get any usefull reply. As I'm the last person working on the core (and lack of time), there is a large need for help. The main problems are currently hardware configuration and

Re: Kernel 2.6

2005-12-27 Thread Bastian Blank
On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 02:53:54PM -0300, Jerônimo Bezerra wrote: I am Jeronimo and I work at one University in Brazil and here we have a S/390. We installed the Debian Woody 3.0 some time ago, and now we have make a another installation with Sarge 3.1, and if possible, using a kernel 2.6. Is

Re: etch/s390 TODO

2005-11-24 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 12:12:51PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: I disabled the dasd patch in parted 1.6.23, because it didn't apply cleanly, and there where some changes which made it non-trivial for me to fix it, i asked you on irc to look at it, and think i also mailed here, but nothing

etch/s390 TODO

2005-11-18 Thread Bastian Blank
Hi folks As s390 is currently not in a good shape, I tried to produce a list of things which needs to be done for a possible etch release of this architecture. Please provide some feedback. Hardware configuration == In linux 2.6, the complete hardware configuration on s390 is

Re: s390 buildd problems for glibc

2005-11-13 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 12:44:40PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: What kernel is the build daemon running? Does it have threading problems? I don't think glibc 2.3.5 has ever successfully autobuilt on s390. It was built on debian01 which runs 2.6.11. Bastian -- Youth doesn't excuse

Re: s390 buildd problems for glibc

2005-11-13 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 02:04:45PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 07:30:47PM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 12:44:40PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: What kernel is the build daemon running? Does it have threading problems? I don't think

Re: htp segmentation fault

2005-10-11 Thread Bastian Blank
-2.1) unstable; urgency=low + + * Non-maintainer upload. + * Don't use va_list more than once. + + -- Bastian Blank [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue, 11 Oct 2005 07:22:00 + + htp (1.15-2) unstable; urgency=low * Fixed memory problems in s390 --- htp-1.15.orig/src/streams.c +++ htp-1.15/src

Re: Mozart FTBFS (#332630)

2005-10-09 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 02:14:28PM +0200, Kevin Glynn wrote: The first file we try to compile is giving a dynamic type error. Since this works successfully on (nearly) all other platforms I am thinking the emulator must be corrupt. It is not built on powerpc,

Re: Mozart FTBFS (#332630)

2005-10-09 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 04:47:53PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: I am seeing similar issues on m68k, which I have access to but progress is slow (e.g. package builds fine with gcc 3.3 but fails with most recent gcc 4.x). Ah, that looks like problems with undefined behaviour

Requalification of s390 for etch

2005-10-08 Thread Bastian Blank
Hi folks I've started a wiki page to start collecting info for the s390 requalification for etch: http://wiki.debian.org/s390EtchReleaseRecertification

Re: Requalification of s390 for etch

2005-10-08 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 09:07:38PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: Actually, this should be easy. You probably need only one or two examples of production installations to have hundreds of users... I know about BfF (Bundesamt für Finanzen). About 150 Guests on two machines with sarge and 1500 users.

Re: Future of s390 port

2005-09-30 Thread Bastian Blank
On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 05:25:55PM +0200, Gerhard Tonn wrote: Due to lack of time I am not able to do the s390 porting work anymore. I am looking for someone who is interested to take over the s390 port. I'm interrested in taking over the s390 port. Bastian -- The best diplomat I know is a

Re: attention to bug 321435

2005-09-30 Thread Bastian Blank
On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 09:33:09AM -0500, Adam Thornton wrote: It's not clear to me that the buildd maintainer's duties exactly are, or, critically, how much time per week it takes. I'm able to handle the buildds. I already did that some time ago. Bastian --

Re: s390 binNMUs needed: emifreq-applet 0.17-2, ximian-connector 2.0.3-1

2005-03-26 Thread Bastian Blank
On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 08:56:24PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: Can someone do a recompile binNMU of these packages for s390, to spare the trouble of rebuilding on all architectures? The recompiles are on my todo. Bastian -- Live long and prosper.

Re: fityk compilation problem on s390 buildd

2005-03-19 Thread Bastian Blank
On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 06:36:29PM -0600, Carlo U. Segre wrote: I am at a loss to figure out what might be wrong here so I can't even file a bug. It looks like on the s390 there is a version of wxWindows 2.5 which is being used instead of the current Debian version 2.4. wxWindows always

Re: Installing Debian S/390 on Hercules problems.

2004-11-22 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 02:28:10PM -0500, Patrick Finnegan wrote: Any ideas? Use a new version of the installer. Bastian -- There are certain things men must do to remain men. -- Kirk, The Ultimate Computer, stardate 4929.4 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

problems with s390 release

2004-09-11 Thread Bastian Blank
I just found a serious problem with woody-sarge upgrades on s390. zipl from s390-utils 1.3.1 uses an ioctl which was introduced somewhere after patch 10 for 2.4.21 (it works properly with debian 2.4.27 which is based on patch 15). The complete error is: | unknown ioctl: 1268 | Error: Could

linux 2.6.8 for s390

2004-08-18 Thread Bastian Blank
The linux 2.6.8 kernel image for s390 got accepted. This images are built with initrd enabled. This makes it possible to IPL via zfcp but you have to specify the options for dasd and/or zfcp in /etc/modprobe.d. Also there is currently nothing to configure the network devices via sysfs, this have

linux 2.4.27 for s390

2004-08-17 Thread Bastian Blank
I released linux 2.4.27 for s390. The uploaded packages are available from http://raptor.debian.org/kernel/debian/. Please test them as we want to release sarg with 2.4.27. Bastian -- Those who hate and fight must stop themselves -- otherwise it is not stopped. -- Spock, Day of

Re: IPL probelm with Hercules

2004-08-10 Thread Bastian Blank
Try: On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 08:28:16PM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: debian31.tdf @TDF /daten/hercules/kernel31.debian fixed recsize 1024 /daten/hercules/parmfile31.debian fixed recsize 1024 /daten/hercules/initrd31.debian fixed recsize 1024 TM TM EOT Bastian -- Beauty is

Bug#245841: Remove s390 kernel packages

2004-04-25 Thread Bastian Blank
Package: ftp.debian.org Version: N/V Please remove the following s390 kernel patch and images packages from unstable: * kernel-patch-2.4.19-s390 * kernel-image-2.4.17-s390 * kernel-image-2.4.19-s390 Bastian -- You can't evaluate a man by logic alone. -- McCoy, I, Mudd, stardate

Debian-Installer for s/390 status

2004-03-17 Thread Bastian Blank
Hi folks s390 was not released as part of beta3. The reason is easy: there is no working partitioner because anything in d-i relays on the ability of parted to read the disklabel. The remain is easy - network device support for chandev is working except iucv. - dasd support seems to work. What

Bug#236216: kernel-patch-2.4.21-s390 - linux-2.4.21-vmparms breaks ipl from reader

2004-03-04 Thread Bastian Blank
Package: kernel-patch-2.4.21-s390 Version: 2.4.21.10-3 Severity: grave linux-2.4.21-vmparms.diff breaks ipl from reader. Bastian -- Hailing frequencies open, Captain. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: possible MIAs/ proposed forced orphanings

2004-02-28 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 02:41:28PM +, Martin Michlmayr wrote: Are those packages needed? Can someone co-maintain them? They are horrible outdated but needed until the new packages are accepted. Bastian -- Leave bigotry in your quarters; there's no room for it on the bridge.

unofficial linux 2.4.25 patch

2004-02-20 Thread Bastian Blank
Hi folks As IBM don't release patches for not-so-broken kernels, both holes in plain 2.4.21 seems to be exploitable on s390, I tried to merge the hole patch into 2.4.25. It works fine with vm minidiscs and QDIO Guest LANs. http://raptor.debian.org/kernel/linux-2.4.25-s390-unofficial.diff.bz2

Re: looking for s390 access for kdebase debugging

2004-02-17 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 10:34:06AM +0200, Riku Voipio wrote: I am trying to trace the kdebase build failure a little more, but I would need a s390 chroot with kdebase build depends installed (apt-get build-dep kdebase). Is this possible to arrange? Try raptor.d.o. Bastian -- The idea of

Re: Adding QDIO support to an existing Debian 3.0 System

2003-12-09 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 01:16:09PM -0500, Rodney S. Clayton wrote: I have a running Debian s/390 system that is using VCTCA's for connectivity. I would like to download the QDIO module and add this kind of NIC. I have been unable to fine the driver for Debian or the directions for setting

Re: please build XFree86 4.3.0 for experimental

2003-10-10 Thread Bastian Blank
On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 03:19:42AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: After the s390-specific commits I made today, Bastian seems to have had a successful build of a (modified) 4.3.0-0pre1v3. no, it failes on usr/X11R6/lib/X11/doc/README.dps (xfree86-common) bastian -- The heart is not a logical

Re: please build XFree86 4.3.0 for experimental

2003-10-08 Thread Bastian Blank
On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 11:50:43AM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: * s390 has never tried to build XFree86 4.3.0 as far as I can tell. Bastian Blank attempted several times, got tripped up by the DRI foolery and other NOT_BUILDING_XF86_SERVER fun, and ended up giving up. After getting enough

Re: [b...@fs.tum.de: Bug#210307: ncurses doesn't build on s390]

2003-09-10 Thread Bastian Blank
On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 04:32:25PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: Ncurses now tries to build a 64-bit library. But it looks like the S/390 build daemon can't _run_ 64-bit binaries? Do I need to make it do this as a cross-compile instead? none of the s390 autobuilders run 64bit kernels.

Re: 64bit debian

2003-06-25 Thread Bastian Blank
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 12:27:11PM +0200, Kasza Karoly wrote: My question is: Is it possible to run debian in 64 bit mode? If it is, does 64bit deb packages exists? 64bit glibc packages and 64bit compilers exists but no 64bit kernel. Or do you plan to

Re: openoffice and biarch toolchain now available in unstable

2002-12-18 Thread Bastian Blank
On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 09:48:55AM +0100, Gerhard Tonn wrote: The complete toolchain, gcc-3.2, binutils and glibc, has been enabled for biarch support recently. This means that you can compile and link 64 bit applications in unstable using the -m64 flag. As soon as the modutils are also

Re: raptor

2002-12-08 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 06:53:42PM +0100, Russell Coker wrote: In the main root of raptor.debian.org. Or am I supposed to do all development in chroot's? the main root is a little bit problematic. i want to move the machine to a 64bit kernel. it needs new modutils and i don't want to rebuild

Re: Fwd: -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS

2002-12-08 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 09:30:58PM +0100, Russell Coker wrote: [...] i try to compile the test program. first it isn't c, so i need to fix it. i compile it with gcc 3.2 and -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. it seems to work fine. | $ ./test ./test1 1000 | Seeking to 1000 | $ ls -al test1 |

s390x status

2002-10-26 Thread Bastian Blank
hi folks i'm currently working on a s390x port of debian. now we are able to release them, but the question is, do we need them? or should we use a 64 bit kernel with a 31 bit userland like sparc does. bastian -- Bones: The man's DEAD, Jim! pgpVaKrlTggb6.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Timer patch

2002-09-16 Thread Bastian Blank
On Mon, Sep 16, 2002 at 01:18:13PM -0500, Dennis Wicks wrote: Thanks, but I am not up to the s390x yet. I am still running in a 32-bit world! the patch is the same for 31 and 64 bit. bastian -- War isn't a good life, but it's life. -- Kirk, A Private Little War, stardate

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