Re: [Stretch] Status for architecture qualification

2016-06-15 Thread Stephen Powell
which is essentially a virtual machine running under PR/SM. And the physical machine behind those (at least) two levels of virtualization doesn't really have the same hardware architecture as a virtual machine, such as physical chpids vs. logical chpids and logical channel subsystems, etc., define

Re: Upgrading the minimum required s390x CPU to z10?

2016-06-02 Thread Stephen Powell
off older hardware. We still run z/VM 5.4.0 because it is the last release of z/VM that still supports our z/890. Starting with z/VM 6.1.0, a z10 or newer is required. -- .''`. Stephen Powell<zlinux...@fastmail.com> : :' : `. `'` `-

Bug#825141: dasd_mod: module verification failed: signature and/or required key missing - tainting kernel

2016-05-23 Thread Stephen Powell
- tainting kernel The kernel does boot; but the kernel gets tainted, which disables lock debugging. -- .''`. Stephen Powell<zlinux...@fastmail.com> : :' : `. `'` `-

Bug#801913: init-premount boot script is now superfluous

2015-10-15 Thread Stephen Powell
is superfluous. It is no longer needed. It should be dropped from the package. That's one less piece of code to maintain, and one less item that needs to be included in the initial RAM file system image file. -- .''`. Stephen Powell<zlinux...@wowway.com> : :' : `. `'` `-

python3-minimal (3.4.3-4) fails configuration under Hercules

2015-09-21 Thread Stephen Powell
n of the s390x hardware which causes configuration of the above package to fail. I downloaded Hercules 3.11 directly from upstream, compiled it from source, and installed it. The above error disappears under Hercules 3.11. The bottom line: We really need a new hercules package for Debian! -- .''`. Stephen Powell<zlinux...@wowway.com> : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: Adding DASD to a Debian guest

2015-09-19 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 19 Sep 2015 18:15:16 -0400 (EDT), Philipp Kern wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 05, 2015 at 05:12:30PM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: >> No. The hook script was written by me years ago, and I put it in the >> bug report, but it was never incorporated into the official pack

Re: [OT] Re: Hercules - how to get a zVM OS (legally bought!) and put it on a VM under Hercules?

2015-09-05 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 05 Sep 2015 13:40:27 -0400 (EDT), Philipp Kern wrote: > > What is the canonical place to get new Hercules releases from? > It's neither http://www.hercules-390.org nor > https://github.com/hercules-390/hyperion http://www.hercules-390.eu -- .''`. Stephen Powel

Re: Adding DASD to a Debian guest

2015-09-05 Thread Stephen Powell
nning grub2 from a kernel image booted by zipl and then > kexec()ing into the right kernel and initrd is a bit too much, though. I agree. -- .''`. Stephen Powell<zlinux...@wowway.com> : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: Possible bug in GCC 5, need help

2015-08-31 Thread Stephen Powell
E pass > (dead store elimination). I'm currently auto-reducing the testcase > to start debugging. I'll open a GCC BZ with the reduced testcase. You beat me to it. Thanks, Andreas -- .''`. Stephen Powell<zlinux...@wowway.com> : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: [OT] Re: Hercules - how to get a zVM OS (legally bought!) and put it on a VM under Hercules?

2015-08-26 Thread Stephen Powell
release is 3.11, released on September 15, 2014. 3.07 was released on March 10, 2010. -- .''`. Stephen Powellzlinux...@wowway.com : :' : `. `'` `-

Bug#797023: Linux kernel FTBFS error for ARCH=s390, CONFIG_SMP=n, and CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG=y

2015-08-26 Thread Stephen Powell
=a313bdc5310dd807655d3ca3eb2219cd65dfe45a -- .''`. Stephen Powellzlinux...@wowway.com : :' : `. `'` `-

[OT] Re: Hercules - how to get a zVM OS (legally bought!) and put it on a VM under Hercules?

2015-08-22 Thread Stephen Powell
a better way. Regards, -- .''`. Stephen Powellzlinux...@wowway.com : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: Hercules - Error: undefined configuration on first boot after installation

2015-08-20 Thread Stephen Powell
for a kernel to boot. I suggest leaving LOADPARM blank. But since you are running Debian under Hercules, you might find the following web page useful: http://users.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/hercules.htm -- .''`. Stephen Powellzlinux...@wowway.com : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: Possible bug in GCC 5, need help

2015-08-20 Thread Stephen Powell
machine language and pseudo-assembly language for the problem piece of code, both for the good case and the failing case, and send me a link to it, I'll take a look at it. I can't promise you success, but I'll look at it. -- .''`. Stephen Powellzlinux...@wowway.com : :' : `. `'` `-

Bug#795954: sysconfig-hardware contains various syntax errors in case commands

2015-08-18 Thread Stephen Powell
, not dash) may tighten up standards and the code will fail. I have attached a patch file which corrects the problems. Note: the portion of the patch which changes chandev-convert affects only the source package. It is not included in the binary package. -- .''`. Stephen Powellzlinux

Re: Adding DASD to a Debian guest

2015-08-16 Thread Stephen Powell
that Debian supports. -- .''`. Stephen Powellzlinux...@wowway.com : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: Please add

2015-08-11 Thread Stephen Powell
the mailing list archives at https://lists.debian.org/debian-s390/ or by some other means, to verify that your post was received and posted to the list. -- .''`. Stephen Powellzlinux...@wowway.com : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-s390-requ

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

2014-08-16 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 15 Aug 2014 19:12:24 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote: The full PSW is as follows: 0002 8000 32EE By the way, Hercules has an instruction tracing facility, similar to the CP TRACE command on z/VM. The T command, along with the T+ and T- commands

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

2014-08-14 Thread Stephen Powell
to the zipl menu being written out. The system is unbootable. This may be related to the general brokenness of C on s390x in jessie/sid. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-s390-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

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

2014-08-14 Thread Stephen Powell
over it. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-s390-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1925263645.331324.1408067153733.javamail.r...@md01

interruption code 0x4003B in libperl.so.5.18.2[3fffcfff000+1d0000]

2014-07-22 Thread Stephen Powell
apt-get --purge dist-upgrade apt-get clean apt-get --purge autoremove aptitude forget-new aptitude keep-all I hope this helps someone. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-s390-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Bug#753592: interruption code 0x4003B in libperl.so.5.18.2[3fffcfff000+1d0000]

2014-07-03 Thread Stephen Powell
. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-s390-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1270242434.431488.1404389237787.javamail.r...@md01.wow.synacor.com

Re: Debian-390 / Hercules Problems

2014-03-01 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 23 Feb 2014 21:24:43 -0500 (EST), Philipp Kern wrote: Is znetconf solely doing runtime configuration or does it also try to persist it? From what I can tell, it appears to be doing runtime configuration only. -- .''`. Stephen Powell

Re: Hercules Bus Error

2014-02-24 Thread Stephen Powell
to be a single, well-defined place to document it. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-s390-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org

Re: Hercules Bus Error

2014-02-20 Thread Stephen Powell
to obtain free help works out for you. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-s390-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org

Re: Debian-390 / Hercules Problems

2014-02-18 Thread Stephen Powell
. Philipp, are you listening? -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-s390-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/370643734.1024081.1392783799335

Re: Debian-390 / Hercules Problems

2014-02-17 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 17 Feb 2014 15:19:13 -0500 (EST), David Clements wrote: Stephen Powell wrote: ... The standard Debian package for Hercules, 3.07, does not support an Open Systems Adapter Express in QDIO mode, so that's the end of that. I've never tried to use znetconf. For that matter, I've never

Re: Debian390 / Hercules Problems

2014-02-14 Thread Stephen Powell
/usr/share/man/man8/lsqeth.8.gz By the way, I'd be interested to hear your opinion of my Debian Under Hercules web page at http://users.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/hercules.htm . -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-s390-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Hercules and a strange CTCI error

2013-08-18 Thread Stephen Powell
. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-s390-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/850197581.2709701.1376871595168.javamail.r...@md01.wow.synacor.com

Instructions for installing Debian GNU/Linux for IBM System z in the Hercules emulator

2013-07-14 Thread Stephen Powell
or negative, is welcome. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-s390-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/394932986.2159874.1373830809192.javamail.r

Re: Using netboot Debian installation images in the Hercules emulator

2013-07-08 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 06 Jul 2013 14:56:29 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote: On Sat, 06 Jul 2013 12:31:25 -0400 (EDT), Philipp Kern wrote: Maybe you could check out the debian-installer manual from SVN and create a patch? I'd be happy to commit it. I'll be happy to do that if you will grant me

How do I get the box-drawing characters to look right for Debian Installer? (SOLVED)

2013-06-29 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 29 Jun 2013 15:37:42 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote: As you know, the installation procedure for Debian on the s390 and s390x architectures involves using the Integrated System Console (or the virtual 3215 console in a virtual machine under z/VM) to get the network device

Bug#696943: /etc/initramfs/post-update.d/zz-zipl script invokes zipl unnecessarily at times

2012-12-29 Thread Stephen Powell
the initial RAM file system is re-built for other reasons. A machine-readable copy of this script can be found on my web site at http://users.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/zipl/runzipl -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-s390-requ

Re: dasd-id vol-id

2012-11-13 Thread Stephen Powell
it will be addressed eventually. Philip may wish to elaborate. I do not speak for the port team. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-s390-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive

Re: s390x upgrade squeeze to wheezy.

2012-11-13 Thread Stephen Powell
from the hybrid environment to a full s390x environment, but you really have to know what you're doing, and it's unsupported. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-s390-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: installer problem

2012-11-02 Thread Stephen Powell
architecture, where both kernel space and user space are 64 bit. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-s390-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org

Re: Adding DASD to Debian wheezy..

2012-10-26 Thread Stephen Powell
at. They haven't been fixed, but the bug reports show how to fix them. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?dist=unstable;package=sysconfig-hardware You might also find some of my web pages available on my web site useful: http://users.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/index.htm -- .''`. Stephen

Re: Adding DASD to Debian wheezy..

2012-10-26 Thread Stephen Powell
system is configured properly.) -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-s390-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1211379467.720245.1351285938171

Re: No security updates available for s390x

2012-10-17 Thread Stephen Powell
release and enables security support by default when installing the testing release. I have always enabled it, and it works fine for i386 and s390, but not for s390x. Thanks for filing the bug report. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

No security updates available for s390x

2012-10-15 Thread Stephen Powell
://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib non-free deb-src http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib non-free A search of the internet using the above error messages produced no useful hits. Why is there no security support? -- .''`. Stephen Powell

Re: RFH: segfault on s390x (hyperestraier)

2012-08-18 Thread Stephen Powell
. This is little-endian format. Sometimes hidden assumptions of little- endian format creep into programs that cause them to not work properly on s390x. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-s390-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Installing a custom kernel on Debian S/390(wheezy/sid)

2012-08-05 Thread Stephen Powell
to include DECNET support in the kernel by default should probably be posted to the debian-kernel list. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-s390-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Installing a custom kernel on Debian S/390(wheezy/sid)

2012-08-05 Thread Stephen Powell
Please reply to the list, not to me personally. Placing my reply on the list. On Sun, 05 Aug 2012 09:20:47 -0400 (EDT), Sampsa Laine wrote: On 5 Aug 2012, at 16:09, Stephen Powell wrote: First of all, are you running Debian or Ubuntu? This is a Debian list. Advice you get here is going

Re: Installing a custom kernel on Debian S/390(wheezy/sid)

2012-08-05 Thread Stephen Powell
. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-s390-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1180210863.262657.1344192985512.javamail.r...@md01.wow.synacor.com

Re: S390 Release 6.0.5

2012-06-16 Thread Stephen Powell
using the correct network device in the correct mode? -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-s390-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org

Re: [Linux/390] Problem to find packages (under z/VM 5.3.0 on a Z800 2066)

2012-05-16 Thread Stephen Powell
(in copy) is a fan of Debian (on PC) and has tried to help, to no avail. Is there a simple solution to get the s90x packages in our configuration? Yes. See my comments above. Thanks regards, Christian Jean-Claude -- .''`. Stephen Powell

Re: Access to s390 porter machine

2012-04-05 Thread Stephen Powell
me how to install it on LPAR. Regards Shahanawaz I have never installed Debian in an LPAR. I have always used a virtual machine under z/VM. But it looks like Philipp Kern has already answered you. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Improvements to Debian for s/390 (was Java on Debian s/390)

2011-09-10 Thread Stephen Powell
. Yet the Debian package continues to use release 2.3. The package maintainer is aware of this, or should be, but I've seen no progress as of yet. Perhaps your influence might help. Respectfully yours, -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: [Linux/390 under z/VM 4.2.0] more details on problem with lenny, but we could install centos 4.6, maybe a bug in debian somewhere?

2011-05-13 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 12 May 2011 19:22:53 -0400 (EDT), Christian Boitet wrote: Stephen Powell wrote: ... No, that's not right. Did you try an unmodified file, as I suggested? Here is the unmodified PARMFILE DEBIAN file, in hexadecimal ASCII. For readability, I have added a blank between each group

Re: Debian Version for System Z

2011-05-13 Thread Stephen Powell
you that Debian is not a supported environment and hang up. And then what good is the support that you're paying for? I love Debian for s390, but if I were going to use it I would want to use it in an all-open-source environment. -- .''`. Stephen Powell

Re: Debian Version for System Z

2011-05-12 Thread Stephen Powell
products, as well as about 25,000 others, are already packaged for Debian. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-s390-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: [Linux/390 under z/VM 4.2.0] CP works forever (Lenny): new attempt

2011-05-11 Thread Stephen Powell
(X'00' in either code) after the terminator out to 80 bytes. (Use SET NULLS ON in XEDIT.) I would issue SET VERIFY OFF H 1 80 in XEDIT just prior to the FILE command to verify the trailing linefeed and trailing nulls. -- .''`. Stephen Powell

Re: Debian Version for System Z

2011-05-11 Thread Stephen Powell
than 2G of real memory, since the kernel can allocate (in theory) up to a 2G address space to EACH user-space process. HTH -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-s390-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: [Linux/390 under z/VM 4.2.0] CP works forever (Lenny)

2011-04-09 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 09 Apr 2011 09:16:13 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote: I will explain the installation steps in detail. Maybe there's something you're missing. ... One more thing I forgot to mention. I'm not sure if the kernel boot messages are written to the virtual 3215 console or if they're

Bug#621080: Improving the s390 boot process

2011-04-06 Thread Stephen Powell
to be issued during shutdown when a halt or power-off signal is received. But this only works if the vmcp kernel module is loaded. I list vmcp in /etc/modules to accomplish this. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-s390-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Debian 6 - qdio Device

2011-02-17 Thread Stephen Powell
a new one to be generated at the next boot up, but it may or may not be what the user wants. This is particularly the case when the system has more than one network adapter. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-s390-requ

Re: Debian 6 - qdio Device

2011-02-16 Thread Stephen Powell
-package is a good idea when you are having upgrade problems. Sometimes, someone else has had the same problem already. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-s390-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Bug#600100: zipl's postinst hook fails upon initial kernel installation by d-i

2010-10-14 Thread Stephen Powell
installation: I am not a package maintainer for s390-tools; I am a user who is an interested party to this bug report. This bug is related to bug number 599931, and the hook script templates provided in the body of bug report 599931 will fix both that problem and this one. -- .''`. Stephen Powell

Bug#599931: zipl hook scripts invoke zipl multiple times

2010-10-12 Thread Stephen Powell
of an error from zipl, which is desirable during a remove.) -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-s390-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org

Re: IBM z/VM + z/Series + Debian

2010-09-30 Thread Stephen Powell
...@lists.debian.org). -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-s390-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/273996600.388799.1285853849788.javamail.r

Re: IBM z/VM 6.1 + z/Series + Debian

2010-09-16 Thread Stephen Powell
the method described. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-s390-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/104733069.25464.1284645808599.javamail.r...@md01

Re: Re: Installation of Debian under z/VM 530

2010-09-16 Thread Stephen Powell
system; so I never had to deal with your situation. I'm afraid I have no experience in that particular aspect of your installation problem. Good luck. Please report back if you are successful, with details of what you did and how you did it, and a list of pitfalls to avoid. -- .''`. Stephen

Re: IBM z/VM 6.1 + z/Series + Debian

2010-09-15 Thread Stephen Powell
to implement the dasd diag driver, which I recommend for anyone running Debian in a virtual machine under z/VM. For more detailed installation instructions, see the Installation Guide at http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.s390/index.html This should get you started. -- .''`. Stephen

Re: Installation of Debian under z/VM 530

2010-09-15 Thread Stephen Powell
.) http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.s390/index.html See section 5.2, boot parameters. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-s390-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Access to s390 porter machine

2010-09-11 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 11 Sep 2010 06:33:42 -0400 (EDT), Matthijs Kooijman wrote: Stephen Powell wrote: Matthijs Kooijman wrote: Never mind, we've managed to test this in an emulator already. Sorry for the slow response. No problem, I know how it is. I didn't mean to sound bitter, just wanted to prevent

Re: Access to s390 porter machine

2010-09-10 Thread Stephen Powell
interests to do so; but I am not in a position to offer a porter box to Debian. It doesn't belong to me. I run Debian for s390 in a virtual machine under z/VM; so if there's anything VM-specific that needs tested, I might be able to help. -- .''`. Stephen Powell

Bug#594127: Fix for bug number 590028 is incomplete

2010-08-30 Thread Stephen Powell
are now well aware of the problem, and you can decide what you want to do about it. And I have a circumvention which I will publish on my kernel building web site for anyone else who may wish to implement my solution until an official solution is available. -- .''`. Stephen Powell

Bug#594127: Fix for bug number 590028 is incomplete

2010-08-29 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 29 Aug 2010 16:20:20 -0400 (EDT), Ben Hutchings wrote: On Fri, 2010-08-27 at 09:50 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: [...] Personally, I think that the requirement to maintain symlinks, if used, is implicit in the purpose of the boot loader hook script. [...] After thinking about

Bug#594127: Fix for bug number 590028 is incomplete

2010-08-27 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 26 Aug 2010 18:48:57 -0400 (EDT), Ben Hutchings wrote: On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 15:04 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: Ben, I could use your help on bug number 594127. Am I not understanding the policy? Please read the bug log and advise. Thanks. Assuming that s390 kernels normally

Bug#594127: Fix for bug number 590028 is incomplete

2010-08-27 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 11:25:02 -0400 (EDT), Ben Hutchings wrote: On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 09:50:47AM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: [...] Personally, I think that the requirement to maintain symlinks, if used, is implicit in the purpose of the boot loader hook script. [...] No, that means

Bug#594127: Fix for bug number 590028 is incomplete

2010-08-27 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 14:02:13 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote: The alternative, obviously, is a separate hook script to maintain symlinks. That immediately raises two more questions: (1) How do we make sure that it executes *after* the initramfs hook and *before* the boot loader hook, and (2

Bug#594127: Fix for bug number 590028 is incomplete

2010-08-26 Thread Stephen Powell
for release. The previous post shows that a *must* directive is being violated. Therefore, setting severity to serious. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-s390-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Bug#594127: Fix for bug number 590028 is incomplete

2010-08-24 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 23 Aug 2010 17:32:36 -0400 (EDT), Bastian Blank wrote: On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 05:17:31PM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: (1) the hook scripts provided, /etc/kernel/postinst.d/zz-zipl and /etc/kernel/postrm.d/zz-zipl, do not maintain the symbolic links. The zipl boot loader typically

Bug#594127: Fix for bug number 590028 is incomplete

2010-08-23 Thread Stephen Powell
/~zlinuxman/initramfs/post-update.d/bootloader (for installation in /etc/initramfs/post-update.d) -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-s390-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#590028: hook scripts for boot loaders

2010-07-23 Thread Stephen Powell
/postrm.d/zz-bootloader initramfs hook: http://www.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/initramfs/post-update.d/bootloader If they are of any use to you, help yourself. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-s390-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: IBM z/VM 6.1 + z/Series + Debian Lenny?

2010-06-30 Thread Stephen Powell
running on a z/890 (2086). What kind of workarounds do you need? Have you even tried to install yet? -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-s390-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: [DRAFT] Policy for Linux kernel, initramfs, boot loader update process

2010-06-28 Thread Stephen Powell
* set to no. 6. The installer must not define do_bootloader, postinst_hook or postrm_hook in /etc/kernel-img.conf. Doesn't this conflict with point 4 (a)? -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-s390-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: [DRAFT] Policy for Linux kernel, initramfs, boot loader update process

2010-06-28 Thread Stephen Powell
, 2010 at 11:16:58AM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: Currently, hook scripts invoked by a stock kernel maintainer script or a maintainer script from a kernel image package created by make-kpkg pass these exact same arguments. no. From a Squeeze system running a custom kernel created by make-kpkg

Re: [RFC] Updating boot loaders in lenny and squeeze

2010-06-27 Thread Stephen Powell
with the question of how to transition from the current mess. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-s390-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org

Re: [RFC] Updating boot loaders in lenny and squeeze

2010-06-26 Thread Stephen Powell
in all cases. Sounds reasonable to me. This is for Squeeze+1, right? -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-s390-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: [RFC] Updating boot loaders in lenny and squeeze

2010-06-26 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 26 Jun 2010 20:45:58 -0400 (EDT), Ben Hutchings wrote: On Sat, 2010-06-26 at 20:35 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: Sounds reasonable to me. This is for Squeeze+1, right? No, we need something like this for squeeze. On Fri, 18 Jun 2010 17:51:11 +0200, Maximilian Attems wrote: On Fri

Re: [RFC] Updating boot loaders in lenny and squeeze

2010-06-23 Thread Stephen Powell
. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-s390-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/765636083.229248.1277306459777.javamail.r...@md01.wow.synacor.com

Re: new lilo package maintainer? (was lilo removal in squeeze or please test grub2)

2010-06-17 Thread Stephen Powell
On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 23:25:45 -0400 (EDT), Ben Hutchings wrote: On Tue, 2010-06-08 at 09:43 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: do_bootloader = yes in /etc/kernel-img.conf means run the historic boot loader for this platform. For the i386 platform (and amd64) the historic boot loader is lilo

loader varialbe in kernel maintainer scripts

2010-06-17 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 18:11:04 -0400 (EDT), Ben Hutchings wrote: On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 12:33:58PM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: [...] I can maybe accept your proposal for Squeeze. But for Lenny, I believe that the maintainer scripts should be changed back they way they were. In other words

Re: loader varialbe in kernel maintainer scripts

2010-06-17 Thread Stephen Powell
should be restored in an update to lenny. Great! What about Squeeze? It still supports creating the initial RAM file system and updating symlinks via variables in /etc/kernel-img.conf. Doesn't it make sense to allow the historical boot loader code to work as well? -- .''`. Stephen Powell

Re: git t7400.24 is failing again

2010-03-25 Thread Stephen Powell
consider the source.) See bug number 573887 for a build problem that surfaced with the mozart package that resulted from this kernel change. Whether that's your problem or not, I have no idea. As for the other architectures, I have no idea about them either. -- .''`. Stephen Powell

Re: git t7400.24 is failing again

2010-03-25 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 11:03:01 -0400 (EDT), Jonathan Nieder wrote: 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

Bug#499833: [SOLVED] - chccwdev cannot set device offline in Lenny

2010-02-03 Thread Stephen Powell
I finally found the cause of this pesky bug! At some point, an aptitude full-upgrade seemed to fix this problem. But not always. The problem is that I could never come up with a consistent failure scenario. Well, today, I finally did. It turns out that, for me, the failure only occurs when

Bug#499833: [SOLVED] - chccwdev cannot set device offline in Lenny

2010-02-03 Thread Stephen Powell
On Wed, 3 Feb 2010 11:53:47 -0500 (EST), Frans Pop wrote: They are not mystery files at all. They are part of sysconfig-hardware and their exact purpose is to bring up devices during system boot! I'm sure that they are no mystery to you, but they *were* a mystery to me until you explained

Re: Daily Debian Installer builds

2010-01-29 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:13:01 -0500 (EST), Frans Pop wrote: I've taken over the daily builds of Debian Installer for s390 as lophos has been down for well over a month now. If the service on lophos is ever reinstated, or if someone wants to set up (and manage) the builds on a regular buildd

Re: Atlas: Help with s390 ASM

2010-01-28 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 09:11:37 -0500, Adam Thornton wrote: On Jan 28, 2010, at 1:55 AM, Bastian Blank wrote: But you remind me for something: I wanted to raise the minimum CPU requirement to z900. Er, why? There are a number of shops out there still stuck running 31-bit processors (albeit,

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

2010-01-27 Thread Stephen Powell
Please excuse me for butting in here, gentlemen, but I'd like to say a few words, if I may. On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 04:36:22 -0500, Frans Pop wrote: - vmur (was enabled, but files were not included in the deb) Obviously, per Device Drivers, Features, and Commands, downloadable from

Re: Daily Build link for s390 Debian Installer points to down server -- again

2010-01-27 Thread Stephen Powell
On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 11:50:45 -0500, Ian Corbett wrote: If instead you click on the link for the lenny page, and the the s390 link under other images there it will take you to this page. http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/main/installer-s390/current/images/ These images have not

Re: Atlas: Help with s390 ASM

2010-01-27 Thread Stephen Powell
On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 18:39:31 -0500, Sylvestre Ledru wrote: Hello, I am trying to port the new version of Atlas on all Debian architectures [1]. I am starting to try to fix s390 which is one of the non-supported archs of Atlas and I need your help to translate some x86 asm to s390. Atlas

Bug#499833: chccwdev cannot set device offline in Lenny

2010-01-25 Thread Stephen Powell
On 2010-01-25 at 05:58:04 +0100, Franz Pop wrote: If there still is an issue affecting current kernels, you will probably get much more response reporting it to the upstream kernel developers than with a Debian bug report. I'm just trying to follow the rules. From

Debian Installer images for s390 architecture

2010-01-13 Thread Stephen Powell
I am cross-posting this on both debian-s390 and debian-boot, since I'm not really sure which list it belongs on. Those of you who are subscribed to both lists, please excuse the duplicate e-mails. The daily build development Debian installer images for the s390 architecture are on a server

Bug#564897: Missing gawk dependency for s390-tools

2010-01-12 Thread Stephen Powell
Hello to all. I just subscribed to this bug report. I can confirm this on my system as well, both for a 31-bit and a 64-bit server. mawk is installed as part of standard system but gawk is not. And lsdasd does not not work with mawk. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: FW: Installation Question

2010-01-11 Thread Stephen Powell
On 2010-01-11 at 08:00:18 -0500, Larry D Martin wrote: Update: With no other changes Suse 10.1 recognizes the disk. What is the difference in the install processes - as it relates to disk discovery? Thanks, ..Larry As requested previously, (1) please don't top post but use the

Re: [stable] Appeal to backport dasd_diag fix to stable update for

2010-01-06 Thread Stephen Powell
On 2010-01-04 at 14:52:19 -0800, Greg KH wrote: On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 10:26:38AM -0500, Stephen Powell wrote: Hello upstream kernel team! A fix was recently published for drivers/s390/block/dasd_diag.c to fix a problem with an inability to get read-only minidisks online to Linux via

Daily Build link for s390 Debian Installer points to down server -- again

2010-01-01 Thread Stephen Powell
I'm on web page http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ I click on the s390 link under other images, which is a link to http://lophos.multibuild.org/d-i/images/daily/ and I get the following error in my browser (eventually, after a timeout): Unable to load page Problem occurred

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