powerbutton

2012-03-29 Thread mlsparc
Hi I've installed debian 6 stable on an old sparc sun ultra5 if I type: halt or shutdown -h now or init 0 all works fine If I try to shutdown using the powerbutton, the computer will go off but a lot of errors appear on the screen before going off How could I resolve the problem? thanks

Re: powerbutton

2012-03-29 Thread Patrick Baggett
I hate to be that guy, but what *is* the problem? The messages? Did the error messages say something specifically that is going to happen? If you feel up to it, you can try out a newer kernel (I'm running 3.2 on an Ultra 10) and see if the messages persist, and if so, you can report a bug.

Re: powerbutton

2012-03-29 Thread mlsparc
I have no problem to report here messages that appear but I don't know how to do Is it possible to save messages in a file? On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 09:20:46AM -0500, Patrick Baggett wrote: I hate to be that guy, but what *is* the problem? The messages? Did the error messages say something

Re: powerbutton

2012-03-29 Thread Patrick Baggett
The easiest way I think of is to use a serial console -- then the output would be on another computer's terminal (instead of the monitor that is about to turn off!). To get this to work, you'll need to unplug the keyboard if I recall, perhaps remove the video card (though I think merely removing

Re: powerbutton

2012-03-29 Thread mlsparc
at the moment I haven't the cable so I can't report messages but how does it work? On i386 debian are used apci* or apm* in sparc what is used to provide poweroff button functionality? acpi* and apm* are not installed in this system.. On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 11:28:02AM -0500, Patrick

Re: powerbutton

2012-03-29 Thread mlsparc
I've read this (or something like this): entering init 0 /etc/init.d/rc temporarily unavailable ??? fork (I don't remember..) no messages like: apache stop isc-dhcp-server stop proftp stop etc etc poweroff in few seconds On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 07:11:02PM +0200,

Re: powerbutton

2012-03-29 Thread Jurij Smakov
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 06:17:07PM +0200, mlsp...@mailserver.ipstatico.net wrote: I have no problem to report here messages that appear but I don't know how to do Is it possible to save messages in a file? Do you have a camera (including the one in a mobile phone)? Try taking a photo/video

Re: [sparc] SunFire480R cassini network driver kernel panic

2012-03-29 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Aron Xu wrote: It's a bit hard for me now because the machine is in production now. That's fine. Do I understand correctly then that no, you did not reproduce the cassini crash with an older kernel but only reproduced the lack of a crash with a newer one? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: [sparc] SunFire480R cassini network driver kernel panic

2012-03-29 Thread Aron Xu
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 01:28, Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com wrote: Ben Hutchings wrote: On Tue, 2012-03-27 at 15:42 +0800, Aron Xu wrote: I can confirm that Debian Squeeze 6.0.4, with kernel linux-image-2.6.32-5-sparc64-smp, version 2.6.32-41 or 2.6.32-41squeeze2, does not crash

Re: [sparc] SunFire480R cassini network driver kernel panic

2012-03-29 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Aron Xu wrote: I did not reproduce the cassini crash, just confirmed it does not crash on Squeeze. Thanks. According to http://bugs.debian.org/665932 this machine has 4 CPUs, so it at least rules out the cassini panics except on uniprocessor machines hypothesis. Progress. :) -- To

Re: [sparc] SunFire480R cassini network driver kernel panic

2012-03-29 Thread Aron Xu
On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 12:57, Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com wrote: Aron Xu wrote: It's a bit hard for me now because the machine is in production now. That's fine.  Do I understand correctly then that no, you did not reproduce the cassini crash with an older kernel but only reproduced