Re: camp frequently FTBFS on 64bit big endian: camptest-qt (Failed)

2018-01-09 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Flavien, On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 09:15:38AM +0100, Flavien Bridault wrote: > No my GPG key has not been signed by anyone afaik. I guess somewhere close to you you can find a Debian developer to sign your key. > Otherwise Andreas proposed me some weeks to apply as a Debian Developer, > that

Re: camp frequently FTBFS on 64bit big endian: camptest-qt (Failed)

2017-12-08 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Flavien, I have put the porter lists of the affected architectures in CC whether there is somebody who has a hint for a better solution than removing these architectures from the supported architectures. This kind of "random failure"[1] is quite hard to debug for somebody who is not familiar

Re: Failed to build openmotif for sparc (Was: Any reason why libmotif3 vanished forSparc)

2005-09-25 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sun, 25 Sep 2005, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: What makes you so sure it ever was there? I can't find any prove nor trace of that. Well, it was just installed on my Sarge based sparc machine for a long time (even before Sarge was released) and I had nothing else than the Debian-Mirror in my

Re: Failed to build openmotif for sparc (Was: Any reason why libmotif3 vanished forSparc)

2005-09-24 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sat, 24 Sep 2005, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: The newest version build successfully on the non-free sparc buildd: http://experimental.ftbfs.de/fetch.php?pkg=openmotifver=2.2.3-1.1arch=sparcstamp=1124715920file=logas=raw So will probably uploaded... Thanks for the hint. NB: in its current

Failed to build openmotif for sparc (Was: Any reason why libmotif3 vanished forSparc)

2005-09-23 Thread Andreas Tille
be the more appropriate list for this boring issue would be welcome. Please CC me if you are going to post to debian-sparc only (which would be fine for me). Kind regards Andreas. For the record I quote my initial mail from three weeks ago to debian-devel: On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, Andreas Tille

Re: Failed to build openmotif for sparc (Was: Any reason why libmotif3vanished forSparc)

2005-09-23 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 23 Sep 2005, Petr Salinger wrote: In fact, there is a successful attempt of package build: http://experimental.ftbfs.de/build.php?arch=pkg=openmotif But only alpha, arm, mips and initial i386 version are already in unstable, sparc and powerpc are now in incoming. Thanks for the hint

Re: Any reason why libmotif3 vanished for Sparc

2005-08-30 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, Andreas Metzler wrote: I know that it was there formerly because I once got it without any extra lines in my sources.list file. Now the Sparc port can be found at http://ftp.unixdev.net/pub/debian-udev/pool/non-free/o/openmotif/ This is a version with security

Re: Testing Beta 4 on Sparc Ultra 10

2004-06-03 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 2 Jun 2004, Peter wrote: What is this tcl version btw? The login screen says: Sun Ultra 5/10 UPA/PCI (UltraSPARC-IIi 333MHz), Keyboard Present OpenBoot 3.15, 256 MB memory installed, Serial #10648638 After pressing Stop-A I tried: ok probe-ide Device 0 ( Primary

Re: Testing Beta 4 on Sparc Ultra 10

2004-06-03 Thread Andreas Tille
BTW, because there was an answer to the previous mail with subject: Make tc1 more visible? I can ensure you that the bug is *not* fixed in the daily build from today! On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, Andreas Tille wrote: TCP: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0 cramfs: wrong magic sh-2021

Re: Testing Beta 4 on Sparc Ultra 10

2004-06-02 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 2 Jun 2004, Christian Perrier wrote: Could you try the tc1 versionĀ ? http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sarge_d-i/sparc/tc1/sarge-sparc-netinst.iso It was absolutely the same behaviour as I described in my posting at

Re: Testing Beta 4 on Sparc Ultra 10

2004-06-02 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 2 Jun 2004, Peter wrote: What is this tcl version btw? I'm not sitting in front of the box until tomorrow morning, but I have also trouble to handle the boot screen via keyboard. On my E250 server I was able to send the right codes via serial line but the SUn keyboard is a real advantage

Re: Performance on Sparc Ultra 10

2003-06-19 Thread Andreas Tille
On 18 Jun 2003, Steve Pacenka wrote: 2.4.21: ehec2,496M,3316,98,13866,27,5968,13,2856,92,12546,13,123.9,1,16,261,97, ^ +,+++,13110,100,270,97,+,+++,1658,96 Some comparative bonnie++ results ... 2.4.21 from Debian, Ultra 10 333 CPU, 512M

Re: Performance on Sparc Ultra 10

2003-06-19 Thread Andreas Tille
On 19 Jun 2003, Steve Pacenka wrote: Data density difference on a track? From its name, this test would be writing a block much larger than the on-drive buffer and should be limited by the rate at which the drive can write to whole tracks on a platter, and seek between nearby tracks. More

Performance on Sparc Ultra 10

2003-06-18 Thread Andreas Tille
Hello, after compiling a 2.4.21 without module support and left out any unused stuff I was able to increase disk performance of my Ultra 10 (256 MB Ram, 333 MHz): bonnie: Install-Kernel (woody):

Re: New kernel 2.4.21 and Sparc

2003-06-17 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Herbert Xu wrote: kernel-image-2.4.19-sun4u(from stable) ^^ Make sure you have modutils = 2.4.19. Those kernels are built with a relatively recent version (not in woody) of binutils which requires a new

Re: New kernel 2.4.21 and Sparc

2003-06-16 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 13 Jun 2003, Ben Collins wrote: I bet you compiled it with gcc-3.3. Upgraded the gcc and gcc-3.2 packages, and rebuild, or just install the kernel-image-2.4.21-sparc64 package. I failed compiling a working kernel fpr my UltraSparc 10, running stable and egcs64. Thus I tried this hint,

Re: New kernel 2.4.21 and Sparc

2003-06-16 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Ben Collins wrote: I failed compiling a working kernel fpr my UltraSparc 10, running stable and egcs64. Thus I tried this hint, but it also fails with the messages printed in the end of this mail. It is the same as I reported in this list with subject Some issues

Re: New kernel 2.4.21 and Sparc

2003-06-14 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 13 Jun 2003, Ben Collins wrote: suspect you did something wrong though. Try my kernel-image-2.4.21-sparc64 package. If that works, use the /boot/config-2.4.21 as a starting point for compiling your own. Any hint what would be the right compiler for a woody machine? Kind regards

Some issues with UltraSparc 10

2003-06-05 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, I just installed an UltraSparc 10 (256MB mem / 333MHz single processor) with woody. All went fine so far but I found the following log entries: Jun 4 17:53:01 ehec2 /USR/SBIN/CRON[10752]: (mail) CMD ( if [ -x /usr/sbin/exim -a -f /etc/exim/exim.conf ]; then /usr/sbin/exim -q ; fi) Jun

Re: NCPFS, anyone?

2002-09-06 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Roy Bixler wrote: I do have 'ncpfs' compiled into the kernel as a module. The really bizarre thing about this is that the 'mount' version appears to be the same (2.11) on both the old '386 box and the new Sparc. Ideas? I should have also noted that I am using a stock

Re: NCPFS, anyone?

2002-09-06 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, Petr Vandrovec wrote: It should work, but only if you are using sparc binary on sparc kernel, or sparc64 binary on sparc64 kernel, otherwise sizeof(int), sizeof(long), sizeof(__kernel_uid_t) and other may differ between kernel and user. I have patch to ncpfs kernel

Re: Solaris Binaries

2001-05-03 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 1 May 2001, Ben Collins wrote: It can't find the Solaris dynamic linker, which needs to be in /lib (as ld.so or ld.so.1, can't remember). Also, to find the other libraries, you need to either set LD_LIBRARY_PATH, or put them in /usr/lib. You can also copy all the Solaris stuff to

Re: Again 2.4.X kernels and SS10...

2001-05-03 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 3 May 2001, Erik Mouw wrote: Oh no, it already works this way for years. It is simply not doable for a single person to test a kernel release on all platforms. For example: the ARM port currently supports 73 different wildly architectures. Do you really expect Linus to test them all?

Re: Again 2.4.X kernels and SS10...

2001-05-02 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Giovanni dos Reis Nunes wrote: First, you must upgrade standard potato instalation with new versions of pppd, modutils and another things. I've it in DEB packages if you (and another one) have interest I can upload they in a public FTP. This would be interesting. An

Re: Enterprise 250 ?

2001-04-23 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Marcus Crafter wrote: Is anyone out there using Sparc Debian on a Sun Enterprise 250 ? Yes. I'd be really interested in hearing any information about such a machine with Sparc Debian installed on it. ie. success stories, problems, performance

Kernel 2.2.19 compile problem

2001-04-17 Thread Andreas Tille
Hello, it's really strange that this problem shouldn't occure before. apt-get install kernel-source-2.2.19 worked well on my potato 2.2r3 system. I unpacked the sources in /usr/src and tried to /usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.19# make menuconfig mv: cannot create regular file

Re: power Error

2001-04-05 Thread Andreas Tille
-2.2.18pre21 install ~# dpkg --status kernel-image-2.2.18pre21-sun4u Package: kernel-image-2.2.18pre21-sun4u Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: local Installed-Size: 2232 Maintainer: Andreas Tille [EMAIL PROTECTED] Source: kernel-source-2.2.18pre21 Version

power Error

2001-04-04 Thread Andreas Tille
Hello, I'm really clueless about the following problem: I'm running a Sparc E250 server since december last year under potato. Two weeks ago the machine canceled network connection (no ping) and dosn't had any output on ttyS0 console. I switched it off :-( and on again some times but it doesn't

Re: Potato-Woody

2001-03-13 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Ben Collins wrote: Ok, let me rephrase, I doubt it will work on ultrasparc :) Nice to see it has made some progress since the last time I checked into it where I was told it wasn't going to happen in the forseeable future. Just for the sake of interest: How far depends

Re: Compiling kernel 2.4.0

2001-01-25 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Steffan Baron wrote on debian-sparc@lists.debian.org: The new modutils works fine. I could install modules to the 2.4.0 kernel. However when I mount a filesystem via nfs there's a complaint about that I have older version of mount than the kernel. Shall I upgrade mount

Re: Debian problem on UltraSparc

2000-12-20 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Joshua Uziel wrote: * Andreas Tille [EMAIL PROTECTED] [001215 03:14]: This is expected and known... your only options are to use only 512MB of RAM with 2.2.x or to have all 1024MB with 2.4.0-testX kernel. Huh, because we are at it. I'm going to install an E250

Re: Which floppy drive

2000-12-18 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sun, 17 Dec 2000, Erik Mouw wrote: Sun machines are able to boot from network, so instead of fiddling with new hardware, it might be easier to do a net boot. See section 5.5 from the installation manual: http://www.debian.org/releases/potato/sparc/install Hmm, my box seems not to find

Re: Which floppy drive

2000-12-18 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, Andreas Jaehnigen wrote: Hmm, my box seems not to find the tftp image. It just repeats: Timeout waiting for ARP/RARP packet Is your ARP server up and running? This message is typically generated due What is an ARP server. I followed the instructions in the SPARC

Re: Which floppy drive

2000-12-18 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, Karl Hammar wrote: 0, write down network configs and such rarp support in opal kernel tftp installed local mirror exported ro via nfs 1, on hematit, power on, stop-a, boot net 2, on opal, run insmod and make sure hostname is in either dns or /etc/hosts 3, on

Getting started via serial line connection

2000-12-15 Thread Andreas Tille
Hello, I've got my fine E250 machine, but run in trouble before thinking about installing Debian. There is no graphics card in the machine and I have to connect via serial line. I found a searial cable which I used to connect a laptop with a desktop years ago and adapted it via gender-changer

Re: Getting started via serial line connection

2000-12-15 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Jean-Paul Blaquiere wrote: There is no graphics card in the machine and I have to connect via serial line. I found a searial cable which I used to connect a laptop with a desktop years ago and adapted it via gender-changer and 25pin to 9 pin adapter to a Linux

Re: Debian problem on UltraSparc

2000-12-15 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Joshua Uziel wrote: This is expected and known... your only options are to use only 512MB of RAM with 2.2.x or to have all 1024MB with 2.4.0-testX kernel. Huh, because we are at it. I'm going to install an E250 with 2GB memory. Is this also true for this machine??? Kind

Which floppy drive

2000-12-15 Thread Andreas Tille
Hello, because I'm not able to burn a Debian sparc boot CD just now I wonder if I could insert a floppy drive into my brandnew E250 server to install Debian from floppy. Any hints if I could use normal PC IDE hardware? Kind regards Andreas.

Kernel compile on poor Sun hardware

2000-12-01 Thread Andreas Tille
Hello, we intent to by a E250 server for production purpose. I wonder what to do in case I have to compile a new kernel for this hardware. I would really like to do this on a separate testing machine. But I don't want to by another E250 ;-). Would it be possible to use a cheap Ultra for this

Re: Hardware question (urgent)

2000-11-29 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Karl Hammar wrote: Yes it is like lilo (I have not used grub), and there are no menu. How do you select from a menu without any key press, is grub mouse based? Sorry, the menu comes up without pressing any key. After this I have to select from a list of systems using the

Re: Hardware question (urgent)

2000-11-29 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if i had the choice, i'd go for the HW RAID. SW RAID is certainly possible, and it's cheap. but when you look at the administrative overhead, it's just not worth it. The salesman told us about the advantage of software RAID if (and only if as he

Re: Hardware question (urgent)

2000-11-28 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Karl Hammar wrote: Buy from someone who supports Linux/Debian on Sun/Sparc. Does anybody know a salesman who does this in Germany The point is: if that salesman don't support linux, you are not helped by the sun label on all your stuff, since if it don't work, you

Re: Hardware question (urgent)

2000-11-28 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Karl Hammar wrote: I don't know the german market. But I do know that my distributor have a presence in germany. Maybe you can call them and see if they have a partner who can solve your need. Wrote e-mail to a partner of them. Thanks for the hint! Boot manager