Re: Anyone ever tried Debian on a Fujitsu/Oracle M3000 ?

2022-05-16 Thread BERTRAND Joël
Frank Scheiner a écrit : > Hi Betrand, Dennis, > > On 13.05.22 17:32, BERTRAND Joël wrote: >> Dennis Clarke a écrit : >>> Thus with 64G of ECC memory and four very expensive 15k rpm SAS disks >>> the thing is a brick.  Or is it ? &g

Re: Anyone ever tried Debian on a Fujitsu/Oracle M3000 ?

2022-05-13 Thread BERTRAND Joël
Dennis Clarke a écrit : > > Somewhat annoyed by reality but I have to ask. > > [ here you need to hear a long whine noise like metal failing ] > I have a Fujitsu/Oracle M3000 brick sitting in my world and near as I > can tell it runs nothing other than Oracle Solaris 11.3 and will never > be

Re: Question - Blade 2500 Silver

2015-10-13 Thread BERTRAND Joël
Angus MacGyver a écrit : Hi All, Hello, So - struggling to google this definitively - but... I have a Blade 2500 Silver, 2x16GHz UltraSPARC IIIi CPU's - is this a "pure 64bit" system - as per "https://oss.oracle.com/projects/linux-sparc/; I am pretty sure it's a Sun4u

Re: Sparc32 Love?

2015-03-19 Thread BERTRAND Joël
Knut Petter Ølberg a écrit : Really a pitty, as I would really like to continue to run a updated debian ldom on my T5140 (sorry about offtopic with regards to sparc32). I guess the problem here wasn't really access to hardware but lack of manpower to do the porting? Don't forget that

Re: Sparc32 Love?

2015-03-19 Thread BERTRAND Joël
Artyom Tarasenko a écrit : On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 10:56 AM, BERTRAND Joël joel.bertr...@systella.fr wrote: Knut Petter Ølberg a écrit : Really a pitty, as I would really like to continue to run a updated debian ldom on my T5140 (sorry about offtopic with regards to sparc32). I guess

Re: Sparc32 Love?

2015-03-18 Thread BERTRAND Joël
Steve Yeats a écrit : Hello one and all, Hello, as I've come into the ownership of quite a few Sun4m SPARC32 machines in the past few weeks, I've gotten an old install of Sarge with a 2.4 kernel running on one and have been painfully compiling some necessary files to get newer

Re: Sparc32 Love?

2015-03-18 Thread BERTRAND Joël
Mark Morgan Lloyd a écrit : Steve Yeats wrote: Hello one and all, as I've come into the ownership of quite a few Sun4m SPARC32 machines in the past few weeks, I've gotten an old install of Sarge with a 2.4 kernel running on one and have been painfully compiling some necessary files to get

Re: Ultra-5 freezing

2014-10-08 Thread BERTRAND Joël
scar a écrit : BERTRAND Joël wrote on 09/11/2014 12:41 PM: Hello, scar a écrit : how can i test RAM and other hardware, for example? You can use diag_switch? = true and diag_level = max (with a null modem serial line). i set these options but it doesn't seem to do anything... i

Re: Ultra-5 freezing

2014-09-15 Thread BERTRAND Joël
Hermann Lauer a écrit : On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 07:44:31PM +0200, BERTRAND Jo??l wrote: hmm well where will this info usually show up? in the system/kernel logs? if it's not showing up then that means the freezes must be caused by something other than ECC errors? On console and

Re: Ultra-5 freezing

2014-09-15 Thread BERTRAND Joël
Mark Morgan Lloyd a écrit : BERTRAND Joël wrote: Hermann Lauer a écrit : On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 07:44:31PM +0200, BERTRAND Jo??l wrote: hmm well where will this info usually show up? in the system/kernel logs? if it's not showing up then that means the freezes must be caused by something

Re: Ultra-5 freezing

2014-09-14 Thread BERTRAND Joël
scar a écrit : BERTRAND Joël wrote on 09/13/2014 03:37 PM: If I remember, ECC errors are corrected by psycho. Psycho (and schizo) return some information about memory error like corrected or uncorrectable errors. If you only see corrected errors, you have to change a memory module

Re: Ultra-5 freezing

2014-09-13 Thread BERTRAND Joël
scar a écrit : and now that i think harder, i think i do remember seeing some ECC errors in the system log back when i was running SunOS. maybe the RAM does have some issues but the ECC was properly handled by SunOS so i never experienced any problems. can anyone speak about ECC handling with

Re: Ultra-5 freezing

2014-09-12 Thread BERTRAND Joël
Mark Morgan Lloyd a écrit : Aaro Koskinen wrote: Hi, On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 09:41:09PM +0200, BERTRAND Joël wrote: BUT : for several months, Linux/Sparc64 is unfortunately not stable anymore (or completely broken). After 2.6.35 kernel, I can see random deadlock on all my sparc64 (sun4v _and_

Re: Ultra-5 freezing

2014-09-12 Thread BERTRAND Joël
Mark Morgan Lloyd a écrit : BERTRAND Joël wrote: Mark Morgan Lloyd a écrit : Aaro Koskinen wrote: Hi, On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 09:41:09PM +0200, BERTRAND Joël wrote: BUT : for several months, Linux/Sparc64 is unfortunately not stable anymore (or completely broken). After 2.6.35 kernel, I can

Re: Ultra-5 freezing

2014-09-11 Thread BERTRAND Joël
Hello, scar a écrit : hi i have an Ultra-5 which has been housed in a datacenter for several years. It used to be running SunOS 5.9 and i didn't experience any problems with it. As that OS became obsolete, I installed Wheezy on the box not too long ago but now am experiencing hard

Silo and /boot raid device

2014-08-31 Thread BERTRAND Joël
Hello, I have installed a long time ago debian/sparc64 on several T1000. /boot was a raid1 volume. Last week, I have replaced one disk (/dev/sdb) and rebuilt all raid volumes : md5 : active raid1 sda8[0] sdb8[1] 14538752 blocks [2/2] [UU] md4 : active raid1 sda7[0] sdb7[1]

Re: Problem implementing USB on Ultra 5/10

2014-07-23 Thread BERTRAND Joël
Fred a écrit : On 07/22/2014 08:20 AM, Patrick Baggett wrote: On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 9:55 AM, BERTRAND Joël joel.bertr...@systella.fr mailto:joel.bertr...@systella.fr wrote: Fred a écrit : Hello, A recent post mentioned having USB on a U10. I bought a StarTech

Re: Problem implementing USB on Ultra 5/10

2014-07-23 Thread BERTRAND Joël
Fred a écrit : On 07/23/2014 12:26 AM, BERTRAND Joël wrote: Fred a écrit : On 07/22/2014 08:20 AM, Patrick Baggett wrote: On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 9:55 AM, BERTRAND Joël joel.bertr...@systella.fr mailto:joel.bertr...@systella.fr wrote: Fred a écrit : Hello, A recent

Re: Problem implementing USB on Ultra 5/10

2014-07-22 Thread BERTRAND Joël
Fred a écrit : Hello, A recent post mentioned having USB on a U10. I bought a StarTech PCIUSB7 card because it is said to be Linux compatible. With the PCI USB card installed the U5 flashes the keyboard leds twice and does nothing else. Stop-a doesn't do anything. It has debian 7.5.0

Re: [Debian] Kernel 3.12.9

2014-02-10 Thread BERTRAND Joël
BERTRAND Joël a écrit : BERTRAND Joël a écrit : This kernel is a SMP kernel. Is there any issue with this kernel ? With maxcpus=1, the same kernel boots fine. Another strange bug. On one of my T1000, I cannot boot recent kernel. 2.6.30.9 boots fine, 2.6.38 doesn't. I have tried

[Debian] Kernel 3.12.9

2014-02-09 Thread BERTRAND Joël
Hello, I have several Sun Fire and Enterprise T1000. I have some trouble with internal SAS adapter. Some T1000 work fine with Fusion MPT SAS Host driver 3.04.18, some don't but perfectly run with older drivers. I have tested all T1000 that don't run with 3.04.18 driver with SunVTS

Re: [Debian] Kernel 3.12.9

2014-02-09 Thread BERTRAND Joël
BERTRAND Joël a écrit : This kernel is a SMP kernel. Is there any issue with this kernel ? With maxcpus=1, the same kernel boots fine. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: sparc / Problems with 3.2-kernel

2013-06-03 Thread BERTRAND Joël
Artyom Tarasenko a écrit : On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 11:38 PM, BERTRAND Joël joel.bertr...@systella.fr wrote: Andreas Barth a écrit : Hi, today I tried to resurrect our buildd on schroeder (which is from architecture sparc). While trying to do so, I had a couple of strange behaviours like vi

Re: sparc / Problems with 3.2-kernel

2013-06-02 Thread BERTRAND Joël
Andreas Barth a écrit : Hi, today I tried to resurrect our buildd on schroeder (which is from architecture sparc). While trying to do so, I had a couple of strange behaviours like vi freezing after 20-30 seconds, or I couldn't about tail with ctrl+c or suspend with ctrl+z. This didn't change

Kernel 3.2 and Ultra 5

2012-09-19 Thread BERTRAND Joël
Hello, I have upgraded an Ultra5 from stable to testing. When it ran with 2.6.32 kernel, this workstation was rock solid. With 3.2 kernel, it randomly freezes without any information in log or console. No information on serial line also. If I restart testing release with

Re: Bug#595977: /usr/bin/ooffice: *** glibc detected *** /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice.bin: double free or corruption

2010-09-07 Thread BERTRAND Joël
Rene Engelhard a écrit : Hi, On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 08:50:03PM +0200, BERTRAND Benedicte wrote: I'm trying tu use Openoffice on a Blade 2000 (sparc64/smp). I have upgraded my squeeze (dist-upgrade) the last sunday. Since upgrade, From what? 1:3.2.1-5 (In that case I don't see a

XVR500 and fbdev

2009-05-30 Thread BERTRAND Joël
Hello, I'm trying to configure X on a Blade2000. Framebuffer is XVR500 and works fine in console. I know that this fb is not supported by Xorg. Thus, I have tried to configure fbdev to use linux framebuffer. I cannot obtain any running X (on regular PC, I have configured some

Re: XVR500 and fbdev

2009-05-30 Thread BERTRAND Joël
BERTRAND Joël a écrit : Hello, I'm trying to configure X on a Blade2000. Framebuffer is XVR500 and works fine in console. I know that this fb is not supported by Xorg. Thus, I have tried to configure fbdev to use linux framebuffer. I cannot obtain any running X (on regular PC, I have

Re: Debian on a Sparcstation 2

2009-05-25 Thread BERTRAND Joël
Chris Andrew a écrit : I don't have the URL to hand, but support for sparc (32-bit) was dropped with Lenny. In practice the best I managed was Sarge on an SS20, with multiple problems with Etch, even if I installed Sarge then did a dist-upgrade. Etch worked fine. Sarge doesn't work due to

Re: x-www-browser for ultra5 ultra60

2009-03-10 Thread BERTRAND Joël
gavin duley a écrit : On 10 Mar 2009, at 04:58, Howard Eisenberger wrote: On 2009-03-10, gavin duley wrote: At the moment, I am using Epiphany. This is part of the GNOME project. It's not as sophisticated as iceweasel, but it does pretty much everything I need from a browser and works well.

Re: [Ann] SparcV8 depot

2008-02-18 Thread BERTRAND Joël
' build of the kernel aborts a couple of times with a bus error or similar vague errors. I'd be interested in a V8 repository. Martin On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 10:34:03AM +0100, BERTRAND Joël wrote: Hi folks, I have built a 2.6.24.2 linux kernel on my SS20 (dual SM71

Re: [Ann] SparcV8 depot

2008-02-18 Thread BERTRAND Joël
Good news, With kernel (2.6.24.2) and libc6 I have uploaded, SS20 boots fine with dual RT626 (double CPU module). At this time, I don't see any strange memory error I have seen with older kernel. I shall try with four RT626 this evening, but it sounds good : hilbert:[~] cat

ESP DMA errir was Re: [Ann] SparcV8 depot

2008-02-18 Thread BERTRAND Joël
Hello, Last message... 2.6.24.2 is _not_ stable on HyperSPARC/SMP. It randomly hangs without any message. I shall investigate. On dual SuperSPARC, 2.6.24.2 can hang with ESP DMA error when raid1 is active. Without raid1, I cannot reproduce DMA error. Regards, JKB

Re: [Ann] SparcV8 depot

2008-02-17 Thread BERTRAND Joël
Ludovic Courtès wrote: Hi, BERTRAND Joël [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you try HyperSPARC, please test without and with SMP. Do you expect it to work at all, even UP? :-) I'm asking because it used to be considered a lost cause but I did not follow development recently. Last

[Ann] SparcV8 depot

2008-02-16 Thread BERTRAND Joël
Hi folks, I have built a 2.6.24.2 linux kernel on my SS20 (dual SM71) and it is stable in SMP configuration with HIGHMEM. I haven't tested with HyperSPARC. Has anyone any information about HyperSPARC support ? I shall test, but if someone has tried before me... ;-) I'm building

Re: data overrun detected in Data-in phase

2008-02-01 Thread BERTRAND Joël
Martin wrote: On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 18:27 +0100, BERTRAND Joël wrote: Hello, I'm using a Adaptec 29160 in a U60/SMP workstation. For 2.6.23.11, I see these messages in log file : (scsi2:A:4:0): data overrun detected in Data-in phase. Tag == 0x12. (scsi2:A:4:0): Have seen Data

data overrun detected in Data-in phase

2008-01-31 Thread BERTRAND Joël
Hello, I'm using a Adaptec 29160 in a U60/SMP workstation. For 2.6.23.11, I see these messages in log file : (scsi2:A:4:0): data overrun detected in Data-in phase. Tag == 0x12. (scsi2:A:4:0): Have seen Data Phase. Length = 24576. NumSGs = 1. sg[0] - Addr 0x0c087e840 : Length 32

[sparc64] 2.6.23.x kernel and udev on U2E

2007-12-18 Thread BERTRAND Joël
Hello, I have seen a very strange timeout when my U2E boots. I use the same kernel (2.6.23.11) on all my sparc64. On U60, U80, U420R, T1000, it boots fine, but on my U2E (2*300 MHz, 2GB), boot process waits for a timeout when udev is started: Waiting for /dev/to be fully populated

Re: [sparc64] 2.6.23.x kernel and udev on U2E

2007-12-18 Thread BERTRAND Joël
David Miller wrote: From: BERTRAND_Joël [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 09:33:46 +0100 If I restart udev, it is restarted without any timeout. I don't understand where is the mistake (PCI support ?). It seems to be a bad interaction between udev and kernel but I don't know the last

Re: PCI USB controller on Ultra 5

2007-12-10 Thread BERTRAND Joël
Ludovic Courtès wrote: Hi, I just bought a 4-port USB 2.0 controller with the intent to plug it in the PCI bus of my Ultra 5. Unfortunately, once it's plugged in, the machine doesn't even reach the OBP prompt and the screen remains off. The controller is nameless (the card reads CK-0001C,

Re: Bus error while building Erlang

2007-11-25 Thread BERTRAND Joël
Sergei Golovan wrote: Hi! Hello, Recent build of erlang package failed on sparc architecture (http://buildd.debian.org/build.php?pkg=erlangarch=sparcfile=log). I cannot find a reason looking at the log file, and I don't have an access to any sparc machine to debug the failure. I

Re: Bus error while building Erlang

2007-11-25 Thread BERTRAND Joël
Josip Rodin wrote: On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 03:53:37PM +0100, BERTRAND Joël wrote: Recent build of erlang package failed on sparc architecture (http://buildd.debian.org/build.php?pkg=erlangarch=sparcfile=log). I cannot find a reason looking at the log file, and I don't have an access to any

Load average when system is booting : 65 !

2007-11-08 Thread BERTRAND Joël
Hello, I have build a new 2.6.23.1 kernel to fix some trouble with 2.6.21.3. When I have rebooted my U2E ([EMAIL PROTECTED], 2 GB), system says : Waiting for /dev to be fully populated Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 sr 0:0:6:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi

Load average when system is booting : 65 !

2007-11-08 Thread BERTRAND Joël
Hello, I have build a new 2.6.23.1 kernel to fix some trouble with 2.6.21.3. When I have rebooted my U2E ([EMAIL PROTECTED], 2 GB), system says : Waiting for /dev to be fully populated Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 sr 0:0:6:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi

Re: Load average when system is booting : 65 !

2007-11-08 Thread BERTRAND Joël
BERTRAND Joël wrote: Hello, I have build a new 2.6.23.1 kernel to fix some trouble with 2.6.21.3. When I have rebooted my U2E ([EMAIL PROTECTED], 2 GB), system says : Waiting for /dev to be fully populated Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 sr 0:0:6:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 sd 0

32/64 bits on sparc64

2007-09-03 Thread BERTRAND Joël
Hello, I'm working on huge databases on several amd64 server and I have to change these servers. I have some Sun T1000 servers, but I don't know what is the performance of SQL servers (pg and mysql) on this arch. My first question is simple. If I run rayleigh:[/usr/sbin] file

audioctl

2007-09-03 Thread BERTRAND Joël
Hello, How can I select sound output between internal speaker and line? With Debian 3.1, there was audioctl, but this program is not provided by etch or lenny ? Thanks, JKB -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: NPTL and Debian-SPARC

2007-07-31 Thread BERTRAND Joël
Aurelien Jarno wrote: Mark Morgan Lloyd a écrit : I'm trying to track down problems in a development tool (Free Pascal) which I'm running on Etch. I notice that if I do getconf GNU_LIBPTHREAD_VERSION it reports linuxthreads-0.10, while on an x86 Sarge+2.6 system the same command reports

Re: NPTL and Debian-SPARC

2007-07-31 Thread BERTRAND Joël
Aurelien Jarno wrote: BERTRAND Joël a écrit : Aurelien Jarno wrote: Mark Morgan Lloyd a écrit : I'm trying to track down problems in a development tool (Free Pascal) which I'm running on Etch. I notice that if I do getconf GNU_LIBPTHREAD_VERSION it reports linuxthreads-0.10, while

Re: Debian GNU/(k)NetBSD and sparc32 hardware?

2007-07-30 Thread BERTRAND Joël
Ludovic Courtès wrote: Hi, BERTRAND Joël [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Maybe, but NetBSD kernel does not correctly work on sun4m/SMP, like Linux. Today, no one OS can be used on sun4m/SMP workstations, and I think that it will be easier to fix linux 2.6 sparc32 kernel than work on debian

Re: Debian GNU/(k)NetBSD and sparc32 hardware?

2007-07-30 Thread BERTRAND Joël
Ludovic Courtès wrote: Hi, BERTRAND Joël [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Maybe, but NetBSD kernel does not correctly work on sun4m/SMP, like Linux. Today, no one OS can be used on sun4m/SMP workstations, and I think that it will be easier to fix linux 2.6 sparc32 kernel than work on debian

Re: Debian GNU/(k)NetBSD and sparc32 hardware?

2007-07-29 Thread BERTRAND Joël
Uwe Hermann wrote: [CC to debian-bsd as it's relevant there, too] On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 03:13:03PM +0200, Maciej Jan Broniarz wrote: Dnia 2007-07-29, o godz. 15:11:55 Ulrich Teichert [EMAIL PROTECTED] napisał(a): I tend to differ. It will be easier to fix the Linux kernel, find a

Re: Problems with IceWeasel

2007-07-22 Thread BERTRAND Joël
gavin duley wrote: On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 10:45:22AM +0200, BERTRAND Joël [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: gavin duley wrote: On 20 Jul 2007, at 17:41, gavin duley wrote: Hello, I'm not certain if this is a bug with some package, or whether it's just something odd on my machine, but IceWeasel

Re: Problems with IceWeasel

2007-07-21 Thread BERTRAND Joël
gavin duley wrote: On 20 Jul 2007, at 17:41, gavin duley wrote: Hello, I'm not certain if this is a bug with some package, or whether it's just something odd on my machine, but IceWeasel hasn't been working for me for a few days. I'm running Debian testing on a Sun Ultra 5. Looks like

Re: Retiring the sparc32 port

2007-07-16 Thread BERTRAND Joël
andrew holway wrote: just thinkin, I don't think a sparc32 chip has been released in more than 12 years. Surely these cannot be energy efficient machines ;) And LEON processor ? A sparc V8 that can be written in a FPGA ? It runs with Linux. Berkeley university has a work in progress on a

Re: Retiring the sparc32 port

2007-07-16 Thread BERTRAND Joël
Chris Newport wrote: BERTRAND Joël wrote: andrew holway wrote: just thinkin, I don't think a sparc32 chip has been released in more than 12 years. Surely these cannot be energy efficient machines ;) And LEON processor ? A sparc V8 that can be written in a FPGA ? It runs with Linux

Re: Retiring the sparc32 port

2007-07-16 Thread BERTRAND Joël
Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: BERTRAND Joël wrote: Berkeley university has a work in progress on a super computer that uses sparc32 too. Interesting- do have a URL for that? No. Only this mail : I have a feeling that the broken sparc32 SMP is related to the CPU-specific SMP code

Re: Retiring the sparc32 port

2007-07-15 Thread BERTRAND Joël
Frans Pop wrote: On Sunday 15 July 2007 03:53, Austin Denyer wrote: On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 18:08:57 -0700, Steven Ringwald [EMAIL PROTECTED] I, for one, will be sorry to see it go, as I actively use my SS10's and 20's. Anyone know of any other Linux distros out there that support the Sparc32

Re: gdm and xorg from testing...

2007-07-03 Thread BERTRAND Joël
Emanuele Rocca a écrit : Hello BERTRAND, * BERTRAND Joël [EMAIL PROTECTED], [2007-07-02 20:09 +0200]: Xorg works fine, but gdm cannot start. I can see in /var/log/syslog : Jul 2 15:22:08 fermat gdm[7287]: Xinerama active, but = 0 screens? Jul 2 15:22:09 fermat gdm[7286

Re: gdm and xorg from testing...

2007-07-03 Thread BERTRAND Joël
Hello, This bug comes from xorg. Indeed, I have tried to start xscreensaver and it returns : munmap(0xf7f82000, 8192)= 0 munmap(0xf77ee000, 286720) = 0 writev(3, [{b\0\0\4\0\10\0, 8}, {XINERAMA, 8}], 2) = 16 read(3, 0xfffa3580, 32) = -1

Re: gdm and xorg from testing...

2007-07-03 Thread BERTRAND Joël
Emanuele Rocca a écrit : Hi Joël (I'm not sure if your first name is Joël or Bertrand). First name is Joël ;-) * BERTRAND Joël [EMAIL PROTECTED], [2007-07-03 13:17 +0200]: I suspect all programs that test Xinerama flags will crash. XineramaIsActive returns TRUE

Re: u2 cpus

2007-07-03 Thread BERTRAND Joël
Dave Smith a écrit : On Mon, 02 Jul 2007 20:39:08 -0700, Kevin Diggs wrote: Hi, Anyone know if a 501-5539 will work in a u2? These are 450 MHz. kevin My money would be on no, as the highest speed processor for the U2 was 400MHz and that only

gdm and xorg from testing...

2007-07-02 Thread BERTRAND Joël
Hello, My U2 runs debian testing (up to date). Its framebuffer is a UPA Creator3D. This morning, I have done a apt-get update and a new Xorg and a new gdm have been installed. Xorg works fine, but gdm cannot start. I can see in /var/log/syslog : Jul 2 15:22:08 fermat

Re: Strange trouble with clamd/greylist/mimedefang

2007-06-13 Thread BERTRAND Joël
BERTRAND Joël a écrit : Clint Adams a écrit : On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 08:46:53PM +0200, BERTRAND Joël wrote: Right. For me, one think is very suspect. Milter-greylist nor clamd are not able to fork on kant. What makes you think that they're unable to fork? Because clamd uses

Re: Strange trouble with clamd/greylist/mimedefang

2007-06-10 Thread BERTRAND Joël
Clint Adams a écrit : On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 08:46:53PM +0200, BERTRAND Joël wrote: Right. For me, one think is very suspect. Milter-greylist nor clamd are not able to fork on kant. What makes you think that they're unable to fork? Because clamd uses multithread and multitask

Strange trouble with clamd/greylist/mimedefang

2007-06-09 Thread BERTRAND Joël
Hello, I use two UltraSparc workstations, the first one is an U80 named kant ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), the other one is an U60 named rayleigh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). kant is a MX1 mail server that runs on debian testing sendmail, milter-greylist, mimedefang with spamassassin and clamd.

Re: Strange trouble with clamd/greylist/mimedefang

2007-06-09 Thread BERTRAND Joël
Clint Adams a écrit : On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 07:51:26PM +0200, BERTRAND Joël wrote: Some inbound mails are refused by kant (because clamd cannot scan all inbound mails). They remain in sendmail DATA stage and SMTP transaction aborts due to a timeout. I don't understand why

Re: USB host adapter?

2007-05-01 Thread BERTRAND Joël
Jordan Bettis a écrit : Thanks to Martian, I've bought a sun video card from ebay. Hope I can get it working. I have another question: I'd like to see if I can get USB working on my Ultra 5. Anyone have any recommendations for a PCI host adapter that'll work with it? Hello, I have

Re: Dropping sparc32 for lenny

2007-04-25 Thread BERTRAND Joël
Michelle Konzack a écrit : Hello *, Am 2007-04-19 09:31:43, schrieb Mark Morgan Lloyd: Martin wrote: I was under the impression that there were other SPARC based embedded chips around. Is it worth contacting the developers of the Leon about this? IIRC one of their selling points was a

Re: Dropping sparc32 for lenny

2007-04-17 Thread BERTRAND Joël
Ludovic Courtès a écrit : Hi, Hello, Jurij Smakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Now that we have released, we need to set our goals for the future. As you probably guessed from the subject, I am strongly in favor of dropping sparc32 support for lenny. There are multiple reasons for

Re: Dropping sparc32 for lenny

2007-04-17 Thread BERTRAND Joël
Mark Morgan Lloyd a écrit : BERTRAND Joël wrote: 4/ The last 2.4 kernel that is _usable_ is the 2.4.21 if I remember. All releases after this kernel are not usable for production workstations (on sparc32 [that randomly crash with 'watchdog error'] _and_ sparc64 [that randomly freeze without

Re: md (software) RAID missing in the installer for sparc

2007-04-02 Thread BERTRAND Joël
Josip Rodin a écrit : On Sun, Apr 01, 2007 at 03:39:37PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: But... that's not actually supposed to be necessary. Quoting: [...] | The first partition has to be ext3 or fd, not swap because swap | writes from first block and avoid silo block. If swap begins on the |

Re: Major bug in mysql build (all versions since 4.1)

2007-03-26 Thread BERTRAND Joël
Daniel Smolik a écrit : BERTRAND Joël napsal(a): Frans Pop a écrit : tags 334339 - wontfix thanks On Sunday 25 March 2007 20:02, BERTRAND Joël wrote: See bug #334339 (wontfix). IMO the wontfix tag is not correct. There should at least be an explanation by the maintainer _why_ he

Major bug in mysql build (all versions since 4.1)

2007-03-25 Thread BERTRAND Joël
Hello, I use for a long time mysql server on several sparc64 workstations running debian testing. I have to rebuild mysql when I need to upgrade these systems. Endeed, due to a bug in gcc, I have to rebuild the debian package, and after configure stage, I stop the process, edit

Re: Major bug in mysql build (all versions since 4.1)

2007-03-25 Thread BERTRAND Joël
Frans Pop a écrit : On Sunday 25 March 2007 19:18, BERTRAND Joël wrote: I use for a long time mysql server on several sparc64 workstations running debian testing. I have to rebuild mysql when I need to upgrade these systems. Endeed, due to a bug in gcc, I have to rebuild the debian

Re: Major bug in mysql build (all versions since 4.1)

2007-03-25 Thread BERTRAND Joël
Frans Pop a écrit : tags 334339 - wontfix thanks On Sunday 25 March 2007 20:02, BERTRAND Joël wrote: See bug #334339 (wontfix). IMO the wontfix tag is not correct. There should at least be an explanation by the maintainer _why_ he considers this an issue that is does not need

Re: List of supported machines and flaws with it?

2007-03-06 Thread BERTRAND Joël
Mark Morgan Lloyd a écrit : BERTRAND Joël wrote: 2.4 kernels (after 2.4.21) are not stable on sparc32-smp. On all sun4m-smp I have tested, they randomly hang with watchdog reset. 2.4.27 reliable here on an SS20 with 2x80MHz processors, but not with Ross modules. Irrespective

Re: List of supported machines and flaws with it?

2007-03-05 Thread BERTRAND Joël
Michelle Konzack a écrit : Hello, Hello, I have seen on several mailinglists peoples asking about Debian support for sun machines, namely older ones... Since the CPU of my Sparc Ultra 20 is exploded (!!!) I have the need to reinstall my SS10/512 (Dual-PU) and since I use older

Re: List of supported machines and flaws with it?

2007-03-05 Thread BERTRAND Joël
Ludovic Courtès a écrit : Hi, Michelle Konzack [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 2) Is there a list of hardware which work or does not work? Support for `sun4c' machines (e.g., SS2, SS1, IPC) was officially dropped in Etch. I believe Sarge was already hardly installable on such machines [0].

Correctable ECC Error

2007-01-25 Thread BERTRAND Joël
Hello, One of my U80 writes Jan 25 14:24:29 kant kernel: CPU[1]: Correctable ECC Error AFSR[10] AFAR[464fe8e0] UDBL[0] UDBH[0] TL1[0] Jan 25 14:24:29 kant kernel: CPU[1]: Correctable ECC Error AFSR[10] AFAR[464fe8e0] UDBL[0] UDBH[0] TL1[0] in

Re: Bug#400372: dpkg randomly craches on Sparc32 running HyperSPARC processor

2006-11-26 Thread BERTRAND Joël
Guillem Jover a écrit : Hi, On Sat, 2006-11-25 at 19:19:58 +0100, BERTRAND Joël wrote: Package: dpkg Version: 1.13.24 Architecture: sparc Severity: grave I have some SparcSTATION 20 with one or two SuperSPARC-II and 448 MB of memory (thus, HIGHMEM is used). On these workstations, dpkg

Re: debian-31r0a-sparc-binary-x not booting correctly on SS20

2006-05-23 Thread BERTRAND Joël
Dieszel a écrit : BERTRAND Joël wrote: Donald Parsons a écrit : My debian-31r0a-sparc-binary-1 CD image installs completely without error . On removing the CD and booting the install fails as follows: calibrating delay loop 2 CPUs activated kencpd16 RAM disks of 8192k size loading 2140

Re: debian-31r0a-sparc-binary-x not booting correctly on SS20

2006-05-18 Thread BERTRAND Joël
Donald Parsons a écrit : My debian-31r0a-sparc-binary-1 CD image installs completely without error . On removing the CD and booting the install fails as follows: calibrating delay loop 2 CPUs activated kencpd16 RAM disks of 8192k size loading 2140 blocks in ram disk memory 2140k freed

Re: My debian-31r0a-sparc-binary-x not booting correctly on SS20

2006-05-18 Thread BERTRAND Joël
It need a 2.2 linux kernel :-( I have obtanined a stable kernel with only 128 MB (without highmem) and only one ROSS. Regards, JKB -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SS2 with Boot 2.6

2006-05-13 Thread BERTRAND Joël
Blars Blarson a écrit : In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I never see any SMP bug on sparc64 after 2.6.14 release... While debian/Sparc uses a 32 bits userland, I don't understand why we have to cut the sparc port in sparc32 and sparc64 ports. Today, the main problem

Re: SS2 with Boot 2.6

2006-05-12 Thread BERTRAND Joël
Blars Blarson a écrit : In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can anyone tell me if Sarge can be installed on an SS2 (it will be a system logger) with Boot 2.6 ? Or can I upgrade it to Open Boot ? If neither what is the newest version of SunOS or Saolaris that will run on

hpoj and U60

2006-05-05 Thread BERTRAND Joël
Hello, I'm trying to install a HP PSC 1315 on my U60/smp running up to date Debian/testing (2.6.15.6 official kernel). I can send a file to this printer with cupsd (usb). But I cannot use the scanner : Root bohr:[~] /etc/init.d/hpoj setup Stopping the HP OfficeJet Linux driver.

Re: HyperSPARC patches (?)

2006-04-27 Thread BERTRAND Joël
Jurij Smakov a écrit : On Mon, 17 Apr 2006, BERTRAND Joël wrote: Thanks. But I cannot try on my SS20 (HyperSPARC) due to a bug in initramfs-tools (HyperSPARC cannot use a ramfs to boot). Can you send to me a patch file with your fixes ? I'm booting my SS20 (with HyperSPARC CPU) quite

Re: HyperSPARC patches (?)

2006-04-25 Thread BERTRAND Joël
Jurij Smakov a écrit : On Mon, 24 Apr 2006, BERTRAND Joël wrote: I have tested your patch with a SuperSPARC-II/smp workstation and I cannot obtain any error. I have seen that the last release candidate (2.6.17-rc2) is given with this patch. Thus, I have tried to boot in smp configuration

Re: HyperSPARC patches (?)

2006-04-24 Thread BERTRAND Joël
Jurij Smakov a écrit : On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, BERTRAND Joël wrote: No, I'm not able to get a backtrace or any other log because my workstation does not respond (all physical disks are deconnected). It can do an Oops, but it prints on console a lot of SCSI error, thus I do not have the time

Re: HyperSPARC patches (?)

2006-04-20 Thread BERTRAND Joël
Jurij Smakov a écrit : On Tue, 18 Apr 2006, Ludovic Court�s wrote: In fact, I was using 2.6.14 (with Bob Breuer's SMP patch) which does _not_ have this lock sequence change. Now, I tried to apply this lock sequence change to my 2.6.14 tree to see what happens and, well, the kernel does not

Re: HyperSPARC patches (?)

2006-04-17 Thread BERTRAND Joël
Jurij Smakov a écrit : On Tue, 11 Apr 2006, Ludovic Court�s wrote: Just in case it is of interest to you, I got the same sort of problem with an SS20 equipped with 2 SuperSPARCs, 2 hard disks and a 2.6 kernel: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.sparc/5979 I haven't had time to dig

Re: HyperSPARC patches (?)

2006-04-07 Thread BERTRAND Joël
Hendrik Sattler a écrit : Am Freitag, 7. April 2006 04:42 schrieb Jurij Smakov: Hm, I believe that no patches should be necessary. I've finally managed to install 2.6.16 on my ss20 with hypersparc processor, it worked ok so far, but I wasn't really stressing it. From experience, it is really

Re: sparc64 2.6 SMP RED state exception

2006-04-07 Thread BERTRAND Joël
Blars Blarson a écrit : I've submitted bug 361214 about the frequent sparc SMP crashes with 2.6 kernels. Is anyone running a sparc 2.6 SMP kernel and NOT having the system crash under heavy disk I/O? Please let the bug know if you have any additional information. I use a sparc64 SMP kernel

Re: Does anyone have software RAID 1 mirroring of / set up on Sparc?

2006-04-04 Thread BERTRAND Joël
Ashley Hooper a écrit : Hi all, Hello, I've been struggling with this for the last few days but no matter what I do I cannot get a mirrored root filesystem on my V240. Generally what happens is that SILO refuses to boot from the partition as soon as it's changed to type 'fd'

HyperSPARC patches (?)

2006-04-03 Thread BERTRAND Joël
Hello, I have a SparcSTATION 20 with dual SuperSPARC-II/75, 448 MB of RAM, and a 4MB-VSIMM for the internal CG14. It runs fine with a 2.6.16.1 linux kernel (official / no-SMP). If I replace both processors by one (or two) HyperSPARC/200 (from ROSS), the workstation boots but... dpkg

[sparc32] esp driver

2006-04-02 Thread BERTRAND Joël
Hello, I'm trying to install etch on a SS20 using raid 1. I have built a 2.6.16.1 official kernel with built-in esp and raid 1 support. When I try to initialize /dev/md? partitions, kernel always returns : esp0 resetting SCSI bus. Is there a workaround to fix this trouble ? The same