Re: Boot fails to load network or USB, piix4_smbus - SMBus Host Controller, after update to dbus (1.14.10-3) unstable SOLVED

2023-11-25 Thread Andy Dorman
I'm pretty sure you can bind mount /proc, /sys, /dev, /run, chroot and then update-initramfs to regen. Thanks Tim. You make it sound so simple. I searched for "chroot to mounted disk to update initramfs" and found several detailed descriptions of the process.

Re: Boot fails to load network or USB, piix4_smbus - SMBus Host Controller, after update to dbus (1.14.10-3) unstable

2023-11-24 Thread Andy Dorman
I'm pretty sure you can bind mount /proc, /sys, /dev, /run, chroot and then update-initramfs to regen. Thanks Tim. You make it sound so simple. I searched for "chroot to mounted disk to update initramfs" and found several detailed descriptions of the process.

Re: Boot fails to load network or USB, piix4_smbus - SMBus Host Controller, after update to dbus (1.14.10-3) unstable

2023-11-23 Thread Tim Woodall
On Thu, 23 Nov 2023, Andy Dorman wrote: I have not yet figured out how to fix our two broken servers since we can't boot them to update them. Since we have several identical running servers and can mount and manipulate the file system of the dead servers, is it possible to just copy a good

Re: Boot fails to load network or USB, piix4_smbus - SMBus Host Controller, after update to dbus (1.14.10-3) unstable

2023-11-23 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Thu, Nov 23, 2023 at 4:09 PM Andy Dorman wrote: > > I have continued to research this and I think I found the problem. > > I also think the dbus update timing mentioned in the subject is entirely > coincidental. I hope I haven't caused any unnecessary excitement or work > for anyone in the

Re: Boot fails to load network or USB, piix4_smbus - SMBus Host Controller, after update to dbus (1.14.10-3) unstable

2023-11-23 Thread Andy Dorman
I have continued to research this and I think I found the problem. I also think the dbus update timing mentioned in the subject is entirely coincidental. I hope I haven't caused any unnecessary excitement or work for anyone in the dbus package team. My apologies if I did. A few months back

Boot fails to load network or USB, piix4_smbus - SMBus Host Controller, after update to dbus (1.14.10-3) unstable

2023-11-23 Thread Andy Dorman
This may actually be a usrmerge problem, both usrmerge and usr-is-merged (>= 38~) are installed). But I do not know enough about how firmware controllers are loaded during boot to determine which package, dbus or usrmerge, I should submit a bug report to. We have multiple old (14+ years) Tyan