[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1547838] Re: ADMtek ADM8511 "Pegasus II" USB Ethernet causes oops

2016-04-30 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
** Tags added: cherry-pick -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1547838 Title: ADMtek ADM8511 "Pegasus II" USB Ethernet causes oops Status in linux package in Ubuntu:

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1547838] Re: ADMtek ADM8511 "Pegasus II" USB Ethernet causes oops

2016-04-29 Thread a1291762
The commit has made it into a maintainer's repo. http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/davem/net.git/commit/?id=b7302ca05871e50208bc328cbc8199a21f5d876e -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu.

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1547838] Re: ADMtek ADM8511 "Pegasus II" USB Ethernet causes oops

2016-04-27 Thread a1291762
I guess this thread will be used to get the patch into mainline... http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev=146174255118232=2 http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev=146174254318229=2 http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev=146174254318228=2 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1547838] Re: ADMtek ADM8511 "Pegasus II" USB Ethernet causes oops

2016-04-22 Thread a1291762
Sorry for the delay in posting this. It took forever to actually show up. Here's my post to the mailing list. http://marc.info/?l=linux- usb=145985232019173=2 I've also been in contact with the maintainer off-list (he got me to test another change). -- You received this bug notification because

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1547838] Re: ADMtek ADM8511 "Pegasus II" USB Ethernet causes oops

2016-04-04 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
a1291762, the issue you are reporting is an upstream one. Could you please report this problem following the instructions verbatim at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/kernel to the appropriate mailing list (TO Petko Manolov CC linux-usb)? Please provide a direct URL to your post to the

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1547838] Re: ADMtek ADM8511 "Pegasus II" USB Ethernet causes oops

2016-04-04 Thread a1291762
I downloaded the Ubuntu 4.6.0 rc2 image (4.6.0-040600rc2-generic) and confirmed the issue remains (as with the last mainline build I tested, it does not show up as quickly, I guess something about the memory layout has changed). I downloaded current linux HEAD source and verified the code still

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1547838] Re: ADMtek ADM8511 "Pegasus II" USB Ethernet causes oops

2016-04-03 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
a1291762, before submitting your patch, you would want to confirm the issue is still reproducible with the latest mainline kernel (4.6-rc2). Could you please advise to the results? ** Tags removed: needs-bisect ** Tags added: bisect-done ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed =>

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1547838] Re: ADMtek ADM8511 "Pegasus II" USB Ethernet causes oops

2016-04-02 Thread Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot
** Tags added: patch -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1547838 Title: ADMtek ADM8511 "Pegasus II" USB Ethernet causes oops Status in linux package in Ubuntu: Confirmed

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1547838] Re: ADMtek ADM8511 "Pegasus II" USB Ethernet causes oops

2016-04-01 Thread a1291762
Another data point for consideration... (I didn't think of this until late last night) git checkout Ubuntu-3.10.0-0.6 git revert 313a58e487ab3eb80e7e1f9baddc75968288aad9 # resolve a header conflict - nothing major After building this, I was able to use the network dongle just fine (ie. second

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1547838] Re: ADMtek ADM8511 "Pegasus II" USB Ethernet causes oops

2016-04-01 Thread a1291762
The good news is that I have identified the commit that breaks my system. It is 313a58e487ab3eb80e7e1f9baddc75968288aad9 (the first of 3 commits to the pegasus driver). I have attached the bisect log in case it's interesting. Here's some notes on my process... The bisecting was entirely in

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1547838] Re: ADMtek ADM8511 "Pegasus II" USB Ethernet causes oops

2016-03-27 Thread a1291762
I have narrowed it further to these builds. 3.9.0-7.15 - good 3.10.0-0.6 - bad I've managed to fetch the saucy repo. git says there's around 14,000 commits between these two tags?! I'm going to first verify that when I build both of these tags I get the same behaviour as I do with the binary

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1547838] Re: ADMtek ADM8511 "Pegasus II" USB Ethernet causes oops

2016-03-26 Thread a1291762
Sigh. I was forgetting about the linux-image-extra package. This proved to make a difference. Indeed, the post-Saucy versions that were succeeding were only doing so because the image-extra package was missing. Strangely, the USB dongle worked without that package but clearly there's an

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1547838] Re: ADMtek ADM8511 "Pegasus II" USB Ethernet causes oops

2016-03-26 Thread a1291762
In the absence of a reply to my question, I tried downloading various binary kernels to at least narrow down the scope of the bisecting I'll have to do. After trying older releases and having no failures, I unexpectedly found that 14.04 kernels only cover 3.11 to 3.13. But I'm running 14.04 and

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1547838] Re: ADMtek ADM8511 "Pegasus II" USB Ethernet causes oops

2016-03-21 Thread a1291762
Am I supposed to be bisecting mainline kernel or the Ubuntu kernel? That page seems a bit out of date, I'm guessing I should be cloning git://kernel.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ubuntu-trusty.git ? I am somewhat bandwidth challenged at home. Is there a recommended way to fetch this monstrosity over a

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1547838] Re: ADMtek ADM8511 "Pegasus II" USB Ethernet causes oops

2016-03-19 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
a1291762, the next step is to fully commit bisect from kernel 2.6.22 to 3.19 in order to identify the last good kernel commit, followed immediately by the first bad one. This will allow for a more expedited analysis of the root cause of your issue. Could you please do this following

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1547838] Re: ADMtek ADM8511 "Pegasus II" USB Ethernet causes oops

2016-03-19 Thread a1291762
It is still broken in the mainline kernel. The top entry at the URL was this: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.5-wily/ The package versions were: Selecting previously unselected package linux-headers-4.5.0-040500-generic. Selecting previously unselected package

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1547838] Re: ADMtek ADM8511 "Pegasus II" USB Ethernet causes oops

2016-03-13 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
a1291762, in order to allow additional upstream developers to examine the issue, at your earliest convenience, could you please test the latest upstream kernel available from http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/?C=N;O=D ? Please keep in mind the following: 1) The one to test is at the

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1547838] Re: ADMtek ADM8511 "Pegasus II" USB Ethernet causes oops

2016-03-13 Thread a1291762
It seems I was mistaken. The bug seems to remain, though it takes longer to trigger now than it did before. I just got this crash over a netconsole. ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Invalid => Confirmed ** Attachment added: "Kernel crash after applying new BIOS"

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1547838] Re: ADMtek ADM8511 "Pegasus II" USB Ethernet causes oops

2016-03-12 Thread a1291762
I had to jump through some hoops to update the BIOS (since the updater was a Windows binary and this machine does not have Windows on it). But I finally sorted something out. dmidecode output: 68PDV Ver. F.20 12/08/2011 The adapter seems to be stable now. I brought it up, did some pings, even

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1547838] Re: ADMtek ADM8511 "Pegasus II" USB Ethernet causes oops

2016-03-07 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
a1291762, as per http://h20564.www2.hp.com/hpsc/swd/public/readIndex?sp4ts.oid=3781730=8=4060 an update to your computer's buggy, insecure, and outdated BIOS is available (F.20). If you update to this following https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BIOSUpdate does it change anything? For more on BIOS

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1547838] Re: ADMtek ADM8511 "Pegasus II" USB Ethernet causes oops

2016-03-07 Thread a1291762
apport information ** Tags added: apport-collected ** Description changed: This is a rather old USB ethernet adapter. It worked fine for me with older distributions (including Ubuntu 10.04). I noticed it causing problems after upgrading to 14.04 and stopped using it as a result (since I

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1547838] Re: ADMtek ADM8511 "Pegasus II" USB Ethernet causes oops

2016-03-07 Thread a1291762
It seems this is a known issue... https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apport/+bug/997020 I have set w3m as the text-mode browser (it was already installed) and run apport-collect. It wants to upload nearly 600K, quite a bit more than the other command gave. -- You received this bug

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1547838] Re: ADMtek ADM8511 "Pegasus II" USB Ethernet causes oops

2016-03-07 Thread a1291762
I couldn't figure out if there was a "crash" thing or not. I suspect not (/var/crash is empty). Attached is the result of running sudo apport-cli -f -plinux --save bug.apport ** Attachment added: "bug.apport"

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1547838] Re: ADMtek ADM8511 "Pegasus II" USB Ethernet causes oops

2016-03-07 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
a1291762, if it isn't terribly inconvenient, one could boot from a live environment via http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/ . If it is, then one could engage https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs#Filing_bugs_when_offline_or_using_a_headless_setup . -- You received this bug

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1547838] Re: ADMtek ADM8511 "Pegasus II" USB Ethernet causes oops

2016-03-07 Thread a1291762
apport-collect requires a web browser. This machine is a server. It has lynx or links or something but Ubuntu's website does not work with that browser. How should I continue? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1547838] Re: ADMtek ADM8511 "Pegasus II" USB Ethernet causes oops

2016-03-06 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
a1291762, thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please execute the following command only once, as it will automatically gather debugging information, in a terminal: apport-collect 1547838 ** Package changed: linux-lts-vivid (Ubuntu) => linux

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1547838] Re: ADMtek ADM8511 "Pegasus II" USB Ethernet causes oops

2016-02-22 Thread a1291762
The first bit of complaining on the last log didn't all make it to the netconsole and unlike previous instances, stayed on the screen for a while so I got a photo. ** Attachment added: "IMG_20160221_244551_024.jpg"

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1547838] Re: ADMtek ADM8511 "Pegasus II" USB Ethernet causes oops

2016-02-22 Thread a1291762
I think the first netconsole missed some data at the start (I got a belated firewall warning) so here's a second capture that seems to start earlier. In case it wasn't clear, most of the time I've been booting the machine and then inserting the USB device (so that I could be sure all the logging

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1547838] Re: ADMtek ADM8511 "Pegasus II" USB Ethernet causes oops

2016-02-22 Thread a1291762
Here's another netconsole, with the dongle inserted during boot. ** Attachment added: "netconsole3.log" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-lts-vivid/+bug/1547838/+attachment/4576560/+files/netconsole3.log -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1547838] Re: ADMtek ADM8511 "Pegasus II" USB Ethernet causes oops

2016-02-22 Thread a1291762
Hmm... I tried the crash kernel but it didn't seem to work. So I used the netconsole to capture more data than could fit on the screen. ** Attachment added: "netconsole.log" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-lts-vivid/+bug/1547838/+attachment/4576557/+files/netconsole.log --

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1547838] Re: ADMtek ADM8511 "Pegasus II" USB Ethernet causes oops

2016-02-22 Thread a1291762
Note if I plug in the device but don't send traffic over it, the system manages to remain running for longer. I brought the interface up with a static IP and the system remained up for well over 5 minutes before it died. I was monitoring ifconfig and it had around 30 Rx packets and 300 Tx packets.

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1547838] Re: ADMtek ADM8511 "Pegasus II" USB Ethernet causes oops

2016-02-22 Thread a1291762
I've attached a screenshot of a hard-freeze. Will upload whatever logs were recovered too. ** Attachment added: "IMG_20160221_241125_602.jpg" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-lts-vivid/+bug/1547838/+attachment/4576556/+files/IMG_20160221_241125_602.jpg -- You received this