[BUG] 4.18-rcX iptables regression

2018-08-06 Thread Bob Tracy
With iptables v1.6.0 and kernel version 4.18-rc7, "iptables [-t table] -L" produces diagnostic output to the effect of not being able to find the table. Kernel version 4.17.0 and earlier work fine. --Bob

[BUG] 4.18-rcX iptables regression

2018-08-06 Thread Bob Tracy
With iptables v1.6.0 and kernel version 4.18-rc7, "iptables [-t table] -L" produces diagnostic output to the effect of not being able to find the table. Kernel version 4.17.0 and earlier work fine. --Bob

Re: [BUG] 4.17-rcX delays during boot and memory mapping errors

2018-05-20 Thread Bob Tracy
On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 07:32:59PM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: > Every one of the 4.17-rcX series has hung during boot at the point where > "acpid" starts up. Beginning with -rc5, the boot actually proceeds to > completion after an "uncomfortably" long delay. > &g

Re: [BUG] 4.17-rcX delays during boot and memory mapping errors

2018-05-20 Thread Bob Tracy
On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 07:32:59PM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: > Every one of the 4.17-rcX series has hung during boot at the point where > "acpid" starts up. Beginning with -rc5, the boot actually proceeds to > completion after an "uncomfortably" long delay. > &g

[BUG] 4.17-rcX delays during boot and memory mapping errors

2018-05-18 Thread Bob Tracy
Apologies for not having more in the way of diagnostic info. Every one of the 4.17-rcX series has hung during boot at the point where "acpid" starts up. Beginning with -rc5, the boot actually proceeds to completion after an "uncomfortably" long delay. Attempting to run the X11 server results in

[BUG] 4.17-rcX delays during boot and memory mapping errors

2018-05-18 Thread Bob Tracy
Apologies for not having more in the way of diagnostic info. Every one of the 4.17-rcX series has hung during boot at the point where "acpid" starts up. Beginning with -rc5, the boot actually proceeds to completion after an "uncomfortably" long delay. Attempting to run the X11 server results in

4.14.0: built-in drivers now require built-in firmware?

2017-12-01 Thread Bob Tracy
The subject question is due to trouble encountered on a DEC Alpha getting the 4.14.0 kernel to see the machine's SCSI disks at boot time. I'm using the standard kernel source tree, and have long made it a practice to build-in the drivers for devices required at boot time (such as for the video

4.14.0: built-in drivers now require built-in firmware?

2017-12-01 Thread Bob Tracy
The subject question is due to trouble encountered on a DEC Alpha getting the 4.14.0 kernel to see the machine's SCSI disks at boot time. I'm using the standard kernel source tree, and have long made it a practice to build-in the drivers for devices required at boot time (such as for the video

Re: [BUG] 4.14 regression: Xorg hangs on exit

2017-11-22 Thread Bob Tracy
On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 10:23:25PM +0900, Tetsuo Handa wrote: > When you hit that problem next time, please capture SysRq-t and SysRq-m output > after logging in remotely. > > # dmesg -c > dmesg.txt > # echo t > /proc/sysrq-trigger > # echo m > /proc/sysrq-trigger > # dmesg -c >> dmesg.txt > #

Re: [BUG] 4.14 regression: Xorg hangs on exit

2017-11-22 Thread Bob Tracy
On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 10:23:25PM +0900, Tetsuo Handa wrote: > When you hit that problem next time, please capture SysRq-t and SysRq-m output > after logging in remotely. > > # dmesg -c > dmesg.txt > # echo t > /proc/sysrq-trigger > # echo m > /proc/sysrq-trigger > # dmesg -c >> dmesg.txt > #

Re: [BUG] 4.14 regression: Xorg hangs on exit

2017-11-21 Thread Bob Tracy
On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 11:12:35AM -0600, Bob Tracy wrote: > Apologies for the lack of detail, but the subject pretty much says it > all. Xorg works fine with 4.13, but hangs on exit with 4.14. > > Logging in remotely and applying the "kill -9" sledgehammer has no > e

Re: [BUG] 4.14 regression: Xorg hangs on exit

2017-11-21 Thread Bob Tracy
On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 11:12:35AM -0600, Bob Tracy wrote: > Apologies for the lack of detail, but the subject pretty much says it > all. Xorg works fine with 4.13, but hangs on exit with 4.14. > > Logging in remotely and applying the "kill -9" sledgehammer has no > e

[BUG] 4.14 regression: Xorg hangs on exit

2017-11-21 Thread Bob Tracy
Apologies for the lack of detail, but the subject pretty much says it all. Xorg works fine with 4.13, but hangs on exit with 4.14. Logging in remotely and applying the "kill -9" sledgehammer has no effect. System logs don't show anything unusual going on. Rebooting hangs because of the

[BUG] 4.14 regression: Xorg hangs on exit

2017-11-21 Thread Bob Tracy
Apologies for the lack of detail, but the subject pretty much says it all. Xorg works fine with 4.13, but hangs on exit with 4.14. Logging in remotely and applying the "kill -9" sledgehammer has no effect. System logs don't show anything unusual going on. Rebooting hangs because of the

[INFO] "git ac --auto" for kernel repo

2017-09-23 Thread Bob Tracy
A recent pull on Linus' kernel repo triggered a "git gc --auto" maintenance action that *finally* finished after beating my poor Alpha PWS 433au to death for 32 hours. Here's a snapshot of the ".git/objects/pack" directory for the repo: total 1366084 190535 12 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root

[INFO] "git ac --auto" for kernel repo

2017-09-23 Thread Bob Tracy
A recent pull on Linus' kernel repo triggered a "git gc --auto" maintenance action that *finally* finished after beating my poor Alpha PWS 433au to death for 32 hours. Here's a snapshot of the ".git/objects/pack" directory for the repo: total 1366084 190535 12 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root

[BUG] resolver strangeness in 4.12

2017-08-08 Thread Bob Tracy
No idea where to begin tracking this down :-(. After approximately six days of uptime with a 4.12.0 kernel, the DNS resolver simply quits working. All query attempts come back with "no DNS servers can be reached". External hosts can still query the BIND server running on the host with the

[BUG] resolver strangeness in 4.12

2017-08-08 Thread Bob Tracy
No idea where to begin tracking this down :-(. After approximately six days of uptime with a 4.12.0 kernel, the DNS resolver simply quits working. All query attempts come back with "no DNS servers can be reached". External hosts can still query the BIND server running on the host with the

Re: is alpha jensen support dead?

2017-05-21 Thread Bob Tracy
On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 10:58:48AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Btw, how well is alpha working these days? It looks like there hasn't > been any maintainer activity for about two years. Speaking for myself, the PWS 433au I've got continues to function admirably as my IPv6 gateway. Debian

Re: is alpha jensen support dead?

2017-05-21 Thread Bob Tracy
On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 10:58:48AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Btw, how well is alpha working these days? It looks like there hasn't > been any maintainer activity for about two years. Speaking for myself, the PWS 433au I've got continues to function admirably as my IPv6 gateway. Debian

Re: [BUG] alpha: module xxx: Unknown relocation: 1

2017-04-12 Thread Bob Tracy
On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 07:36:36PM +1200, Michael Cree wrote: > On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 07:57:52AM +0200, Helge Deller wrote: > > On 12.04.2017 04:59, Bob Tracy wrote: > > > Bottom line is, no kernel I've built since 4.9 can load a module. All > > > attempts to load a

Re: [BUG] alpha: module xxx: Unknown relocation: 1

2017-04-12 Thread Bob Tracy
On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 07:36:36PM +1200, Michael Cree wrote: > On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 07:57:52AM +0200, Helge Deller wrote: > > On 12.04.2017 04:59, Bob Tracy wrote: > > > Bottom line is, no kernel I've built since 4.9 can load a module. All > > > attempts to load a

[BUG] alpha: module xxx: Unknown relocation: 1

2017-04-11 Thread Bob Tracy
(Adding linux-kernel to the distribution. The issue seems to be architecture-specific, but I'm trying to understand what broke.) The 4.10-rc1 patch set made fairly extensive modifications to "a/kernel/module.c" (I'm leaving the "a" there so there's no doubt I mean the top-level "kernel/module.c"

[BUG] alpha: module xxx: Unknown relocation: 1

2017-04-11 Thread Bob Tracy
(Adding linux-kernel to the distribution. The issue seems to be architecture-specific, but I'm trying to understand what broke.) The 4.10-rc1 patch set made fairly extensive modifications to "a/kernel/module.c" (I'm leaving the "a" there so there's no doubt I mean the top-level "kernel/module.c"

Re: 4.9.0 build error on Alpha

2016-12-14 Thread Bob Tracy
r any help in resolving this. --Bob On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 08:07:10AM -0600, Bob Tracy wrote: > Got all the way to the end of the 4.9-final kernel build, and ran into the > following: > > LD init/built-in.o > arch/alpha/lib/lib.a(strcat.o): In function `strcat': > (.text

Re: 4.9.0 build error on Alpha

2016-12-14 Thread Bob Tracy
r any help in resolving this. --Bob On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 08:07:10AM -0600, Bob Tracy wrote: > Got all the way to the end of the 4.9-final kernel build, and ran into the > following: > > LD init/built-in.o > arch/alpha/lib/lib.a(strcat.o): In function `strcat': > (.text

4.9.0 build error on Alpha

2016-12-13 Thread Bob Tracy
Got all the way to the end of the 4.9-final kernel build, and ran into the following: LD init/built-in.o arch/alpha/lib/lib.a(strcat.o): In function `strcat': (.text+0x60): relocation truncated to fit: BRADDR against symbol `__stxcpy' defined in .text section in

4.9.0 build error on Alpha

2016-12-13 Thread Bob Tracy
Got all the way to the end of the 4.9-final kernel build, and ran into the following: LD init/built-in.o arch/alpha/lib/lib.a(strcat.o): In function `strcat': (.text+0x60): relocation truncated to fit: BRADDR against symbol `__stxcpy' defined in .text section in

Re: Who reordered my disks (probably v4.8-rc1 problem)

2016-08-14 Thread Bob Tracy
On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 05:03:33AM -0400, james harvey wrote: > Use static (persistent) naming instead, /dev/disk/by-label, > /dev/disk/by-id, /dev/disk/by-uuid, and if gpt /dev/disk/by-partlabel > and /dev/disk/by-partuuid The key takeaway from the above is, for the non-GPT case, userspace

Re: Who reordered my disks (probably v4.8-rc1 problem)

2016-08-14 Thread Bob Tracy
On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 05:03:33AM -0400, james harvey wrote: > Use static (persistent) naming instead, /dev/disk/by-label, > /dev/disk/by-id, /dev/disk/by-uuid, and if gpt /dev/disk/by-partlabel > and /dev/disk/by-partuuid The key takeaway from the above is, for the non-GPT case, userspace

Re: [BUG] machine check Oops on Alpha

2016-04-19 Thread Bob Tracy
On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 01:46:13AM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > I can see if I can find anything suspicious there if you send me original > copies (i.e. those that oopsed) of arch/alpha/kernel/irq_alpha.o and > arch/alpha/kernel/core_cia.o. > > > Machine has been stable since the machine

Re: [BUG] machine check Oops on Alpha

2016-04-19 Thread Bob Tracy
On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 01:46:13AM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > I can see if I can find anything suspicious there if you send me original > copies (i.e. those that oopsed) of arch/alpha/kernel/irq_alpha.o and > arch/alpha/kernel/core_cia.o. > > > Machine has been stable since the machine

Re: [BUG] machine check Oops on Alpha

2016-04-19 Thread Bob Tracy
On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 09:52:43PM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: > 4.6.0-rc4 build complete, including suggested (by Alan Young) "Verbose > Machine Checks" option set to level 2 by default. System rebooted, and > now we wait... Thanks for everyone's continued patience. W

Re: [BUG] machine check Oops on Alpha

2016-04-19 Thread Bob Tracy
On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 09:52:43PM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: > 4.6.0-rc4 build complete, including suggested (by Alan Young) "Verbose > Machine Checks" option set to level 2 by default. System rebooted, and > now we wait... Thanks for everyone's continued patience. W

Re: [BUG] machine check Oops on Alpha

2016-04-18 Thread Bob Tracy
On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 02:47:40PM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > On Mon, 18 Apr 2016, Bob Tracy wrote: > > > Build delayed slightly. Ran into "fs/binfmt_em86.o" build failure > > patched by Daniel Wagner back in February (incompatible-pointer-types > > wa

Re: [BUG] machine check Oops on Alpha

2016-04-18 Thread Bob Tracy
On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 02:47:40PM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > On Mon, 18 Apr 2016, Bob Tracy wrote: > > > Build delayed slightly. Ran into "fs/binfmt_em86.o" build failure > > patched by Daniel Wagner back in February (incompatible-pointer-types > > wa

Re: [BUG] machine check Oops on Alpha

2016-04-18 Thread Bob Tracy
On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 10:58:48PM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: > On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 02:32:54AM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > > I'd be tempted to run with the patch below to see what's the value of > > `la_ptr' early on in processing (`entInt' code in entry.S looks sane to

Re: [BUG] machine check Oops on Alpha

2016-04-18 Thread Bob Tracy
On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 10:58:48PM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: > On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 02:32:54AM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > > I'd be tempted to run with the patch below to see what's the value of > > `la_ptr' early on in processing (`entInt' code in entry.S looks sane to

Re: [BUG] machine check Oops on Alpha

2016-04-17 Thread Bob Tracy
On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 02:32:54AM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > I'd be tempted to run with the patch below to see what's the value of > `la_ptr' early on in processing (`entInt' code in entry.S looks sane to > me, doesn't touch a2). NB a rebuild doesn't have to be costly if you only >

Re: [BUG] machine check Oops on Alpha

2016-04-17 Thread Bob Tracy
On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 02:32:54AM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > I'd be tempted to run with the patch below to see what's the value of > `la_ptr' early on in processing (`entInt' code in entry.S looks sane to > me, doesn't touch a2). NB a rebuild doesn't have to be costly if you only >

[BUG] machine check Oops on Alpha

2016-04-17 Thread Bob Tracy
Apologies in advance for the "poor" quality of this bug report. No idea how to proceed, because the issue historically has been intermittent to non-existant for reasons unknown. Within 24 hours of booting my Alpha (PWS 433au), I'm pretty much guaranteed to see a "machine check" Oops which

[BUG] machine check Oops on Alpha

2016-04-17 Thread Bob Tracy
Apologies in advance for the "poor" quality of this bug report. No idea how to proceed, because the issue historically has been intermittent to non-existant for reasons unknown. Within 24 hours of booting my Alpha (PWS 433au), I'm pretty much guaranteed to see a "machine check" Oops which

Re: [BUG] 3.12.0-rcX IPv6 panic

2013-10-28 Thread Bob Tracy
On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 06:40:41PM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: > On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 05:52:52PM +0200, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 08:18:46AM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: > > > Actually, a regression: the 3.11 kernel is rock-solid stable

Re: [BUG] 3.12.0-rcX IPv6 panic

2013-10-28 Thread Bob Tracy
On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 06:40:41PM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 05:52:52PM +0200, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote: On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 08:18:46AM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: Actually, a regression: the 3.11 kernel is rock-solid stable on my Alpha. Beginning

Re: [BUG] 3.12.0-rcX IPv6 panic

2013-10-21 Thread Bob Tracy
On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 05:52:52PM +0200, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote: > On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 08:18:46AM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: > > Actually, a regression: the 3.11 kernel is rock-solid stable on my > > Alpha. > > > > Beginning with 3.12.0-rc1, I can reli

[BUG] 3.12.0-rcX IPv6 panic

2013-10-21 Thread Bob Tracy
Actually, a regression: the 3.11 kernel is rock-solid stable on my Alpha. Beginning with 3.12.0-rc1, I can reliably trigger a kernel panic by executing the gogo6.net "gw6c" IPv6 client program. If the networking layer is active, an "Oops" will eventually (within a day) occur regardless of

[BUG] 3.12.0-rcX IPv6 panic

2013-10-21 Thread Bob Tracy
Actually, a regression: the 3.11 kernel is rock-solid stable on my Alpha. Beginning with 3.12.0-rc1, I can reliably trigger a kernel panic by executing the gogo6.net gw6c IPv6 client program. If the networking layer is active, an Oops will eventually (within a day) occur regardless of whether I

Re: [BUG] 3.12.0-rcX IPv6 panic

2013-10-21 Thread Bob Tracy
On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 05:52:52PM +0200, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote: On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 08:18:46AM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: Actually, a regression: the 3.11 kernel is rock-solid stable on my Alpha. Beginning with 3.12.0-rc1, I can reliably trigger a kernel panic by executing

Re: [alpha] repeated Oops

2013-03-26 Thread Bob Tracy
On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 10:16:18PM +1300, Michael Cree wrote: > On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 07:13:35AM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: > > Getting lots of these since attempting to upgrade past 3.8.0-rc7. I > > *don't* think it's a kernel issue at this point, because while older > >

Re: [alpha] repeated Oops

2013-03-26 Thread Bob Tracy
On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 10:16:18PM +1300, Michael Cree wrote: On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 07:13:35AM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: Getting lots of these since attempting to upgrade past 3.8.0-rc7. I *don't* think it's a kernel issue at this point, because while older kernels (found an old 3.5.0-rc4

[alpha] repeated Oops

2013-03-25 Thread Bob Tracy
Getting lots of these since attempting to upgrade past 3.8.0-rc7. I *don't* think it's a kernel issue at this point, because while older kernels (found an old 3.5.0-rc4 setup from about a year ago in my archives) seem to take longer to reach this point, they'll eventually die exactly the same

[alpha] repeated Oops

2013-03-25 Thread Bob Tracy
Getting lots of these since attempting to upgrade past 3.8.0-rc7. I *don't* think it's a kernel issue at this point, because while older kernels (found an old 3.5.0-rc4 setup from about a year ago in my archives) seem to take longer to reach this point, they'll eventually die exactly the same

Re: 3.7.0-rc4 build failure on alpha: MPILIB

2012-11-11 Thread Bob Tracy
On Mon, Nov 05, 2012 at 07:53:13AM -0600, Bob Tracy wrote: > With digital signature verification support (SIGNATURE, MPILIB) enabled > on the Alpha platform, I get the following during the MODPOST section of > the build: > > ERROR: "__udiv_qrnnd" [lib/mpi/mpi.ko] undefin

Re: 3.7.0-rc4 build failure on alpha: MPILIB

2012-11-11 Thread Bob Tracy
On Mon, Nov 05, 2012 at 07:53:13AM -0600, Bob Tracy wrote: With digital signature verification support (SIGNATURE, MPILIB) enabled on the Alpha platform, I get the following during the MODPOST section of the build: ERROR: __udiv_qrnnd [lib/mpi/mpi.ko] undefined! Current compiler is gcc

3.7.0-rc4 build failure on alpha: MPILIB

2012-11-05 Thread Bob Tracy
gcc-4.6.3 -- -------- Bob Tracy | "Build a man a fire, he'll be warm for a day. Set r...@frus.com | a man on fire, he'll be warm for the rest of his | life." -- D

3.7.0-rc4 build failure on alpha: MPILIB

2012-11-05 Thread Bob Tracy
-- Bob Tracy | Build a man a fire, he'll be warm for a day. Set r...@frus.com | a man on fire, he'll be warm for the rest of his | life. -- David Burge (Iowahawk

Re: [BUG] net/core/sock.c won't compile on alpha

2012-08-22 Thread Bob Tracy
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 09:16:53AM +1200, Michael Cree wrote: > On 23/08/2012, at 12:14 AM, Bob Tracy wrote: > >Kernel version 3.6.0-rc2, and probably -rc1 as well. I get the > >following compile-time error on alpha architecture: > > > >(...) > > CC net/core

[BUG] net/core/sock.c won't compile on alpha

2012-08-22 Thread Bob Tracy
Kernel version 3.6.0-rc2, and probably -rc1 as well. I get the following compile-time error on alpha architecture: (...) CC net/core/sock.o net/core/sock.c:274:36: error: initializer element is not constant net/core/sock.c:274:36: error: (near initialization for "memalloc_socks")

[BUG] net/core/sock.c won't compile on alpha

2012-08-22 Thread Bob Tracy
Kernel version 3.6.0-rc2, and probably -rc1 as well. I get the following compile-time error on alpha architecture: (...) CC net/core/sock.o net/core/sock.c:274:36: error: initializer element is not constant net/core/sock.c:274:36: error: (near initialization for memalloc_socks)

Re: [BUG] net/core/sock.c won't compile on alpha

2012-08-22 Thread Bob Tracy
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 09:16:53AM +1200, Michael Cree wrote: On 23/08/2012, at 12:14 AM, Bob Tracy wrote: Kernel version 3.6.0-rc2, and probably -rc1 as well. I get the following compile-time error on alpha architecture: (...) CC net/core/sock.o net/core/sock.c:274:36: error

Re: [REGRESSION] 2.6.25-rc1 does not boot on Alpha

2008-02-13 Thread Bob Tracy
Ivan Kokshaysky wrote: > On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 11:14:43AM -0600, Bob Tracy wrote: > > Ivan Kokshaysky wrote: > > > No SMP, no PRINTK_TIMESTAMPS in my case. Looks like it dies trying to > > > to switch to vga console, but I had no time to debug this yet... > &

Re: [REGRESSION] 2.6.25-rc1 does not boot on Alpha

2008-02-13 Thread Bob Tracy
Ivan Kokshaysky wrote: > On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 11:14:43AM -0600, Bob Tracy wrote: > > Ivan Kokshaysky wrote: > > > No SMP, no PRINTK_TIMESTAMPS in my case. Looks like it dies trying to > > > to switch to vga console, but I had no time to debug this yet... > &

Re: [REGRESSION] 2.6.25-rc1 does not boot on Alpha

2008-02-13 Thread Bob Tracy
Peter Zijlstra wrote: > Does: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/1/28/100 > > help? I'll give that a try this evening or tomorrow and let you know. -- ---- Bob Tracy | "I was a beta tester for dirt. They ne

Re: [REGRESSION] 2.6.25-rc1 does not boot on Alpha

2008-02-13 Thread Bob Tracy
Using the radeonfb driver (built-in, default graphics mode 80x30). -- -------- Bob Tracy | "I was a beta tester for dirt. They never did [EMAIL PROTECTED] | get all the bugs out."

Re: [REGRESSION] 2.6.25-rc1 does not boot on Alpha

2008-02-13 Thread Bob Tracy
driver (built-in, default graphics mode 80x30). -- Bob Tracy | I was a beta tester for dirt. They never did [EMAIL PROTECTED] | get all the bugs out. - Steve McGrew

Re: [REGRESSION] 2.6.25-rc1 does not boot on Alpha

2008-02-13 Thread Bob Tracy
Peter Zijlstra wrote: Does: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/1/28/100 help? I'll give that a try this evening or tomorrow and let you know. -- Bob Tracy | I was a beta tester for dirt. They never did [EMAIL

Re: [REGRESSION] 2.6.25-rc1 does not boot on Alpha

2008-02-13 Thread Bob Tracy
Ivan Kokshaysky wrote: On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 11:14:43AM -0600, Bob Tracy wrote: Ivan Kokshaysky wrote: No SMP, no PRINTK_TIMESTAMPS in my case. Looks like it dies trying to to switch to vga console, but I had no time to debug this yet... Same basic configuration as Ivan. Concur

Re: [REGRESSION] 2.6.25-rc1 does not boot on Alpha

2008-02-13 Thread Bob Tracy
Ivan Kokshaysky wrote: On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 11:14:43AM -0600, Bob Tracy wrote: Ivan Kokshaysky wrote: No SMP, no PRINTK_TIMESTAMPS in my case. Looks like it dies trying to to switch to vga console, but I had no time to debug this yet... Same basic configuration as Ivan. Concur

[REGRESSION] 2.6.25-rc1 does not boot on Alpha

2008-02-12 Thread Bob Tracy
in my future. Won't be able to spend any time with this until at least the weekend :-(. -- -------- Bob Tracy | "I was a beta tester for dirt. They never did [EMAIL PROTECTED] | get all the

[REGRESSION] 2.6.25-rc1 does not boot on Alpha

2008-02-12 Thread Bob Tracy
be able to spend any time with this until at least the weekend :-(. -- Bob Tracy | I was a beta tester for dirt. They never did [EMAIL PROTECTED] | get all the bugs out. - Steve McGrew

Re: [patch] alpha: strncpy/strncat fixes

2007-12-11 Thread Bob Tracy
Ivan Kokshaysky wrote: > (...) > (http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9457). > > [ev6-]stxncpy.S: (...) > strncpy.S: (...) > > Signed-off-by: Ivan Kokshaysky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ACK. 2.6.24-rc3 working fine for me with this patch applied. Nice work! -

Re: [patch] alpha: strncpy/strncat fixes

2007-12-11 Thread Bob Tracy
Ivan Kokshaysky wrote: (...) (http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9457). [ev6-]stxncpy.S: (...) strncpy.S: (...) Signed-off-by: Ivan Kokshaysky [EMAIL PROTECTED] ACK. 2.6.24-rc3 working fine for me with this patch applied. Nice work! --Bob Tracy [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [BUG] 2.6.23-rc3 can't see sd partitions on Alpha

2007-12-10 Thread Bob Tracy
Ivan Kokshaysky wrote: > On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 10:19:39PM -0600, Bob Tracy wrote: > > I *do* have CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ set. Anyone care to bet whether my > > machine starts working again if I disable it? Sheesh... > > Incredible... > > Toggling CONFIG_MAGIC_SYS

Re: [BUG] 2.6.23-rc3 can't see sd partitions on Alpha

2007-12-10 Thread Bob Tracy
Kay Sievers wrote: > On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 23:05 -0600, Bob Tracy wrote: > > Kay Sievers wrote: > > > Is the udev daemon (still) running while it fails? > > > > Yes, and there's something else I forgot to mention that may be > > significant... For the bad

Re: [BUG] 2.6.23-rc3 can't see sd partitions on Alpha

2007-12-10 Thread Bob Tracy
Kay Sievers wrote: On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 23:05 -0600, Bob Tracy wrote: Kay Sievers wrote: Is the udev daemon (still) running while it fails? Yes, and there's something else I forgot to mention that may be significant... For the bad case, in addition to udevd, ps -ef shows a sh -e

Re: [BUG] 2.6.23-rc3 can't see sd partitions on Alpha

2007-12-10 Thread Bob Tracy
Ivan Kokshaysky wrote: On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 10:19:39PM -0600, Bob Tracy wrote: I *do* have CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ set. Anyone care to bet whether my machine starts working again if I disable it? Sheesh... Incredible... Toggling CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ works for me too, so I'm finally able

Re: [BUG] 2.6.23-rc3 can't see sd partitions on Alpha

2007-12-08 Thread Bob Tracy
Michael Cree wrote: > Kay Sievers wrote: > > On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 23:05 -0600, Bob Tracy wrote: > >> Kay Sievers wrote: > >>> Is the udev daemon (still) running while it fails? > >> Yes, and there's something else I forgot to mention that may be > >&g

Re: [BUG] 2.6.23-rc3 can't see sd partitions on Alpha

2007-12-08 Thread Bob Tracy
Michael Cree wrote: Kay Sievers wrote: On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 23:05 -0600, Bob Tracy wrote: Kay Sievers wrote: Is the udev daemon (still) running while it fails? Yes, and there's something else I forgot to mention that may be significant... For the bad case, in addition to udevd, ps -ef

Re: [BUG] 2.6.23-rc3 can't see sd partitions on Alpha

2007-12-07 Thread Bob Tracy
ss doesn't exit until I reboot. If this is normal under the circumstances, please disregard. -- -------- Bob Tracy | "They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist- " [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - Last wor

Re: [BUG] 2.6.23-rc3 can't see sd partitions on Alpha

2007-12-07 Thread Bob Tracy
either. -- -------- Bob Tracy | "They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist- " [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - Last words of Union General John Sedgwick, | Battle of Spotsylvania Court House

Re: [BUG] 2.6.23-rc3 can't see sd partitions on Alpha

2007-12-07 Thread Bob Tracy
t MAKEDEV (/dev/MAKEDEV --> /sbin/MAKEDEV) is doing. In particular, Debian MAKEDEV is looking at /proc/devices to decide what to do, so maybe "cat /proc/devices" would be useful to look at for the broken case. -- -----------

Re: [BUG] 2.6.23-rc3 can't see sd partitions on Alpha

2007-12-07 Thread Bob Tracy
k/sda/sda5/dev:8:5 /sys/block/sda/sda6/dev:8:6 /sys/block/sda/sda7/dev:8:7 Assuming /sys/block even exists for the non-working case, I'll forward that info in a few hours when I can get home to reboot the machine. -- B

Re: [BUG] 2.6.23-rc3 can't see sd partitions on Alpha

2007-12-07 Thread Bob Tracy
Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Bob Tracy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Current state of the source tree is the 6f37ac... version, so I'll > > > start backing out the above diffs in related groups and continue > > > until I've got a working kernel.

Re: [BUG] 2.6.23-rc3 can't see sd partitions on Alpha

2007-12-07 Thread Bob Tracy
net_table }, /* NET_ECONET not used */ { NET_SCTP, "sctp", trans_net_sctp_table }, -- Bob Tracy | "They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist- " [EMAIL PR

Re: [BUG] 2.6.23-rc3 can't see sd partitions on Alpha

2007-12-07 Thread Bob Tracy
Andrew Morton wrote: > On Thu, 6 Dec 2007 23:07:08 -0600 (CST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Tracy) wrote: > > Andrew Morton wrote: > > > commit 6f37ac793d6ba7b35d338f791974166f67fdd9ba > > > Merge: 2f1f53b... d90bf5a... > > > Author: Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [BUG] 2.6.23-rc3 can't see sd partitions on Alpha

2007-12-07 Thread Bob Tracy
}, -- Bob Tracy | They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - Last words of Union General John Sedgwick, | Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, U.S. Civil War

Re: [BUG] 2.6.23-rc3 can't see sd partitions on Alpha

2007-12-07 Thread Bob Tracy
Andrew Morton wrote: On Thu, 6 Dec 2007 23:07:08 -0600 (CST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Tracy) wrote: Andrew Morton wrote: commit 6f37ac793d6ba7b35d338f791974166f67fdd9ba Merge: 2f1f53b... d90bf5a... Author: Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed Nov 14 18:51:48 2007 -0800

Re: [BUG] 2.6.23-rc3 can't see sd partitions on Alpha

2007-12-07 Thread Bob Tracy
reboot. If this is normal under the circumstances, please disregard. -- Bob Tracy | They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - Last words of Union General John Sedgwick

Re: [BUG] 2.6.23-rc3 can't see sd partitions on Alpha

2007-12-07 Thread Bob Tracy
. -- Bob Tracy | They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - Last words of Union General John Sedgwick, | Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, U.S. Civil War

Re: [BUG] 2.6.23-rc3 can't see sd partitions on Alpha

2007-12-07 Thread Bob Tracy
/sda/sda6/dev:8:6 /sys/block/sda/sda7/dev:8:7 Assuming /sys/block even exists for the non-working case, I'll forward that info in a few hours when I can get home to reboot the machine. -- Bob Tracy | They couldn't

Re: [BUG] 2.6.23-rc3 can't see sd partitions on Alpha

2007-12-07 Thread Bob Tracy
Ingo Molnar wrote: * Bob Tracy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Current state of the source tree is the 6f37ac... version, so I'll start backing out the above diffs in related groups and continue until I've got a working kernel. For lack of an obvious target, I'll start

Re: [BUG] 2.6.23-rc3 can't see sd partitions on Alpha

2007-12-07 Thread Bob Tracy
. In particular, Debian MAKEDEV is looking at /proc/devices to decide what to do, so maybe cat /proc/devices would be useful to look at for the broken case. -- Bob Tracy | They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist- [EMAIL

Re: [BUG] 2.6.23-rc3 can't see sd partitions on Alpha

2007-12-06 Thread Bob Tracy
quot; kernel I'm running now. The build is running, and I should have an answer for us in a few hours. -- -------- Bob Tracy | "They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist- " [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [BUG] 2.6.23-rc3 can't see sd partitions on Alpha

2007-12-06 Thread Bob Tracy
d I'll report back. Worst case, I'll have to start over and write off the past four days... Sorry about this... -- Bob Tracy | "They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist- " [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -

Re: [BUG] 2.6.23-rc3 can't see sd partitions on Alpha

2007-12-06 Thread Bob Tracy
t-bisect good 2f1f53bdc6531696934f6ee7bbdfa2ab4f4f62a3 -- -------- Bob Tracy | "They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist- " [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - Last words of Union General John Sedgwick, | Battle of Spotsy

Re: [BUG] 2.6.23-rc3 can't see sd partitions on Alpha

2007-12-06 Thread Bob Tracy
2f1f53bdc6531696934f6ee7bbdfa2ab4f4f62a3 -- Bob Tracy | They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - Last words of Union General John Sedgwick, | Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, U.S. Civil

Re: [BUG] 2.6.23-rc3 can't see sd partitions on Alpha

2007-12-06 Thread Bob Tracy
this... -- Bob Tracy | They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - Last words of Union General John Sedgwick, | Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, U.S. Civil War

Re: [BUG] 2.6.23-rc3 can't see sd partitions on Alpha

2007-12-06 Thread Bob Tracy
, and I should have an answer for us in a few hours. -- Bob Tracy | They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - Last words of Union General John Sedgwick, | Battle

Re: [BUG] 2.6.23-rc3 can't see sd partitions on Alpha

2007-12-05 Thread Bob Tracy
Current progress: 11 revisions left to test. The current partial "git bisect log" is available per Ingo's suggestion on bugzilla. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9457 -- -------- Bob Tracy | "Th

Re: [BUG] 2.6.23-rc3 can't see sd partitions on Alpha

2007-12-05 Thread Bob Tracy
Current progress: 11 revisions left to test. The current partial git bisect log is available per Ingo's suggestion on bugzilla. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9457 -- Bob Tracy | They couldn't hit

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