Re: More breakage on HD7480D [ Aruba ]

2014-05-11 Thread Ken Moffat
On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 01:34:06AM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: /me swears at myself for failing to copy to lkml. Hi Christian, Alex - my A4 Trinity (Radeon HD7480D) was working fine by -rc3. But now that I've tested it in -rc5 it is again broken (the screen goes blank when KMS starts

Re: 3.15.0-rc2 radeon HD 7480D [Aruba] blank display

2014-04-28 Thread Ken Moffat
On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 01:54:01AM -0400, Alex Deucher wrote: > > The attached patch should fix it. > > Thanks, > > Alex > From 9cd764fd57bb2a4e5f618d0f8a64c8154a820688 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Alex Deucher > Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 01:49:28 -0400 > Subject: [PATCH] drm/radeon/aux: fix

Re: 3.15.0-rc2 radeon HD 7480D [Aruba] blank display

2014-04-28 Thread Ken Moffat
On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 01:54:01AM -0400, Alex Deucher wrote: The attached patch should fix it. Thanks, Alex From 9cd764fd57bb2a4e5f618d0f8a64c8154a820688 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alex Deucher alexander.deuc...@amd.com Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 01:49:28 -0400 Subject: [PATCH]

Re: 3.15.0-rc2 radeon HD 7480D [Aruba] blank display

2014-04-21 Thread Ken Moffat
On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 03:31:06AM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: [ resending, somehow lkml dropped out of the Cc. ] > On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 12:19:40AM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 05:29:27PM -0400, Ed Tomlinson wrote: > > > > Ken, > > >

Re: 3.15.0-rc2 radeon HD 7480D [Aruba] blank display

2014-04-21 Thread Ken Moffat
On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 04:54:15PM -0400, Alex Deucher wrote: > On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 4:32 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: > > I've just built 3.15.0-rc2 on this box, and discovered that I get a > > blank screen. The boot appears to complete (it sends me information > > from SMART

3.15.0-rc2 radeon HD 7480D [Aruba] blank display

2014-04-21 Thread Ken Moffat
I've just built 3.15.0-rc2 on this box, and discovered that I get a blank screen. The boot appears to complete (it sends me information from SMART which is from my last bootscript), and it responds to MagicSysRQ to reboot. I tried to login and run startx, but that didn't seem to make any

3.15.0-rc2 radeon HD 7480D [Aruba] blank display

2014-04-21 Thread Ken Moffat
I've just built 3.15.0-rc2 on this box, and discovered that I get a blank screen. The boot appears to complete (it sends me information from SMART which is from my last bootscript), and it responds to MagicSysRQ to reboot. I tried to login and run startx, but that didn't seem to make any

Re: 3.15.0-rc2 radeon HD 7480D [Aruba] blank display

2014-04-21 Thread Ken Moffat
On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 04:54:15PM -0400, Alex Deucher wrote: On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 4:32 PM, Ken Moffat zarniwh...@ntlworld.com wrote: I've just built 3.15.0-rc2 on this box, and discovered that I get a blank screen. The boot appears to complete (it sends me information from SMART which

Re: 3.15.0-rc2 radeon HD 7480D [Aruba] blank display

2014-04-21 Thread Ken Moffat
On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 03:31:06AM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: [ resending, somehow lkml dropped out of the Cc. ] On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 12:19:40AM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 05:29:27PM -0400, Ed Tomlinson wrote: Ken, You might want to try reverting

Re: 3.13.5 : rm -rf running forever, one cpu at approx 100%

2014-03-03 Thread Ken Moffat
On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 05:52:42AM +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote: > On Thu, 2014-02-27 at 03:45 +0000, Ken Moffat wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 04:26:35AM +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > > > > > I would start with strace to see if a task is looping in userspace,

Re: 3.13.5 : rm -rf running forever, one cpu at approx 100%

2014-03-03 Thread Ken Moffat
On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 05:52:42AM +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote: On Thu, 2014-02-27 at 03:45 +, Ken Moffat wrote: On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 04:26:35AM +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote: I would start with strace to see if a task is looping in userspace, then move on to perf top -g -p pid

Re: 3.13.5 : rm -rf running forever, one cpu at approx 100%

2014-02-26 Thread Ken Moffat
On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 04:26:35AM +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > I would start with strace to see if a task is looping in userspace, then > move on to perf top -g -p (or perf record/report) to peek at what > it's up to in the kernel. Once you have the where, trace_printk() is > the best

Re: 3.13.5 : rm -rf running forever, one cpu at approx 100%

2014-02-26 Thread Ken Moffat
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 08:28:29PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Wednesday 26 February 2014, Ken Moffat wrote: > > I don't have any help to offer Ken, but this walks and quacks much like a > duck I'm encountering in 3.13.5, with the backup program amanda, which uses > gnu tar.

3.13.5 : rm -rf running forever, one cpu at approx 100%

2014-02-26 Thread Ken Moffat
Hi, Short summary : on 3.13.5, rm -rf of an application source directory on an ext4 filesystem sometimes takes forever (probably isn't going anywhere), with one CPU pegged at all-but 100% utilization. I've nearly finished building a new system from source, to check various desktop packages in

3.13.5 : rm -rf running forever, one cpu at approx 100%

2014-02-26 Thread Ken Moffat
Hi, Short summary : on 3.13.5, rm -rf of an application source directory on an ext4 filesystem sometimes takes forever (probably isn't going anywhere), with one CPU pegged at all-but 100% utilization. I've nearly finished building a new system from source, to check various desktop packages in

Re: 3.13.5 : rm -rf running forever, one cpu at approx 100%

2014-02-26 Thread Ken Moffat
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 08:28:29PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 26 February 2014, Ken Moffat wrote: I don't have any help to offer Ken, but this walks and quacks much like a duck I'm encountering in 3.13.5, with the backup program amanda, which uses gnu tar. To facilitate

Re: 3.13.5 : rm -rf running forever, one cpu at approx 100%

2014-02-26 Thread Ken Moffat
On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 04:26:35AM +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote: I would start with strace to see if a task is looping in userspace, then move on to perf top -g -p pid (or perf record/report) to peek at what it's up to in the kernel. Once you have the where, trace_printk() is the best thing

Re: [PATCH 24/28] Remove DEPRECATED

2014-02-09 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sun, Feb 09, 2014 at 06:05:41PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 09 February 2014, Paul Bolle wrote: > > > >Feel free to open a new thread, with the relevant details, and involve > >the relevant people and lists. I have no idea what you're going on about > >and could not care less (in the

Re: [PATCH 24/28] Remove DEPRECATED

2014-02-09 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sun, Feb 09, 2014 at 06:05:41PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: On Sunday 09 February 2014, Paul Bolle wrote: Feel free to open a new thread, with the relevant details, and involve the relevant people and lists. I have no idea what you're going on about and could not care less (in the context

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git v1.9-rc0

2014-01-22 Thread Ken Moffat
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 01:04:02PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Ken Moffat writes: > > > I note that all of these *are* still available at googlecode for > > the moment : https://code.google.com/p/git-core/downloads/list > > As I said, Cgc is not the ony

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git v1.9-rc0

2014-01-22 Thread Ken Moffat
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 10:10:18AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Vicent Martí writes: > > >> Do these consume CPU every time somebody asks for a tarball? That > >> might be considered "wrong" depending on the view. > > > > No, our infrastructure caches frequently requested tarballs so they > >

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git v1.9-rc0

2014-01-22 Thread Ken Moffat
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 10:10:18AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: Vicent Martí tan...@gmail.com writes: Do these consume CPU every time somebody asks for a tarball? That might be considered wrong depending on the view. No, our infrastructure caches frequently requested tarballs so they

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git v1.9-rc0

2014-01-22 Thread Ken Moffat
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 01:04:02PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: Ken Moffat zarniwh...@ntlworld.com writes: I note that all of these *are* still available at googlecode for the moment : https://code.google.com/p/git-core/downloads/list As I said, Cgc is not the ony download site

Re: AMD microcode fails to update with v3.8.3 and newer, bisect failed

2014-01-02 Thread Ken Moffat
On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 12:24:56AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Wednesday 01 January 2014, Ken Moffat wrote: > >On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 04:08:15AM +0000, Ken Moffat wrote: > >> Anyway, best of luck and I hope you get it sorted. > > > > One furthe

Re: AMD microcode fails to update with v3.8.3 and newer, bisect failed

2014-01-02 Thread Ken Moffat
On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 12:24:56AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 01 January 2014, Ken Moffat wrote: On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 04:08:15AM +, Ken Moffat wrote: Anyway, best of luck and I hope you get it sorted. One further suggestion, since you appear to be at the running round

Re: AMD microcode fails to update with v3.8.3 and newer, bisect failed

2014-01-01 Thread Ken Moffat
On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 04:08:15AM +, Ken Moffat wrote: > > Anyway, best of luck and I hope you get it sorted. > One further suggestion, since you appear to be at the "running round in circles" stage - 1. Start with a good kernel. In this case, I suppose 3.8.2 is the r

Re: AMD microcode fails to update with v3.8.3 and newer, bisect failed

2014-01-01 Thread Ken Moffat
On Wed, Jan 01, 2014 at 09:25:55PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Wednesday 01 January 2014, Jason Cooper wrote: > > > >Are the rootfs binaries 32 bit? If so, did you enable > >CONFIG_IA32_EMULATION? > > That line above does not now exist in my .config for 3.8.2. Ditto for > the .config in

Re: AMD microcode fails to update with v3.8.3 and newer, bisect failed

2014-01-01 Thread Ken Moffat
On Wed, Jan 01, 2014 at 09:25:55PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 01 January 2014, Jason Cooper wrote: Are the rootfs binaries 32 bit? If so, did you enable CONFIG_IA32_EMULATION? That line above does not now exist in my .config for 3.8.2. Ditto for the .config in 3.12.6.

Re: AMD microcode fails to update with v3.8.3 and newer, bisect failed

2014-01-01 Thread Ken Moffat
On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 04:08:15AM +, Ken Moffat wrote: Anyway, best of luck and I hope you get it sorted. One further suggestion, since you appear to be at the running round in circles stage - 1. Start with a good kernel. In this case, I suppose 3.8.2 is the right place to begin. 2

Re: r8169 on 3.8.13, 3.9.2, 3.10-rc1, was Re: [ 00/73] 3.8.13-stable review

2013-05-15 Thread Ken Moffat
On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 08:14:01AM +0200, Francois Romieu wrote: > Ken Moffat : > [...] > > Cc'ing to netdev because I don't think this has had a response, and > > A patch has been sent to netdev a few hours ago. It needs more work, > especially testing (hint, hint) as

Re: r8169 on 3.8.13, 3.9.2, 3.10-rc1, was Re: [ 00/73] 3.8.13-stable review

2013-05-15 Thread Ken Moffat
On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 08:14:01AM +0200, Francois Romieu wrote: Ken Moffat zarniwh...@ntlworld.com : [...] Cc'ing to netdev because I don't think this has had a response, and A patch has been sent to netdev a few hours ago. It needs more work, especially testing (hint, hint) as I don't

r8169 on 3.8.13, 3.9.2, 3.10-rc1, was Re: [ 00/73] 3.8.13-stable review

2013-05-14 Thread Ken Moffat
On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 12:54:27PM +0200, Holger Hoffstaette wrote: Cc'ing to netdev because I don't think this has had a response, and I care because I *might* be seeing the same problem on both 3.9.2 and 3.10-rc1, but my take on the problem is slightly different [ details after Holger's

r8169 on 3.8.13, 3.9.2, 3.10-rc1, was Re: [ 00/73] 3.8.13-stable review

2013-05-14 Thread Ken Moffat
On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 12:54:27PM +0200, Holger Hoffstaette wrote: Cc'ing to netdev because I don't think this has had a response, and I care because I *might* be seeing the same problem on both 3.9.2 and 3.10-rc1, but my take on the problem is slightly different [ details after Holger's

Re: [PATCH] [libata] Fix HDIO_DRIVE_CMD ioctl sense data check

2013-04-08 Thread Ken Moffat
On Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 07:49:48PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > applied the version from Krzysztof Mazur, which covered both cases > > According to linus's changelog for -rc6, this doesn't seem to have been included ? ken -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- To

Re: [PATCH] [libata] Fix HDIO_DRIVE_CMD ioctl sense data check

2013-04-08 Thread Ken Moffat
On Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 07:49:48PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: applied the version from Krzysztof Mazur, which covered both cases According to linus's changelog for -rc6, this doesn't seem to have been included ? ken -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- To unsubscribe

Re: [PATCH] [libata] Fix HDIO_DRIVE_CMD ioctl sense data check

2013-03-29 Thread Ken Moffat
On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 08:34:43PM +, Ken Moffat wrote: > On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 06:31:03PM +0000, Ken Moffat wrote: > I've no idea about the details, but it looks to me as if smartd is > still getting different values returned to it. The capability check > normally wa

Re: [PATCH] [libata] Fix HDIO_DRIVE_CMD ioctl sense data check

2013-03-29 Thread Ken Moffat
On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 06:31:03PM +, Ken Moffat wrote: > On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 10:56:49PM -0700, Gwendal Grignou wrote: > > Hmm, not sure. Smartd started and was happy to monitor the disk, > but I got two new messages between 'found in smartd database' and > 'is SMART

Re: [PATCH] [libata] Fix HDIO_DRIVE_CMD ioctl sense data check

2013-03-29 Thread Ken Moffat
On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 10:56:49PM -0700, Gwendal Grignou wrote: Hmm, not sure. Smartd started and was happy to monitor the disk, but I got two new messages between 'found in smartd database' and 'is SMART capable. Adding to "monitor" list' - Mar 29 17:26:42 ac4tv smartd[2481]: Device:

Re: [PATCH] [libata] Fix HDIO_DRIVE_CMD ioctl sense data check

2013-03-29 Thread Ken Moffat
On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 10:56:49PM -0700, Gwendal Grignou wrote: Hmm, not sure. Smartd started and was happy to monitor the disk, but I got two new messages between 'found in smartd database' and 'is SMART capable. Adding to monitor list' - Mar 29 17:26:42 ac4tv smartd[2481]: Device: /dev/sda,

Re: [PATCH] [libata] Fix HDIO_DRIVE_CMD ioctl sense data check

2013-03-29 Thread Ken Moffat
On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 06:31:03PM +, Ken Moffat wrote: On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 10:56:49PM -0700, Gwendal Grignou wrote: Hmm, not sure. Smartd started and was happy to monitor the disk, but I got two new messages between 'found in smartd database' and 'is SMART capable. Adding

Re: [PATCH] [libata] Fix HDIO_DRIVE_CMD ioctl sense data check

2013-03-29 Thread Ken Moffat
On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 08:34:43PM +, Ken Moffat wrote: On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 06:31:03PM +, Ken Moffat wrote: I've no idea about the details, but it looks to me as if smartd is still getting different values returned to it. The capability check normally was ok (silent

Re: smartd broken in 3.9.0-rc4 : bisected

2013-03-28 Thread Ken Moffat
On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 01:01:48AM +, Ken Moffat wrote: Adding Cc:s, further details at the end. > Hi, > > just tested my first 3.9 kernel today. During boot, smartd (from > smartmontools-6.0) fails to start. Works fine in 3.8.4. > > In 3.8.4 I get messages like this :

Re: smartd broken in 3.9.0-rc4 : bisected

2013-03-28 Thread Ken Moffat
On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 01:01:48AM +, Ken Moffat wrote: Adding Cc:s, further details at the end. Hi, just tested my first 3.9 kernel today. During boot, smartd (from smartmontools-6.0) fails to start. Works fine in 3.8.4. In 3.8.4 I get messages like this : Mar 27 22:02:02

smartd broken in 3.9.0-rc4

2013-03-27 Thread Ken Moffat
Hi, just tested my first 3.9 kernel today. During boot, smartd (from smartmontools-6.0) fails to start. Works fine in 3.8.4. In 3.8.4 I get messages like this : Mar 27 22:02:02 ac4tv smartd[3981]: smartd 6.0 2012-10-10 r3643 [x86_64-linux-3.8.4] (local build) Mar 27 22:02:02 ac4tv

smartd broken in 3.9.0-rc4

2013-03-27 Thread Ken Moffat
Hi, just tested my first 3.9 kernel today. During boot, smartd (from smartmontools-6.0) fails to start. Works fine in 3.8.4. In 3.8.4 I get messages like this : Mar 27 22:02:02 ac4tv smartd[3981]: smartd 6.0 2012-10-10 r3643 [x86_64-linux-3.8.4] (local build) Mar 27 22:02:02 ac4tv

Console font corruption on tty1 after using xorg in 3.6 with i915

2012-10-30 Thread Ken Moffat
Hi, since 3.6-rc7 I'm *sometimes* seeing console font corruption on tty1 after I leave xorg [ I'm old enough to use 'startx' ]. This is with a 512-glyph font. What seems to be happening is that many lower-case ASCII letters, and also '0', are replaced by other glyphs. Many of these other glyphs

Console font corruption on tty1 after using xorg in 3.6 with i915

2012-10-30 Thread Ken Moffat
Hi, since 3.6-rc7 I'm *sometimes* seeing console font corruption on tty1 after I leave xorg [ I'm old enough to use 'startx' ]. This is with a 512-glyph font. What seems to be happening is that many lower-case ASCII letters, and also '0', are replaced by other glyphs. Many of these other glyphs

Re: "ide=reverse" do we still need this?

2008-02-19 Thread Ken Moffat
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 03:32:49PM +, Ken Moffat wrote: > On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 08:43:04PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > > > Can't you just boot with /dev/disk/by-id/ and an initramfs to not have > > to worry about such a thing in the future? > > Initramfs isn't so

Re: ide=reverse do we still need this?

2008-02-19 Thread Ken Moffat
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 03:32:49PM +, Ken Moffat wrote: On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 08:43:04PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: Can't you just boot with /dev/disk/by-id/ and an initramfs to not have to worry about such a thing in the future? Initramfs isn't something I've ever tried, so I'm

Re: "ide=reverse" do we still need this?

2008-02-13 Thread Ken Moffat
On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 08:43:04PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > Can't you just boot with /dev/disk/by-id/ and an initramfs to not have > to worry about such a thing in the future? > Can comebody remind me what the initramfs is for in that situation, please ? From the little I've noticed, I

Re: ide=reverse do we still need this?

2008-02-13 Thread Ken Moffat
On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 08:43:04PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: Can't you just boot with /dev/disk/by-id/ and an initramfs to not have to worry about such a thing in the future? Can comebody remind me what the initramfs is for in that situation, please ? From the little I've noticed, I thought

Re: "ide=reverse" do we still need this?

2008-02-12 Thread Ken Moffat
On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 04:15:07PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > I'm curious if we really still support the ide=reverse option? It's a > config option that I don't think the distros still enable (SuSE does > not). Is this still needed these days? > My "server" has a consumer-grade desktop amd64

Re: ide=reverse do we still need this?

2008-02-12 Thread Ken Moffat
On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 04:15:07PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: I'm curious if we really still support the ide=reverse option? It's a config option that I don't think the distros still enable (SuSE does not). Is this still needed these days? My server has a consumer-grade desktop amd64 mobo,

Re: init wont start on VIA EPIA 5000 500mhz board and randomely wont start on VIA EPIA MII 10000

2008-01-05 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 05:14:08PM -0800, mathewss wrote: > I have been trying to figure this out a while now with printk's all over my > kernel as well as adding kdb and tracing the int3 events. > > I have tried various 2.6 kernels and so far all i have tried do this. > > My current tests are

Re: init wont start on VIA EPIA 5000 500mhz board and randomely wont start on VIA EPIA MII 10000

2008-01-05 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 05:14:08PM -0800, mathewss wrote: I have been trying to figure this out a while now with printk's all over my kernel as well as adding kdb and tracing the int3 events. I have tried various 2.6 kernels and so far all i have tried do this. My current tests are on

Re: syntax highlighting, emacs ([PATCH 0/2] Colored kernel output (run2))

2007-10-07 Thread Ken Moffat
On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 12:11:21AM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > Actually, blue is perceived as one of the darkest colors by the human > eye. There is a reason that the RGB -> grayscale transformation uses > the following weighting: r=76 g=154 b=26. But, not every video card reproduces blue

Re: syntax highlighting, emacs ([PATCH 0/2] Colored kernel output (run2))

2007-10-07 Thread Ken Moffat
On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 12:11:21AM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: Actually, blue is perceived as one of the darkest colors by the human eye. There is a reason that the RGB - grayscale transformation uses the following weighting: r=76 g=154 b=26. But, not every video card reproduces blue in

Re: [RFC] what should 'uptime' be on suspend?

2007-07-21 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 09:54:37AM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: > > So is setting it to a random number considered correct behavior? Any of > the first three values I mentioned would make sense, but the value I see > is neither time since resume, time since power-on to do the resume, or > any

Re: [RFC] what should 'uptime' be on suspend?

2007-07-21 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 09:54:37AM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: So is setting it to a random number considered correct behavior? Any of the first three values I mentioned would make sense, but the value I see is neither time since resume, time since power-on to do the resume, or any of the

Re: [RFC] what should 'uptime' be on suspend?

2007-07-20 Thread Ken Moffat
On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 10:42:15AM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: > > man uptime: > uptime - tell how long the system has been running > > I claim that the system is not running when it is suspended, > so the suspension time should not be included in uptime. > So, maybe I shouldn't have put

Re: [RFC] what should 'uptime' be on suspend?

2007-07-20 Thread Ken Moffat
On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 10:42:22PM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: > I just found a machine which will resume after suspend to memory, using > the mainline kernel (no suspend2 patch). > > On resume I was looking at the uptime output, and it was about six > minutes, FAR longer than the time since

Re: [RFC] what should 'uptime' be on suspend?

2007-07-20 Thread Ken Moffat
On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 10:42:22PM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: I just found a machine which will resume after suspend to memory, using the mainline kernel (no suspend2 patch). On resume I was looking at the uptime output, and it was about six minutes, FAR longer than the time since resume.

Re: [RFC] what should 'uptime' be on suspend?

2007-07-20 Thread Ken Moffat
On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 10:42:15AM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: man uptime: uptime - tell how long the system has been running I claim that the system is not running when it is suspended, so the suspension time should not be included in uptime. So, maybe I shouldn't have put

Re: Kernel utf-8 handling

2007-06-01 Thread Ken Moffat
On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 04:20:58PM +0200, DervishD wrote: > Hi all :) > > I have a do-it-yourself Linux box, and I'm planning to move to UTF8 > (currently I'm using es_ES locale, with latin1 encoding). One of my main > concerns (apart from programs with little or no utf8 support, which I

Re: Kernel utf-8 handling

2007-06-01 Thread Ken Moffat
On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 04:20:58PM +0200, DervishD wrote: Hi all :) I have a do-it-yourself Linux box, and I'm planning to move to UTF8 (currently I'm using es_ES locale, with latin1 encoding). One of my main concerns (apart from programs with little or no utf8 support, which I will

New version of shutdown?

2007-05-13 Thread Ken Moffat
I've just shut down -rc1 on my ppc64, and got a big scary message from the following code in libata-scsi.c: ata_dev_printk(qc->dev, KERN_WARNING, "DISK MIGHT NOT BE SPUN DOWN PROPERLY. " "UPDATE SHUTDOWN UTILITY\n"); So, I went to http://linux-ata.org/shutdown.html, but as far

New version of shutdown?

2007-05-13 Thread Ken Moffat
I've just shut down -rc1 on my ppc64, and got a big scary message from the following code in libata-scsi.c: ata_dev_printk(qc-dev, KERN_WARNING, DISK MIGHT NOT BE SPUN DOWN PROPERLY. UPDATE SHUTDOWN UTILITY\n); So, I went to http://linux-ata.org/shutdown.html, but as far as I

Re: Lockup after logging out of X

2007-05-08 Thread Ken Moffat
On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 01:01:34AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > > Already known, although it is still unclear what the bug actually is. > Can you run with the appended patch please (from Eric Biederman) > and post any backtraces the WARN_ON in there spews out? > > Also do you use swiotlb? > >

Re: Lockup after logging out of X

2007-05-08 Thread Ken Moffat
On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 12:47:02AM +0200, Michal Piotrowski wrote: > > Please check the latest -git. > > 31 hours ago Linus Torvalds Revert "[PATCH] x86: __pa and > __pa_symbol address space ... > >

Re: Lockup after logging out of X

2007-05-08 Thread Ken Moffat
On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 04:21:51PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, 08 May 2007 20:51:42 BST, Ken Moffat said: > > > After trying git-bisect, it tells me: > > 0dbf7028c0c1f266c9631139450a1502d3cd457e is first bad commit > > commit 0dbf7028c0c1f266c9631139450

Lockup after logging out of X

2007-05-08 Thread Ken Moffat
This is a resend, with a better title and slightly more clarification. Originally sent yesterday evening, but I can see no evidence that it got beyond my isp's mailserver. Apologies to the Cc's if you did get the original. Using Linus' tree pulled on Sunday afternoon UK time. Running an

Lockup after logging out of X

2007-05-08 Thread Ken Moffat
This is a resend, with a better title and slightly more clarification. Originally sent yesterday evening, but I can see no evidence that it got beyond my isp's mailserver. Apologies to the Cc's if you did get the original. Using Linus' tree pulled on Sunday afternoon UK time. Running an

Re: Lockup after logging out of X

2007-05-08 Thread Ken Moffat
On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 04:21:51PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 08 May 2007 20:51:42 BST, Ken Moffat said: After trying git-bisect, it tells me: 0dbf7028c0c1f266c9631139450a1502d3cd457e is first bad commit commit 0dbf7028c0c1f266c9631139450a1502d3cd457e Author: Vivek Goyal

Re: Lockup after logging out of X

2007-05-08 Thread Ken Moffat
On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 12:47:02AM +0200, Michal Piotrowski wrote: Please check the latest -git. 31 hours ago Linus Torvalds Revert [PATCH] x86: __pa and __pa_symbol address space ...

Re: Lockup after logging out of X

2007-05-08 Thread Ken Moffat
On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 01:01:34AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: Already known, although it is still unclear what the bug actually is. Can you run with the appended patch please (from Eric Biederman) and post any backtraces the WARN_ON in there spews out? Also do you use swiotlb? Thanks

Re: console font limits

2007-05-01 Thread Ken Moffat
On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 12:09:46AM -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote: > > BTW, the PSF font format documentation seems to suggest that > there is a way to make the kernel handle combining accents: > http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/kbd/font-formats-1.html > Does anybody know if that really works? I

Re: console font limits

2007-05-01 Thread Ken Moffat
On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 12:09:46AM -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote: BTW, the PSF font format documentation seems to suggest that there is a way to make the kernel handle combining accents: http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/kbd/font-formats-1.html Does anybody know if that really works? I could

Re: mmap error?

2007-04-02 Thread Ken Moffat
Hi Gene, On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 10:30:29AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > Has something been changed recently, say post 2.6.19, that would effect > this error from k3b when I click start (the burn), with a fresh dvd+r in > the drive: > > > Using growisofs 7.0

Re: mmap error?

2007-04-02 Thread Ken Moffat
Hi Gene, On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 10:30:29AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings all; Has something been changed recently, say post 2.6.19, that would effect this error from k3b when I click start (the burn), with a fresh dvd+r in the drive: Using growisofs 7.0 Copyright (C)

Re: PROBLEM: 2.6.20-1 not working on ibook g4 (BUG/Oops)

2007-03-05 Thread Ken Moffat
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 04:59:35PM +0100, francesco foresti wrote: > Hi, > I have to correct myself: > 2.6.19-7 just freezes randomly. At this point, the last surely working kernel > i am aware of is 2.6.18, built from debian sources. Actually i'm trying > (for the very first time) to git-bisect

Re: PROBLEM: 2.6.20-1 not working on ibook g4 (BUG/Oops)

2007-03-05 Thread Ken Moffat
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 04:59:35PM +0100, francesco foresti wrote: Hi, I have to correct myself: 2.6.19-7 just freezes randomly. At this point, the last surely working kernel i am aware of is 2.6.18, built from debian sources. Actually i'm trying (for the very first time) to git-bisect

Re: x86 instability with 2.6.1{8,9}

2007-01-31 Thread Ken Moffat
On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 04:36:30PM -0500, Chuck Ebbert wrote: > Ken Moffat wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 04:29:11PM +0000, Ken Moffat wrote: > > > > Bizarre - it panic'd again last Thursday while I was in X, but I > > still didn't manage to log any out

Re: x86 instability with 2.6.1{8,9}

2007-01-31 Thread Ken Moffat
On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 04:36:30PM -0500, Chuck Ebbert wrote: Ken Moffat wrote: On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 04:29:11PM +, Ken Moffat wrote: Bizarre - it panic'd again last Thursday while I was in X, but I still didn't manage to log any output. At the weekend, I had the bright idea

Re: x86 instability with 2.6.1{8,9}

2007-01-25 Thread Ken Moffat
On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 04:29:11PM +, Ken Moffat wrote: > > Today, I've built 2.6.19.2 without highmem (the box only has 1GB, > dunno why I'd included that in the original config) and I will > continue to wait patiently for either a week without problems, or > something th

Re: 2.6.18-stable release plans?

2007-01-25 Thread Ken Moffat
On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 09:16:04AM +, Chris Rankin wrote: > > But anyway - can someone please tell me what "Eeek! page_mapcount(page) went > negative! (-1)" is > *really* saying/implying? Because I am currently translating this as "I WANT > TO EAT YOUR > FILESYSTEMS". > I can't, but Dave

Re: 2.6.18-stable release plans?

2007-01-25 Thread Ken Moffat
On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 09:16:04AM +, Chris Rankin wrote: But anyway - can someone please tell me what Eeek! page_mapcount(page) went negative! (-1) is *really* saying/implying? Because I am currently translating this as I WANT TO EAT YOUR FILESYSTEMS. I can't, but Dave Jones had a

Re: x86 instability with 2.6.1{8,9}

2007-01-25 Thread Ken Moffat
On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 04:29:11PM +, Ken Moffat wrote: Today, I've built 2.6.19.2 without highmem (the box only has 1GB, dunno why I'd included that in the original config) and I will continue to wait patiently for either a week without problems, or something that I can manage to note

Re: 2.6.18-stable release plans?

2007-01-24 Thread Ken Moffat
On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 11:45:57PM +, Chris Rankin wrote: > > There is a world of difference between a polite request for more information > (although I gave you > everything I had), and fobbing someone off with a story about cosmic rays. > Chris, I doubt there was a single version of

Re: 2.6.18-stable release plans?

2007-01-24 Thread Ken Moffat
On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 11:45:57PM +, Chris Rankin wrote: There is a world of difference between a polite request for more information (although I gave you everything I had), and fobbing someone off with a story about cosmic rays. Chris, I doubt there was a single version of the

Re: Weird harddisk behaviour

2007-01-17 Thread Ken Moffat
On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 11:09:21AM +0100, Turbo Fredriksson wrote: > Quoting Ken Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Certainly, fdisk from util-linux doesn't know about mac disks, and > > I thought the same was true for cfdisk and sfdisk. Many years ago > > there was

Re: Weird harddisk behaviour

2007-01-17 Thread Ken Moffat
On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 11:09:21AM +0100, Turbo Fredriksson wrote: Quoting Ken Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Certainly, fdisk from util-linux doesn't know about mac disks, and I thought the same was true for cfdisk and sfdisk. Many years ago there was mac-fdisk, I think also known as pdisk

Re: Weird harddisk behaviour

2007-01-16 Thread Ken Moffat
On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 02:27:06PM +0100, Turbo Fredriksson wrote: > A couple of weeks ago my 400Gb SATA disk crashed. I just > got the replacement, but I can't seem to be able to create > a filesystem on it! > > This is a PPC (Pegasos), running 2.6.15-27-powerpc (Ubuntu Dapper > v2.6.15-27.50).

Re: Weird harddisk behaviour

2007-01-16 Thread Ken Moffat
On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 02:27:06PM +0100, Turbo Fredriksson wrote: A couple of weeks ago my 400Gb SATA disk crashed. I just got the replacement, but I can't seem to be able to create a filesystem on it! This is a PPC (Pegasos), running 2.6.15-27-powerpc (Ubuntu Dapper v2.6.15-27.50). Hi

Re: x86 instability with 2.6.1{8,9}

2007-01-15 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 02:26:41PM +, Ken Moffat wrote: > > I guess that when it does have problems, it is mostly within 30 > minutes of booting - otherwise, it can be up all day. So, for the > moment I'm hopeful that changing the config will help, but it will > be severa

Re: x86 instability with 2.6.1{8,9}

2007-01-15 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 02:26:41PM +, Ken Moffat wrote: I guess that when it does have problems, it is mostly within 30 minutes of booting - otherwise, it can be up all day. So, for the moment I'm hopeful that changing the config will help, but it will be several days before I feel

Re: OT: character encodings (was: Linux 2.6.20-rc4)

2007-01-08 Thread Ken Moffat
On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 09:17:06PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > On Jan 8 2007 02:22, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > >On Jan 7 2007 22:30, Alan wrote: > >> > >>> >The kernel maintainers/help/config pretty consistently use UTF8 > >>> > >>> I've seen a lot of places that don't do so. Want a patch? >

Re: OT: character encodings (was: Linux 2.6.20-rc4)

2007-01-08 Thread Ken Moffat
On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 09:17:06PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: On Jan 8 2007 02:22, Jan Engelhardt wrote: On Jan 7 2007 22:30, Alan wrote: The kernel maintainers/help/config pretty consistently use UTF8 I've seen a lot of places that don't do so. Want a patch? I think that would

Re: x86 instability with 2.6.1{8,9}

2007-01-07 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sat, Jan 06, 2007 at 02:04:59PM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote: > On Tue, 2 Jan 2007 19:34:59 +0000 Ken Moffat wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 01:42:32PM -0500, Len Brown wrote: > > > > > > You might remove and re-insert the DIMMS. > > > Sometim

Re: x86 instability with 2.6.1{8,9}

2007-01-07 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sat, Jan 06, 2007 at 02:04:59PM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote: On Tue, 2 Jan 2007 19:34:59 + Ken Moffat wrote: On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 01:42:32PM -0500, Len Brown wrote: You might remove and re-insert the DIMMS. Sometimes there are poor contacts if the DIMMS are not fully seated

Re: x86 instability with 2.6.1{8,9}

2007-01-02 Thread Ken Moffat
On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 01:42:32PM -0500, Len Brown wrote: > > You might remove and re-insert the DIMMS. > Sometimes there are poor contacts if the DIMMS are not fully seated and > clicked in. > > The real mystery is the 32 vs 64-bit thing. > Are the devices configured the same way -- ie are

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