On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 11:14:23AM -0400, Barry Fishman wrote: > On 2013-04-22 19:40:01 EDT, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Mon, 2013-04-22 at 18:21 -0400, Barry Fishman wrote: > >> Is anyone else seeing a boot hangup on wheezy with the linux/3.2.41-2 > >> kernel > >> on systems with multiple display controllers? > >> > >> I filed the bug report on April 5, and it got filed with normal severity > >> and misfiled against the linux/3.2.39-2 kernel. > >> > >> I think it might affect many more people when Wheezy is released. > > > > This might be fixed by: > > > > commit 054430e773c9a1e26f38e30156eff02dedfffc17 > > Author: Dave Airlie <airl...@gmail.com> > > Date: Fri Jan 25 11:38:56 2013 +1000 > > > > fbcon: fix locking harder > > > > which is in 3.2.44-rc1 and should be included in an early kernel update > > for wheezy. This was confirmed to fix bug #704933. > > 1) This bug is a month old and due to a Debian patch which was rejected > by the upstream kernel team.
Perhaps you should tell us which that is, then. > It still is't fixed in Wheezy, although > it is listed as pending since April 15. The change identified above is pending in svn. > 2) It was incorrectly marked against the wrong kernel version, ignoring > the my attempt to correct it. > > 3) Its very likely the same bug as #704933, although your bug tracking > system seems unable to link related bugs together. Instructions for using the BTS are at http://bugs.debian.org > 4) Its not listed in the release notes for Wheezy as a problem > installing on systems with multiple VGA controllers. We can't list every bug in the release notes. > 5) I had been running Wheezy for about a year, and the only issue I had > with it occurred a month before it released, without the problem > being considered significant to apply a known fix, or even tag it > correctly, although it makes some systems unbootable. What known fix? You never even followed up to say whether the possible fix I found actually worked. (Why is this on debian-devel? It won't get your bug fixed any faster, in fact it is worse because your message wasn't logged on the bug.) Ben. -- Ben Hutchings We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. - Albert Camus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130507171325.ga10...@decadent.org.uk
