Bug#1033058: Booting mini.iso : kernel hangs on ppc64el

2023-03-23 Thread Frédéric Bonnard
Hi Cyril! > Could you please guide me into reproducing this issue in QEMU? #987368 > had hints, but at least the openpower.xyz part no longer works (it's no > longer resolving). much simpler actually because in the current case, we won't emulate a full baremetal PowerNV machine. For example, usin

Bug#1033058: Booting mini.iso : kernel hangs on ppc64el

2023-03-22 Thread Frédéric Bonnard
Thanks Cyril. Another important detail ... I only get that behavior in qemu in graphical mode. On LPARs there is no issue. I didn't try on baremetal so far. F. On Tue, 21 Mar 2023 17:44:49 +0100 Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Frédéric Bonnard (2023-03-17): > > > It would be helpful

Bug#1033058: Booting mini.iso : kernel hangs on ppc64el

2023-03-17 Thread Frédéric Bonnard
Ok found it... > (nothing attached) oops! .. not that much to display though (I also tried to remove the "quiet" boot option, but it didn't change anything, it does not display anything before getting in debian's init) > > same happens with > > https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/p

Bug#1033058: Booting mini.iso : kernel hangs on ppc64el

2023-03-16 Thread Frédéric Bonnard
Package: installation-reports Boot method: CD Image version: http://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/ppc64el/daily/netboot/mini.iso Hi! since debian-installer (20230217) uses kernel 6.1.0-5 in mini.iso, the kernel hangs before I have the installer menu (see attached .png) ; same happens with https:/

Bug#987368: Installer fails at first menu "Choose language"

2021-06-11 Thread Frédéric Bonnard
Hi Steve, awesome, couldn't wait to test it, so I built udpkg 1.20 from salsa and integrated in latest debian-installer built to have a mini.iso to play with. I tried that iso 5-6 times on each of the 2 physical Power machines on which I encountered the bug and it worked every single time. From

Bug#987368: Installer fails at first menu "Choose language"

2021-05-31 Thread Frédéric Bonnard
Hi Cyril/all, sorry that the process takes long, but that was the only way to reproduce that bug (which I think may not be specific to ppc64el) without having Power hardware (and a LPAR/HMC setup). > Looking at that log, one sees two PIDs for main-menu (272 and 278), > which could explain a very n

Bug#987368: Installer fails at first menu "Choose language"

2021-05-28 Thread Frédéric Bonnard
On Fri, 28 May 2021 14:39:56 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Hi Frédéric, > > Frédéric Bonnard (2021-05-25): > > Get that one too : > > https://openpower.xyz/job/openpower/job/openpower-op-build/label=slave,target=witherspoon/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/images/skiboot.lid

Bug#987368: Installer fails at first menu "Choose language"

2021-05-25 Thread Frédéric Bonnard
ssue. Last components build may require a newer skiboot.lid than the one coming in qemu package). F. On Mon, 24 May 2021 04:48:00 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Hi Frédéric, > > Frédéric Bonnard (2021-04-26): > > Thanks for willing to investigate ! > > Thanks for the detai

Bug#987368: Installer fails at first menu "Choose language"

2021-04-26 Thread Frédéric Bonnard
d.gz -e (you'll get an error.. but this steps seems necessary) 2. kexec -s vmlinux -i initrd.gz -e - cross fingers ; if it doesn't fail, halt and rerun qemu... I hope you get it as well! F. On Fri, 23 Apr 2021 22:48:33 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Hello Frédéric, >

Bug#987368: Installer fails at first menu "Choose language"

2021-04-22 Thread Frédéric Bonnard
Package: installation-reports Boot method: CD Image version: http://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/ppc64el/daily/netboot/mini.iso Date: April 21st 2021 Machine: Power10 machine but got it on Power8 as well This happens randomly when the installer menu starts, I get to the first menu "Choose languag

Re: Daily testing netinst failure

2018-07-12 Thread Frédéric Bonnard
Thanks Cyril, I was expecting that kind of known side effect. I just hope I didn't make too much noise :) F. On Thu, 12 Jul 2018 17:10:59 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Hi, > > Frédéric Bonnard (2018-07-12): > > since June 23rd, the daily testing netinst fails on ppc64el

Daily testing netinst failure

2018-07-12 Thread Frédéric Bonnard
Hi all, since June 23rd, the daily testing netinst fails on ppc64el at least : http://ftp.unicamp.br/pub/ppc64el/DAT/ The logs show several errors about : ext4: Unknown symbol d_instantiate_new The iso used is this one : http://cdimage.debian.org/mirror/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/current/ppc64e

Re: Having opal-prd installed by default on openpower machines

2017-11-29 Thread Frédéric Bonnard
Hi, I just saw Dmitri pushed that new hw-detect version in Ubuntu. Would that modification do the job in Debian concerning the issue I raised previously ? (see below) https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/hw-detect/1.117ubuntu5 Patch : http://launchpadlibrarian.net/347492028/hw-detect_1.117ubuntu4_