Bug#270321: kernel-image-2.6.8-powerpc: PReP boot failure

2004-09-08 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Hollis Blanchard writes: > pivot_root: No sKernel panic: Attempted to kill init! > uch file or dire ctory > /sbin/ini<0>Rebooting in 180 seconds..t: 426: cannot open dev/console: > No such file What kernel command line did you use? Try passing a root option there, set to wherever you keep y

Bug#270321: kernel-image-2.6.8-powerpc: PReP boot failure

2004-09-08 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 09:10:50PM -0500, Hollis Blanchard wrote: > On Sep 7, 2004, at 1:29 PM, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > > > >Hollis Blanchard writes: > > > >>Does this mean the ramdisk is bad? > > > >Could well be. You can check its contents with 'fsck.cramfs -v > >/initrd.img'. > > The ramdisk

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2004-09-08 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > submitter 270743 ! Bug#270743: radeonfb cannot detect display panel size and breaks Changed Bug submitter from Nikolaus Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> to Nikolaus Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. > thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you nee

Bug#270321: kernel-image-2.6.8-powerpc: PReP boot failure

2004-09-08 Thread Hollis Blanchard
On Sep 7, 2004, at 1:29 PM, Jens Schmalzing wrote: Hollis Blanchard writes: Does this mean the ramdisk is bad? Could well be. You can check its contents with 'fsck.cramfs -v /initrd.img'. The ramdisk seems ok, at least fsck does not complain. Any way I can get some debug output from it? On the se

Bug#270743: radeonfb cannot detect display panel size and breaks

2004-09-08 Thread Nikolaus Schulz
Package: kernel-image-2.6.8-powerpc Version: 2.6.8-3 Severity: important Hello, booting kernel 2.6.8 on my iBook 2.2 with a Radeon Mobility M7, the radeonfb driver fails to detect the display panel size, resulting in a blank screen. I found some people reporting they could successfully start X

Re: Don't fix it if it ain't broken

2004-09-08 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Sven Luther writes: > Yeah, i personally feel that the bootargs patch may not be the best > solution though, and that > a recompilation of the incriminated object file in mkvmlinuz, I already told you this is not acceptable because it requires at least a complete toolchain on every system,

Bug#261893: kernel-image-2.6.6-1-generic: Kernel bug at mm/slab.c:1530

2004-09-08 Thread Norbert Tretkowski
reassign 261893 gcc-3.3 thanks * Jan-Jaap van der Heijden wrote: > On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 11:36:09PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 11:33:31PM +0200, Jan-Jaap van der Heijden wrote: > > > I don't think placing a strategic printk() qualifies as a fix though :-) > > > M

Bug#261893: kernel-image-2.6.6-1-generic: Kernel bug at mm/slab.c:1530

2004-09-08 Thread Jan-Jaap van der Heijden
On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 11:36:09PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 11:33:31PM +0200, Jan-Jaap van der Heijden wrote: > > I don't think placing a strategic printk() qualifies as a fix though :-) > > Maybe GCC is to blame here. I'm using gcc 3.3.4-6sarge1.0.1 (current from

Bug#270630: kernel-image-2.6.8-powerpc: iBook keyboard generates bad keyboard scancode for Menu key

2004-09-08 Thread Frank Murphy
Package: kernel-image-2.6.8-powerpc Version: 2.6.8-4 Severity: minor According to Apple documentation, pressing the fn-key plus the keypad enter key on an iBook is supposed to generate a Menu scancode. But it doesn't, and the keysym it generates exposes a bug in the X scancode to keysym conversion

Re: Don't fix it if it ain't broken

2004-09-08 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 11:57:01AM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > Hi, > > Sven Luther writes: > > > Yeah, well, it may be needed in a self compiled kernel from the > > kernel-source-2.6.8, where the user like to set it, don't you think ? > > In fact, I don't. Well, in fact i faced the problem

Re: Don't fix it if it ain't broken

2004-09-08 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Sven Luther writes: > Yeah, well, it may be needed in a self compiled kernel from the > kernel-source-2.6.8, where the user like to set it, don't you think ? In fact, I don't. > So, you advocate shipping a broken command line support on chrp/pmac > because you are too lazy or uninterested t

Bug#270615: iBook 2.2: Kernel 2.6.8 and beep (PC Speaker)?

2004-09-08 Thread Sven Luther
Package: kernel-source-2.6.8 Thanks Julien. I now forward this to the kernel-source-2.6.8 package in order to not lose it in my mail archive. Friendly, Sven Luther On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 11:44:56AM +0200, Julien BLACHE wrote: > Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Sven, > > >> Use f

Re: Don't fix it if it ain't broken (was: Bug#270326: kernel-image-2.6.8-powerpc: bad commandline default: root=/dev/sda2)

2004-09-08 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 11:00:12AM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > Hi, > > Sven Luther writes: > > > Well, no, why ? The patch is a correct fix, which makes the default > > command line work, do you seriously think it is better to have a > > broken default commandline on chrp/pmac, > > I know fo

Don't fix it if it ain't broken (was: Bug#270326: kernel-image-2.6.8-powerpc: bad commandline default: root=/dev/sda2)

2004-09-08 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Sven Luther writes: > Well, no, why ? The patch is a correct fix, which makes the default > command line work, do you seriously think it is better to have a > broken default commandline on chrp/pmac, I know for sure that the default command line is not needed for PowerMacs, as one can use a

Bug#270326: kernel-image-2.6.8-powerpc: bad commandline default: root=/dev/sda2

2004-09-08 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 08:28:52AM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > Hi, > > Sven Luther writes: > > > Can you check with giving the root device explicitly with : -r root when > > creating the initrd ? > > Same thing. This is because the -r flag is only used for figuring out > the necessary modul

Bug#270326: kernel-image-2.6.8-powerpc: bad commandline default: root=/dev/sda2

2004-09-08 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Sven Luther writes: > Can you check with giving the root device explicitly with : -r root when > creating the initrd ? Same thing. This is because the -r flag is only used for figuring out the necessary modules. > Also, if the same problems happens in d-i when you don't specifify > root=/d

Bug#270326: kernel-image-2.6.8-powerpc: bad commandline default: root=/dev/sda2

2004-09-08 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 07:18:39AM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > Hi, > > Sven Luther writes: > > > Can you provide a full serial log output ? > > Sure. It's attached. Ok, it finds the initrd all right, but fails to mount the root filesystem and then pivot_root into it. Classical error. So, t

Bug#270577: kernel-image-2.6.8-1-k7: Source symlink points to builder's home directory

2004-09-08 Thread Peter Nelson
Package: kernel-image-2.6.8-1-k7 Version: 2.6.8-2 Severity: important Not the worst thing on earth, but the source symlink in /lib/modules/2.6.8-1-k7 is pointing at the home directory of the person who built it instead of somewhere in /usr/src or not being there at all. $ ls -l /lib/modules/2.6

Bug#270326: kernel-image-2.6.8-powerpc: bad commandline default: root=/dev/sda2

2004-09-08 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Sven Luther writes: > Can you provide a full serial log output ? Sure. It's attached. > Is the panic in question one happening because it doesn't find the > initrd, or something else ? It doesn't find the root filesystem if I omit the root option from the kernel command line. > How do yo