Bug#328534: Adaptec 2005S Hangs with current experiemental 2.6.13-686-smp kernel

2005-11-13 Thread wolftales
Jonas Smedegaard wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 13 Nov 2005 12:38:35 -0800 Wolftales <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I had no luck running this with yaird as I showed below. Do I understand correctly that your running kernel is 2.4.27? If so, then you can't i

Re: [D-I] Supporting 2.6.14 kernels in base-installer

2005-11-13 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 14 Nov 2005 02:09:18 +0100 Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For those who want to give it a try it without installing yaird ;-) > - http://people.debian.org/~fjp/findlibs (8 k) ...and use same architecture as you, whatever that is :-P

Re: [D-I] Supporting 2.6.14 kernels in base-installer

2005-11-13 Thread Jeff Bailey
On lun, 2005-11-14 at 02:06 +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > Heya! A couple quick notes about > > http://wiki.debian.org/InitrdReplacementOptions > > Ahem - first a general remark: Are you aware that the wiki is editable > by all? You can edit the page yourself (and while you are at it > - - yo

Re: [D-I] Supporting 2.6.14 kernels in base-installer

2005-11-13 Thread Jeff Bailey
On lun, 2005-11-14 at 01:37 +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > If I understand it correctly, ldd only correctly resolves libraries > linked with glibc, and yaird includes a more generic tool - documented > here: http://www.xs4all.nl/~ekonijn/yaird/yaird.html#shlibs Right. I'll take a look at the doc

Bug#328534: Adaptec 2005S Hangs with current experiemental 2.6.13-686-smp kernel

2005-11-13 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 13 Nov 2005 12:38:35 -0800 Wolftales <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I had no luck running this with yaird as I showed below. Do I understand correctly that your running kernel is 2.4.27? If so, then you can't install yaird as it requires sysfs

Re: [D-I] Supporting 2.6.14 kernels in base-installer

2005-11-13 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 13 Nov 2005 17:23:53 -0500 Jeff Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On dim, 2005-11-13 at 20:31 +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > Heya! A couple quick notes about > http://wiki.debian.org/InitrdReplacementOptions Ahem - first a general rem

Re: [D-I] Supporting 2.6.14 kernels in base-installer

2005-11-13 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 14 November 2005 01:37, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Would it perhaps make sense to provide the yaird "findlibs" binary in a > separate package for initramfs-tools to also use? That looks promising. For those who want to give it a try it without installing yaird ;-) - http://people.debian.

Bug#338951: yaird: wrong message from findlibs when called without arguments

2005-11-13 Thread Frans Pop
Package: yaird Version: 0.0.11-12 Severity: minor $ /usr/lib/yaird/exec/findlibs findlibs: too many arguments (fatal) This is obviously not the correct message. The usage message shown with the -h option would IMO be more appropriate. Wishlist: please support --help option besides -h pgptAJoO

Re: [D-I] Supporting 2.6.14 kernels in base-installer

2005-11-13 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 13 Nov 2005 17:28:38 -0500 Jeff Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On dim, 2005-11-13 at 20:28 +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > > On Sunday 13 November 2005 08:16, Sven Luther wrote: > > > That is less than 6MB of stuff, hardly "heavy". A single ker

Bug#336392: yaird silently fails with VMware

2005-11-13 Thread Frans Pop
I've seen the same problem testing 2.6.14 kernel installation in Debian Installer in vmware (running d-i with a 2.6.12 kernel). The solution was to add "MODULE BusLogic" in /etc/yaird/Default.cfg. It would be nice if a workaround for this could be added in yaird while the driver is missing sysf

Re: [D-I] Supporting 2.6.14 kernels in base-installer

2005-11-13 Thread Jeff Bailey
On dim, 2005-11-13 at 20:28 +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > On Sunday 13 November 2005 08:16, Sven Luther wrote: > > That is less than 6MB of stuff, hardly "heavy". A single kernel flavour > > is double that for example. > > That is exactly why we include only one kernel image on i386 netinst CD > imag

Re: [D-I] Supporting 2.6.14 kernels in base-installer

2005-11-13 Thread Jeff Bailey
On dim, 2005-11-13 at 22:49 +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > FWIW, Ubuntu's install defaults to 'most' mode on the grounds that for > > most systems (not lowmem, not oldworld ppc, not netboot) there's no harm > > in having a larger initramfs (approx 5 meg on disk, 40meg in memory). > > A bit over 7MB

Re: [D-I] Supporting 2.6.14 kernels in base-installer

2005-11-13 Thread Thiemo Seufer
Sven Luther wrote: [snip] > > The upside is that the initramfs created should be more or less > > identical for every system and is resilient against people moving the > > drive from one machine to the other, doing perfect copies (using ghost, > > dd, or whatnot), or using an already generated init

Re: [D-I] Supporting 2.6.14 kernels in base-installer

2005-11-13 Thread Jeff Bailey
On dim, 2005-11-13 at 20:31 +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: Heya! A couple quick notes about http://wiki.debian.org/InitrdReplacementOptions fstab label and uuid are just waiting on the newer udev in Ubuntu. I think Debian already has it, so it might Just Work. Can you change its state to Needs

Re: [D-I] Supporting 2.6.14 kernels in base-installer

2005-11-13 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 13 November 2005 22:45, Sven Luther wrote: > On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 08:28:47PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > > On Sunday 13 November 2005 08:16, Sven Luther wrote: > > > That is less than 6MB of stuff, hardly "heavy". A single kernel > > > flavour is double that for example. > > > > That is

Re: [D-I] Supporting 2.6.14 kernels in base-installer

2005-11-13 Thread Maximilian Attems
On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 10:34:27PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 09:23:14PM +0100, Maximilian Attems wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 08:01:38PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > > On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 12:32:29PM -0500, Jeff Bailey wrote: > > > > On dim, 2005-11-13 at 12:46 +

Re: language of choice for k-p packaging ...

2005-11-13 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 13 Nov 2005 20:03:59 +0100 Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm not sure about the linux-initramfs-tool part of the dependency. > > That is a virtual package, so future ramdisk tool can satisft the > dependency, without needing to r

Bug#338089: New aic7xxx driver fails spectacularly on 2940UW

2005-11-13 Thread James Bottomley
On Sun, 2005-11-13 at 14:42 -0500, Doug Ledford wrote: > The device is on a non-LVD bus. Certain devices were created back when > the spec still stated that using PPR negotiation messages on a non-LVD > bus was a no-no. As the echo buffer was an addition to support DV, and > originally DV wasn

Re: language of choice for k-p packaging ...

2005-11-13 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 09:19:53PM +0100, Maximilian Attems wrote: > On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 12:38:39PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > On Sun, 13 Nov 2005 16:38:25 +0100, Maximilian Attems <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > said: > > > > > On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 03:52:31PM +0100, Maximilian Attems wro

Re: language of choice for k-p packaging ...

2005-11-13 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 08:39:58PM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 08:03:59PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > > This needs a reverse-lookup to generate the dependencies. > > The dependencies can be set by hand, i believe, and don't really need to be > > set by arch, the importan

Fwd: [GIT] Fix memory leak in lease code

2005-11-13 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
Hi Horms / debian-kernel, I found this on linux-kernel. Could you please check, whether this affects 2.6.8 and 2.4.27? Cheers, Moritz From: Trond Myklebust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: gmane.linux.kernel Subject: [GIT] Fix memory leak in lease code Hi Linus Please pull from the repos

Re: [D-I] Supporting 2.6.14 kernels in base-installer

2005-11-13 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 03:22:42PM -0500, Jeff Bailey wrote: > On dim, 2005-11-13 at 20:34 +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > > On Sunday 13 November 2005 18:32, Jeff Bailey wrote: > > > On dim, 2005-11-13 at 12:46 +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: > > > > I think it is possible at least for initramfs-tools to ru

Re: [D-I] Supporting 2.6.14 kernels in base-installer

2005-11-13 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 08:47:37PM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 08:28:47PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > > waldi: Why is mklibs-copy needed? > > To find the needed libs without using ldd and sed, which provides the > view of the dynlinker of the loaded libs, which often not co

Re: [D-I] Supporting 2.6.14 kernels in base-installer

2005-11-13 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 08:28:47PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > On Sunday 13 November 2005 08:16, Sven Luther wrote: > > That is less than 6MB of stuff, hardly "heavy". A single kernel flavour > > is double that for example. > > That is exactly why we include only one kernel image on i386 netinst CD

Processed: tagging 338911

2005-11-13 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Processed: reassign 338911 to linux-2.6

2005-11-13 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > # Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.9.8 > reassign 338911 linux-2.6 Bug#338911: udev 0.074-2 fails to start with linux 2.6.14 Bug reassigned from package `udev' to `linux-2.6'. > End of message, stopping processing here. Ple

Re: [D-I] Supporting 2.6.14 kernels in base-installer

2005-11-13 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 09:23:14PM +0100, Maximilian Attems wrote: > On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 08:01:38PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 12:32:29PM -0500, Jeff Bailey wrote: > > > On dim, 2005-11-13 at 12:46 +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: > > > > I think it is possible at least fo

Bug#328534: Adaptec 2005S Hangs with current experiemental 2.6.13-686-smp kernel

2005-11-13 Thread Wolftales
Jurij Smakov wrote: On Sat, 12 Nov 2005, wolftales wrote: End of screen ouput: Begin: Running /scripts/local-top ... Done. ALERT! /dev/sda1 does not exist. Dropping to a shell! Oh, that might be not your controller's bug, but initramfs-tools bug. You can either use yaird to generate your

Re: [D-I] Supporting 2.6.14 kernels in base-installer

2005-11-13 Thread Maximilian Attems
On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 08:01:38PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 12:32:29PM -0500, Jeff Bailey wrote: > > On dim, 2005-11-13 at 12:46 +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: > > > I think it is possible at least for initramfs-tools to run without sysfs > > > on the building system. > > >

Re: [D-I] Supporting 2.6.14 kernels in base-installer

2005-11-13 Thread Jeff Bailey
On dim, 2005-11-13 at 20:34 +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > On Sunday 13 November 2005 18:32, Jeff Bailey wrote: > > On dim, 2005-11-13 at 12:46 +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: > > > I think it is possible at least for initramfs-tools to run without > > > sysfs on the building system. > > > > Right. The cav

Re: language of choice for k-p packaging ...

2005-11-13 Thread Maximilian Attems
On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 12:38:39PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Sun, 13 Nov 2005 16:38:25 +0100, Maximilian Attems <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > > > On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 03:52:31PM +0100, Maximilian Attems wrote: > >> > Well, not wanting to relaunch the discussion at this, but i think

Re: [D-I] Supporting 2.6.14 kernels in base-installer

2005-11-13 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 13 Nov 2005 20:01:38 +0100 Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 12:32:29PM -0500, Jeff Bailey wrote: > > On dim, 2005-11-13 at 12:46 +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: > > > I think it is possible at least for initramfs-to

Bug#338089: New aic7xxx driver fails spectacularly on 2940UW

2005-11-13 Thread Doug Ledford
James Bottomley wrote: On Sun, 2005-11-13 at 13:03 -0500, Graham Knap wrote: Doug Ledford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You already said it didn't help with the problem, I meant that I don't think I successfully disabled DV, because the boot messages were *identical*, except for the line where

Re: [D-I] Supporting 2.6.14 kernels in base-installer

2005-11-13 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 08:28:47PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > waldi: Why is mklibs-copy needed? To find the needed libs without using ldd and sed, which provides the view of the dynlinker of the loaded libs, which often not correspondends to the files. > Is it because of the same bug that caused f

Re: language of choice for k-p packaging ...

2005-11-13 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 08:03:59PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > This needs a reverse-lookup to generate the dependencies. > The dependencies can be set by hand, i believe, and don't really need to be > set by arch, the important thing is the list of actual tools used. Eek, you really want to depe

Re: [D-I] Supporting 2.6.14 kernels in base-installer

2005-11-13 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 13 November 2005 18:32, Jeff Bailey wrote: > On dim, 2005-11-13 at 12:46 +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: > > I think it is possible at least for initramfs-tools to run without > > sysfs on the building system. > > Right. The caveat to this is "dep" mode. The default mode for > initramfs-too

Re: [D-I] Supporting 2.6.14 kernels in base-installer

2005-11-13 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 13 November 2005 08:16, Sven Luther wrote: > That is less than 6MB of stuff, hardly "heavy". A single kernel flavour > is double that for example. That is exactly why we include only one kernel image on i386 netinst CD images. If we'd follow the suggestion to support both yaird and init

Re: language of choice for k-p packaging ...

2005-11-13 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 07:11:40PM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 06:18:36PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > Ah, i was going to not parse anything and just copy it as is into > > INITRD_CMD. > > Mmm, wait, i forgot something, this is not the usecase i want, what i want > > is

Re: [D-I] Supporting 2.6.14 kernels in base-installer

2005-11-13 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 12:32:29PM -0500, Jeff Bailey wrote: > On dim, 2005-11-13 at 12:46 +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: > > I think it is possible at least for initramfs-tools to run without sysfs > > on the building system. > > Right. The caveat to this is "dep" mode. The default mode for > init

Re: language of choice for k-p packaging ...

2005-11-13 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sun, 13 Nov 2005 16:38:25 +0100, Maximilian Attems <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 03:52:31PM +0100, Maximilian Attems wrote: >> > Well, not wanting to relaunch the discussion at this, but i think >> > Python rates really high on the most-uncomprehensible langugage >> > con

Re: language of choice for k-p packaging ...

2005-11-13 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sun, 13 Nov 2005 15:52:31 +0100, Maximilian Attems <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 12:58:10PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: >> Well, not wanting to relaunch the discussion at this, but i think >> Python rates really high on the most-uncomprehensible langugage >> contest, or at

Bug#338089: New aic7xxx driver fails spectacularly on 2940UW

2005-11-13 Thread James Bottomley
On Sun, 2005-11-13 at 13:03 -0500, Graham Knap wrote: > Doug Ledford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You already said it didn't help with the problem, > > I meant that I don't think I successfully disabled DV, because the boot > messages were *identical*, except for the line where the kernel shows

Bug#338089: New aic7xxx driver fails spectacularly on 2940UW

2005-11-13 Thread Graham Knap
Doug Ledford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If the drive is unaccessible after the DV failure, even on a warm > reboot (which includes a SCSI bus reset), then the drive is flat > hung. Something done in the current code is breaking it. Ah. I had wondered if that was possible. > Can you get a boot

Re: language of choice for k-p packaging ...

2005-11-13 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 05:29:22PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > I mean, the ramdisk: is shorter and thus nicer than image-ramdisk-generators, It specifies generators for ramdisks, not the ramdisks themself. Bastian -- If a man had a child who'd gone anti-social, killed perhaps, he'd still tend t

Re: language of choice for k-p packaging ...

2005-11-13 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 06:18:36PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > Ah, i was going to not parse anything and just copy it as is into INITRD_CMD. > Mmm, wait, i forgot something, this is not the usecase i want, what i want is > : > ramdisk: mkinitrd.yaird mkinitramfs > the list of actual binaries being

Re: [D-I] Supporting 2.6.14 kernels in base-installer

2005-11-13 Thread Jeff Bailey
On dim, 2005-11-13 at 12:46 +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: > I think it is possible at least for initramfs-tools to run without sysfs > on the building system. Right. The caveat to this is "dep" mode. The default mode for initramfs-tools is to include all of the modules that you're likely intereste

Bug#338089: New aic7xxx driver fails spectacularly on 2940UW

2005-11-13 Thread James Bottomley
On Sun, 2005-11-13 at 12:41 -0500, Doug Ledford wrote: > If the drive is unaccessible after the DV failure, even on a warm reboot > (which includes a SCSI bus reset), then the drive is flat hung. > Something done in the current code is breaking it. Can you get a boot > with DV turned off and ca

Bug#338089: New aic7xxx driver fails spectacularly on 2940UW

2005-11-13 Thread Doug Ledford
Graham Knap wrote: James Bottomley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: My best guess would be that the bus is slightly marginal. The aic7xxx drivers are notoriously sensitive to bus problems. Could you try lowering the bus speed to 10MHz in the aic7xxx bios and see if that helps? Sure. I changed th

Re: language of choice for k-p packaging ...

2005-11-13 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 06:07:58PM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 05:29:22PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > Why not : > > ramdisk: initramfs-tools (>= foo) yaird > > but more importantly, why the two levels ? Have you planed something else > > where this is important ? > >

Re: language of choice for k-p packaging ...

2005-11-13 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 05:29:22PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > Why not : > ramdisk: initramfs-tools (>= foo) yaird > but more importantly, why the two levels ? Have you planed something else > where this is important ? Your version needs a dependency parser to drop the (>= foo) in the generated

Bug#338089: New aic7xxx driver fails spectacularly on 2940UW

2005-11-13 Thread Graham Knap
James Bottomley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My best guess would be that the bus is slightly marginal. The > aic7xxx drivers are notoriously sensitive to bus problems. Could you > try lowering the bus speed to 10MHz in the aic7xxx bios and see if > that helps? Sure. I changed the device to 20MBy

Bug#336750: Same error with linux-image-2.6.14-1-686

2005-11-13 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 13 Nov 2005 16:08:42 +0100 DEMAINE Benoit-Pierre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > They depend on yaird | initramfs-tools | linux-ramdisk-tool, there > > is no way that you can have a dependency depend on the installed > > kernel, so something mo

Re: language of choice for k-p packaging ...

2005-11-13 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 04:38:25PM +0100, Maximilian Attems wrote: > On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 03:52:31PM +0100, Maximilian Attems wrote: > > > Well, not wanting to relaunch the discussion at this, but i think Python > > > rates > > > really high on the most-uncomprehensible langugage contest, or at

Re: language of choice for k-p packaging ...

2005-11-13 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 04:20:56PM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 03:50:09PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > I mean we need to find a way to override the k-p's default for ramdisk on a > > per arch/subarch/flavour basis, and a ramdisk= line in the defines seems to > > be > > m

Bug#333831: Combination of irqpoll and routeirq doesn't fix reboots entirely

2005-11-13 Thread Simon Waters
Seems this combination makes reboots less likely/predictable, but it is yet to finish an entire CD. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: language of choice for k-p packaging ...

2005-11-13 Thread Maximilian Attems
On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 03:52:31PM +0100, Maximilian Attems wrote: > > Well, not wanting to relaunch the discussion at this, but i think Python > > rates > > really high on the most-uncomprehensible langugage contest, or at least as a > > language allowing or encouraging to write incomprehensible

Bug#336750: Same error with linux-image-2.6.14-1-686

2005-11-13 Thread DEMAINE Benoit-Pierre
> They depend on yaird | initramfs-tools | linux-ramdisk-tool, there is no way > that you can have a dependency depend on the installed kernel, so something > more subtle needs to be done. that the first time in my 5 year Debian life I see a dependency blocking apt that is not solved by the 'to b

Bug#333831: #333831 Debian BTS

2005-11-13 Thread Simon Waters
Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > Have you tried with "irqpoll" as suggested? Combination of "irqpoll pci=routeirq" seems to resolve the reboot whilst playing a CD, although the stack dump during boot remains. I shall go listen to some music whilst reading about these options, and check to whom I'm su

Bug#333831: #333831 Debian BTS

2005-11-13 Thread Simon Waters
Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > >>>Try again with "pollirq" > Have you tried with "irqpoll" as suggested? Sorry, I'm being dense as regards the typos. 'irqpoll' does indeed change the behaviour of the 2.6.14-1 stock kernel on this laptop. On boot I see one of these traces, or stack dumps, spewed to

Re: language of choice for k-p packaging ...

2005-11-13 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 03:50:09PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > I mean we need to find a way to override the k-p's default for ramdisk on a > per arch/subarch/flavour basis, and a ramdisk= line in the defines seems to be > most obvious place for this. I currently try to implement such. My plan is s

Re: language of choice for k-p packaging ...

2005-11-13 Thread Maximilian Attems
On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 12:58:10PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > Well, not wanting to relaunch the discussion at this, but i think Python rates > really high on the most-uncomprehensible langugage contest, or at least as a > language allowing or encouraging to write incomprehensible code :) Well, at

Re: Team-maintaining yaird independently from the kernel (Was: [D-I] Supporting 2.6.14 kernels in base-installer)

2005-11-13 Thread Maximilian Attems
hello jonas, On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 01:44:48PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > The below was sent to the kernel team and others. Please read and > comment on debian-kernel@lists.debian.org mailinglist. > > It seems both yaird and initramfs-tools share similar confusion: hehe ;) > so I will

Bug#336750: Same error with linux-image-2.6.14-1-686

2005-11-13 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 03:11:58PM +0100, DEMAINE Benoit-Pierre wrote: > Package: linux-image-2.6.14-1-686 > Version: 2.6.14-2 > Followup-For: Bug #336750 > > > Setting up linux-image-2.6.14-1-686 (2.6.14-2) ... > Failed to find suitable ramdisk generation tool for kernel version > 2.6.14-1-686 >

Re: language of choice for k-p packaging ...

2005-11-13 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 01:57:00PM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 12:58:10PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > Well, not wanting to relaunch the discussion at this, but i think Python > > rates > > really high on the most-uncomprehensible langugage contest, > > This is incorrec

Bug#336750: Same error with linux-image-2.6.14-1-686

2005-11-13 Thread DEMAINE Benoit-Pierre
Package: linux-image-2.6.14-1-686 Version: 2.6.14-2 Followup-For: Bug #336750 Setting up linux-image-2.6.14-1-686 (2.6.14-2) ... Failed to find suitable ramdisk generation tool for kernel version 2.6.14-1-686 on running kernel 2.4.27-2-386 in /usr/sbin/mkinitrd /usr/sbin/mkinitrd.yaird /usr/sbin/

Team-maintaining yaird independently from the kernel (Was: [D-I] Supporting 2.6.14 kernels in base-installer)

2005-11-13 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, The below was sent to the kernel team and others. Please read and comment on debian-kernel@lists.debian.org mailinglist. It seems both yaird and initramfs-tools share similar confusion: They are tagged as being maintained by the kernel team, but

Re: language of choice for k-p packaging ...

2005-11-13 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 12:58:10PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > Well, not wanting to relaunch the discussion at this, but i think Python rates > really high on the most-uncomprehensible langugage contest, This is incorrect. python rates lower than much other languages. >

Re: language of choice for k-p packaging ...

2005-11-13 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 13 Nov 2005 12:58:10 +0100 Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, not wanting to relaunch the discussion at this, but What do you want, then? - Jonas - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 W

Bug#338734: fstab doesn't mount NTFS partitions on Serial ATA drives.

2005-11-13 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 reassign 338734 yaird thanks On Sun, 13 Nov 2005 12:43:48 +0100 Matteo Frare Barutti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Using /usr/sbin/mkinitrd.yaird to build the ramdisk. You are using yaird! Reassigning this bugreport to yaird. - Jonas - -- * Jon

language of choice for k-p packaging ...

2005-11-13 Thread Sven Luther
Hi, ... Well, not wanting to relaunch the discussion at this, but i think Python rates really high on the most-uncomprehensible langugage contest, or at least as a language allowing or encouraging to write incomprehensible code :) Well, at least in the gencontrol.py incarnation of it. :) Friendly

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2005-11-13 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#338734: fstab doesn't mount NTFS partitions on Serial ATA drives.

2005-11-13 Thread Sven Luther
reassign 338734 yaird thanks On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 12:43:48PM +0100, Matteo Frare Barutti wrote: > here we go: > > hal9000:/var/log# dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-2.6.14-1-686-smp > Using /usr/sbin/mkinitrd.yaird to build the ramdisk. > Full list of probed ramdisk generating tools : /usr/sbin/mki

Bug#335858: Fixed with 2.6.14

2005-11-13 Thread Peter Eisentraut
This issue seems to be fixed in 2.6.14-1-686, so feel free to close this bug when 2.6.12 is obsoleted. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#338734: fstab doesn't mount NTFS partitions on Serial ATA drives.

2005-11-13 Thread Matteo Frare Barutti
here we go: hal9000:/var/log# dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-2.6.14-1-686-smp Using /usr/sbin/mkinitrd.yaird to build the ramdisk. Full list of probed ramdisk generating tools : /usr/sbin/mkinitrd /usr/sbin/mkinitrd.yaird /usr/sbin/mkinitramfs. Not touching initrd symlinks since we are being rein

Re: [D-I] Supporting 2.6.14 kernels in base-installer

2005-11-13 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 12:16:02PM +0100, Maximilian Attems wrote: > klibc-utils could be replaced by the busybox utils. waldi proposed that. > that would reduce the porter work for klibc which is not yet ready for > any arch. We can even produce a extra busybox for that if it is worth of size. >

Bug#338734: fstab doesn't mount NTFS partitions on Serial ATA drives.

2005-11-13 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 12:13:56PM +0100, Matteo Frare Barutti wrote: > shame on me! > > now i tried again putting "ntfs" in /etc/modules and it worked. > > btw i'm using the stock kernel 2.6.14-686-smp present in the Debian > unstable repos. Ah, so you are probably using yaird or initramfs-too

Re: [D-I] Supporting 2.6.14 kernels in base-installer

2005-11-13 Thread Maximilian Attems
[ added jbailey, inifinity and waldi to the cc list ] On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 11:42:26PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > I've taken a first look at what is involved in supporting installation of > 2.6.14 kernels in Debian Installer _for the installed system_. > > Note: This is a separate issue from ru

Bug#338734: fstab doesn't mount NTFS partitions on Serial ATA drives.

2005-11-13 Thread Matteo Frare Barutti
shame on me! now i tried again putting "ntfs" in /etc/modules and it worked. btw i'm using the stock kernel 2.6.14-686-smp present in the Debian unstable repos. Matt. Sven Luther wrote: On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 12:01:37PM +0100, Matteo Frare Barutti wrote: Hi Sven, I'm using kernel ve

Bug#338734: fstab doesn't mount NTFS partitions on Serial ATA drives.

2005-11-13 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 12:01:37PM +0100, Matteo Frare Barutti wrote: > Hi Sven, > > I'm using kernel version 2.6.14 (but i found this problem in earlier > versions too) and initrd-tools version 0.1.84. > > I put the module "ntfs" in /etc/mkinitrd/modules, then i built the > initrd image and no

Bug#338734: fstab doesn't mount NTFS partitions on Serial ATA drives.

2005-11-13 Thread Matteo Frare Barutti
Hi Sven, I'm using kernel version 2.6.14 (but i found this problem in earlier versions too) and initrd-tools version 0.1.84. I put the module "ntfs" in /etc/mkinitrd/modules, then i built the initrd image and now NTFS partitions are correctly mounted. I haven't tried with yaird yet (i'll tr