Bug#712756:

2013-08-07 Thread Alex Owen
notfound 712756 3.2.39-2 found 712756 3.2.46-1 fixed 712756 3.9.6-1~bpo70+1 thanks Correcting earlier mistake plus: Wheezy installer and current default 3.2 kernel exhibits this problem. The wheezy-backports 3.9 kernel does not have the problem. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...

Bug#712756: And me! BCM57800 also failing with same message

2013-07-27 Thread Alex Owen
on finding a minimal patch to fix the debian kernel! That is all I have time for right now. Alex Owen

Bug#388241: [Repoen]: test for [ -r /proc/mounts ] preferd to test for [ -d /proc ]

2006-09-19 Thread Alex Owen
|| return 0 Which would o test for the readability of /proc/mounts which is the file we want to read in the next line! Regards Alex Owen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#388241: initramfs-tools tests read-only /boot against /proc/mounts which fails in chroot

2006-09-19 Thread Alex Owen
/etc/mtab but again /etc/mtab may not exist. Regards Alex Owen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#380004: [Patch] vol_id to try to identify FSTYPE when fstype fails

2006-07-27 Thread Alex Owen
On 26/07/06, Alex Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Here is a patch to do 2 things: 1: export FSTYPE so that user scripts can hard code it in /scripts/local-premount 2: is fstype reports an "unknown" file system type then use vol_id (which is already on the initramfs) to tr

Bug#380004: [Patch] vol_id to try to identify FSTYPE when fstype fails

2006-07-26 Thread Alex Owen
should be backwards compatable and allow the detection of iso9660 filesystems. Please note I have not yet tested this patch. I shall try to find time tomorrow and report back! Bye for now Alex Owen diff -uNr initramfs-tools-0.72.old/init initramfs-tools-0.72/init --- initramfs-tools-0.72.old/init 200

Bug#283919: Wrong solution!

2005-08-22 Thread Alex Owen
ed on /mnt. Something like this ? $INIT would normally be /sbin/init but if there is a kernel command line parameter to say different then we should place that in $INIT first... [ -x /mnt$INIT ] || ( echo "WARNING: $INIT not found on root device major=$major minor=$minor" ; sleep 5) Just a thought

Bug#283919: Wrong solution!

2005-08-21 Thread Alex Owen
r not! I hope this helps track the progress of this issue. Alex Owen

Bug#307471: After 3 months obviously not pending!

2005-08-21 Thread Alex Owen
d #283919... perhaps I'll post something to that bug in a few mins. I hope that explains things. Alex Owen On 21/08/05, Horms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 08:33:00AM +0100, Alex Owen wrote: > > tag 307471 - pending > > thanks > > > &g

Bug#307471: After 3 months obviously not pending!

2005-08-21 Thread Alex Owen
tag 307471 - pending thanks 3 months on... time to remove the pending tag! Alex Owen

Bug#290329: uname -m not dpkg-architecture

2005-05-26 Thread Alex Owen
quired Section: base . Not sure what a powerpc machine outputs for "uname -m" though... Alex Owen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#290329: (no subject)

2005-05-25 Thread Alex Owen
This is an UNTESTED patch to describe the fix better than the above narative! Alex Owen diff -uNr initrd-tools-0.1.81.old/debian/rules initrd-tools-0.1.81/debian/rules --- initrd-tools-0.1.81.old/debian/rules2005-05-14 04:45:15.0 +0100 +++ initrd-tools-0.1.81/debian/rules2005-0

Bug#307471: Remove fixed tag

2005-05-23 Thread Alex Owen
hope that this patch will go into etch early in the testing life cycle! ... we shall see! Alex OWen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#307471: initrd-tools: wish init would not run mount_root if rootdev=255 (ie nfs root).

2005-05-03 Thread Alex Owen
cmdline=$(cat /proc/cmdline) umount -n proc if [ $rootdev != 256 ]; then +if [ $rootdev != 255 ]; then mount_root +fi cd mnt [ $DEVFS ] && mount -nt devfs devfs dev pivot_root . initrd ---8<--- Regards Alex Owen -- System Information: Debian Release:

RE: initrd-netboot-tools bad interaction with e2fsprogs possible fix affecting initrd-tools

2005-05-01 Thread Alex Owen
uot;mount_root" when $rootdev = 255. I guess I should raise a bug against initrd-tools. Thanks, (and as I said before sorry). Alex Owen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

initrd-netboot-tools bad interaction with e2fsprogs possible fix affecting initrd-tools

2005-05-01 Thread Alex Owen
e patches back to Debian at the same time! Particularly any comments on the major/minor device codes for nfs root would be great! Thanks Alex Owen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#270087: Related archived bug...

2005-01-06 Thread Alex Owen
Seems insmod and lsmod and rmmod were removed from busybox on purpose to fix bug #85642. But this was a bug to fix woody so the reasons to remove insmod from busybox may have now changed!?! Alex Owen

Bug#270087: related bugs

2005-01-06 Thread Alex Owen
I think that bugs 288759 and 270087 are related. Perhaps the busybox maintainer will merge them? Alex Owen

Bug#270087: initrd-tools: BUSYBOX=yes -> no insmod so modprobe broken!

2004-09-05 Thread Alex Owen
be loaded and the boot fails! I guess the solution is either 1) to symlink /sin/insmod to /sbin/insmod.modutils which is on the initrd or 2) to include insmod in the build of busybox and then (I think???) that the mkinitrd scripts will symlink /sin/insmod to busybox. Alex Owen -- System