Bug#857624: kernel warning/backtrace in parport/ppdev when running as a VM

2017-03-13 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Package: src:linux Version: 4.9.13-1 Severity: important Booting a freshly installed stretch system under (jessie's) qemu-kvm results in a couple of kernel warnings related to parport on every boot. I've experienced this on a few different systems now, in different infrastructures, so I'm guessing

Re: Bug#776192: Linux null-pointer deref in 3.16.7-ctk2-1 (was: Bug#776192: upgrade-reports wheezy to jessie boot problem)

2015-05-29 Thread Faidon Liambotis
clone 776192 -1 reassign -1 systemd 215-17 fixed -1 217-1 tags -1 = patch severity -1 important owner -1 ! thanks On Mon, Apr 06, 2015 at 08:50:58PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > It looks the same as this problem: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1276705 > http://thread.gmane

Bug#741686: linux-image-3.13-1-amd64: systemd-udevd kills long running mptsas module initailization, resulting in kernel oops

2014-04-07 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Hi, This regression is fairly complicated and it's high impact, as mptsas is being used to drive fairly popular controllers, including the entry-level ones in several generations of Dell PowerEdge servers. We've been debugging this for a while now over at Ubuntu's Launchpad[1] and the issue

Bug#703607: Please include Cypress PS/2 Trackpad driver in linux-image-3.2.0-*

2013-03-26 Thread Faidon Liambotis
On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 06:20:01PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > Control: severity -1 important This is a bit off-topic, but I'm not sure it warrants a different bug report (feel free to clone): I recently had to support a friend who bought a Dell E6230 and installed Wheezy, but couldn't get the

Bug#686636: Please backport virtio-scsi to wheezy

2012-09-03 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Package: linux Version: 3.2.23-1 Severity: wishlist Virtio SCSI a new driver/transport for block storage for paravirtualized systems. It replaces the older & limited in many ways virtio-blk and is implemented by basically passing through SCSI over virtio. Hence devices appear as regular SCSI devic

Bug#630730: marked as done (linux-image-2.6.32: GSO IPv6 issues)

2011-10-21 Thread Faidon Liambotis
found 630730 linux-2.6/2.6.32-38 thanks I've checked with -38 and the fix doesn't seem to be there (i.e. I'm still experiencing the effects). I'm looking at the source package and even though the patches are in debian/patches, they do not seem to be included from a series file. I'm also checking

Bug#644212: linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64: kernel BUG at kernel/exit.c:1035: "invalid opcode: 0000"

2011-10-04 Thread Faidon Liambotis
On Tue, Oct 04, 2011 at 03:29:50AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Tue, 2011-10-04 at 03:51 +0300, Faidon Liambotis wrote: > > Package: linux-2.6 > > Version: 2.6.32-35 > > Severity: normal > > > > The stack trace can be seen below; if it matters, note that th

Bug#644212: linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64: kernel BUG at kernel/exit.c:1035: "invalid opcode: 0000"

2011-10-03 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.32-35 Severity: normal The stack trace can be seen below; if it matters, note that the machine a) is running under KVM, b) has relatively high CPU & I/O load c) it's the first time it has BUGed, although it has been running with 2.6.32 since April and with 2.6.32-35

Bug#630730: linux-image-2.6.32: GSO IPv6 issues

2011-08-30 Thread Faidon Liambotis
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 01:10:25AM +0300, Faidon Liambotis wrote: > After talking with Ben on IRC, I've prepared and sent a -longterm tree > submission for the two commits. I'll update the bug report when I get a > reply. I just got a reply that the patches were accepted t

Bug#630730: linux-image-2.6.32: GSO IPv6 issues

2011-08-25 Thread Faidon Liambotis
forwarded 630730 sta...@kernel.org thanks On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 04:48:58PM +0200, Faidon Liambotis wrote: > What's the status of this? Have the patches been forwarded to -longterm > maintainers? (is that Greg KH?); if not, I'd be happy to do it for you. After talking with

Bug#630730: linux-image-2.6.32: GSO IPv6 issues

2011-07-28 Thread Faidon Liambotis
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 08:32:04PM -0700, David Miller wrote: > From: Ben Hutchings > Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 04:20:13 +0100 > > > David, these look like good candidates for longterm updates. What do > > you think? > > Sure but I don't do submissions for the longterm stuff, I only > work on the

Re: xserver-xorg-video-radeon:screen goes black, system hangs after 2sec:[youtube(FF/Opera)-reset req.]

2011-03-04 Thread Faidon Liambotis
severity 616301 critical thanks My system locks up whenever I click on a YouTube video link since yesterday. I can probably live without YouTube :), but in any case this shouldn't happen. This isn't a singled out case nor in exotic, possibly faulty, hardware. It's on a standard 1½-year old Dell O

Bug#578005: Please consider backporting KVM_GET/SET_CLOCK to 2.6.32

2010-04-24 Thread Faidon Liambotis
maximilian attems wrote: > tried 3cfc3092f40bc37c57ba556cfd8de4218f2135ab, > ffde22ac53b6d6b1d7206f1172176a667eead778. > > none of them apply. ffde22ac53b6d6b1d7206f1172176a667eead778 (Xen-HVM) applies with some (manually checked, safe) fuzz/offset. On top of that, afbcf7ab8d1bc8c2d04792f6d9e786e

Bug#578005: Please consider backporting KVM_GET/SET_CLOCK to 2.6.32

2010-04-24 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Ben Hutchings wrote: > This is definitely worthwhile but it does involve an ABI bump. So we > will probably wait for a convenient time to do that. I saw that you (well, maks) just bumped the ABI to -5. Ping? :) Thanks, Faidon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org

Bug#578005: Please consider backporting KVM_GET/SET_CLOCK to 2.6.32

2010-04-15 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.32-11 Severity: minor Tags: patch, fixed-upstream Hi, (severity minor since this is something between a bug and a feature request) Commit afbcf7ab8d1bc8c2d04792f6d9e786e0adeb328d, released with 2.6.33, reads: [PATCH] KVM: allow userspace to adjust kvmclock off

Re: [RFH] Debian 2.6.32 CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY, wireless-regdb and crda

2010-03-01 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > Can you guys upstream a package into Debian with a gitweb URL reference? If I'm understanding the question correctly, yes. We have Vcs-$VCS (i.e. Vcs-Git) and Vcs-Browser pseudo-headers. Both are optional. I agree with Kel here, git2cl et al are unimportant details. Kel

Re: [RFH] Debian 2.6.32 CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY, wireless-regdb and crda

2010-02-27 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > As per Paul Wise' advice I'd like to request for help with the > crda/wireless-regdb package for Debian for the next release of Debian. > I am the upstream crda maintainer and John Linville is the upstream > wireless-regdb maintainer. Kel Modderman has already done most w

Re: Linux Kernel plans for the squeeze cycle

2009-08-18 Thread Faidon Liambotis
maximilian attems wrote: Also, I remember reading about an effort on merging dom0 to mailine. From your experience, is there a chance of that happening for 2.6.32? >>> I don't think so. >> For the record, Xen upstream[1] mentions "dom0 support, currently >> planned for Linux 2.6.32 or 2.6

Re: Linux Kernel plans for the squeeze cycle

2009-08-17 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Ben Hutchings wrote: >> Also, I remember reading about an effort on merging dom0 to mailine. >> From your experience, is there a chance of that happening for 2.6.32? > > I don't think so. For the record, Xen upstream[1] mentions "dom0 support, currently planned for Linux 2.6.32 or 2.6.33 (latest p

Re: Linux Kernel plans for the squeeze cycle

2009-08-17 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Ben Hutchings wrote: > Removal of OpenVZ, Vserver and Xen packages > > These are large and intrusive patches which require significant upstream > effort to adapt to each new kernel version. As a result, they generally > lag availability of new kernel versions and may take much longer to > stabili

Bug#500645: upstream patch

2009-01-18 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Hi, Apparently the upstream fix is a two-liner and doesn't break ABI. Seems easy to fix and test and live migration is an important feature. Perhaps it could be part of the next upload? Thanks, Faidon http://git.openvz.org/?p=linux-2.6.26-openvz;a=commit;h=6d18ba377cfa3e86ee830fe6a5fce52b8fd510

Bug#494445: oops when loading nf_conntrack_ipv6

2008-10-07 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Vitaliy Gusev wrote: > The linux-image-2.6.26-1-openvz doesn't have this fix. Latest 2.6.26-ovz has > fix. > For 2.6.27-ovz fix patches was sent To Pavel for review. Could you pinpoint the patch for 2.6.26 exactly, e.g. by a commit or by attaching it? If it's simple enough, perhaps the Debian ke

Bug#494445: oops when loading nf_conntrack_ipv6

2008-10-06 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Vitaliy, hi, On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 02:55:56PM +0400, Vitaliy Gusev wrote: > On 11 August 2008 19:39:35 maximilian attems wrote: > > hello, > > > > could you please take a look at: > > > > * oops on load of nf_conntrack_ipv6 > > http://bugs.debian.org/494445 > > IPv6 conntrack doesn't work y

Bug#500645: Acknowledgement (linux-image-2.6.26-1-openvz-686: OpenVZ checkpointing does not work)

2008-09-30 Thread Faidon Liambotis
forwarded 500645 http://bugzilla.openvz.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1034 thanks Hi, Upstream contacted me; apparently the bug was (automatically?) forwarded to their bugzilla as #1034. They think that the bug was fixed in commit d588f384. Thanks, Faidon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#500645: linux-image-2.6.26-1-openvz-686: OpenVZ checkpointing does not work

2008-09-29 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Package: linux-image-2.6.26-1-openvz-686 Version: 2.6.26-6 Severity: normal 2.6.26-6 supposedly added OpenVZ checkpointing support -- and indeed the kernel option was enabled and /proc/cpt exists. I was unable, however, to perform an online migration or even a checkpoint/restore cycle on both 686

Re: Bug#446028: ITP: tg3dfsg -- firmware free Broadcom Tigon3 network driver

2007-10-10 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Robert Edmonds wrote: > Any modification to the tg3 driver to produce a GR 2006-004 compliant > driver would have to diverge from the kernel team's patch acceptance > guidelines[0] since upstream is intransigent[1] on making tg3 > firmware-free or firmware-optional. The kernel team does not appear

Re: Debian's Linux kernel continues to regress on freedom

2007-09-12 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Sune Vuorela wrote: > On 2007-09-12, Faidon Liambotis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Joerg Jaspert wrote: >> >> You're not checking for copyright violations or for non-free stuff in >> all other packages. I obviously meant all other *existing* source packages

Re: Debian's Linux kernel continues to regress on freedom

2007-09-12 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Joerg Jaspert wrote: > Oh well, the kernel team just lost its trust, which means new uploads of > kernel-team packages dont get their old way of fasttracking in NEW, as I > now need to check all of their uploads for such cases. I'm not sure I find this helpful. You're not checking for copyright vi