Bug#409272: nfsmount: incompatible with nfsv4--workaround fails

2022-11-28 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: klibc-utils Version: 2.0.8-6.1 Followup-For: Bug #409272 X-Debbugs-Cc: rossboy...@stanfordalumni.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Earlier in this bug, Trent Buck suggested an initramfs hook zz-nfs4 to work around the problem. I tried it, but I still can't get an NFS 4

Bug#974109: initramfs-tools: dhcp integration for nfs root

2020-11-09 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.133+deb10u1 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-CC: rossboy...@stanfordalumni.org Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? PXE booting a system with NFS root using isc-dhcp-server and tftpd-hpa, most of the options passed by the dhcp server to the

Bug#974106: initramfs-tools: No hostname for nfs root

2020-11-09 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.133+deb10u1 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-CC: rossboy...@stanfordalumni.org Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? PXE booting a system with NFS root using isc-dhcp-server and tftpd-hpa, the initrd environment does not know the hostname and

Bug#693734: linux-image-3.2.0-4-amd64: keyboards don't work with USB 3.0

2012-11-19 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: src:linux Version: 3.2.32-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, Like many others, I'm having trouble with USB 3.0. Since the problems render the keyboards completely inoperative all the time, this is potentially quite serious. Fortunately I have USB 2.0 ports and SSH, and so am able to

Bug#665850: lvcreate: sending ioctl 1261 to a partition!

2012-03-26 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.26-29 Severity: normal Since I applied the following updates [UPGRADE] base-files 5lenny10 -> 5lenny11 [UPGRADE] libapr1 1.2.12-5+lenny4 -> 1.2.12-5+lenny5 [UPGRADE] libapr1-dev 1.2.12-5+lenny4 -> 1.2.12-5+lenny5 [UPGRADE] libpq-dev 8.3.16-0lenny1 -> 8.3.17-0lenny1

Bug#526065: 526065: kvm load problems is a BIOS issue

2009-05-01 Thread Ross Boylan
After enabling hardware virtualization in the BIOS, the kvm-intel module loads. I'll close this, since the driver was working OK. -- Ross Boylan wk: (415) 514-8146 185 Berry St #5700 r...@biostat.ucsf.edu Dept of Epidemi

Bug#526065: 526065: kvm load problems probably a BIOS issue

2009-04-29 Thread Ross Boylan
Doh! [1039316.644309] kvm: disabled by bios I'm not at the machine, so can't fiddle the BIOS right now. I'll report further when I can. Ross -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#526065: linux-image-2.6.29-trunk-amd64: kvm-intel won't load in 2.6.29

2009-04-29 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: linux-image-2.6.29-trunk-amd64 Version: 2.6.29-1~experimental.2~snapshot.13314 Severity: normal *** Please type your report below this line *** markov:~# modprobe -v kvm-intel insmod /lib/modules/2.6.29-trunk-amd64/kernel/arch/x86/kvm/kvm-intel.ko FATAL: Error inserting kvm_intel (/lib/m

relation of trunk-amd64 to trunk-common/ kvm problems

2009-04-23 Thread Ross Boylan
ove that too--even if the tip is "known not to work with 2.6.29". I'd appreciate cc on replies. Thanks. Ross Boylan P.S. image is linux-image-2.6.29-trunk-amd64 2.6.29-1~experimental.2~snapshot.13314 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: how to proceed with a driver problem

2009-04-20 Thread Ross Boylan
Upgrading to the trunk snapshot seems to have fixed the problem. Thanks for the suggestion. Ross On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 14:31 -0600, dann frazier wrote: > On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 01:10:16PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > > It appears that the ath5k wireless driver is crashing my system. It &

Re: how to proceed with a driver problem

2009-04-09 Thread Ross Boylan
On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 14:31 -0600, dann frazier wrote: > On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 01:10:16PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > > It appears that the ath5k wireless driver is crashing my system. It > > leaves almost no info in the logs when it does so (and thus has taken > >

how to proceed with a driver problem

2009-04-08 Thread Ross Boylan
ater. I'd appreciate if you cc'd me on the response. Thanks. Ross Boylan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#461924: 461924: iwlwifi fixed upstream

2008-04-06 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sun, 2008-04-06 at 14:12 +0200, maximilian attems wrote: > On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 08:54:04PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > > Or so they say. Is just following the upstream instructions at > > linuxwireless.org likely to work? Will it mess up things done "the > >

Bug#461924: 461924: iwlwifi fixed upstream

2008-04-05 Thread Ross Boylan
Or so they say. Is just following the upstream instructions at linuxwireless.org likely to work? Will it mess up things done "the debian way"? The other complication is that it sounds as if the fix is to the driver, not the firmware. The tarball doesn't appear to have any firmware in it. They

Bug#454777: 454777: k7 packages for kernel [documentation]

2008-03-28 Thread Ross Boylan
set was not entirely safe to use on Athlon; I take it that it is. Ross Boylan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#461924: firmware-iwlwifi: Microcode SW error with 4965

2008-02-06 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: firmware-iwlwifi Version: 0.10 Followup-For: Bug #461924 I am seeing the same message, and experiencing intermittent connection failures, with a 4965 wireless card. Not all failures are associated with the message, and I think I sometimes get the Microcode SW error on start up, but it do

Bug#383600: behaviour of update-initramfs -u has changed, only updates latest kernel initrd

2007-08-19 Thread Ross Boylan
everyone can have their own opinions :) Ross Boylan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#380292: linux-image-2.6.16-2-k7-smp: upgrade re-ran lilo

2006-07-29 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 09:20:21PM +0200, maximilian attems wrote: > reassign 380292 kernel-package > stop > > On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 11:20:55AM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 07:29:21PM +0200, maximilian attems wrote: > > > > > o

Bug#380292: linux-image-2.6.16-2-k7-smp: upgrade re-ran lilo

2006-07-29 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 07:29:21PM +0200, maximilian attems wrote: > ok cool, please post the output of > dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-2.6.16-2-k7-smp > > -- > maks Script started on Sat Jul 29 11:15:17 2006 iron:~# date; dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-2.6.16-2-k7-smp Sat Jul 29 11:15:39 PDT 2

Bug#380292: linux-image-2.6.16-2-k7-smp: upgrade re-ran lilo

2006-07-29 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 10:29:12AM +0200, maximilian attems wrote: > reassign 380292 initramfs-tools > thanks > > > hello ross, > > On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 06:56:29PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > yes it seems to be an initramfs-tools trouble. > lilo is only run i

Bug#380292: linux-image-2.6.16-2-k7-smp: upgrade re-ran lilo

2006-07-28 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: linux-image-2.6.16-2-k7-smp Version: 2.6.16-17 Severity: normal I upgraded this image and the installation process re-ran lilo. This had the unfortunate effect of taking control of the boot back from grub, and of making my system unbootable. I've reinstalled grub (i.e., I'm OK), but I t

Bug#357538: nearly done

2006-03-27 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sun, 2006-03-26 at 22:19 -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > One of the evms developers suggested checking if lilo was properly > patched, and that the behavior I saw suggested it wasn't. Debian's > lilo sounds as if it has the right patch, but maybe it doesn't. Also >

Bug#357538: immediate cause of problem diagnosed

2006-03-26 Thread Ross Boylan
On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 01:55:53AM +0200, maximilian attems wrote: > hello ross, > > adding the evms maintainer on cc. Trimming Mark Garey, our sysadmin, from the distribution, as I doubt he wants the blow-by-blow. > > On Mon, 20 Mar 2006, Ross Boylan wrote: > > > On

Bug#357538: grub is a work-around

2006-03-21 Thread Ross Boylan
I can now confirm that I can start the 2.6.15 kernel after switching the loader to grub. Note that the default setup of grub (with update-grub) uses raw disk devices for the name of the root partition. I modified it as in the second line below # kopt=root=/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part8 r

Bug#357538: immediate cause of problem diagnosed

2006-03-20 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sun, 2006-03-19 at 19:35 -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > I've looked at the initramfs image and tried to trace through > execution by inspection (I'm not at the machine). I may be off base, > but here's what I noticed. In short, it looks as if the root > parame

Bug#357538: further analysis points to possible failure to pass root= parameter

2006-03-19 Thread Ross Boylan
in my initial post includes a line consisting only of ,pimt" Something must have hit the keyboard; ignore it. Second, On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 07:40:58PM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > Having looked more closely at some of the internals of the package, I > want to highlight one fact: the de

Bug#357538: initramfs-tools: can't boot into new 2.6.15 evms system

2006-03-17 Thread Ross Boylan
Having looked more closely at some of the internals of the package, I want to highlight one fact: the device with the new root is /dev/evms/newroot, and it could be pretty much anything. Since it's supplied by evms, it's probably not relevant to think of it as scsi or ide (it might, in principle,

Bug#357538: initramfs-tools: can't boot into new 2.6.15 evms system

2006-03-17 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.55b Severity: normal I am running a mostly testing system under a 2.4.27 kernel. I built a 2.6.15 kernel with the latest sources (2.6.15-8). kernel-package 10.036. lilo 22.6.1-7 and installed it with the latest unstable initramfs-tools (0.55b). When I boot