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 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 dou

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

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 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.

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

2005-11-14 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 14 November 2005 21:47, Joey Hess wrote: > This seems more in-scope for the kernel team to decide than the d-i > team, but if it would help I can flip a coin.. Note that one consideration is consistency between Debian and Ubuntu in d-i. Ubuntu have implemented initramfs-tools and in fac

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

2005-11-15 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 15 November 2005 13:23, Sven Luther wrote: > Jonas, does it actually know how to look into /target/etc/fstab and not > /etc/fstab ? This of course is a completely irrelevant question as d-i runs the initrd generators in a chroot on /target. So, yes, effectively it _does_ look in /targe

Bug#340508: missing modules on s390/s390x

2005-11-23 Thread Frans Pop
Submitter reported additional information re initramfs-tools to d-s390 mailing list [1]. Most relevant information (console messages) duplicated below. Freeing unused kernel memory: 120k freed Loading, please wait... Begin: Initializing /dev ... /sbin/udevsynthesize: 13: /lib/udev/udevsynthesize

Re: 2.6.14 kernel udebs and d-i

2005-11-25 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 25 November 2005 09:11, Sven Luther wrote: > And Frans, no, insulting porters and complaining they don't do their > job is no way to get this solved, and i find joeyh remark that only 6 > d-i architectures support 2.6 kernels, while thanks to the common > architecture, all debian official

Re: where can i get latest kernel-source-2.6.*

2005-11-26 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 27 November 2005 01:52, Roger Fernandes wrote: > I have a simple question... > where can i get the latest kernel-source-2.6.* package? Look for linux-source. Packages were renamed starting from 2.6.12. Cheers, FJP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsub

Re: 2.6.14 status summary, and upcoming 2.6.15 ...

2005-11-28 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 28 November 2005 12:45, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > The following problems are known for yaird currently in sid: Add: * Does not work for drivers that don't have sysfs support, like BusLogic > We do not have _automated_ workarounds, which it seems you imply and I > clearly didn't above.

Re: ancient ieee80211/ipw2200 drivers in recent kernel (2.6.14)

2005-11-30 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 30 November 2005 11:44, Maximilian Attems wrote: > On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 06:22:17PM +0900, Horms wrote: > > Ok, so I should just go ahead and put my patch into the 2.6.14 branch? > > Or should we leave it as 2.6.15 probably isn't that far away... maybe > > depends if d-i will base it

Bug#341392: linux-2.6: kernel BUG at mm/slab.c:1807!

2005-11-30 Thread Frans Pop
Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.14-4 Severity: serious The following error happens on Debian Installer boot in vmware (386 kernel). This problem was not present in -3. The system does come up after the error, but it looks so basic (memory management AFAICT) that I've set RC severity anyway. Feel

Re: ancient ieee80211/ipw2200 drivers in recent kernel (2.6.14)

2005-11-30 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 30 November 2005 16:06, Maximilian Attems wrote: > better ntfs support, up2date ipw2XXX, vfs support "shared subtree", > fbcon console rotation + usual bunch of fixes and driver upgrades. > no acpi change. Nothing that should give us problems I think. Thanks. FB console rotation could

Re: Bug#341393: linux-image-2.6.14-2-686 does not boot on HP Compaq nx8220 Laptop

2005-11-30 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 30 November 2005 17:01, Maximilian Attems wrote: [annoying footer blurb] > wtf > your message is public, keep away such strange footers. > won't help your much. Ppl sending from corporate mail accounts mostly cannot control such footers. They are added by the mail servers after the

Re: ancient ieee80211/ipw2200 drivers in recent kernel (2.6.14)

2005-11-30 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 30 November 2005 21:04, Sven Luther wrote: > > Are there major changes from .14 to .15? If not, we should be able to > > change over to .15 relatively fast. > > .15 will bring a non-negligible amount of change to powerpc, going from > ARCH=ppc|ppc64 to ARCH=powerpc, which may entail mo

Re: ancient ieee80211/ipw2200 drivers in recent kernel (2.6.14)

2005-11-30 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 01 December 2005 00:09, Sven Luther wrote: > Yeah, but the change from ARCH=ppc | ARCH=ppc64, to a single re-unified > ARCH=powerpc kernel will not go without glitch, especially for the > lesser subarches (oldworld, prep, apus come to mind), and may cause > some sever disfunction in eve

Re: Graphical installer - invitation to get involved

2005-12-03 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 03 December 2005 18:18, Colin Watson wrote: > usplash works fine on x86/vga16fb, x86/vesafb, and powerpc/offb at > least. It just uses bogl (like d-i) so it should be straightforward to > port nearly anywhere. What happens on sercon installations? pgpGJjcoEh2vp.pgp Description: PGP s

Bug#341930: initramfs-tools: initrd missing mptspi module for LSI scsi

2005-12-04 Thread Frans Pop
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.41 Severity: important After an installation test in vmware installing 2.6.14 and using initramfs-tools, the system failed to boot. Reason is that the driver mtpspi (./message/fusion/mptspi.ko) is missing in the initrd. Modules mptbase and mptscsih are prese

Re: automatic custom kernels?

2005-12-04 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 04 December 2005 11:18, Andreas Barth wrote: > So, my question is: Is there some way to tell "everytime a new kernels > appears at $location, please apply all patches in $directory, and > compile it with this and that config for me"? If not, which would be > the way to do this? I would t

Bug#340508: missing modules on s390/s390x (mkinitramfs for 2.6.14)

2005-12-04 Thread Frans Pop
(CC to d-s390 as there may be people who can provide additional information.) On Friday 02 December 2005 22:58, you wrote: > can you please retest if that device gets created? OK. I've done some testing and made some progress. First, the following modules need to be available in the initrd: - d

Bug#340508: missing modules on s390/s390x (mkinitramfs for 2.6.14)

2005-12-04 Thread Frans Pop
Some additional info. I've done my research from a system (Hercules emulator) running 2.4.27. For 2.4.27, the dasd modules are built into the kernel. The option to set the dasd devices is therefore passed from the zipl bootloader. The "dasd=" option in the [debian_26] section was of course igno

D-I image status and test result overview

2005-12-04 Thread Frans Pop
Yesterday a lot of issues relevant for the sid_d-i images were fixed. This means that today we have the first images without major issues using 2.6.14 (x86 and sparc64) after a few days without new CD builds. I have tested netboot installations for both x86 (in vmware 5.5) and sparc64. Both suc

Bug#342057: initramfs-tools: initrd fails to load BusLogic module on boot

2005-12-04 Thread Frans Pop
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.41 After a test in vmware installing 2.6.14-4-686 using initramfs-tools, the system failed to reboot. AFAICT the initrd (udev?) failed to load the BusLogic module even though it is included in the initrd. Note that BusLogic is known to be missing sysfs suppor

Bug#341392: kernel BUG at mm/slab.c:1807!

2005-12-05 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 06 December 2005 05:23, Jurij Smakov wrote: > It's not kernel's fault. I have just booted the 2.6.14 off today's > sid_d-i daily netinst, and it has the bug. The bug appears because the > af_unix_init function is invoked twice, and it normally should not > happen. This function is the in

Status of d-i kernel transition for 2.6.14

2005-12-07 Thread Frans Pop
2 [1] 2.6.14-2 does not boot on IA64, waiting for 2.6.15 NOTE A new 2.4.27 kernel for x86 has just been accepted into unstable so 2.4 kernel udebs will also need updating soon. Cheers, Frans Pop pgpRvcHnLlHMI.pgp Description: PGP signature

Bug#342925: initramfs-tools: [sparc64] generated initrd fails to boot

2005-12-11 Thread Frans Pop
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.42 Severity: important After yaird failed to generate an image for the latest 2.6.14 kernel (2.6.14-5), I tried initramfs-tools. The initrd was generated, but the boot failed: /dev/hda1 not present. The following modules were loaded correctly (from cat /proc/m

Re: intent to change kernel ABI in sarge/updates

2005-12-15 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 15 December 2005 17:55, dann frazier wrote: > As far as I can tell, an ABI change only breaks d-i if it is > incorporated into a point release - updates to security.debian.org > should be safe. Yes, that is correct. There is no problem for d-i until the new kernel enters the main arch

Re: Preparing 2.6.14-6 release, getting 2.6.15-rc into shape

2005-12-19 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 19 December 2005 22:54, Maximilian Attems wrote: > currently d-i unstable uses 2.6.12/2.6.14 depending on arch - > next beta is planed for 2.6.15 so latest 2.6.15 is more important. OTOH the time to test with 2.6.15 will probably be quite short, so testing d-i for hppa with 2.6.14 (usin

Bug#342925: missing ide-generic

2005-12-23 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 23 December 2005 14:34, maximilian attems wrote: > please try the attached patch, > should load ide-generic even if udev didn't yet bring it up: Although my initial report was for Sparc (which I will test tomorrow, I've also tested it on my laptop. ide-generic is loaded, but ide-disk is

Bug#342925: missing ide-generic

2005-12-24 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 24 December 2005 04:32, Frans Pop wrote: > On Friday 23 December 2005 14:34, maximilian attems wrote: > > please try the attached patch, > > should load ide-generic even if udev didn't yet bring it up: > > Although my initial report was for Sparc (which I will

Bug#342925: fails to load ide-disk, doesn't find hdd

2005-12-28 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 29 December 2005 02:48, maximilian attems wrote: > could you try the attached hook file, > please place it under > /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/init-premount/ The ide hook file in #344754 works for me on both my Sparc and laptop. Cheers, FJP pgpNkM6YunuqH.pgp Description: PGP

Re: more current kernels for sarge in volatile?

2005-12-29 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 29 December 2005 13:04, Sven Luther wrote: > To add to that the fact that with a minimal rebuild of support tools > (yaird and backported udev for me), the etch/sid/experimental kernels > install just fine on a sarge system. I run all my sarge systems like > this, and it works just fine

Re: initramfs generator selection

2005-12-29 Thread Frans Pop
(CC to d-kernel and yaird-devel for comments. Topic is a question in Debian Installer regarding the initramfs generator to use. For the start of the thread see: http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2005/12/msg01228.html) On Thursday 29 December 2005 09:07, Christian Perrier wrote: > > by which

Re: [Yaird-devel] Re: initramfs generator selection

2005-12-29 Thread Frans Pop
(Please do not CC me; I'm subscribed to all lists relevant here) On Thursday 29 December 2005 16:34, Sven Luther wrote: > I would have thought it the other way around, there is no reason to use > initramfs-tools for a new install, since we are then not upgrading from > 2.4 kernels. That is not a

Re: [Yaird-devel] Re: initramfs generator selection

2005-12-29 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 29 December 2005 17:27, Sven Luther wrote: > What if we defaulted to yaird, we know that yaird, by design, will fail > at install time and not at boot time, and give an error message, which > we can grab and append to the log messages or whatever. It does not in all cases, like for mod

Re: initramfs generator selection

2005-12-29 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 29 December 2005 18:39, Ross Boylan wrote: > On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 04:01:15PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > > Here are the settings I propose to upload the new version of > > base-installer with: > > - Question asked at medium priority > > - Default generator

Re: [Yaird-devel] Re: initramfs generator selection

2005-12-30 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 30 December 2005 02:46, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > I believe the non-failure with non-sysfs was a bug that got fixed in > 0.0.12. > > Please test: To my knowledge yaird should now fail if not satisified > with its findings (and drivers lacking sysfs support does not > satisify!) Sorry to

Re: initramfs generator selection

2005-12-30 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 30 December 2005 08:49, Sven Luther wrote: > Still, now that Jonas confirmed yaird will fail in the presence of > non-sysfs drivers, my initial proposal of trying out yaird and > reverting to initramfs-tools if yaird can't produce a suitable ramdisk > is again more interesting than your p

Re: initramfs generator selection

2005-12-30 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 29 December 2005 21:49, Joey Hess wrote: > Frans Pop wrote: > > It also makes the installer independent of the default dependency set > > in kernel-image packages. > > I'm not sure if this last is really an advantage. I'd rather leave the > decision of

Re: bits from the release team

2006-01-03 Thread Frans Pop
(forgot to CC d-kernel on this) On Tuesday 03 January 2006 22:02, Sven Luther wrote: > We will have a kernel which is outdated by two versions at release time > with this plan, since there are about 1 kernel upstream release every 2 > month. 2.6.8 is not an optimal kernel, but largely due to timi

Re: bits from the release team

2006-01-03 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 03 January 2006 23:01, Sven Luther wrote: > Indeed. The d-i team usually says "no" outright to any kind of proposal > of this kind, so it is up to the kernel team to come up with an > implementation which convinces them :) Bullshit. We (d-i team, mainly Joey) gave very good reasons why

Re: bits from the release team

2006-01-03 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 03 January 2006 23:52, Sven Luther wrote: > The current proposal is about simply using the same .udeb organisation > and move it inside the linux-2.6 common package, which is something > that works out just fine for ubuntu even, but which the current > linux-2.6 common package infrastruc

Bug#347482: initramfs-tools: Fails to boot with / on LVM and /boot on separate partition

2006-01-10 Thread Frans Pop
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.48 The new option in Debian Installer to automatically partition using LVM creates a system where / and most other partitions are on LVM, but /boot is a separate "real" partition. The initrd created using initramfs-tools fails to boot with this setup and see

Bug#347482: initramfs-tools: Fails to boot with / on LVM and /boot on separate partition

2006-01-10 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 11 January 2006 03:11, you wrote: > can you say what was the exact boot failure? > what where the last messages on the console.. SCSI, CDROM and USB have been loaded. Begin: Mounting root file system... Begin: Running /scripts/local-top Done. ALERT! /dev/mapper!Debian-root does not ex

Bug#347482: initramfs-tools: Fails to boot with / on LVM and /boot on separate partition

2006-01-10 Thread Frans Pop
retitle 347482 Does not support "!" separator in /dev/mapper names severity 347482 important thanks On Wednesday 11 January 2006 03:44, you wrote: > > what were the boot args? > > cat /proc/cmdline > root=/dev/mapper!Debian-root ro > > The problem seems to be in the "!". The lvm script expects "/"

Re: cleaning old suggests

2006-01-11 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 11 January 2006 20:25, maximilian attems wrote: > * boot loader: > grub | lilo (>= 19.1) > grub is widely deployed by d-i and most actively used. > lilo has almost no active dev. > lilo isn't supported by xen. grub still does not support some cases (mainly XFS on / IIRC) and in those

Re: cleaning old suggests

2006-01-11 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 11 January 2006 21:07, Maximilian Attems wrote: > sorry for the confusion current suggest is "lilo (>= 19.1) | grub". > i would propose to swith to the aboves named order, not drop. Ack that. pgpj4iOTyD7Hl.pgp Description: PGP signature

Bug#347902: initramfs-tools: system fails to boot on sparc64

2006-01-13 Thread Frans Pop
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.48 Severity: important With new klibc, latest initramfs-tools and kernel 2.6.15-2, the system fails to boot. It boots without problems if yaird is used to generate the initrd. Not sure if this is a klibc problem or initramfs-tools. Drivers look to be loaded O

Bug#349857: linux-image-2.6-sparc64-2.6.15-1-sparc64: panics on boot on v210

2006-01-25 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 349857 klibc merge 349857 347902 thanks On Wednesday 25 January 2006 18:51, Dave Love wrote: > I get the following trying to boot on a v210: > run-init: statfsKernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! > /: error 22 I've seen the same error on my Sparc Ultra 10. The problem is

Bug#350482: [hppa] module xfs relocation of symbol freeze_bdev is out of range

2006-01-29 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 29 January 2006 00:51, Julien Louis wrote: > I notice that xfs filesystem is unusable during installation, i've > found in the log file those lines: > > Jan 28 20:55:24 modprobe: FATAL: Error inserting xfs > (/lib/modules/2.6.14-2-parisc/kernel/fs/xfs/xfs.ko): Invalid module > format > Ja

Re: Kernel 2.4 for etch or not

2006-01-29 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 29 January 2006 00:30, Holger Levsen [1] wrote: >     - it's not sensible to have powerpc and amd64 flavors, and probably >       others. So this kernel package will not be arch any. (Which is not >       really a problem, but unusual.) Probably hppa, ia64 and also alpha won't need 2.4 f

Re: Kernel 2.4 for etch or not

2006-01-30 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 30 January 2006 03:29, Alexander Schmehl wrote: > Wouldn't it then be possible then to drop D-I support for 2.4 and ask > user to install the old kernel, if needed after the installation? At > least if supporting 2.4 for D-I is getting to complicate... Switching from 2.4 to 2.6 (and vic

Re: Kernel 2.4 for etch or not

2006-02-05 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 05 February 2006 15:57, Holger Levsen wrote: > hhpa has dropped 2.4 support for sarge... s390 also doesnt seem > sensible. 2.6 support for S/390 has missing pieces (mainly hardware configuration stuff). Waldi has been working on this recently, but a full switch to 2.6 is not yet an opt

Re: Bug#351692: mips-tools doesn't build on powerpc and hppa

2006-02-06 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 06 February 2006 22:25, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > > architecture.mk convert the architecture name in case the name in > > Debian and the name in the kernel tree is different, which is the > > case for powerpc (ppc), and hppa (parisc). > > Manoj, maybe you can take a look at the build fail

Re: Kernel 2.4 for etch or not

2006-02-07 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 07 February 2006 12:21, Marco d'Itri wrote: > Do you understand that next year 2.4 kernels will probably not > installable on a large fraction of the then current hardware? This whole discussion is not about current hardware. It is specifically about older hardware and about some archi

Re: linux-2.6_2.6.15-6_i386.changes ACCEPTED

2006-02-10 Thread Frans Pop
Allow me to wonder a bit about the way the last two kernel uploads were handled. - 2.6.15-5 was pushed because it solved a remote security issue (CVE-2006-0454), however it was uploaded with urgency LOW - next day, 2.6.15-6 that has a new upstream release is uploaded Wouldn't it have made more

Re: linux-2.6_2.6.15-6_i386.changes ACCEPTED

2006-02-10 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 10 February 2006 21:33, Sven Luther wrote: > > Well, and let one vulnerable remote security update open for a day > > more, this is not acceptable. Even if only one user gets compromised > > because of this, then it is enough to warrant the upload. Please read what I said. I did not say

Bug#352654: installation-reports

2006-02-13 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 352654 grub tags 352654 + patch severity 352654 serious thanks On Monday 13 February 2006 21:12, Frans Pop wrote: > > ALERT! does not exist. Dropping to a shell! > > This is the real problem. It should have the name of the root device in > that message. > > What

Re: initramfs-tools vs yaird on a server

2006-02-14 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 14 February 2006 18:39, sdbteam wrote: > i've had serious issues when installing the > linux-image-2.6.15-1-686-smp (testing) on our production server. i > don't know if it's because of udev or initramfs-tools but my lvm2 > partitions over a raid5 array didn't work anymore. i also had ma

Re: initramfs-tools vs yaird on a server

2006-02-14 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 15 February 2006 00:19, you wrote: > But as I read bug#352654 it concerns defining the _root_ device (which > to my knowledge is the only device ever defined in the GRUB menu.lst > file, so choking on LVM _device_ names in GRUB shouldn't relate > to /boot). No it does not relate to /b

Bug#352753: udev: ide-generic no longer loaded on boot

2006-02-14 Thread Frans Pop
exec of program /etc/initd.d/hdparm failed IMO it would be good to suppress such messages as, in my experience, they will only lead to unnecessary installation and bug reports. maks suggested to re-add the "silence_exec_error" patch for Beta2 and maybe come back to this issue

Re: initramfs-tools vs yaird on a server

2006-02-14 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 14 February 2006 21:18, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > You may have been hit by http://bugs.debian.org/352654 > > I suspect not - GRUB can read RAID1 devices only, not RAID5 AFAIK. Hmm. Shouldn't it work if /root is on RAID but /boot is a separate normal partition? pgpklpWjmEfif.pgp Des

Re: Bug#352274: Udev error messages on boot

2006-02-14 Thread Frans Pop
(forgot to CC d-kernel; already sent to BR) On Tuesday 14 February 2006 11:56, maximilian attems wrote: > the faulty Xu patch was removed long ago, > still lots of common intel/via hardware needs ide-generic. > otherwise no ide driver is loaded for them. Not quite correct: the driver (in my case

Re: Bug#352753: udev: ide-generic no longer loaded on boot

2006-02-15 Thread Frans Pop
Marco, Attached is the info you requested, at least I hope it is. You asked for 'udevtest -a -p /sys/block/hdetc', but udevtest only gave me systax errors or 'could not open file' errors. udevinfo did give a result with those parameters, so I decided you probably mistyped. If you actually want u

Re: Bug#352274: Udev error messages on boot

2006-02-15 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 15 February 2006 08:18, Sven Luther wrote: > Ok, i guess you just volunteered for helping us investigate what really > is happening here, and in particular why the piix driver cannot do it > all by itself instead of the ide-generic driver ? Is this correct, that > you would be willingt

Re: initramfs-tools ide.agent problem

2006-02-15 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 15 February 2006 23:33, Kamil Pawlowski wrote: > I can't boot my system because /dev/hd* don't create, i must add > copy_exec /lib/udev/ide.agent /lib/udev/ > to /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/udev > this might be error in packge? This has already been solved in a new upload (today

Bug#353065: linux-image-2.6.15-1-k7: update of 2.6.15-1-k7 results in unstartable system

2006-02-15 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 15 February 2006 23:48, Chris Searle wrote: > I have no idea how to go about debugging this and of course - since it > can't find the disks - no logs to look in :( Please try the following at the shell prompt: # modprobe ide-generic # echo /dev/hda* Are your partitions listed now? If

Re: linux-image-2.6.14-2 fails to purge

2006-03-06 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 06 March 2006 21:52, Justin Pryzby wrote: > I recently updated to linux-image-2.6.15-1, and now I want to remove > linux-image-2.6.14-2, but the postinst hangs reading from a pipe > during the call to purge(). I'm presently in state "Config-files", > and I don't know how to debug it furt

Bug#353111: linux-image-2.6.15-1-sparc64-smp: 2.6.15 kernel can't find root disk /dev/sda1, won't boot

2006-03-08 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 08 March 2006 06:42, Blars Blarson wrote: > Since the system isn't bootable it's hard to check the contents of > that file. You could try the rescue mode of the installer to get a chroot into your root directory to generate a new initrd. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Draft of documenting the ide-generic problem

2006-03-08 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 07 March 2006 18:43, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > I have startet a wiki page to document the ide-generic problem with the > Linux kernel (and thus the ramdisk tools as well). The page is here: > http://wiki.debian.org/LinuxKernelIdeProblem I am not completely sure that ide-generic really i

Re: My understanding of the IDE mess, and why it does not make sense to apply the proposed patch

2006-03-09 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 09 March 2006 07:35, Jurij Smakov wrote: > Looking at > the code I cannot see how the native drivers can depend in any way on > the ide-generic being loaded before them. This has never been the claim. The issue is that the real driver needs to be loaded but that devices will not becom

Re: My understanding of the IDE mess, and why it does not make sense to apply the proposed patch

2006-03-09 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 09 March 2006 18:15, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > Jurij Smakov wrote: > While I have not thoroughly tested 2.6.15 in this respect, in 2.6.8 and > 2.6.12 some IDE drivers, on some hardware, absolutely does[0]. Maybe > this is fixed in 2.6.15/16. I've forwarded this message to [EMAIL PROT

Re: Bug#345067: My understanding of the IDE mess, and why it does not make sense to apply the proposed patch

2006-03-10 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 10 March 2006 15:29, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > If modular-ide is the sole source of trouble here, then what worked in > 2.6.14-4 and earlier? <=2.6.12 used initrd-tools and that must still contain the correct magic to deal with this. 2.6.14 was the first kernel tested with yaird and ini

Re: timeline for next kernel update round

2006-03-14 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 15 March 2006 00:15, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: > The update is built and tested, it'll appear soon. It contains three > ABI changing security fixes, so the ABI will be bumped. I can't speak > for d-i. ABI changes are for both 2.6 and 2.4 kernel, correct? Or is the ABI change only for

Bug#340508: missing modules on s390/s390x

2006-03-16 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 15 March 2006 16:38, you wrote: > waldi added s390 support to initramfs-tools as of version 0.54. > 0.55 is in incoming.debian.org and should be available in unstable > soon. klibc-1.2.4-1 has an important s390 fix. > > so testing those releases are highly welcome. > you can rebuild yo

linux-image-2.6.16-rc5 installation problems on S/390

2006-03-16 Thread Frans Pop
I don't really understand what's happening here. 2.6.15 images install perfectly and use initramfs-tools, but 2.6.16 seems to get totally confused and tries to use yaird instead. The system is running 2.4.27. ii initramfs-tools 0.55btools for generating an initramfs ii udev 0.

Re: linux-image-2.6.16-rc5 installation problems on S/390

2006-03-16 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 16 March 2006 18:41, Frans Pop wrote: > I don't really understand what's happening here. 2.6.15 images install > perfectly and use initramfs-tools, but 2.6.16 seems to get totally > confused and tries to use yaird instead. After creating the initramfs manually u

Bug#340508: missing modules on s390/s390x

2006-03-16 Thread Frans Pop
Thanks Bastian. On Thursday 16 March 2006 17:29, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 04:13:21PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > > Only problem was that the network interface did not come up. Trying > > to manually start it resulted in: > > You need a 2.6.16-rc5 kernel a

Re: linux-image-2.6.16-rc5 installation problems on S/390

2006-03-16 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 16 March 2006 19:26, Bastian Blank wrote: > Yes, this is the definition until now. If you don't want to wait for > the next snapshot, you have to force it with /etc/kernel-img.conf. Shouldn't it at least have seen that initramfs-tools was installed and used that as yaird was not even

Bug#354458: Kernel panic after upgrading initramfs-tools

2006-03-17 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 17 March 2006 23:34, Manuel Bilderbeek wrote: > Hey! The problem with the "no init found" is gone! So, the cause was > in the initrd after all! Altough, it booted a lot further, it still > didn't complete it: when it wants to mount the root fs, it gives an > error that it can't find /dev/

Bug#358510: linux-image: SCSI/SATA boot problem

2006-03-23 Thread Frans Pop
severity 358510 important thanks On Thursday 23 March 2006 00:57, Glenn English wrote: > When it comes time, during the boot process, to mount the root > partition, sda has become a SATA drive. The boot kernel says sda3 > doesn't exist, and drops to a shell (or when the SCSI has only one > partiti

Re: Modules packaging policy - call for discussion

2006-03-23 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 23 March 2006 21:30, Sven Luther wrote: > There are some minor technical hurdles to it, and a strong irrational > opposition to it though, so it is probably going to stay a problem. You don't learn, do you? pgppU8gwjUm0D.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Modules packaging policy - call for discussion

2006-03-24 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 24 March 2006 15:29, Max Vozeler wrote: > My question is: How can I > determine the subset of flavours that are used in -di packages > and that it makes sense to build module udebs for? All flavors d-i builds udebs from for all architectures can be found in the d-i SVN archive in packag

Re: Bug#359164: [powerpc64] d-i fails, base-installer/initramfs/no-generator

2006-03-26 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 27 March 2006 00:42, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > (X-Debbugs-CC to debian-kernel at Sven Luther's request, perhaps this > should have been filed against initramfs-tools directly) This is not an initramfs-tools problem, but the result of powerpc daily d-i builds, for which Sven himself is

Re: Bug#359164: [powerpc64] d-i fails, base-installer/initramfs/no-generator

2006-03-27 Thread Frans Pop
2006 03:52:30 +0200 (CEST) X-ME-UUID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from sven by pegasos with local (Exim 4.50) id 1FNgsa-Xp-6p for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mon, 27 Mar 2006 03:50:48 +0200 Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 03:50:43 +0200 To: Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: d-i daily

Re: Bug#359164: [powerpc64] d-i fails, base-installer/initramfs/no-generator

2006-03-27 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 27 March 2006 17:21, Sven Luther wrote: > with something like 18 hours of interval between them, which i believe If anybody can tell me where these 18 hours come from, I'll be happy to consider apologizing. I replied two times on the same subject as there was both a thread on d-boot a

Bug#357065: linux-image-2.6-r4k-ip22 immediately reboots on Indy 200MHz R4400

2006-03-27 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 27 March 2006 16:58, Thomas Jahns wrote: > Please comment. But with non-working PS/2 keyboard and non-working > /etc/fstab for both kernel version, the 2.6.16 image is pretty > worthless to me at this moment. You could try using the rescue mode [1] of the Etch Beta 2 release [2] of Debi

Bug#360336: linux-2.6: Allows processor to overheat on Toshiba Satellite A40

2006-04-01 Thread Frans Pop
Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.16-4 Severity: important Tags: upstream Up to the latest 2.6.15 kernel I've always had good temperature control for my laptop with the fan starting up and slowing down as needed. Now the fan will not start up anymore until the processor is already overheated. The

Re: Bug#361024: note on "2.4 is deprecated"

2006-04-13 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 13 April 2006 22:59, Steve Langasek wrote: > I think etch should support 2.4 in the sense of "upgrade support only"; > i.e., it should support 2.4 because we need to be able to install etch > on systems running sarge 2.4 kernels, not because we'll provide support > for 2.4 in etch. Wha

Bug#363437: initramfs-tools: [S/390] dasd hook script being run twice causes error

2006-04-18 Thread Frans Pop
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.59b I've reported this before, but now I've traced it... During kernel upgrade on S/390 I see this error: ln: creating symbolic link `/tmp/mkinitramfs_laxXYw//etc/modprobe.d/dasd' to `/tmp/initramfs_dasd': File exists The attached trace (which cost me quite

Bug#363997: linux-2.6: Some Toshiba laptops no longer reboot correctly

2006-04-20 Thread Frans Pop
Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.16-1 Tags: patch Please consider applying the patch from: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=7896&action=view that belongs to bug: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6395 This patch has already been signed off by the upstream ACPI maintainer

Bug#363997: linux-2.6: Some Toshiba laptops no longer reboot correctly

2006-04-20 Thread Frans Pop
severity 363997 important merge 363997 360336 severity 363997 critical thanks On Thursday 20 April 2006 23:24, Frans Pop wrote: > Please consider applying the patch from: >http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=7896&action=view > that belongs to bug: >http://bug

Bug#363997: linux-2.6: Some Toshiba laptops no longer reboot correctly

2006-04-21 Thread Frans Pop
severity 363997 important tags 363997 - patch thanks On Friday 21 April 2006 03:35, Frans Pop wrote: > > This patch has already been signed off by the upstream ACPI > > maintainer. Looks like upstream may prefer a different patch that reverses a quirk that was introduced to ma

Bug#364301: initramfs-tools: Please show what is being done on upgrades

2006-04-22 Thread Frans Pop
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.60 Something I find extremely annoying at the moment is that initramfs-tools is silent when it generates an initrd during upgrade of, for example, udev. What I get on e.g. my sparc is: Setting up udev (0.090-1) ... Installing new version of config file

Bug#363997: #363997: linux-2.6: Some Toshiba laptops no longer reboot correctly

2006-04-23 Thread Frans Pop
tag 363997 upstream merge 363997 360336 thanks Latest from upstream is that the patch I linked to in [1] will be included in 2.6.10, so I suggest just waiting for that. [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=363997;msg=5 pgpInu0p5G758.pgp Description: PGP signature

Bug#319657: linux-image-2.6.12-1-686: /vmlinuz and /initrd symlinks were botched after installing 2.6.12

2005-07-23 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 23 July 2005 20:47, Andrew Moise wrote: > After installing linux-image, the automatic run of lilo failed. I > found that that had been because my /vmlinuz symlink pointed to > '/boot/-2.6' and my /initrd.img to '/boot/-2.6'. That should probably be '/boot-2.6' in both cases. At leas

Bug#319753: linux-image-2.6.12-1-686: Long pause during boot while probing ide

2005-07-24 Thread Frans Pop
Package: linux-source-2.6.12 Version: 2.6.12-1 Yesterday I experienced a fairly long pause during boot of my Toshiba Satellite A40 laptop. The pause happens while IDE interfaces are being probed as indicated in the fragment from kern.log below. The pause was long enough (about 10-15 seconds) that

Bug#319755: linux-image-2.6.12-1-686: conflict during boot between genrtc and rtc

2005-07-24 Thread Frans Pop
Package: linux-source-2.6.12 Version: 2.6.12-1 Severity: minor linux-image-2.6.12-1-686 includes both the genrtc and rtc modules. During boot, the genrtc driver is loaded fairly early on. Later, hotplug tries to also load the rtc module which fails. I'm not sure which driver is to be preferred, b

Bug#319878: kernel-image-2.6-686: the entire range of 2.6 debian kernels do not install on m/cs with <= 48mb RAM

2005-07-26 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 26 July 2005 02:06, Steve Langasek wrote: > I believe Joey Hess is the person who has the best handle on what the > actual minimum requirements are for installing sarge. Joey, do you > have anything we could add to the sarge release notes for this, if it's > not already in there? The d

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