Re: PowerMac G5 fans run out of control with kernel 4.17.0-3-powerpc64 but not with 4.16.0-1-powerpc64

2018-08-27 Thread Rick Thomas
> On Aug 27, 2018, at 9:44 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: > > >> On Aug 27, 2018, at 6:54 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz >> wrote: >> >> On 8/25/18 10:54 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: 2) Firefox segfaults when I start it, either from command line or from the system menu. Is this a

Re: PowerMac G5 fans run out of control with kernel 4.17.0-3-powerpc64 but not with 4.16.0-1-powerpc64

2018-08-27 Thread Rick Thomas
> On Aug 27, 2018, at 6:54 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > wrote: > > On 8/25/18 10:54 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >>> 2) Firefox segfaults when I start it, either from command line or from the >>> system menu. Is this a known bug? Are there any other graphical (i.e., >>> non-tex

Re: Firefox segfaults when I start it

2018-08-27 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 08/27/2018 11:09 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 8/28/18 5:08 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Guess not. Explanation here: https://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2017/12/msg00060.html Oh, FWIW, you need to install the version from experimental. # apt install firefox -t=experi

Re: Firefox segfaults when I start it

2018-08-27 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 8/28/18 5:08 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> Guess not. > > Explanation here: https://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2017/12/msg00060.html Oh, FWIW, you need to install the version from experimental. # apt install firefox -t=experimental Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz :

Re: Firefox segfaults when I start it

2018-08-27 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 8/28/18 4:35 AM, Dennis Clarke wrote: > root@nix:~# apt-get install firefox > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have > requested an impossible situation or if you are using t

Re: Firefox segfaults when I start it

2018-08-27 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 08/27/2018 09:54 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 8/25/18 10:54 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: 2) Firefox segfaults when I start it, either from command line or from the system menu. Is this a known bug? Are there any other graphical (i.e., non-text-mode) browsers I can use

Re: PowerMac G5 fans run out of control with kernel 4.17.0-3-powerpc64 but not with 4.16.0-1-powerpc64

2018-08-27 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 8/25/18 10:54 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> 2) Firefox segfaults when I start it, either from command line or from the >> system menu. Is this a known bug? Are there any other graphical (i.e., >> non-text-mode) browsers I can use instead? I can use elinks for most >> things, but

Re: PowerMac G5 fans run out of control with kernel4.17.0-3-powerpc64but not with 4.16.0-1-powerpc64

2018-08-27 Thread Rick Thomas
I can try just about anything on my G5. It exists strictly for testing, right now. If you can point me to a .deb with the patch that I can install, I’ll be happy to test it. Rick > On Aug 27, 2018, at 6:41 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > wrote: > > On 8/28/18 3:36 AM, John Paul Adrian Gla

Re: PowerMac G5 fans run out of control with kernel4.17.0-3-powerpc64but not with 4.16.0-1-powerpc64

2018-08-27 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 8/28/18 3:36 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > You can try to figure out what the actual change was. So, for example, if you > find out what in the windfarm module configuration has changed, I can open a > merge request for the linux kernel package on salsa.debian.org which is > actually >

Re: PowerMac G5 fans run out of control with kernel4.17.0-3-powerpc64but not with 4.16.0-1-powerpc64

2018-08-27 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 8/28/18 3:28 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: > Thanks for the explanation. Can I assume that you will be following up on > this? If not, I’ll understand — bandwidth is in short supply for all of us. > Should I file a bug report — if so, to what package? Sadly, I don’t have the > expertise to follo

Re: PowerMac G5 fans run out of control with kernel4.17.0-3-powerpc64but not with 4.16.0-1-powerpc64

2018-08-27 Thread Rick Thomas
> On Aug 27, 2018, at 1:34 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > wrote: > >> >> If it is a bug, it’s a minor one, and it’s easily worked around by the >> addition to /etc/modules. But I’m curious to know what changed? If it is a >> name change, as Adrian suggests, I’m curious to know what chang

Re: Processing of yaboot-installer_1.1.40_source.changes

2018-08-27 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 8/27/18 8:49 PM, Holger Wansing wrote: > I was aware of that package being for powerpc, which is not a release-arch. > The upload is just for completeness - as for many other d-i packages, to > update > the alioth URLs in debian/control to Salsa: Odd, to my surprise it did actually work. Acco

Removing the LDC compiler from ppc64el / IEEE quad ABI support?

2018-08-27 Thread Matthias Klumpp
[ Please keep me in CC, I am not subscribed to this list ] Hi! I was investigating issue #907239 (LDC ftbfs on ppc64el), filing an upstream issue for it[1]. Upstream now suggests to drop support for the powerpc/ppc64el architecture entirely, due to the maintenance cost and the fact the issue won't

Re: Processing of yaboot-installer_1.1.40_source.changes

2018-08-27 Thread Holger Wansing
Hi, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 8/27/18 7:55 PM, Debian FTP Masters wrote: > > yaboot-installer_1.1.40_source.changes uploaded successfully to localhost > > along with the files: > > yaboot-installer_1.1.40.dsc > > yaboot-installer_1.1.40.tar.xz > > yaboot-installer_1.1.40_powerpc

Re: Processing of yaboot-installer_1.1.40_source.changes

2018-08-27 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 8/27/18 7:55 PM, Debian FTP Masters wrote: > yaboot-installer_1.1.40_source.changes uploaded successfully to localhost > along with the files: > yaboot-installer_1.1.40.dsc > yaboot-installer_1.1.40.tar.xz > yaboot-installer_1.1.40_powerpc.buildinfo This is not going to work. yaboot-insta

Re: PowerMac G5 fans run out of control with kernel 4.17.0-3-powerpc64 but not with 4.16.0-1-powerpc64

2018-08-27 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 08/27/2018 05:18 AM, Bas Vermeulen wrote: Hi Dennis, Your modules aren't stripped, which is what causes the huge initrd. Try: make INSTALL_MOD_STRIP=1 modules_install instead of make modules_install to fix this. A switch to just the required "dep" modules resulted in a small enough initrd

Re: Problem with gem network card

2018-08-27 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
On 27/08/18 10:39, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > Christian, > > On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 9:32 AM Mathieu Malaterre wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 4:45 PM, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo >> wrote: >>> There is certainly a way to automate this, but my question on whether >>> that seque

Re: Problem with gem network card

2018-08-27 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Christian, On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 9:32 AM Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > > Hi, > > On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 4:45 PM, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo > wrote: > > There is certainly a way to automate this, but my question on whether > > that sequence would fix the problem was intended to more easily fi

Re: PowerMac G5 fans run out of control with kernel4.17.0-3-powerpc64 but not with 4.16.0-1-powerpc64

2018-08-27 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Sun, Aug 26, 2018 at 2:15 PM Linux User #330250 wrote: > > Am 26.08.18 um 14:07 schrieb Frank Scheiner: > > On 08/26/2018 01:35 PM, Linux User #330250 wrote: > >> Am 26.08.18 um 12:48 schrieb John Paul Adrian Glaubitz: > >>> One of the most pressing problems on Debian powerpc/ppc64 is > >>> the

Re: PowerMac G5 fans run out of control with kernel 4.17.0-3-powerpc64 but not with 4.16.0-1-powerpc64

2018-08-27 Thread Bas Vermeulen
Hi Dennis, Your modules aren't stripped, which is what causes the huge initrd. Try: make INSTALL_MOD_STRIP=1 modules_install instead of make modules_install to fix this. Bas Vermeulen

Re: PowerMac G5 fans run out of control with kernel4.17.0-3-powerpc64but not with 4.16.0-1-powerpc64

2018-08-27 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
> On Aug 27, 2018, at 10:11 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: > > >> On Aug 26, 2018, at 1:25 AM, Mark G.B. wrote: >> >> Hi Rick and everyone, >> >> It’s a bug (IMHO). Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong, though. >> >> Attached here are two images of the Debian-powerpc64 specific kernel-config >>

Re: PowerMac G5 fans run out of control with kernel4.17.0-3-powerpc64but not with 4.16.0-1-powerpc64

2018-08-27 Thread Rick Thomas
On Aug 26, 2018, at 1:25 AM, Mark G.B. wrote: > Hi Rick and everyone, > > It’s a bug (IMHO). Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong, though. > > Attached here are two images of the Debian-powerpc64 specific kernel-config > extracted from the .deb package of the Linux-image package off of >