Re: after Debian update most apps crash - libffi issue?

2021-09-26 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 9/26/21 22:38, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > No I cannot, 3.4.2 (cleaned, reconfigured, installed) seems to work fine out > of the box. > > So either the release is not well tagged, or there is an issue with the > Debian package. You could try rebuilding the libffi Debian package locally and see

Re: after Debian update most apps crash - libffi issue?

2021-09-26 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi Adrian, On 2021-09-26 18:34:47 +0100 John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 9/26/21 19:31, Riccardo Mottola wrote: Would you like me to build the latest "release" of libffi ? Yes, please test the 3.4.2 release by checking out the "v3.4.2" tag: $ git checkout v3.4.2 If you can reproduce

Re: after Debian update most apps crash - libffi issue?

2021-09-26 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 9/26/21 19:31, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > Would you like me to build the latest "release" of libffi ? Yes, please test the 3.4.2 release by checking out the "v3.4.2" tag: $ git checkout v3.4.2 If you can reproduce the issue then, please start bisecting with: $ git bisect start $ git bisect g

Re: after Debian update most apps crash - libffi issue?

2021-09-26 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi Adrian, On 2021-09-26 15:43:02 +0200 John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 9/26/21 15:39, Riccardo Mottola wrote: That's a bit a similar issue with building libffi locally. In /usr/local I am unsure it would be picked up. I can of course still do it and perhaps have GNUstep pick it up a

Re: after Debian update most apps crash - libffi issue?

2021-09-26 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 9/26/21 15:39, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > That's a bit a similar issue with building libffi locally. In /usr/local > I am unsure it would be picked up. I can of course still do it and perhaps > have GNUstep pick it up and do some tests there. > > In the meanwhile, I'm setting up to configure and

Re: after Debian update most apps crash - libffi issue?

2021-09-26 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hello Adrian, On 2021-09-26 13:54:33 +0100 John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Hello! On 9/26/21 14:36, Riccardo Mottola wrote: I upgraded my iMac G5 to latest debian, including kernel 5.14 ! The good thing is that the new kernel boots and X11 comes up. The bad news is lots of applications

Re: ATA problems on G4 and G5 - was: Re: Updated Debian Ports installation images 2021-09-21

2021-09-26 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi! On 9/26/21 15:17, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > On my iMac G5 with serial ata (buit still the original apple spinning rust > HDD inside) all seems fine: As Anatoly already found out, it's an issue limited to SSDs, see: > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=195895 Adrian -- .''`. Jo

Re: ATA problems on G4 and G5 - was: Re: Updated Debian Ports installation images 2021-09-21

2021-09-26 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hello, On 2021-09-23 10:13:52 +0100 John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Hello Kristoffer! On 9/23/21 11:10, kristoffer...@tuta.io wrote: After upgrading to 5.14.6, both my G5 and G4 machines won't boot with this kernel. They stop at this: ata1.00 failed to set xfermode (err_mask = 0x

Re: after Debian update most apps crash - libffi issue?

2021-09-26 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 9/26/21 14:56, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 9/26/21 14:54, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> Did you verify that downgrading the libffi package fixes the problem? >> >> If yes, you may file an upstream bug here [1]. The powerpc-related changes I >> can >> see at first glance are thes

Re: after Debian update most apps crash - libffi issue?

2021-09-26 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 9/26/21 14:54, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Did you verify that downgrading the libffi package fixes the problem? > > If yes, you may file an upstream bug here [1]. The powerpc-related changes I > can > see at first glance are these [2]. My guess would be this change: > https://github.

Re: after Debian update most apps crash - libffi issue?

2021-09-26 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello! On 9/26/21 14:36, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > I upgraded my iMac G5 to latest debian, including kernel 5.14 ! > The good thing is that the new kernel boots and X11 comes up. > > The bad news is lots of applications crash and they all have one thing in > common, libffi. > > > So e.g. a bui

after Debian update most apps crash - libffi issue?

2021-09-26 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, I upgraded my iMac G5 to latest debian, including kernel 5.14 ! The good thing is that the new kernel boots and X11 comes up. The bad news is lots of applications crash and they all have one thing in common, libffi. So e.g. a build of ArcticFox fails: multix@PPC970FX:~/code/Arctic-Fox$ .