Xorg screensaver error in Debian SID

2025-02-11 Thread Stan Johnson
Hello, I'm running a current verion of Debian SID on a Powermac G4 MDD with 2 GiB memory and an ATI Radeon 9000 Pro graphics card with an ADC output and a DVI output; I'm using the DVI output with a VGA adapter. I'm seeing errors that I initially thought might be memory related,

Re: Sid June 23-2023 Fresh install has broken “start-stop-daemon”

2024-05-02 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello, On Thu, 2024-05-02 at 16:38 +0100, md.ben...@gmail.com wrote: > I did a fresh install using the suggested Sid June 23-2024 iso and am glad > to report it’s working great and I was able to transfer it to the G5 Quad > and have it activate the temporary non-Apple GPU on the graphica

Sid June 23-2023 Fresh install has broken “start-stop-daemon”

2024-05-02 Thread md . benson
Hi, I did a fresh install using the suggested Sid June 23-2024 iso and am glad to report it’s working great and I was able to transfer it to the G5 Quad and have it activate the temporary non-Apple GPU on the graphical desktop. I encountered a problem when trying to install packages, however

Re: Sid Install on PowerMac G5

2024-04-30 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Mark, On Tue, 2024-04-30 at 09:05 +0100, md.ben...@gmail.com wrote: > smp_core99_probe > smp_core99_kick_cpu > smp_core99_kick_cpu_done > smp_core99_bringup_done This is a known, but yet unresolved regression, see [1]. Try using an older installer image, the last known to work image is the on

Sid Install on PowerMac G5

2024-04-30 Thread md . benson
Hello, I am trying to revive a PowerMac G5 Quad CPU system but currently have no Apple GPU at this time. As such I am trying to install Debian Sid to a 1.8 DP G5 with a Radeon 9600 AGP card and swap the drive over, but I have hit an impassable barrier with the Sid installer ISO. I can

Re: Fwd: X-Windows on PPC in Debian SID

2024-01-31 Thread Mike
of issues, since Debian 8 was the last supported > > version of Debian for ppc. Perhaps the bug report he submitted will > > address the problem. > > > > -Stan > > > > Forwarded Message > > Subject: Re: X-Windows on PPC in Debian SID &

Re: Fwd: X-Windows on PPC in Debian SID

2024-01-30 Thread Stan Johnson
be saying that debian-devel isn't the right > place for these kinds of issues, since Debian 8 was the last supported > version of Debian for ppc. Perhaps the bug report he submitted will > address the problem. > > -Stan > > Forwarded Message > Subjec

Re: X-Windows on PPC in Debian SID

2024-01-22 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello Stan, > On Jan 22, 2024, at 4:25 PM, Stan Johnson wrote: > > Please see the last paragrraph of the message; it may provide a clue for > ppc (and probably ppc64). > > Mr. Simon McVittie seems to be saying that debian-devel isn't the right > place for these kinds of issues, since Debian 8 w

Fwd: X-Windows on PPC in Debian SID

2024-01-22 Thread Stan Johnson
e bug report he submitted will address the problem. -Stan Forwarded Message Subject: Re: X-Windows on PPC in Debian SID Resent-Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2024 10:49:25 + (UTC) Resent-From: debian-de...@lists.debian.org Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2024 10:49:01 + From: Simon McVittie To: d

Fwd: X-Windows on PPC in Debian SID

2024-01-21 Thread Stan Johnson
FYI, it appears to be a dependency issue, not directly caused by systemd. Forwarded Message Subject: Re: X-Windows on PPC in Debian SID Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2024 17:14:11 -0700 From: Stan Johnson To: debian-de...@lists.debian.org, Colin Watson Hi Colin, On 1/21/24 3:22 PM, Stan

Re: Debian SID PowerBook Pismo Installation

2023-05-30 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Stan! On Tue, 2023-05-30 at 17:30 -0600, Stan Johnson wrote: > 1) During installation, I deselected X desktop and Xfce and added > ssh-server. Please add a disk partitioner to the default base > installation. Either parted or mac-fdisk would work (I used apt-get to > install both). The package

Debian SID PowerBook Pismo Installation

2023-05-30 Thread Stan Johnson
I tested a basic (text-only) installation on a PowerBook G3 Pismo, using the following ISO: https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2023-05-28/debian-12.0.0-powerpc-NETINST-1.iso The installer created these default partitions (using the entire disk): # mac-fdisk -l /dev/sda #

Re: New Debian Sid installation - how to?

2023-05-18 Thread Martina Hřebcová
Hi Adrian P.S. very likely the cause of boot problems is on my side, not installer one. If I checked partitions with OSX and then with linux, it differs. And the difference is in my two grub partitions. Using disk tools from different OS causes some mismatch. I will reorganize disks, and

Re: New Debian Sid installation - how to?

2023-05-18 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Good Morning! > On May 18, 2023, at 7:54 AM, Martina Hřebcová > wrote: > >  >> On 5/17/23 18:49, Martina Hřebcová wrote: >> >> Unfortunatelly system not boots. I see grub screen, can edit, select >> whatever. If I select kernel, there is only blinking cursor for few seconds >> and then it s

Re: New Debian Sid installation - how to?

2023-05-17 Thread Martina Hřebcová
On 5/17/23 18:49, Martina Hřebcová wrote: Unfortunatelly system not boots. I see grub screen, can edit, select whatever. If I select kernel, there is only blinking cursor for few seconds and then it stops blinkink. Now I am in a hurry with family matters, but I will return to investigatio

Re: New Debian Sid installation - how to?

2023-05-17 Thread Martina Hřebcová
"> On 5/17/23 10:38, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Yes, we increased the size of the /boot/grub partition at some point since GRUB requires more space. So, if possible, I recommend using the default partition layout that the installer suggests. " Yes!  I had from previous version grub partit

Re: New Debian Sid installation - how to?

2023-05-17 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On Wed, 2023-05-17 at 11:07 +0200, Martina Hřebcová wrote: > On 5/17/23 10:38, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > > > > In evening I will check also ext2 /boot/grub partition, and also try > > > install all together to single / ext4 partition, if installer allows it. > > > Of course, Mac will no

Re: New Debian Sid installation - how to?

2023-05-17 Thread Martina Hřebcová
Hi Adrian! On 5/17/23 10:38, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: In evening I will check also ext2 /boot/grub partition, and also try install all together to single / ext4 partition, if installer allows it. Of course, Mac will not boot in this case, but at least I can try whole installation proce

Re: New Debian Sid installation - how to?

2023-05-17 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Martina! On Wed, 2023-05-17 at 10:32 +0200, Martina Hřebcová wrote: > Yes, I am used HFS ( not+) partition, with /boot/grub mountpoint. And > ext4 / partition. > > In evening I will check also ext2 /boot/grub partition, and also try > install all together to single / ext4 partition, if insta

Re: New Debian Sid installation - how to?

2023-05-17 Thread Martina Hřebcová
Hello Adrian, On 5/17/23 10:01, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:a Hřebcová wrote: -Installing GRUB bootloader stucked ( grub-ieee1275 ). No fail, but no response. The process itself hangs as you can see in the kernel log: What partition layout did you use? Did you keep the HFS boot partition as

Re: New Debian Sid installation - how to?

2023-05-17 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello Martina! On Wed, 2023-05-17 at 09:56 +0200, Martina Hřebcová wrote: > -Installing GRUB bootloader stucked ( grub-ieee1275 ). No fail, but no > response. The process itself hangs as you can see in the kernel log: May 16 20:29:35 kernel: [ 2538.468104] INFO: task kworker/2:1:68 blocked for

Re: New Debian Sid installation - how to?

2023-05-16 Thread Martina Hřebcová
On 5/16/23 08:45, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: The issue is this change [1], so we need to use the latest version of debian-cd to create the installation images. However, since the latest version of debian-cd currently doesn't work with Debian Ports, I need to fix that first. OK, it was e

Re: New Debian Sid installation - how to?

2023-05-15 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi! On Tue, 2023-05-16 at 08:32 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > The issue is this change [1], so we need to use the latest version of > debian-cd > to create the installation images. However, since the latest version of > debian-cd > currently doesn't work with Debian Ports, I need to

Re: New Debian Sid installation - how to?

2023-05-15 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello! On Mon, 2023-05-15 at 19:38 +0200, Martina Hřebcová wrote: > Tested on Powermac G5 Quad core. Sysylog is in attachment. > Please, may I post it somewhere, or is ir OK this way? >From the log: May 15 17:23:37 in-target: Reading package lists... May 15 17:23:37 in-target: May 15 17:23:37 i

Re: New Debian Sid installation - how to?

2023-05-15 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
> On May 15, 2023, at 8:16 PM, Martina Hřebcová > wrote: > > On Wed, 2023-05-10 at 08:17 +0200, Martina Hřebcová wrote: > > after several years I want to install Debian Sid again on my Powermac G5 > > Quad and AmigaOne X1000. > > Please try the curr

Re: New Debian Sid installation - how to?

2023-05-15 Thread Martina Hřebcová
"Hello! On Wed, 2023-05-10 at 08:17 +0200, Martina Hřebcová wrote: > after several years I want to install Debian Sid again on my Powermac G5 > Quad  and AmigaOne X1000. Please try the current images that I just created: > https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapsh

Re: New Debian Sid installation - how to?

2023-05-14 Thread Martina Hřebcová
On 5/15/23 00:05, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Hello! On Wed, 2023-05-10 at 08:17 +0200, Martina Hřebcová wrote: after several years I want to install Debian Sid again on my Powermac G5 Quad  and AmigaOne X1000. Please try the current images that I just created: Many thanks! I will try

Re: New Debian Sid installation - how to?

2023-05-14 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello! On Wed, 2023-05-10 at 08:17 +0200, Martina Hřebcová wrote: > after several years I want to install Debian Sid again on my Powermac G5 > Quad  and AmigaOne X1000. Please try the current images that I just created: > https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2023-0

New Debian Sid installation - how to?

2023-05-09 Thread Martina Hřebcová
Hi, after several years I want to install Debian Sid again on my Powermac G5 Quad  and AmigaOne X1000. Please, what is the right steps for installing on Powermac G5? 1. I tried debian-11.0.0-ppc64-NETINST-1.iso from /cdimage/ports/snapshots/2022-12-09 but there is no hfs tools and

Re: Re: sid ppc64 port systemd is broken on PowerMac G5 right now

2022-02-05 Thread kristofferfin
Thank you very much, it works well now. Regards, Kristoffer -- Wysłane za pomocą Tutanota, bezpiecznej i wolnej od reklam skrzynki pocztowej.

Re: sid ppc64 port systemd is broken on PowerMac G5 right now

2022-02-02 Thread Cameron MacPherson
i got the +b1 version of systemd this afternoon and its fixed On Wed, Feb 2, 2022 at 10:15 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz < glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > Hello! > > On 2/2/22 18:55, H wrote: > > Thank you Adrian! > > Try upgrading your machines, it should be fixed now. > > Adrian > > -- >

Re: sid ppc64 port systemd is broken on PowerMac G5 right now

2022-02-02 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello! On 2/2/22 18:55, H wrote: > Thank you Adrian! Try upgrading your machines, it should be fixed now. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `-GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956

Re: sid ppc64 port systemd is broken on PowerMac G5 right now

2022-02-02 Thread H
Thank you Adrian! On Wed, Feb 2, 2022 at 1:00 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz < glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > Hello! > > On 2/2/22 00:11, H wrote: > > FWIW, A little bit information that might be helpful: > > > > I started journald manually via /lib/systemd/systemd-journald, no error > mess

Re: sid ppc64 port systemd is broken on PowerMac G5 right now

2022-02-02 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello! On 2/2/22 00:11, H wrote: > FWIW, A little bit information that might be helpful: > > I started journald manually via /lib/systemd/systemd-journald, no error > message > to stdout and stderr, nor journalctl output. Actually journalctl still does > not > work (empty for all services). > >

Re: sid ppc64 port systemd is broken on PowerMac G5 right now

2022-02-02 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello! On 2/1/22 23:59, Cameron MacPherson wrote: > on my system i get > systemd[1]: Caught , core dump failed (child 210, code=killed, > status=6/ABRT) > > prior to rebooting there were messages about journald not starting. i will > see if > i can go back to an older version of systemd. That

Re: sid ppc64 port systemd is broken on PowerMac G5 right now

2022-02-01 Thread H
Thanks! Switching apt source to http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian-ports/20220119T020551Z/ saved me. On Tue, Feb 1, 2022 at 4:15 PM Cameron MacPherson < cameron.macpher...@gmail.com> wrote: > i got the ppc64 version 250.3-1 of libnss-systemd libpam-systemd > libsystemd0 systemd-timesync an

Re: sid ppc64 port systemd is broken on PowerMac G5 right now

2022-02-01 Thread Cameron MacPherson
i got the ppc64 version 250.3-1 of libnss-systemd libpam-systemd libsystemd0 systemd-timesync and systemd from snapshot.debian.org and installed them with dpkg -i and the system boots again after apt upgrade to 250.3-2 on reboot the machine halts before it restarts systemd[1]: Caught , dumped core

Re: sid ppc64 port systemd is broken on PowerMac G5 right now

2022-02-01 Thread H
Hi John, FWIW, A little bit information that might be helpful: I started journald manually via /lib/systemd/systemd-journald, no error message to stdout and stderr, nor journalctl output. Actually journalctl still does not work (empty for all services). But the journald seemed started logging to

Re: sid ppc64 port systemd is broken on PowerMac G5 right now

2022-02-01 Thread Cameron MacPherson
hi, on my system i get systemd[1]: Caught , core dump failed (child 210, code=killed, status=6/ABRT) prior to rebooting there were messages about journald not starting. i will see if i can go back to an older version of systemd. On Tue, Feb 1, 2022 at 2:33 PM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz < glaub..

Re: sid ppc64 port systemd is broken on PowerMac G5 right now

2022-02-01 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 2/1/22 23:11, H wrote: > Namely, systemd-journald and systemd-logind and some other less important > stuff. And, due to the fact that systemd-journald is unable to start, > journalctl -xn $service is empty for any services. It's a bit difficult to say what's wrong without any error messages. Th

Re: sid ppc64 port systemd is broken on PowerMac G5 right now

2022-02-01 Thread H
Namely, systemd-journald and systemd-logind and some other less important stuff. And, due to the fact that systemd-journald is unable to start, journalctl -xn $service is empty for any services. On Tue, Feb 1, 2022 at 2:09 PM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz < glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > Hell

Re: sid ppc64 port systemd is broken on PowerMac G5 right now

2022-02-01 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello! On 2/1/22 22:47, H wrote: > If you apt update && apt upgrade, or worse, try to install debian with a > NETINST > image, by default you will be left in a broken system, complaining about some > systemd service being unable to start. To make it worse, systemd-journald is > one > of the comp

sid ppc64 port systemd is broken on PowerMac G5 right now

2022-02-01 Thread H
If you apt update && apt upgrade, or worse, try to install debian with a NETINST image, by default you will be left in a broken system, complaining about some systemd service being unable to start. To make it worse, systemd-journald is one of the components that is broken so it is a struggle to get

Re: Powermac G5 Sid Grub

2022-01-25 Thread Dan Whitehouse
OK, answering my own question it appears this was just a case of the install media not fully working. > On 25 Jan 2022, at 17:43, Dan Whitehouse wrote: > > Hi, I’m having trouble installing Sid on my G5. > The issue is documented in this YouTube video: > https://www.youtub

Powermac G5 Sid Grub

2022-01-25 Thread Dan Whitehouse
Hi, I’m having trouble installing Sid on my G5. The issue is documented in this YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-Ugfqj1ank <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-Ugfqj1ank> And it appears to be related to hfsprogs. If anyone can offer advice or a more Debian centric workarou

Re: Debian SID kernel doesn't boot on PowerBook 3400c

2021-08-07 Thread Christophe Leroy
Le 07/08/2021 à 18:26, Stan Johnson a écrit : On 8/7/21 8:35 AM, Christophe Leroy wrote: Le 07/08/2021 à 15:09, Stan Johnson a écrit : On 8/6/21 10:08 PM, Finn Thain wrote: On Fri, 6 Aug 2021, Stan Johnson wrote: $ egrep '(CONFIG_PPC_KUAP|CONFIG_VMAP_STACK)' .config CONFIG_PPC_KUAP=y C

Re: Debian SID kernel doesn't boot on PowerBook 3400c

2021-08-07 Thread Christophe Leroy
Le 07/08/2021 à 15:09, Stan Johnson a écrit : On 8/6/21 10:08 PM, Finn Thain wrote: On Fri, 6 Aug 2021, Stan Johnson wrote: $ egrep '(CONFIG_PPC_KUAP|CONFIG_VMAP_STACK)' .config CONFIG_PPC_KUAP=y CONFIG_PPC_KUAP_DEBUG=y CONFIG_VMAP_STACK=y $ strings vmlinux | fgrep "Linux version" Linux ve

Re: Debian SID kernel doesn't boot on PowerBook 3400c

2021-08-06 Thread Finn Thain
On Fri, 6 Aug 2021, Stan Johnson wrote: > $ egrep '(CONFIG_PPC_KUAP|CONFIG_VMAP_STACK)' .config > CONFIG_PPC_KUAP=y > CONFIG_PPC_KUAP_DEBUG=y > CONFIG_VMAP_STACK=y > $ strings vmlinux | fgrep "Linux version" > Linux version 5.13.0-pmac-4-g63e3756d1bd ... > $ cp vmlinux ../vmlinux-5.13.0-pmac

Re: Debian SID kernel doesn't boot on PowerBook 3400c

2021-08-06 Thread Finn Thain
On Fri, 6 Aug 2021, Christophe Leroy wrote: > > I have cooked a tentative fix for that KUAP stuff. > Could you try the branch 'bugtest' at https://github.com/chleroy/linux.git > Thanks, Christophe. Stan, please test the following build. $ git remote add chleroy-linux https://github.com/chlero

Re: Debian SID kernel doesn't boot on PowerBook 3400c

2021-08-06 Thread Christophe Leroy
Le 06/08/2021 à 11:43, Finn Thain a écrit : On Fri, 6 Aug 2021, Christophe Leroy wrote: Can you check if they DO NOT happen at preceding commit c16728835~ $ git checkout c16728835~ Previous HEAD position was c16728835eec powerpc/32: Manage KUAP in C HEAD is now at 0b45359aa2df powerpc/8x

Re: Debian SID kernel doesn't boot on PowerBook 3400c

2021-08-06 Thread Finn Thain
On Fri, 6 Aug 2021, Christophe Leroy wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Can you check if they DO NOT happen at preceding commit c16728835~ > > > > > > > > > > > $ git checkout c16728835~ > > > Previous HEAD position was c16728835eec powerpc/32: Manage KUAP in C > > > HEAD is now at 0b45359aa2df powerpc

Re: Debian SID kernel doesn't boot on PowerBook 3400c

2021-08-05 Thread Christophe Leroy
+nicholas piggin for the C interrupt stuff Le 06/08/2021 à 03:06, Finn Thain a écrit : (Christophe, you've seen some of this before, however there are new results added at the end. I've Cc'd the mailing lists this time.) On Wed, 4 Aug 2021, Stan Johnson wrote: On 8/4/21 8:41 PM, Finn Thain wr

Re: Debian SID kernel doesn't boot on PowerBook 3400c

2021-08-03 Thread Christophe Leroy
Le 04/08/2021 à 02:34, Finn Thain a écrit : On Tue, 3 Aug 2021, Christophe Leroy wrote: Looks like the memory errors are linked to KUAP (Kernel Userspace Access Protection). Based on the places the problems happen, I don't think there are any invalid access, so there must be something wron

Re: Debian SID kernel doesn't boot on PowerBook 3400c

2021-08-03 Thread Finn Thain
On Tue, 3 Aug 2021, Christophe Leroy wrote: > > Looks like the memory errors are linked to KUAP (Kernel Userspace Access > Protection). Based on the places the problems happen, I don't think > there are any invalid access, so there must be something wrong in the > KUAP logic, probably linked

Re: Debian SID kernel doesn't boot on PowerBook 3400c

2021-08-03 Thread Finn Thain
On Tue, 3 Aug 2021, Stan Johnson wrote: > > I'm not sure of the issue you are referencing. If it's the Wallstreet > issue, I believe we were waiting to hear back from you regarding the > memory errors that crop up with CONFIG_VMAP_STACK=y and mem >464M. > Finn, if that is not correct, please l

Re: Debian SID kernel doesn't boot on PowerBook 3400c

2021-08-03 Thread Christophe Leroy
Le 02/08/2021 à 19:32, Stan Johnson a écrit : On 8/2/21 8:41 AM, Christophe Leroy wrote: Le 31/07/2021 à 20:24, Stan Johnson a écrit : Hi Christophe, On 7/31/21 9:58 AM, Christophe Leroy wrote: Stan Johnson a écrit : Hello, The current Debian SID kernel will not boot on a PowerBook

Re: Debian SID kernel doesn't boot on PowerBook 3400c

2021-08-02 Thread Christophe Leroy
Le 31/07/2021 à 20:24, Stan Johnson a écrit : Hi Christophe, On 7/31/21 9:58 AM, Christophe Leroy wrote: Stan Johnson a écrit : Hello, The current Debian SID kernel will not boot on a PowerBook 3400c running the latest version of Debian SID. If booted using the BootX extension, the

Re: Debian SID kernel doesn't boot on PowerBook 3400c

2021-07-31 Thread Stan Johnson
Hi Christophe, On 7/31/21 9:58 AM, Christophe Leroy wrote: > Stan Johnson a écrit : > >> Hello, >> >> The current Debian SID kernel will not boot on a PowerBook 3400c running >> the latest version of Debian SID. If booted using the BootX extension, &

Re: Debian SID kernel doesn't boot on PowerBook 3400c

2021-07-31 Thread Christophe Leroy
Stan Johnson a écrit : Hello, The current Debian SID kernel will not boot on a PowerBook 3400c running the latest version of Debian SID. If booted using the BootX extension, the kernel hangs immediately: "Welcome to Linux, kernel 5.10.0-8-powerpc" If booted from Mac OS, the Mac

Re: Bug#952769: isc-dhcp-client: Package "isc-dhcp-client" is not installable in the Debian SID PowerPC Port. Unmet dependencies: "libdns1107" and "libisc1104"

2020-11-29 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello! This was fixed with a rebuild several months ago, so this can be closed. In the future, please report uninstallability issues to debian-$a...@lists.debian.org, i.e. debian-po...@lists.debian.org. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org

Re: Building debian-installer CD images - was: Re: Debian Sid PPC64 / IBM pSeries 550 --- Bootloaders don't work after succesful install

2020-11-13 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 11/13/20 6:38 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > You don't need to build debian-installer manually and you don't need > to include the bootloader installers manually. Small addendum: You will most likely have to build debian-installer manually since the kernel ABI used in debian-installer's

Building debian-installer CD images - was: Re: Debian Sid PPC64 / IBM pSeries 550 --- Bootloaders don't work after succesful install

2020-11-13 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 11/13/20 5:55 PM, Anatoly Pugachev wrote: > It would nice to have instructions on how to build an iso image, > probably step by step, > since all my attempts to build something bootable on sparc64 and/or > ppc64 actually failed. It doesn't really involve much. You can mostly follow Helge's inst

Re: Debian Sid PPC64 / IBM pSeries 550 --- Bootloaders don't work after succesful install

2020-11-13 Thread Anatoly Pugachev
On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 3:39 PM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 11/13/20 1:31 PM, Anatoly Pugachev wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 3:21 PM Deinsti Suski > > wrote: > >> We would like to thank everyone for their help and suggestions > >> and I hope that our discoveries help in anyway > >>

Re: Debian Sid PPC64 / IBM pSeries 550 --- Bootloaders don't work after succesful install

2020-11-13 Thread Deinsti Suski
We were honestly surprised ourselves, but no matter what we did - the furthest we got was 'Welcome to GRUB!' and never any further - I'll have a closer look into the firmware aspect of it - maybe there is an issue that is preventing GRUB from working correctly tho like you already mentioned, Yaboot

Re: Debian Sid PPC64 / IBM pSeries 550 --- Bootloaders don't work after succesful install

2020-11-13 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 11/13/20 1:31 PM, Anatoly Pugachev wrote: > On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 3:21 PM Deinsti Suski > wrote: >> We would like to thank everyone for their help and suggestions >> and I hope that our discoveries help in anyway >> If you'd like to know more then don't hesitate to ask > > I wonder if it is

Re: Debian Sid PPC64 / IBM pSeries 550 --- Bootloaders don't work after succesful install

2020-11-13 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 11/13/20 1:20 PM, Deinsti Suski wrote: > So the important factors we came to conclude was that; > the pSeries (550 but maybe other models too) cannot boot from GRUB, > potentially a firmware issue but not confirmed as the system log reports no > errors/warnings > Yaboot has to be installed by th

Re: Debian Sid PPC64 / IBM pSeries 550 --- Bootloaders don't work after succesful install

2020-11-13 Thread Anatoly Pugachev
On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 3:21 PM Deinsti Suski wrote: > We would like to thank everyone for their help and suggestions and I hope > that our discoveries help in anyway > If you'd like to know more then don't hesitate to ask I wonder if it is still possible to give an option to install yaboot (bes

Re: Debian Sid PPC64 / IBM pSeries 550 --- Bootloaders don't work after succesful install

2020-11-13 Thread Deinsti Suski
Quite a late email cause I forgot to give a status update on the server After intensive testing, we managed to get SID to install on the pSeries 550 - What we had to do was obtain the last Debian SID ppc64 netinst which still included Yaboot as a bootloader "*during install*" - thi

Re: Debian Sid PPC64 / IBM pSeries 550 --- Bootloaders don't work after succesful install

2020-11-04 Thread Lennart Sorensen
ots with no issues at all and it's only after > the reboot when try to boot the installation from the HDD that both > bootloaders just stall/fail > 4; We are using a 1GB USB Memory stick as the installation media > 5; we are using the Debian 10 SID NETINST for PPC64 dated 2020-05-3

Re: Debian Sid PPC64 / IBM pSeries 550 --- Bootloaders don't work after succesful install

2020-11-04 Thread Deinsti Suski
Hello Adrian Sure thing, when I get back home I will make a new installation media with Wheezy on it any specific installation instructions? or should we just install it normally Dein On Tue, 3 Nov 2020 at 18:59, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz < glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > On 11/1/20 10:

Re: Debian Sid PPC64 / IBM pSeries 550 --- Bootloaders don't work after succesful install

2020-11-04 Thread Deinsti Suski
ation from the HDD that both bootloaders just stall/fail 4; We are using a 1GB USB Memory stick as the installation media 5; we are using the Debian 10 SID NETINST for PPC64 dated 2020-05-30, the reason we're not using the latest snapshot is because the latest one (2020-10-13) fails with 'm

Re: Debian Sid PPC64 / IBM pSeries 550 --- Bootloaders don't work after succesful install

2020-11-03 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 11/1/20 10:24 PM, Deinsti Suski wrote: > The hardware is an IBM pSeries 550 Server > Processors: 4x IBM POWER6 cards with 2-Cores at 4GHz each (Total: 8 Cores) > RAM: 92GB > HDD: Single 300GB drive (No RAID) > > > Do you have any suggestions on how to get this system to boot? Can you first tr

Re: Debian Sid PPC64 / IBM pSeries 550 --- Bootloaders don't work after succesful install

2020-11-03 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sun, Nov 01, 2020 at 09:24:08PM +, Deinsti Suski wrote: > Recently me and a friend of mine have been trying to install Debian Sid on > an IBM pSeries 550 server to no avail; we have attempted a variety of > methods such as installing GRUB with everything on an / ext4 partition, &g

Debian Sid PPC64 / IBM pSeries 550 --- Bootloaders don't work after succesful install

2020-11-01 Thread Deinsti Suski
Recently me and a friend of mine have been trying to install Debian Sid on an IBM pSeries 550 server to no avail; we have attempted a variety of methods such as installing GRUB with everything on an / ext4 partition, GRUB with a separate ext2 /boot and ext4 /, Yaboot with everything on an ext4

Re: how to building a custom kernel in Debian sid

2020-06-18 Thread Jeroen Diederen
Hi, I did some extensive hardware testing and I found out that my DIMM RAM module is not ok. You were right Adrian, thanks! John Paul Adrian Glaubitz schreef op 2020-06-17 08:59: Hello! On 6/17/20 8:15 AM, Jeroen Diederen wrote: I tried several times to build a custom kernel in Debian sid

Re: how to building a custom kernel in Debian sid

2020-06-17 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 6/17/20 8:59 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 6/17/20 8:15 AM, Jeroen Diederen wrote: >> I tried several times to build a custom kernel in Debian sid. Each time I >> get segmentation >> faults or other errors and automatic building in pbuilder also does not

Re: how to building a custom kernel in Debian sid

2020-06-17 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello! On 6/17/20 8:15 AM, Jeroen Diederen wrote: > I tried several times to build a custom kernel in Debian sid. Each time I get > segmentation > faults or other errors and automatic building in pbuilder also does not work. If you are seeing segmentation faults during a normal kerne

how to building a custom kernel in Debian sid

2020-06-16 Thread Jeroen Diederen
Hi all, I tried several times to build a custom kernel in Debian sid. Each time I get segmentation faults or other errors and automatic building in pbuilder also does not work. Can someone please give me a link to documentation that will lead to success? All I want is a ppc64 kernel with 4K

Re: Make Debian Sid cdimage download more obvious in official powerpc port page?

2020-05-16 Thread jjhdiederen
Hi all, I have to get myself acquainted to git as this is the first time I am using this tool. I did some playing around and I made my first commit into my own git repo at https://salsa.debian.org/mintppc/website-powerpc. The file can be seen there. Please tell me if what I did is right. Re

Re: Make Debian Sid cdimage download more obvious in official powerpc port page?

2020-05-16 Thread jjhdiederen
Oviously I have hyperlinks, but you don’t see them here. Rick Thomas schreef op 2020-05-16 01:11: Thanks for this! A useful history. But I think some links for the references would be very helpful. Rick On Fri, May 15, 2020, at 12:18 PM, jjhdiederen wrote: I made a little progress. I edited

Re: Make Debian Sid cdimage download more obvious in official powerpc port page?

2020-05-15 Thread Rick Thomas
Thanks for this! A useful history. But I think some links for the references would be very helpful. Rick On Fri, May 15, 2020, at 12:18 PM, jjhdiederen wrote: > I made a little progress. I edited the index.wml file in > webwml/english/ports/powerpc and made the corresponding html file. It > l

Re: Make Debian Sid cdimage download more obvious in official powerpc port page?

2020-05-15 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 5/15/20 9:18 PM, jjhdiederen wrote: > Where can I transfer the edited index.wml file for you guys to read and > comment? On Salsa, in your home project. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@ph

Re: Make Debian Sid cdimage download more obvious in official powerpc port page?

2020-05-15 Thread jjhdiederen
I made a little progress. I edited the index.wml file in webwml/english/ports/powerpc and made the corresponding html file. It looks good, it reads like this: ... Debian on 32-bit PowerPC (powerpc) It first became an official "release architecture" with Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 ("potato") and had

Re: Make Debian Sid cdimage download more obvious in official powerpc port page?

2020-05-15 Thread H
Thanks for the help Jeroen! I'll look into what I can help, too. On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 9:07 AM jjhdiederen wrote: > I found the main website of Debian in the meantime. It can be found > here: > https://salsa.debian.org/webmaster-team/webwml > > I cloned the whole thing and I am now in the proc

Re: Make Debian Sid cdimage download more obvious in official powerpc port page?

2020-05-15 Thread jjhdiederen
I found the main website of Debian in the meantime. It can be found here: https://salsa.debian.org/webmaster-team/webwml I cloned the whole thing and I am now in the process of building the corresponding HTML pages from the .wml files using wml. I will add more info when needed. Jeroen jjhd

Re: Make Debian Sid cdimage download more obvious in official powerpc port page?

2020-05-15 Thread jjhdiederen
Hi all, I had a quick look at the git clone of the Debian ports website. What Hao however is referring to is https://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/ (1) which is outdated, not only the debian ports website https://www.ports.debian.org/ (2). Can I make changes somewhere to (1) ? Where can I fin

Re: Make Debian Sid cdimage download more obvious in official powerpc port page?

2020-05-15 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Jeroen! On 5/15/20 11:19 AM, Jeroen Diederen wrote: > I am willing to have a look at the Debian-ports website and make appropriate > changes. Good, thanks a lot. Please put me in the when you create the pull request so I can make comments. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :'

Re: Make Debian Sid cdimage download more obvious in official powerpc port page?

2020-05-15 Thread Jeroen Diederen
Hi all, I am willing to have a look at the Debian-ports website and make appropriate changes. Jeroen On May 15, 2020, at 8:29 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hello Hao! > > On 5/15/20 5:59 AM, H wrote: >> The biggest pain in the whole process is finding this link, as the official >> po

Re: Make Debian Sid cdimage download more obvious in official powerpc port page?

2020-05-14 Thread David VANTYGHEM
Le 15/05/2020 à 08:29, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz a écrit : > Hello Hao! > > On 5/15/20 5:59 AM, H wrote: >> The biggest pain in the whole process is finding this link, as the official >> powerpc port page (https://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/) is seriously >> outdated. The ppc64 wiki page (https

Re: Make Debian Sid cdimage download more obvious in official powerpc port page?

2020-05-14 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello Hao! On 5/15/20 5:59 AM, H wrote: > The biggest pain in the whole process is finding this link, as the official > powerpc port page (https://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/) is seriously > outdated. The ppc64 wiki page (https://wiki.debian.org/PPC64) hints that > the port is still active, but

Make Debian Sid cdimage download more obvious in official powerpc port page?

2020-05-14 Thread H
I spend a while to get here: https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/, the older yaboot image works well on my system despite some tiny boot partition issues. Will try the new grub image in a few days. The biggest pain in the whole process is finding this link, as the official powerpc port page (

Re: iMac G3 support in Sid, Impossible?

2020-04-21 Thread Michael Cree
On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 11:07:43PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 4/21/20 10:59 PM, Michael Cree wrote: > > My personal observations of the public discussions of the Debian > > Release and DSA teams is that serious concerns were raised about > > both the appearance of a lack of upstre

Re: iMac G3 support in Sid, Impossible?

2020-04-21 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 02:16:21PM +0200, Karl wrote: > > Am 16.04.2020 um 20:12 schrieb Lennart Sorensen > > : > > > > … that is no longer a release architecture (because > > apparently there wasn't enough people to maintain it at a high enough > > level) … > > -- > > Len Sorensen > > > > Sor

Re: iMac G3 support in Sid, Impossible?

2020-04-21 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 4/21/20 10:59 PM, Michael Cree wrote: > My personal observations of the public discussions of the Debian > Release and DSA teams is that serious concerns were raised about > both the appearance of a lack of upstream toolchain support and the > continued absence of Debian Porters for the powerpc

Re: iMac G3 support in Sid, Impossible?

2020-04-21 Thread Michael Cree
On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 02:16:21PM +0200, Karl wrote: > > Am 16.04.2020 um 20:12 schrieb Lennart Sorensen > > : > > > > … that is no longer a release architecture (because > > apparently there wasn't enough people to maintain it at a high enough > > level) … > > -- > > Len Sorensen > > > > Sor

Re: iMac G3 support in Sid, Impossible?

2020-04-21 Thread Karl
> Am 16.04.2020 um 20:12 schrieb Lennart Sorensen > : > > … that is no longer a release architecture (because > apparently there wasn't enough people to maintain it at a high enough > level) … > -- > Len Sorensen > Sorry, this isn’t true ...

Re: iMac G3 support in Sid, Impossible?

2020-04-18 Thread Ed Robbins
On Sat, 18 Apr 2020 at 23:45, aggaz wrote: > Il 18/04/20 23:22, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz ha scritto: > > > > Rather, he has most likely issues getting X running on his iMac G3 and > > I assume it's a similar issue as seen on the eMac [1]. > > I had the chance to play both with an eMac G4 and a iM

Re: iMac G3 support in Sid, Impossible?

2020-04-18 Thread aggaz
Il 18/04/20 23:22, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz ha scritto: On 4/18/20 10:58 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Sat, Apr 18, 2020 at 4:56 PM Alex McKeever wrote: The problem I have now is X fails to configure and I’m unable to find an up to date configuration file for this machine. After unpacki

Re: iMac G3 support in Sid, Impossible?

2020-04-18 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 4/18/20 10:58 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Sat, Apr 18, 2020 at 4:56 PM Alex McKeever > wrote: >> >> The problem I have now is X fails to configure and I’m unable to find an up >> to date configuration file for this machine. > > After unpacking X, update their confg.guess and config.sub. Se

Re: iMac G3 support in Sid, Impossible?

2020-04-18 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sat, Apr 18, 2020 at 4:56 PM Alex McKeever wrote: > > The problem I have now is X fails to configure and I’m unable to find an up > to date configuration file for this machine. After unpacking X, update their confg.guess and config.sub. See https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_nod

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