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

2021-09-27 Thread Cameron MacPherson
i too am having problems with libffi8 on a powermac g5 # dmesg ... [ 16.257543] fail2ban-server[384]: illegal instruction (4) at 3fffb4283970 nip 3fffb4283970 lr 3fffb4282f90 code 1 in libffi.so.8.1.0[3fffb427b000+c000] ... # ls -l libffi* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 68696 Feb 20 2021 libffi.so.7.1.

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

2021-09-28 Thread Cameron MacPherson
Glaubitz < glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > Hello! > > On 9/28/21 06:18, Cameron MacPherson wrote: > > i too am having problems with libffi8 on a powermac g5 > > > > # dmesg > > ... > > [ 16.257543] fail2ban-server[384]: illegal instruction (4) a

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

2021-09-28 Thread Cameron MacPherson
d in the libff8 package. i dont know the standard way of verifying which library is being used. On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 1:40 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz < glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > Hello! > > On 9/28/21 10:33, Cameron MacPherson wrote: > > after ./autogen.sh &&am

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

2021-09-28 Thread Cameron MacPherson
t; > On 9/28/21 10:59, Cameron MacPherson wrote: > > i ran apt install --reinstall libffi8, restarted the system and the > > following messages reappeared > > > > [ 16.874069] fail2ban-server[384]: illegal instruction (4) at > > 3fff7ef95970 nip 3fff7ef95970

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

2021-09-28 Thread Cameron MacPherson
i recompiled everything with gcc-10 and there is no change vs gcc version 11 On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 2:24 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz < glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > On 9/28/21 11:22, Cameron MacPherson wrote: > > after running the commands you listed i repeated my proce

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

2021-09-28 Thread Cameron MacPherson
after building and installing it locally using your commands (i had to add --no-sign to dpkg-buildpackage) it works. no illegal instructions On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 3:08 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz < glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > Hi Cameron! > > On 9/28/21 11:38, Cam

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

2021-09-28 Thread Cameron MacPherson
/21 12:58, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:> On 9/28/21 12:55, > Cameron MacPherson wrote: > >> after building and installing it locally using your commands (i had to > add > >> --no-sign to dpkg-buildpackage) it works. no illegal instructions > > > > Well, that&#x

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

2021-09-28 Thread Cameron MacPherson
i can confirm that the ppc64 snapshot packages work without illegal instructions On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 12:54 PM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz < glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > Hi! > > On 9/28/21 21:34, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > OK. I'm regenerating the chroots on the build servers

Re: libffi illegal instruction - again

2021-10-25 Thread Cameron MacPherson
would it be helpful if all of us affected contributed to the bug report? the squeaky wheel gets the grease method sometimes works On Mon, Oct 25, 2021, 11:10 AM Riccardo Mottola wrote: > Hi Adrian > , > > John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > > > a) Upstream doesn't care and has not even looked a

Re: libffi illegal instruction - again

2021-11-02 Thread Cameron MacPherson
i got the 3.4.2-3+ports package after apt upgrade -t experimental and there are no illegal instructions On Fri, Oct 29, 2021 at 5:43 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz < glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > On 10/25/21 12:11, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > b) Debian's libffi maintainer hasn't u

Re: libffi illegal instruction - again

2021-11-03 Thread Cameron MacPherson
erimental” packages > (I keep getting an error when I try to use that option), building libffi in > a couple of minutes on the local machine and installing that of course > works easily. — K > > > > On Nov 2, 2021, at 2:01 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz < > glaub...@physik.fu

Re: Bug#885245: linux: FTBFS on powerpcspe: sstep.c: ptesync unrecognized

2022-01-21 Thread Cameron MacPherson
to get the latest kernel to compile on a powermac g5 takes removing the power8 instructions from sstep.c it will compile with -mpower8 but then wont boot if you dont get rid of the instructions On Thu, Jan 20, 2022, 1:11 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz < glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > Hi! >

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 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

2022-02-02 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: Testers on PowerMac needed - overwriting the boot-device in NVRAM

2022-03-25 Thread Cameron MacPherson
hi, nvram --print-config='boot-device /pci@f400/ata-6@d/@0:2,\\:txbi' nvram --update-config boot-device="" nvram --print-config=boot-device reboot result is another login prompt On Fri, Mar 25, 2022, 12:44 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz < glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > Hello! > > I wo

Re: Testers on PowerMac needed - overwriting the boot-device in NVRAM

2022-03-25 Thread Cameron MacPherson
Paul Adrian Glaubitz < glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > Hello Cameron! > > On 3/25/22 09:40, Cameron MacPherson wrote: > > nvram --print-config='boot-device /pci@f400/ata-6@d/@0:2,\\:txbi' > > nvram --update-config boot-device=""

ppc64 testing binutils

2020-12-16 Thread Cameron MacPherson
after upgrading to binutils 2.35.50.20201125-1 while attempting to compile kernel 5.10.1 i get this error: $ make V=1 bindeb-pkg CC init/main.o [..]scripts/genksyms/genksyms -R -r /dev/null > init/.tmp_main.ver; ld -EB -m elf64ppc -r -o init/.tmp_main.o init/main.o -T init/.tmp_main.ver; mv

Re: ppc64 testing binutils

2020-12-17 Thread Cameron MacPherson
it further or report it elsewhere. make KERNELRELEASE=5.10.1 ARCH=powerpc KBUILD_BUILD_VERSION=1 -f ./Makefile [...] CC init/main.o ld: final link failed: bad value make[4]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:279: init/main.o] Error 1 cam On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 6:05 AM Elimar Riesebieter wrote:

Re: ppc64 testing binutils

2020-12-27 Thread Cameron MacPherson
/show_bug.cgi?id=27100 cam On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 12:24 PM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz < glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > Hi Cameron! > > On 12/16/20 9:10 PM, Cameron MacPherson wrote: > > after upgrading to binutils 2.35.50.20201125-1 while attempting to > compile > >

Re: iMac G5 "windfarm"

2020-12-30 Thread Cameron MacPherson
On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 2:55 PM Riccardo Mottola wrote: > But yaboot doesn't find it, so I have to boot "old". Maybe this is part > of the issue. > make sure you run ybin -v after making changes cam

Re: iMac G5 "windfarm"

2021-01-03 Thread Cameron MacPherson
On Sun, Jan 3, 2021 at 1:30 PM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz < glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > On 1/3/21 10:25 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > The stuff is open source, if anyone is interested in getting this fixed, > please > > start reading the code and help me. > > FWIW, the source