Re: imago killed by io_uring?

On Tue, Mar 05, 2024 at 05:42:45PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > liburing is Not-For-Us on Alpha since 2022, and if I saw it correctly > imago was recently twice killed by bfs (which now uses io_uring). > > Recent kernels do contain io_uring fixes (e.g. in 5.10.186), > which might or might not be

Re: systemd 252.6-1 produces an Instruction fault, sysvinit works

On Thu, May 18, 2023 at 01:01:25PM +0200, Frank Scheiner wrote: > Welcome to Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)! > > [ 11.958978] CPU 1 > [ 11.958978] systemd(1): Instruction fault 4 > [ 12.032220] pc = [] ra = [] ps > = Not tainted > [ 12.131829] pc is at 0xfc0005163bfc > [

Re: Bug#1036158: gcc-13: Please raise baseline for alpha to EV56

On Wed, May 17, 2023 at 11:27:43AM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hi Michael! > > On Tue, 2023-05-16 at 20:25 +1200, Michael Cree wrote: > > On Tue, May 16, 2023 at 09:38:56AM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > > After a long discussion on IRC and t

Re: future of the libc6.1-alphaev67 package

On Mon, May 15, 2023 at 12:13:04PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hi Aurelien! > > On Sun, 2023-05-14 at 22:47 +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > > On 2023-05-14 22:06, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > > Hello! > > > > > > On Sun, 2023-05-14 at 21:53 +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > > >

Re: glibc regression on alpha with 2.34+

On Tue, Dec 13, 2022 at 06:15:16AM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hello! > > On 12/12/22 20:45, Michael Cree wrote: > > Either the arch baseline is raised to something that is easier to > > maintain (which, frankly, I think is essential if the Alpha port is to &

Re: glibc regression on alpha with 2.34+

On Mon, Dec 12, 2022 at 07:24:06PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > On Dec 12, 2022, at 7:17 PM, Michael Cree wrote: > > > > On Mon, Dec 12, 2022 at 12:24:59PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > >> > >> > >>>> On Dec 12, 20

Re: glibc regression on alpha with 2.34+

On Mon, Dec 12, 2022 at 12:24:59PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > > > On Dec 12, 2022, at 9:27 AM, Michael Cree wrote: > > > > I am not interested in supporting old Alphas without BWX anymore. > > I am drawing the line. Either someone steps u

Re: glibc regression on alpha with 2.34+

On Mon, Dec 12, 2022 at 09:02:23AM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hi Frank! > > > On Dec 12, 2022, at 8:57 AM, Frank Scheiner wrote: > > > > I'm not sure I fully understand the issue here: > > > > See, glibc used to work for alpha up until 2.33 as I read. Then a change > > broke it

Re: glibc regression on alpha with 2.34+

On Mon, Dec 12, 2022 at 08:56:40AM +0100, Frank Scheiner wrote: > Dear Michael, > > On 12.12.22 08:27, Michael Cree wrote: > > With the usrmerge uploads now depending on a recent libc version Alpha > > is now dead in the water. Nothing can be built. Thus we have to fix

Re: glibc regression on alpha with 2.34+

On Sun, Nov 20, 2022 at 01:47:59PM +0100, Frank Scheiner wrote: > On 20.11.22 10:03, Michael Cree wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 13, 2022 at 12:45:17AM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > > I just noticed that there is a regression in glibc on alpha with version &

Re: glibc regression on alpha with 2.34+

On Sun, Nov 13, 2022 at 12:45:17AM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > I just noticed that there is a regression in glibc on alpha with version 2.34 > or later. > > Looking at the build logs for Debian's 2.34-8 [1], 2.35-4 [2] and 2.36-4 [3], > it's obvious > there is something wrong

Re: 5.17.0 boot issue on Miata

On Mon, Apr 04, 2022 at 08:42:38PM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: > On Sun, Mar 27, 2022 at 11:21:57AM +1300, Michael Cree wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 24, 2022 at 09:54:15PM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: > > > When I attempt to boot a 5.17.0 kernel built from the kernel.org > > > source

Re: 5.17.0 boot issue on Miata

On Thu, Mar 24, 2022 at 09:54:15PM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: > When I attempt to boot a 5.17.0 kernel built from the kernel.org > sources, I see disk sector errors on my "sda" device, and the boot > process hangs at the point where "systemd-udevd.service" starts. > > Rebooting on 5.16.0 works with

Bug#1007946: glib2.0 FTBFS on alpha; misdetected libutil so name

Source: glib2.0 Version: 2.72.0-1 Severity: important Justification: fails to build from source when built in past User: debian-alpha@lists.debian.org Usertags: ftbfs X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-alpha@lists.debian.org glib2.0 FTBFS on alpha in the test suite with:

Re: MP kernels broken with version 5.4.0-1

On Sun, Feb 20, 2022 at 01:39:44PM +0100, Frank Scheiner wrote: > I'm unsure if someone already noticed, but it looks like the MP kernels > for the alpha arch are broken since at least 5.4.0-1 ([1]), tested on: > > * quad processor ES45 (with 5.4.0-1, 5.7.0-1) > * single processor AS 800 (with

Re: Update Debian Ports installation images 2021-04-14

On Sun, Oct 31, 2021 at 07:39:56PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hello Rafael! > > On 10/31/21 19:35, Rafael Ruiz wrote: > > I tried it on my API UP1100 with Debian 3.0 (Woody) from years ago. Your > > snapshot is fine, but the only problem I found is respect aboot > > installation. >

Re: Bug#995614: guile-3.0: Please build with --without-threads on alpha to fix FTBFS

On Fri, Oct 08, 2021 at 09:00:22PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 10/8/21 20:52, Rob Browning wrote: > > Then, once that's uploaded were you planning to handle the reverse dep > > rebuilds, and/or what coordination might we need there? > > We can just rebuild all of these reverse

Re: Bug#995614: guile-3.0: Please build with --without-threads on alpha to fix FTBFS

On Fri, Oct 08, 2021 at 03:03:38AM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 10/8/21 03:00, Rob Browning wrote: > > If we've never had a 3.0 viable for alpha, for example, then we can of > > course do whatever we like, with the realization that if we disable > > threads there now, we may be

Re: Bug#995613: guile-2.2: Please build with --without-threads on alpha to fix FTBFS

On Sun, Oct 03, 2021 at 09:14:04PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 10/3/21 20:29, Michael Cree wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 03, 2021 at 11:33:31AM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > >> Both guile-2.2 and guile-3.0 FTBFS on alpha when built with thread > >>

Re: X11 system lockup with 5.11.0 kernel

M -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: > > > On Thu, Jun 03, 2021 at 03:15:05PM +0200, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > > > > I have lost track about this issue, so please fill me in as to whether > > > > the offending commit causing the regression has been bisecte

Re: future of the libc6.1-alphaev67 package

On Tue, Aug 24, 2021 at 10:59:32PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > I would therefore like to discuss the future of the libc6.1-alphaev67 > package on alpha. According to popcon, to take with a grain of salt > given the low number of submissions, this package is installed on 20% of > the

Re: X11 system lockup with 5.11.0 kernel

my Alpha XP1000. Cheers Michael. > Am 05.04.21 um 11:58 schrieb Michael Cree: > > On Mon, Apr 05, 2021 at 04:55:15PM +1200, Michael Cree wrote: > > > On Sun, Apr 04, 2021 at 11:47:58PM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: > > > > On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 11:04:42AM +0200, Macie

Re: X11 system lockup with 5.11.0 kernel

On Mon, Apr 05, 2021 at 04:55:15PM +1200, Michael Cree wrote: > On Sun, Apr 04, 2021 at 11:47:58PM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 11:04:42AM +0200, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > > > I think the only feasible way of determining what has happened here is &g

Re: X11 system lockup with 5.11.0 kernel

On Sun, Apr 04, 2021 at 11:47:58PM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: > On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 11:04:42AM +0200, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > > I think the only feasible way of determining what has happened here is > > that you track the offending change down by bisecting the upstream kernel > > repository

Re: DS15 with kernel 5.8.1

On Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 05:27:53PM +, Ivan C. N. wrote: > Hello again, > Had to fix a few things with the DS15: a suspected failing power supply > turned out to be the front panel power-on button's wires having a flimsy > connection (probably due to front access storage cage

Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2020-04-19

On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 11:37:14AM +1000, Darren Goossens wrote: > My experience with the April 2020 Alpha iso > > Booted fine, asked for me to load qlogic/1040.bin on removable media. > I downloaded the deb file for buster, exploded it and copied all the > bin files onto both a floppy and a USB

Re: libcrypt1 1:4.4.10-5 packaging error?

On Sat, Dec 14, 2019 at 12:00:41AM -0600, Bob Tracy wrote: > Tried to install the latest libc6.1 this evening, and ran into an issue > with the "libcrypt1" installation. Specifically, "perl" is looking for > "libcrypt.so.1.1", and after the new "libcrypt1" package gets > installed, the following

Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-11-22

On Sat, Nov 30, 2019 at 12:10:28PM +1300, Michael Cree wrote: > On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 02:15:30PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > I've done a test on an XP1000 (UP) and it got past the failure seen > on the buildds but errored out in one of 4 or so tests in the >

Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-11-22

On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 02:15:30PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 11/26/19 4:49 AM, Michael Cree wrote: > > Taking it that you did use up to date toolchain then that is rather > > interesting that guile-2.0 built for you. I ran a test rebuild a > > week or

Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-11-22

On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 07:02:15PM -0600, Bob Tracy wrote: > On Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 12:00:59PM +1300, Michael Cree wrote: > > Did you build with latest toolchain? I suspect the issue has > > appeared with toolchain changes (hard to pin down when because there > > was qu

Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-11-22

On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 06:40:04AM -0600, Bob Tracy wrote: > On Sat, Nov 23, 2019 at 07:36:11AM +1300, Michael Cree wrote: > > That's not going to help at the moment because vim is bd-uninstallable. > > > > The real problem is guile-2.0 and guile-2.2, both of which FTBFS,

Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-11-22

On Fri, Nov 22, 2019 at 03:09:09PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 11/22/19 2:40 PM, Bob Tracy wrote: > > I've noticed I haven't been able to update the "vim" packages for a long > > time. Michael Cree -- if you see this, I think you explained the > &g

Re: congratulations in order

On Sun, Sep 29, 2019 at 08:44:01AM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: > On Sat, Sep 28, 2019 at 04:15:17PM -0600, Skye wrote: > > Congrats! Can you tell us how you got to that point? I need to bring up a > > series of servers next week and dreading my ignorance. They are currently > > running an old

Re: systemd woes continue

On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 11:46:06AM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > is just annoying. Please let's have a more constructive discussion, after > all, the previous issues on alpha were not caused by systemd either but > a bug in glibc for alpha. I would not be so quick to blame glibc. (If

Re: Bug#939898: glibc: setuid/getuid broken on alpha with 2.29-1

On Mon, Sep 09, 2019 at 11:14:50PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 9/9/19 10:49 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > Both on my Alpha XP-1000 as well as inside a qemu-user chroot, upgrading > > glibc > > to version 2.29-1 resulted in setuid/getuid breaking in a weird way: > > To

Re: systemd woes continue

On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 04:11:44PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > systemd works the same way on my Alpha XP-1000 as it works on my Intel boxes. Interesting. It doesn't work on mine; it fails to mount the filesystems even when I recently tried a new install into a spare partition (but

Re: systemd woes continue

On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 09:54:40PM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: > First, "systemd" still cannot handle systems with persistent filesystems > other than "/" and "/usr". As far as I know, the bug report I filed > against "systemd" is still open, and no progress has been made on that > front. The bug I

Re: Updated installation images 2019-01-20

On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 09:31:02PM +0200, Frank Scheiner wrote: > On 5/10/19 21:11, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > > On May 10, 2019, at 9:07 PM, Skye wrote: > > > > > > I was able to boot from CDROM and the loading ran fine until it got to the > > > hardware discovery phase. It was

Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-04-09

Please don't top post. It's a pain having to sort the order of messsages --- too much so that I am going to delete the cited cited stuff. On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 09:39:40AM +1000, Darren Goossens wrote: > I don't have a PCI USB card, though perhaps I should invest in one. > Nearly everything now

Re: Re: PWS 433au (Miata) recovery update

On Sun, Jan 27, 2019 at 12:25:52PM -0800, Alex Winbow wrote: >     Samba isn't installable, and in fact I can't even build-dep to build > myself locally; looks like the dependency chain goes all the way back to a > specific version of libboost!?!? samba build-depends on ceph [1] but ceph hasn't

Re: Updated installation images 2019-01-20

On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 10:09:29AM +0100, Frank Scheiner wrote: > Dear Adrian, > > On 1/21/19 00:42, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > Hi! > > > > On 1/20/19 9:40 PM, Bob Tracy wrote: > > > Thank you! I'll give the Alpha version a try in the next few days. > > > Waiting on a 4.18 kernel

Re: Generic kernel fails to boot on Alpha bisected to b38d08f3181c

On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 08:07:24AM -0800, Tejun Heo wrote: > Hello, Michael. > > On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 09:26:12PM +1300, Michael Cree wrote: > > A kernel built for generic UP Alpha had been noted to fail to boot > > for quite some time (since the release of 3.18). The ke

Generic kernel fails to boot on Alpha bisected to b38d08f3181c

A kernel built for generic UP Alpha had been noted to fail to boot for quite some time (since the release of 3.18). The kernel either locks up before printing any messages to the console or just falls back into the SRM with a HALT instruction again before any messages are printed to the console.

Re: Use SMP kernel for Alpha (udeb) builds

On Sun, Dec 09, 2018 at 08:21:11AM +1300, Michael Cree wrote: > On Sun, Dec 09, 2018 at 07:54:52AM +1300, Michael Cree wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 08, 2018 at 12:01:23PM +1300, Michael Cree wrote: > > > On Fri, Dec 07, 2018 at 10:39:58PM +0100, Frank Scheiner wrote: > > >

Re: Use SMP kernel for Alpha (udeb) builds

On Sun, Dec 09, 2018 at 07:54:52AM +1300, Michael Cree wrote: > On Sat, Dec 08, 2018 at 12:01:23PM +1300, Michael Cree wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 07, 2018 at 10:39:58PM +0100, Frank Scheiner wrote: > > > On 12/7/18 22:06, Michael Cree wrote: > > > > On Tue, Dec 04, 2

Re: Use SMP kernel for Alpha (udeb) builds

On Sat, Dec 08, 2018 at 12:01:23PM +1300, Michael Cree wrote: > On Fri, Dec 07, 2018 at 10:39:58PM +0100, Frank Scheiner wrote: > > On 12/7/18 22:06, Michael Cree wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 04, 2018 at 05:38:51PM +0100, Frank Scheiner wrote: > > > > As per [1] and our

Re: Use SMP kernel for Alpha (udeb) builds

On Fri, Dec 07, 2018 at 10:39:58PM +0100, Frank Scheiner wrote: > On 12/7/18 22:06, Michael Cree wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 04, 2018 at 05:38:51PM +0100, Frank Scheiner wrote: > > > As per [1] and our recent discussions the generic 4.x kernels seem to no > > > longer work o

Re: Use SMP kernel for Alpha (udeb) builds

On Tue, Dec 04, 2018 at 05:38:51PM +0100, Frank Scheiner wrote: > As per [1] and our recent discussions the generic 4.x kernels seem to no > longer work on Alpha machines which also renders any installer images using > the generic 4.x kernels non-working. Yes, that was noted some time ago. A

Re: [alpha] Debian 9.0 NETINST fails

On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 01:41:17PM -0600, Bob Tracy wrote: > Trying the 20181120 minimal installation CD fails due to the firmware > for the Qlogic ISP1020 (1040.bin) SCSI adapter not being present, either > as built-in to the kernel or as a standalone file. No firmware means no > hard disks

Re: [alpha] Debian 9.0 NETINST fails

On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 02:53:30PM -0600, Bob Tracy wrote: > On Wed, Nov 07, 2018 at 04:12:27PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > I can unfortunately not build updated installer images for Alpha since I > > don't have an Alpha porterbox available where I can build the > >

Re: kde build deps issue?

Hi Bob, Hope you don't mind me CCing the debian-alpha list as it would be good to get other eyes seeing the problems. On Tue, Oct 02, 2018 at 10:50:27AM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: > Several packages stuck in the update queue, and as best I can determine, > there are some build dependencies gumming

Re: is there still an alpha porterbox ?

On Sat, May 19, 2018 at 11:47:42AM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > Is there still an alpha porter box ? Only an unofficial one, being one of the buildds. I am happy to give DDs/DMs access. Send me a personal email. Cheers, Michael.

Re: got space

On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 12:47:25PM -0400, Camm Maguire wrote: > There are a few very large C source files in acl2 which are overflowing > the 16bit gp relative relocation scheme for ELF_LITERAL relocations, > pertaining to static functions. Each function produces a reloc to .text > with a unique

Re: firefox-esr 52.6.0 available for alpha

On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 12:43:54AM -0600, Bob Tracy wrote: > At some point in the near future, it will no longer be possible to build > Firefox on an Alpha unless someone takes up the gauntlet and puts > together a working Rust compiler. Rust uses the LLVM backend. There was once an

Re: [BUG] 4.14 cannot find configured disks/partitions

On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 11:49:55PM -0600, Bob Tracy wrote: > On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 11:10:10PM -0600, Bob Tracy wrote: > > Perhaps the subject isn't entirely accurate, but that's what seems to be > > the case. After loading the initial ramdisk, the boot process stalls > > (loops indefinitely)

Re: Build stuck in Needs-Build

On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 05:00:16AM +0200, Mattias Ellert wrote: > The build of nordugrid-arc 5.4.0-1 on alpha seems to be stuck in Needs- > Build. There has been long stretches of time where it has been the only > package in Needs-Build while at the same time no packages have been > Building.

Re: Latest install images

On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 07:06:08AM +, Gyenes Istvan wrote: > aboot> 1 > aboot: loading uncompressed boot/vmlinuz... > aboot: loading compressed boot/vmlinuz... > aboot: zero-filling 403856 bytes at 0xfc0001f96bf0 > aboot: loading initrd (16612573 bytes/16223 blocks) at 0xfc002adda000 >

Re: [BUG] 4.13.0 kernel build error on Alpha

On Sun, Sep 10, 2017 at 10:23:40PM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: > On Sun, Sep 10, 2017 at 10:16:41PM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 10, 2017 at 07:59:40PM -0700, Matt Turner wrote: > > > On Sun, Sep 10, 2017 at 3:34 PM, Bob Tracy wrote: > > > > Here we go again :-(.

Re: current toolchain on Alpha is crap?

On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 10:42:42PM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: > On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 09:42:50PM +1200, Michael Cree wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 09, 2017 at 07:47:55PM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: > > > Both my 4.10 and recent 4.11-rc5 builds fail to boot/run properly. > > > &g

Re: current toolchain on Alpha is crap?

924 Author: Michael Cree <mc...@orcon.net.nz> Date: Fri Feb 10 21:17:22 2017 +1300 alpha: Shift library routines into own alphalib linker section This addresses vmlinux ld BRADDR relocation errors on Alpha that appeared at some point after the 4.8.0 release. This

Re: Debian kernel boot failure on Alpha [was Re: systemd FTBFS]

On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 01:41:29PM +0200, Frank Scheiner wrote: > I have had a similar problem than you, i.e. no generic Linux kernel v4.x > from Debian runs or ran on my Alpha gear (the newest one is a PWS 500au with > EV56). I seem to recall the last working kernel is v4.2. Interestingly the

Re: current toolchain on Alpha is crap?

On Sun, Apr 09, 2017 at 07:47:55PM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: > Well, maybe the subject line is a bit over the top, but there's either > an element of truth to it, or the kernel developers have seriously > screwed things up in a fundamental way for kernels on Alpha after 4.9. > > Both my 4.10 and

Debian kernel boot failure on Alpha [was Re: systemd FTBFS]

On Sat, Mar 04, 2017 at 12:32:30AM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 03/04/2017 12:30 AM, Michael Cree wrote: > > And the Debian kernel still doesn't boot on my XP1000. As soon as > > SRM transfers control to the kernel it falls back to SRM with a boot >

Re: systemd FTBFS

On Thu, Mar 02, 2017 at 09:22:48PM +1300, Michael Cree wrote: > I had been running Debian kernels on the buildds to give the kernel > a bit of work-out but at some point the kernels failed to boot, so > to keep things moving along I reverted to building a Titan variant > ker

Re: systemd FTBFS

On Thu, Mar 02, 2017 at 01:36:23AM +, James Clarke wrote: > Currently systemd FTBFS on the buildds. Looking at the failure, this seems to > be because the kernel running on the buildds (4.9.12-titan-p1+) does not have > CONFIG_USER_NS enabled. Sigh... systemd. OK, thanks, I'll add

Re: nodejs package issues

On Sat, Feb 18, 2017 at 09:49:43PM -0600, Bob Tracy wrote: > On Sat, Feb 18, 2017 at 11:49:06AM -0600, Bob Tracy wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 09:13:51AM +0100, Helge Deller wrote: > > > On hppa we will not support jnode short-term (and I assume it's true for > > > most other ports too). > >

Re: nodejs package issues

On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 09:19:09PM -0600, Bob Tracy wrote: > On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 08:23:05AM +1300, Michael Cree wrote: > > I've got bigger fish to fry at the moment. In particular a > > binutils/glibc bug that is causing segfaults in the dynamic symbol > > resolver. Try

Re: nodejs package issues

On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 08:43:28PM -0600, Bob Tracy wrote: > On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 08:23:05AM +1300, Michael Cree wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 03:43:02AM -0600, Bob Tracy wrote: > > (...) > > > Next issue is the "-m32" argument getting passed to th

Re: nodejs package issues

CCing the list since others might like to see where we are at on Debian Alpha. On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 03:43:02AM -0600, Bob Tracy wrote: > The list of held packages was once again starting to get uncomfortably > long, so I took a dive into the swamp to see what was gumming up the > works.

Re: [BUG] 4.9.0 build error on Alpha

On Sat, Dec 31, 2016 at 09:20:37AM -0600, Bob Tracy wrote: > On Sat, Dec 31, 2016 at 10:11:45AM +, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > > (...) > > You need to keep the `*(.alphalib)' line only, i.e. drop the first and > > the last line added by the patch, as the output section statement and its > >

Re: Multia state of support

On Sat, Apr 02, 2016 at 12:44:01PM -0700, Matt Turner wrote: > On Sat, Apr 2, 2016 at 12:41 PM, Michael Cree <mc...@orcon.net.nz> wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 02, 2016 at 07:33:34PM +0300, lausg...@gmail.com wrote: > >> > What finally happened to dedicated xf86-video-tga dr

Re: Multia state of support

On Sat, Apr 02, 2016 at 07:33:34PM +0300, lausg...@gmail.com wrote: > > What finally happened to dedicated xf86-video-tga driver? > > The last trace for me is > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-alpha/2009/09/msg00011.html > > If it's alive, any plans to move its acceleration bits to EXA or

Re: Porting Poly/ML

On Sat, Mar 05, 2016 at 10:37:37PM +, James Clarke wrote: > > I maintain the polyml package, and am working on porting it to > > more architectures, once of which is Alpha. Could somebody with > > access to an Alpha build environment please checkout the wip-ports > > branch of

Re: can't boot kernel 4.x on SX164

On Tue, Mar 01, 2016 at 03:51:57PM -0500, Alex Winbow wrote: > On Fri, 26 Feb 2016, Michael Cree wrote: > > >>Success with kernel 4.4.2, built entirely using the Debian package > >>configuration options with only two changes: machinetype set from generic to > >

Re: can't boot kernel 4.x on SX164

On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 03:01:09PM -0500, Alex Winbow wrote: > On Wed, 24 Feb 2016, Bob Tracy wrote: > > >On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 08:27:42PM +1300, Michael Cree wrote: > >>On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 12:23:44PM -0500, Alex Winbow wrote: > >>>On Sat

Re: can't boot kernel 4.x on SX164

On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 12:23:44PM -0500, Alex Winbow wrote: > On Sat, 20 Feb 2016, Helge Deller wrote: > > >On 20.02.2016 08:41, Michael Cree wrote: > >>On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 12:09:49AM -0500, Alex Winbow wrote: > >>> I'm unable to boot kernel 4.2 or 4.4

Re: can't boot kernel 4.x on SX164

On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 12:09:49AM -0500, Alex Winbow wrote: > I'm unable to boot kernel 4.2 or 4.4 on SX164. aboot loads the kernel > and > the initrd successfully, then returns to the SRM prompt -- no error > messages. (I'm using kernel 3.16 at present.) > > Are there any known

Re: as far as putting in a build request

On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 08:05:14PM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: > Getting the dependencies for "kde-baseapps" built would be a huge help > in trying to clear what is now a 278-package backlog of held packages > on my local system. Unfortunately kde-baseapps FTBFS. I think the first error is:

Re: many packages held for alpha

On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 12:05:54AM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: > On Tue, Sep 08, 2015 at 07:56:29AM +1200, Michael Cree wrote: > > The main problem is > > that cmake FTBFS (Bug #789807) thus a growing proportion of the > > archive is unbuildable on Alpha. > > See your

Re: many packages held for alpha

On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 03:18:46PM -0700, Matt Turner wrote: > On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 12:33 AM, Michael Cree <mc...@orcon.net.nz> wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 12:05:54AM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: > >> On Tue, Sep 08, 2015 at 07:56:29AM +1200, Michael Cree wrote:

Re: as far as putting in a build request

On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 08:05:14PM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: > Getting the dependencies for "kde-baseapps" built would be a huge help > in trying to clear what is now a 278-package backlog of held packages > on my local system. > > Also would love to see the build dependencies for the "kdepim"

Re: Pre-DEBIAN 8.0 install images for ALPHA architecture (debian-ports unstable release)

On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 04:25:23PM +0200, Gianluca Bonetti wrote: After much delay I found 3 disks to put in my DS20e and install Debian Pre-8.0 Installer runs smooth, partitioning is easy, and it also creates aboot and boot partitions. Nice to hear. About partitioning, installer partman-lvm

Re: RFC: compile with BWX thus only support EV56 and later CPUs

On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 02:56:22AM +0200, Adrian Zaugg wrote: It always sad to give up some machines, but if it saves the life of others for some time longer, it should be ok. Nobody really objected for almost a year to your proposal. I guess all of the persons behind the 12 alphas counted in

Re: Pre-DEBIAN 8.0 install images for ALPHA architecture (debian-ports unstable release)

On Tue, Jun 02, 2015 at 01:16:53AM +0200, Gianluca Bonetti wrote: 2015-06-01 8:12 GMT+02:00 Michael Cree mc...@orcon.net.nz: Another thing to note, there is no xfs support in kernel, so I had to choose ext4 but xfs is my preferred. The modules is built and present, but gives relocation

Re: Bug#399608: fixed in sysvinit 2.88dsf-59.1

[I've trimmed the CCes a bit.] On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 07:52:12PM +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 3:48 PM, Andreas Henriksson andr...@fatal.se wrote: Hello Adrian! Thanks for raising awareness about this issue. If there's anything I can do to help

Re: tasksel fails

On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 06:45:35PM +, Markus wrote: and with apt-get update i got this message: Reading package lists... Done W: GPG error: http://ftp.debian-ports.org unstable InRelease: The following signatures couldn't be verified becaus e the public key is not available:

Re: Permedia 2 (Elsa Gloria Synergy) glint driver ?

On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 09:29:17AM +, Markus wrote: Somewhere i still have an ATI Radeon 9250 PCI video card; do you think still will work ? Yes, that card will work. The only problem is that you may need to compile the radeon driver into the kernel as the provided radeon module is so

Re: Permedia 2 (Elsa Gloria Synergy) glint driver ?

On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 10:20:00PM +, Markus wrote: Just installed Debian 8.0 (unstable) and wanted to add the glint driver. apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-glint but there's no glint at all. does it still exist for alpha ? It no longer exists for any architecture. A number of

Re: Pre-DEBIAN 8.0 install images for ALPHA architecture (debian-ports unstable release)

On Wed, Mar 04, 2015 at 09:12:14PM +0100, Urs Traber wrote: So far, I only see a few unaligned traps from dbus-deamon, frontend, dpkg-preconfigure, addgroup which look ugly only. Yeah, there's a bit of that. The vast majority are coming from perl. A bug was filed against perl, but they argued

Re: debian-ports Contents-alpha file not updating

On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 08:16:16AM -0600, Bob Tracy wrote: A quick look around shows new packages for Alpha showing up on the server, but debian/dists/unstable/Contents-alpha.gz (and the Contents files for several other architectures as well) is empty. Is there an estimated time to

RFC: compile with BWX thus only support EV56 and later CPUs

There is a discussion on the Linux kernel mailing list that the kernel in future will only support architectures that can guarantee atomic aligned scalar accesses down to the byte level (at the moment the requirement is only for int (32bit) and long (64bit)). The only architecture that does not

Re: kscreen-1.0.2.1-1

On Fri, Jul 04, 2014 at 12:12:45AM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: Is there a reason the subject package isn't available in the debian-ports archive for alpha? The build logs say everything built properly at least 128 days ago, and the package is a dependency for several KDE packages currently being

Re: Re [2]: java 1.7on AlphaServer

On Sun, Jun 08, 2014 at 12:14:10PM +0300, m...@ukr.net wrote: Thank yoU for Pointing to the multiarch package, but it failed to install on my Debian 5.0.10: Yeah, I am not surprised. Trying to upgrade to jessie from lenny is not supported. I now remember that when I had installed with a

Bug#750996: eglibc FTBFS on Alpha: malloc/malloc.os build failure and testsuite failures.

Source: eglibc Version: 2.19-1 Severity: important User: debian-alpha@lists.debian.org Usertags: alpha Justification: fails to build from source but built in the past X-Debbugs-CC: debian-alpha@lists.debian.org eglibc FTBFS on alpha for two reasons, firstly, due to the inclusion of systemtap

Re: Re [2]: java 1.7on AlphaServer

On Thu, Jun 05, 2014 at 09:42:29PM +0300, m...@ukr.net wrote: I can`t find the multiarch-support package at  http://ftp.debian-ports.org , maybe it is located at other location? It will be in the unreleased distribution. I had to apply patches to the official source to get it to build and

Re: java 1.7on AlphaServer

On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 11:21:42AM +0300, m...@ukr.net wrote: I bout the AlphaServer DS25 about year ago (like big-and-heavy hardware :) ). Nice! I successfully installed Debian 5.0.10 (the latest Debian for alphas?) Debian Alpha remains at Debian-Ports if you want a more up to date version.

Re: java 1.7on AlphaServer

On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 01:05:20PM +0300, m...@ukr.net wrote: First of all I'm the one shouting for instructions about how to install ble eding edge Debian Sid on alpha I still have a draft copy of the instructions. Might be a couple of days before I can find time to put them somewhere on the

Re: rsyslog 7.6.2 and liblogging-stdlog0 (unstable)

On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 08:49:38PM +1300, Michael Cree wrote: On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 07:31:26AM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: It could be as simple as liblogging-stdlog0 not having been put in the queue to build, but the upgrade of rsyslog to version 7.6.2-1 is being held pending

Re: rsyslog 7.6.2 and liblogging-stdlog0 (unstable)

On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 07:31:26AM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: It could be as simple as liblogging-stdlog0 not having been put in the queue to build, but the upgrade of rsyslog to version 7.6.2-1 is being held pending the availability of the liblogging-stdlog0 package. That's strange. According

Re: Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing (Status update)

FWIW, I am a porter of the Alpha architecture in the following ways: - run a buildd - kernel support - work with upstreams for toolchain support - general porting work including filing bugs and patches I doubt if I will continue that for the life cycle of Jessie given that many of the former

  1   2   3   4   >