Bug#691576: GDB still broken with 3.11.10-1

2014-01-19 Thread Émeric MASCHINO
2014/1/12 Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk: If you have space to install wheezy on a separate partition, please can you try that. (Of course, that crash ought to be fixed in 3.2.y. But I don't know that anyone will have the time and knowledge to do so. And it's not part of this bug.)

Bug#691576: GDB still broken with 3.11.10-1

2014-01-12 Thread Émeric MASCHINO
2014/1/7 Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk: On Mon, 2014-01-06 at 10:15 +0100, Émeric MASCHINO wrote: I don't understand that - I still have 3.2 installed on this unstable (i386) system and can still boot it. How does it go wrong? It seems to crash with something wrong with systemd. You're

Bug#691576: GDB still broken with 3.11.10-1

2014-01-12 Thread Émeric MASCHINO
2014/1/12 Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk: So this is a crash, not an incompatibility with the newer systemd. [...] Can you test the 3.2 kernel with sysvinit, in case this is a bug that's specifically provoked by systemd? That's why I was saying too old for my current Debian install on

Bug#691576: GDB still broken with 3.11.10-1

2014-01-12 Thread Émeric MASCHINO
2014/1/12 Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk: You can have sysvinit and systemd installed in parallel and then use the 'init' kernel parameter to switch between them. Only systemd-sysv conflicts/replaces sysvinit. So, I've reinstalled sysvinit and sysvinit-core that purged systemd-sysv. I

Bug#691576: GDB still broken with 3.11.10-1

2014-01-12 Thread Émeric MASCHINO
2014/1/12 Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk: Sorry, I'm being silly. udev is built as part of systemd now, so this is independent of whether you use systemd as init. And systemd doesn't currently run as init in the initramfs. Uh, OK. How can I help further? Emeric -- To

Bug#691576: GDB still broken with 3.11.10-1

2014-01-06 Thread Émeric MASCHINO
Hi, And happy new year! 2013/12/20 Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk: I actually tried building the kernel like that, so you could try the packages in: http://people.debian.org/~benh/packages/wheezy-ia64-kernel-O1/ Was your O1-compiled kernel working fine? I have no idea as no-one

Bug#691576: GDB still broken with 3.11.10-1

2013-12-20 Thread Émeric MASCHINO
2013/12/12 Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk: So far as I know, there is no longer any commercial development of Linux on Itanium. Some old 'enterprise' distributions might continue to be supported for a few years but mainline isn't supported. It seems that Intel must provide hp with

Bug#691576: GDB still broken with 3.11.10-1

2013-12-12 Thread Émeric MASCHINO
[1] http://marc.info/?l=linux-ia64m=134858659916369w=2 [2] http://marc.info/?l=linux-ia64m=133124040906499w=2 [3] http://lists.debian.org/debian-ia64/2013/09/msg00024.html 2013/12/11 Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk: On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 11:36:37PM +0100, Émeric MASCHINO wrote: FYI, linux

Bug#691576: GDB still broken with 3.11.10-1

2013-12-10 Thread Émeric MASCHINO
FYI, linux-image-3.11-2-mckinley 3.11.10-1 in today's Jessie updates didn't change anything w.r.t. gdb problem. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#691576: linux-image-mckinley 3.10+52 is fine again with gdb

2013-09-25 Thread Émeric MASCHINO
FYI, linux-image-3.10-3-mckinley 3.10.11-1 in today's Jessie updates brought back gdb to life. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#719802: ia64, Iceweasel-17, JS needs ptrs have their high 17 bits cleared

2013-08-28 Thread Émeric MASCHINO
Thanks Stephan, I'll test your patches. And I bet that the same will have to be done for Firefox ESR 21? BTW, I don't understand how upstream code is versioned. Shouldn't your original patches have been ported to the new JS engine by upstream when they released Firefox ESR 10 versions?

Bug#642750: epiphany-browser once again unusable on ia64

2013-08-25 Thread Émeric MASCHINO
Hi, With the switch from WebKit 1.8.1 to 2.0.4, instability is back on IA-64: Epiphany simply can't open any URL without crashing (cf. the attached gdb output when trying to go to http://www.gnome.org). Émeric Starting program: /usr/bin/epiphany-browser warning: Could not load shared

Bug#642750: epiphany-browser: *HIGHLY* unstable on ia64 (IA-64/IPF/Itanium) platform

2013-01-07 Thread Émeric Maschino
Hi and happy new year, I've tested latest patchset from Stephan. Epiphany runs as great as with the v2 patchset. I'm however still getting the curious Google homepage crash I was talking about previously. Uninstalling gnash didn't help. But overall, Stephan work is a _huge_ improvement w.r.t.

Bug#692053: [ia64] Iceweasel 10.0 (and above?) randomly stops responding, eating 100% CPU

2012-12-30 Thread Émeric Maschino
Hi, I've applied Stephan patches and recompiled Iceweasel. I used it for one week now without any problem. I even ran WebGL conformance test suite successfully whereas vanilla Iceweasel isn't able to complete it after a few tests. Notice however that, when I say successfully, I mean the process

Bug#642750: [PATCH] epiphany-browser: *HIGHLY* unstable on ia64, (IA-64/IPF/Itanium) platform

2012-12-15 Thread Émeric Maschino
i...@fs-driver.org: Émeric Maschino wrote: Indeed, even with your updated packages, Epiphany still crashes with the scenario I described in this bug report I looked for anything that is different on a release build and on a debug build. It turned out that a lot of code related to the memory

Bug#642750: [PATCH] epiphany-browser: *HIGHLY* unstable on ia64 (IA-64/IPF/Itanium) platform

2012-12-03 Thread Émeric Maschino
Thanks Stephan for your hard work. I just tested Epiphany with the updated packages that you provided in [1]. Are they self-contained or is yet another updated package missing? Indeed, even with your updated packages, Epiphany still crashes with the scenario I described in this bug report,

Bug#638068: Re : initramfs-tools generates unbootable initrd.img on IA-64

2012-06-15 Thread Émeric Maschino
Hello, To pass parameters to kernel, add an append= line in your elilo.conf file, just below the initrd= line. In the present case: append=debug=vc Please find attached the log that I've just recorded on a serial console passing debug=vc to kernel. Well, I don't see anything useful or

Bug#537572: gnome-settings-daemon can't connect to D-Bus and eats CPU on ia64 due to -Wl,-z-defs

2011-11-22 Thread Émeric Maschino
Le 14 novembre 2011 23:51, Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com a écrit : So, to summarize, only libgconf.so and libsmartcard.so didn't need to be replaced by recompiled versions without -z defs flag. I don't know if it'll help further, but they can even be removed from

Bug#537572: GNOME settings daemon 3.0.3 binaries, with and without -z defs flag passed to the linker

2011-11-10 Thread Émeric Maschino
2011/11/10 Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com: Thanks.  What would be really useful is a linker command line and the collection of object files (.o, .a, and .so, including relevant system libraries from /usr/lib/) that it refers to, as described in /usr/share/bug/binutils/presubj.  Feel free

Bug#537572: Still the same with gnome-settings-daemon 2.30.2-4

2011-08-30 Thread Émeric Maschino
Hi, FWIW amid the reports merged with this one, there is one person using i386 and another using mipsel. I don't know for i386 and mipsel, but here are my investigations for ia64. From the point of view of fixing this in binutils, it would be _very_ helpful to have a collection of object

Bug#537572: Still the same with gnome-settings-daemon 2.30.2-4

2011-08-18 Thread Émeric Maschino
Hi, I've looked at the source package: the debian/build script still passes -z defs flags to ld, thus producing a broken binary, as expected :-( Regards, Émeric -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#638068: [bisected] initramfs-tools generates unbootable initrd.img on IA-64 platform (Itanium)

2011-08-17 Thread Émeric Maschino
Hi, does initramfs-tools boot with BUSYBOX=no in initramfs.conf? Well, I don't know! Indeed, with BUSYBOX=no in initramfs.conf, initrd.img generation fails: root@longspeak:/# dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-3.0.0-1-mckinley Running depmod. Examining /etc/kernel/postinst.d. run-parts: executing

Bug#638068: [bisected] initramfs-tools generates unbootable initrd.img on IA-64 platform (Itanium)

2011-08-16 Thread Émeric Maschino
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.99 Severity: grave As stated in this thread http://lists.debian.org/debian-ia64/2011/08/msg1.html, Debian Wheezy Testing cannot be booted at all on IA-64 (current linux-image-3.0.0-1-mckinley in Testing depends on initramfs-tools 0.99, so initramfs-tools

Bug#537572: Still the same with gnome-settings-daemon 2.30.2-3

2011-04-28 Thread Émeric Maschino
Hi, I've looked at the source package: the debian/build script still passes -z defs flags to ld, thus producing a broken binary, as expected :-( Regards, Émeric -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#620546: apt 0.8.13.1 fixed the problem

2011-04-04 Thread Émeric Maschino
Hi, FYI, manually installing apt 0.8.13.1 (dated 2011-04-03) using dpkg -i made apt happy again. Regards, Émeric -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#620874: binutils: -z defs ld flag breaks gnome-settings-daemon on IA-64

2011-04-04 Thread Émeric Maschino
Package: binutils Version: 2.20.1-16 Severity: critical As explained in this post (http://lists.debian.org/debian-ia64/2011/03/msg00017.html), gnome-settings-daemon is broken on IA-64 (Itanium) since release 2.24.1-1 dated 2008-12-30, not because of a source code change, but because of a change

Bug#620874: binutils: -z defs ld flag breaks gnome-settings-daemon on IA-64

2011-04-04 Thread Émeric Maschino
Hi, -z defs means to disallow undefined symbols in object files.  Are you sure that there is not some undefined symbol in an object file and this is not build system/runtime behavior fallout from that? I know nothing about gnome-settings-daemon code and related software, so can't make any

Bug#620874: binutils: -z defs ld flag breaks gnome-settings-daemon on IA-64

2011-04-04 Thread Émeric Maschino
Hello again, Thanks for your hard work tracking this down, and thanks for bringing it to our attention.  I'm going to merge this with the existing gnome-settings-daemon bug, so the problem is tracked in one place. Of course it is possible there is a binutils involved here somewhere. If that

Bug#608893: Same problem with epiphany-browser 2.30.6-1

2011-01-26 Thread Émeric Maschino
Hi, I don't know if the root cause is the same, but here's the stack trace I'm recording with current epiphany-browser in Debian Squeeze on an Itanium workstation. emeric@longspeak:~$ gdb epiphany-browser GNU gdb (GDB) 7.0.1-debian Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License

Bug#691576: linux-image-mckinley 3.11+54 breaks gdb again

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