Bug#1015871: Enabling PCI_P2PDMA for distro kernels?

2023-10-25 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On 10/26/23 02:11, Lukas Wunner wrote: This has recently been brought up internally at Intel and nobody could understand why there's a whitelist in the first place. A long-time PCI architect told me that Intel silicon validation has been testing P2PDMA at least since the Lindenhurst days,

Bug#1015871: Please enable CONFIG_PCI_P2PDMA

2023-10-25 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On 10/25/23 03:29, Emanuele Rocca wrote: I hesitate to actually enable it because I don't understand PCI good enough to judge it's a safe choice for the Debian kernel. There is a kernel API for "return the physical address of a BAR mapping on another PCI device, as seen from the point

Re: Merge request friendly handling of debian/changelog

2019-10-23 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 04:47:53AM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > In Debian most people prefer to have changelog entries with all changes, > so changes always contain a modification to debian/changelog. It's worse than that: changelogs are supposed to contain the linear history of the branch

Bug#928526: linux-image-4.19.0-4-amd64: data corruption when swapping to encrypted SSD with LVM and TRIM enabled

2019-05-06 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On 06.05.19 21:35, Simon Richter wrote: > I can probably test intermediate versions and/or changes in setup, but this > is difficult to automate because "bad" runs require manual file system > repairs and every run requires LUKS setup to be repeated. FWIW, using a sep

Bug#928526: linux-image-4.19.0-4-amd64: data corruption when swapping to encrypted SSD with LVM and TRIM enabled

2019-05-06 Thread Simon Richter
Package: src:linux Version: 4.19.28-2 Severity: grave Tags: upstream Justification: causes non-serious data loss Hi, I have an older laptop with an SSD and an encrypted LVM setup with TRIM passthrough through the crypto layers. Normally I run without swap space, but occasionally I will set up a

Bug#925370: linux-image-4.9.0-8-amd64: hangs during startup while modesetting

2019-03-23 Thread Simon Richter
Package: src:linux Version: 4.9.144-3 Severity: important Tags: upstream Hi, I just tried booting my laptop with the lid closed, an HD monitor attached via DVI and an 8K monitor attached via DisplayPort. The boot process stopped in the "Waiting for /dev to be fully populated..." phase,

Bug#923528: linux-image-4.9.0-8-amd64: Intel WiFi firmware crash

2019-03-01 Thread Simon Richter
Package: src:linux Version: 4.9.144-3 Severity: normal Tags: upstream Hi, we just had a power outage, and my access point disappeared without warning. Apparently, this confused the firmware enough that it crashed, and the internal reset mechanism failed as well. Unloading and reloading iwlwifi

Bug#799226: linux-image-4.1.0-2-amd64: Not able to mount LVM RAID1 file system at boot

2016-10-24 Thread Simon Richter
Source: linux Version: 3.16.36-1+deb8u2 Followup-For: Bug #799226 Hi, this bug is also in the stable kernel, and the one currently in testing. It is caused by the kernel not writing the bitmap information to the meta LV. I can reproduce this here with an Areca RAID controller, but not with

Bug#841952: linux-image-4.7.0-1-amd64: lots of kernel messages about missed HPET interrupts

2016-10-24 Thread Simon Richter
Package: src:linux Version: 4.7.8-1 Severity: normal Hi, I've just updated my kernel, and get a lot of kernel messages about lost HPET RTC interrupts. The 3.16.0 kernel from stable didn't do this. I have no idea where to start debugging this, so if you need more info, please ask. Simon --

Bug#802543: linux-image-3.16.0-4-amd64: kernel error message after activating Bluetooth mouse

2015-10-20 Thread Simon Richter
Package: src:linux Version: 3.16.7-ckt11-1+deb8u4 Severity: normal Hi, I keep getting kernel error messages for my Bluetooth mouse; when these messages appear, the mouse is non-functional. This appears shortly after booting, when the mouse first attempts to connect (as I press a button to

Bug#782611: linux-image-3.16.0-4-amd64: backlight on, white screen during text mode powersave on Acer Aspire One 725

2015-04-16 Thread Simon Richter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On 15.04.2015 09:46, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: I've recently installed an Acer Aspire One 725 with Debian jessie, and found that the text mode console goes into powersave mode correctly the first time, but shows a white screen with full

Bug#766922: Backport possible for jessie?

2015-04-16 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, would it be possible to get a backport for the fix into a jessie point release? Simon signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#782610: linux-image-3.16.0-4-amd64, xserver-xorg-video-radeon: Acer Aspire One 725: black screen in X after resume

2015-04-16 Thread Simon Richter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On 15.04.2015 15:59, Alex Deucher wrote: When you say sleep, do you mean suspend/resume or dpms? Depending on the hw involved, this patch might help:

Bug#782610: linux-image-3.16.0-4-amd64, xserver-xorg-video-radeon: Acer Aspire One 725: black screen in X after resume

2015-04-14 Thread Simon Richter
Package: linux-image-3.16.0-4-amd64,xserver-xorg-video-radeon Severity: normal Hi, I've recently installed an Acer Aspire One 725 with Debian jessie, and found that after resuming from sleep, the display remains black (but backlight is on) with X. Text mode consoles work fine with and without

Bug#782611: linux-image-3.16.0-4-amd64: backlight on, white screen during text mode powersave on Acer Aspire One 725

2015-04-14 Thread Simon Richter
Package: src:linux Version: 3.16.7-ckt7-1 Severity: minor Hi, I've recently installed an Acer Aspire One 725 with Debian jessie, and found that the text mode console goes into powersave mode correctly the first time, but shows a white screen with full backlight power the second and subsequent

Bug#616689: Missing volume groups during boot with SCSI and MD

2014-11-23 Thread Simon Richter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, During the BSP I've taken a look at this, and my current theory is that the following sequence of events happens: 1. udev event for the new device is generated (this applies to both SCSI and MD device nodes) 2. the program responsible for

Bug#756806: linux-image-3.14-2-amd64: Strange connection resets

2014-08-01 Thread Simon Richter
Package: src:linux Version: 3.14.13-2 Severity: normal Hi, since upgrading to a kernel from the 3.14-2 ABI series, I'm experiencing fairly reliable TCP connection resets on some connections, most notably ssh and outgoing SMTP on port 587. This appears to be somewhat dependent on the program

Bug#578477: crashes after several days of use

2011-07-28 Thread Simon Richter
Hi Jonathan, Am 28.07.2011 03:02, schrieb Jonathan Nieder: Sorry we took so long to get to this. Basic questions: From memory, as the machine in question is currently mothballed. - have you experienced the crashes on more than one machine? Do you know of anyone else having experienced

Bug#588196: b43: does not join multicast groups

2010-07-15 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 02:41:09PM +0200, Michael Büsch wrote: The same applies to receiving. The RX queue is also dropped on switch from DMA to PIO. Sure, but the packet is repeated every ten seconds. The problem is that none of those packets is received, even long after the switch to

Bug#588196: b43: does not join multicast groups

2010-07-14 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 04:05:10PM +0200, Michael Büsch wrote: So it is up to the upper layer to detect the failure. I don't think it's possible to automatically detect such incidents for multicast transmissions. So the mechanism fails here. Well, it is about *receiving* a multicast

Bug#588196: b43: does not join multicast groups

2010-07-13 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 12:37:11AM -0500, Larry Finger wrote: That appears to work, at least I have v6 addresses now. Unlike before, you now have communication. Well, v4 worked fine before. :) I was also having some suspend related issues, I'm going to give it a few days now to see

Bug#588196: b43: does not join multicast groups

2010-07-13 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 03:00:00PM +0200, Michael Büsch wrote: But I wanna say again that this all is expected behavior. The PIO fallback workaround randomly drops packets when switching modes. So it is expected that certain handshaking packages may be lost. So if the handshake to join a

Bug#588196: b43: does not join multicast groups

2010-07-12 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 05:57:50PM -0500, Larry Finger wrote: When you get the FATAL DMA error, the controller is reset; however, that is just a simple work around that does not work on all systems. To get your system to work, you need to load b43 with the following options: pio=1 qos=0

Bug#549680: fails with RAID over entire IDE disks

2010-06-08 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On Tue, Jun 08, 2010 at 01:45:54AM +0200, Michael Prokop wrote: I've just fixed this issue in git and will upload a new i-t version which incorporates the fix soon. Cool, thanks. Simon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Bug#578477: crashes after several days of use

2010-04-20 Thread Simon Richter
Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.32-9 Severity: important Tags: sid Hi, I am experiencing strange crashes after a few days of use. These appear to be related to LVM. Serial console output from the crash looks like this: [814718.276113] Oops: Exception in kernel mode, sig: 4 [#1] [814718.281792]

Bug#535131: closed by maximilian attems m...@stro.at (Re: Bug#535131: linux-image-2.6.30-1-686: b43 driver claims support for unsupported device)

2010-02-14 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 11:21:51PM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: The b43 driver does not claim devices it does not know. Not anymore. It did at the time of the original bug report. Simon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

Bug#535131: closed by maximilian attems m...@stro.at (Re: Bug#535131: linux-image-2.6.30-1-686: b43 driver claims support for unsupported device)

2010-02-13 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, apparently the driver has gained actual support for LP-PHY based devices since, so not reopening bug. also this seems just user error just blacklist said module I disagree. It is not a user error if a kernel module is loaded for a piece of hardware because it declares support for the

Bug#568397: linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-amd64: null pointer dereference on USB CDC ACM device with no endpoints on control interface

2010-02-04 Thread Simon Richter
Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.32-5 Severity: normal Hi, while playing with an USB device, I found that the kernel dereferences a NULL pointer if a CDC ACM device declares to have no endpoints associated with the CDC control interface. I believe the validity check should be more stringent

Bug#556531: page allocation failure. order:1, mode:0x20

2009-11-16 Thread Simon Richter
Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.31-1 Severity: normal Hi, since the upgrade from 2.6.30-6, messages about page allocation failures keep appearing in the kernel log. The system runs fine otherwise. Simon -- Package-specific info: ** Version: Linux version 2.6.31-1-powerpc (Debian 2.6.31-1)

Bug#544524: Partially fixed in 2.6.31-1

2009-11-16 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, the memory leak has gone away in 2.6.31-1 (upstream commit bc146d23d1358af43f03793c3ad8c9f16bbcffcb), but the RAID issue probably still remains. Simon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#551101: cannot kill processes trying to open defective CD-ROM

2009-10-15 Thread Simon Richter
Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.30-6 Severity: normal Hi, apparently my CD-ROM is slightly defective and does not give the expected answers to the kernel. The harddisk on the same bus works fine, so it is not an electrical or mainboard issue, but rather a protocol violation, which the kernel

Bug#550972: Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 0x4912a214

2009-10-14 Thread Simon Richter
Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.30-6 Severity: normal Hi, my PegasosII crashed a few days ago, writing the attached three blocks of information to the syslog, then going into a half-dead state. Network traffic was still routed/masqueraded normally and TCP connections accepted, but connections to

Bug#549680: fails with RAID over entire IDE disks

2009-10-07 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 12:01:38AM +0200, maximilian attems wrote: please post output of: sh -x mkinitramfs -o /dev/null Attached. The bug is fairly obvious, device names in /proc/mdstat are always assumed to have a fixed length. Simon + umask 0022 + export PATH=/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin +

Bug#549680: fails with RAID over entire IDE disks

2009-10-05 Thread Simon Richter
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.93.4 Severity: normal Hi, building an initramfs with MODULES=dep fails with mkinitramfs: for root /dev/mapper/honey-root missing hdc[ /sys/block/ entry Apparently the opening bracket is misinterpreted as a partition name. Simon -- Package-specific info:

Bug#549681: needs MODULES=dep on some PowerPC systems

2009-10-05 Thread Simon Richter
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.93.4 Severity: important Hi, some OpenFirmware implementations, such as the one in the PegasosII, have a 12 MB size limit on kernel images, and no initrd loading capability. The latter is worked around by merging the initrd into the image with the mkvmlinuz

Bug#535131: linux-image-2.6.30-1-686: b43 driver claims support for unsupported device

2009-07-01 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 09:27:59AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: modprobe will load them both, regardless of whether probe succeeds or fails. That is, if they have both been indexed by depmod. I just tried, and no, the wl module is not autoloaded even after rerunning depmod -a explicitly

Bug#535131: linux-image-2.6.30-1-686: b43 driver claims support for unsupported device

2009-07-01 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 11:30:42AM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: And why is it a bug in the kernel if an external module fails to load? The bug is declaring support for an unsupported device. Please show the following information: Will do when I'm back at that machine. Autoload works

Bug#535130: linux-image-2.6.30-1-686: fails with lenny's udev

2009-06-30 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 05:30:33PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: Breaks: may be more suitable here; but it bears asking why we don't add a versioned Depends: on udev outright. The use case for a recent Linux system without udev is diminishingly small. I don't quite like it since it

Bug#535131: linux-image-2.6.30-1-686: b43 driver claims support for unsupported device

2009-06-30 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 01:09:10AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: That's not how module loading works. If there are two modules that handle the same device id they will both be loaded. If the first probe function returns failure then the other will get a chance. [ 10.013632] b43-phy0:

Bug#535131: linux-image-2.6.30-1-686: b43 driver claims support for unsupported device

2009-06-30 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 07:03:18PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: Sure that this is actually communicated to userspace? It appears that the module is still loaded, with no devices bound. In Linux 2.6 probe failure doesn't mean load failure. Forget everything you know from earlier

Bug#535130: linux-image-2.6.30-1-686: fails with lenny's udev

2009-06-29 Thread Simon Richter
Package: linux-image-2.6.30-1-686 Version: 2.6.30-1 Severity: important Hi, when booting into 2.6.30 with lenny's udev still installed, the system fails to load a number of drivers, among them agpgart (which makes xorg fail). lenny's udev also fails to create the harddisk device nodes, which

Bug#535131: linux-image-2.6.30-1-686: b43 driver claims support for unsupported device

2009-06-29 Thread Simon Richter
Package: linux-image-2.6.30-1-686 Version: 2.6.30-1 Severity: normal Hi, starting with 2.6.30, the b43 driver is autoloaded for the bcm4312 with LP-PHY, identified by PCI Product ID 0x4315; the driver then complains that the device is unsupported. This shadows the declaration by the non-free

Bug#454559: masquerading broken in 2.6.22+ on powerpc

2008-12-28 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 06:47:27PM +0100, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: 2.6.23 has the same error (otherwise I would just have upgraded silently). I will try .24 when I am at home while my flatmate is not (this is the production masquerading box). Does this error still occur with

Bug#454559: masquerading broken in 2.6.22+ on powerpc

2007-12-10 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, maximilian attems schrieb: could you try 2.6.23 sid, 2.6.24-rc4 snapshots they install fine in testing (see trunk snapshot apt http://wiki.debian.org/DebianKernel ) and if those have the same trouble file upstream in bugzilla.kernel.org including the tcpdump and telling us the forwarded

Bug#454559: sure

2007-12-08 Thread Simon Richter
Package: linux-image-2.6.22-3-vserver-powerpc Followup-For: Bug #454559 Hi, it appears as if a lot of the conntrack code had been swapped in that period (one of the in-between kernels asked me whether I wanted to use the old or the new code), and that this cannot be pinned to a single commit

Bug#454559: masquerading broken after upgrade from 2.6.20

2007-12-06 Thread Simon Richter
Package: linux-image-2.6.22-3-vserver-powerpc Version: 2.6.22-6 Severity: normal Hi, I've recently upgraded to a newer kernel, and since then, a number of hosts on my local LAN are unable to contact the outside world (using the same setup). It appears that some of the netfilter changes between

Bug#349123: Is mkvmlinuz a ramdisk creator?

2006-01-27 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, Sven Luther wrote: Bah, the kernel depends on a ramdisk creator, so there should be no problem. Not for linux-image-2.6.15-1-powerpc: Package: linux-image-2.6.15-1-powerpc State: installed Automatically installed: yes Version: 2.6.15-3 Priority: optional Section: base Maintainer: Debian

Bug#349123: Is mkvmlinuz a ramdisk creator?

2006-01-24 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, Paul TBBle Hampson wrote: Reading the manpage of mkvmlinuz indicates it can _include_ an initrd in its output, but doesn't indicate it can assemble a ramdisk from scripts + modules + fairy dust. (Or whatever it is they use...) Yes, that was badly worded. If it is rightfully not detected

Bug#349067: flavours file missing

2006-01-20 Thread Simon Richter
Package: linux-headers-2.6.15-1 Severity: normal -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, the flavours file is missing from /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.15-1, which makes extracting the official list of kernels a bit more difficult than usual. Simon - -- System Information: Debian

Bug#349089: no way to find out ABI version from unversioned linux-headers package

2006-01-20 Thread Simon Richter
Package: linux-headers-2.6.15 Severity: minor -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'm currently working on prebuilt kernel modules, and for that I need to find out the ABI version I'm building against from the debian/rules file. I'm Build-Depending on linux-headers-2.6.15, which

Bug#349123: linux-image-2.6.15-1-powerpc: no working ramdisk creator depended on

2006-01-20 Thread Simon Richter
Package: linux-image-2.6.15-1-powerpc Version: 2.6.15-3 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, the latest version only depends on mkvmlinuz, but does not consider it as a valid alternative for ramdisk creation: Setting up