hppa and squeeze

2010-09-18 Thread Adam D. Barratt
for a while yet, to give you a chance to decide whether you'd like to try and produce an hppa/squeeze release and, if so, how you'd like to do that (e.g. by talking to debian-ports or ftp-master). Regards, Adam for the Release Team [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-hppa/2010/08/msg00064.html

Re: HPPA and Squeeze

2009-07-12 Thread Aurelien Jarno
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 06:55:21PM -0400, Carlos O'Donell wrote: On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Aurelien Jarnoaurel...@aurel32.net wrote: On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 09:08:37PM +0200, Helge Deller wrote: On 06/16/2009 08:25 AM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: On 15/06/09 at 11:31 -0600, Grant Grundler

Re: HPPA and Squeeze

2009-07-12 Thread Carlos O'Donell
On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 8:30 AM, Aurelien Jarnoaurel...@aurel32.net wrote: I have just included these patches in the eglibc-2.10 branch of our SVN, though currently the linuxthreads version is still built by default. I got the following regressions in the NPTL build compared to the

Re: HPPA and Squeeze

2009-07-07 Thread Carlos O'Donell
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 10:43 PM, dann frazierda...@dannf.org wrote: da...@penalosa:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo processor         : 0 cpu family        : PA-RISC 2.0 cpu               : PA8700 (PCX-W2) cpu MHz             : 750.00 model                 : 9000/785/J6700 model name            :

Re: HPPA and Squeeze

2009-07-07 Thread James Bottomley
On Mon, 2009-07-06 at 17:43 -0400, Kyle McMartin wrote: On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 02:45:37PM -0400, John David Anglin wrote: I have to think that this has something to do with the machine being a rp3440 (large memory and cache). I have never seen this on my c3750 with 32-bit UP kernel.

Re: HPPA and Squeeze

2009-07-07 Thread James Bottomley
On Mon, 2009-07-06 at 21:47 -0400, John David Anglin wrote: If I remember correctly, there's still some issues with the L2 cache on pa8800 that we haven't quite bothered to work out yet, since it's good enough for now. James probably knows more. It would be interesting to see if you could

Re: HPPA and Squeeze

2009-07-07 Thread John David Anglin
So if I characterise the problem you think you're seeing: on mmap of a file at a memory location to be determined by the kernel, a sequential set of reads of the mapped location eventually turns up a zero where there should be data? Yes, it does sound like a caching issue. Yes. The loop is

Re: HPPA and Squeeze

2009-07-07 Thread Carlos O'Donell
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 12:21 PM, John David Anglind...@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca wrote: So if I characterise the problem you think you're seeing: on mmap of a file at a memory location to be determined by the kernel, a sequential set of reads of the mapped location eventually turns up a zero where

Re: HPPA and Squeeze

2009-07-07 Thread John David Anglin
On Tue, 07 Jul 2009, Carlos O'Donell wrote: On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 12:21 PM, John David Anglind...@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca wrote: So if I characterise the problem you think you're seeing: on mmap of a file at a memory location to be determined by the kernel, a sequential set of reads of the

Re: HPPA and Squeeze

2009-07-07 Thread Carlos O'Donell
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 6:07 PM, John David Anglind...@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca wrote: I would guess that the loop terminated early because the l_info array is all zeros except for the first NEEDED entry.  It appears correct.  The loop might have terminated early because of a cache issue, or possibly

Re: HPPA and Squeeze

2009-07-07 Thread John David Anglin
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 6:07 PM, John David Anglind...@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca wrote: I would guess that the loop terminated early because the l_info array is all zeros except for the first NEEDED entry. =A0It appears correct. = =A0The loop might have terminated early because of a cache issue,

Re: HPPA and Squeeze

2009-07-06 Thread John David Anglin
I seem to recall that the kernel mmap implementation on hppa is somewhat unique. I don't recall anything, Kyle? This came up with respect to the GCC PCH implementation for parisc. See comments in host-hpux.h. At the moment, we do have a PCH related bug. See PR

Re: HPPA and Squeeze

2009-07-06 Thread Carlos O'Donell
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 9:28 AM, John David Anglind...@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca wrote: Not that I am aware of.  The situation is essentially the reverse of the above.  Data is written from a region of memory.  Then, in another instance of gcc, it needs to be mmap'ed back to the same location in

Re: HPPA and Squeeze

2009-07-06 Thread John David Anglin
I will reiterate my point here that the dynamic linker the first user of mmap in a newly started process, and the first program to read and process data from the mmap'd files. Therefore the dynamic linker is always the first to suffer if a mapped region of memory is not correct. That is true

Re: HPPA and Squeeze

2009-07-06 Thread Kyle McMartin
On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 02:45:37PM -0400, John David Anglin wrote: I have to think that this has something to do with the machine being a rp3440 (large memory and cache). I have never seen this on my c3750 with 32-bit UP kernel. Also, this was with a 64-bit UP kernel. If I remember

Re: HPPA and Squeeze

2009-07-06 Thread John David Anglin
If I remember correctly, there's still some issues with the L2 cache on pa8800 that we haven't quite bothered to work out yet, since it's good enough for now. James probably knows more. It would be interesting to see if you could reproduce it with a UP 64-bit kernel on your C3750 to discount

Re: HPPA and Squeeze

2009-07-05 Thread Helge Deller
On 07/05/2009 01:34 AM, John David Anglin wrote: On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 09:28:00PM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 08:57:56PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: Did something change to peri? I'm currently only seeing them on penalosa. UP kernel, maybe? Both peri and penalosa run

Re: HPPA and Squeeze

2009-07-05 Thread Jurij Smakov
On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 11:06:52AM +0200, Helge Deller wrote: On 07/05/2009 01:34 AM, John David Anglin wrote: On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 09:28:00PM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 08:57:56PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: Did something change to peri? I'm currently only seeing

Re: HPPA and Squeeze

2009-07-05 Thread John David Anglin
That way we all would avoid debian build problems and could concentrate on solving the issues with the SMP kernel itself. The problem actually may be present in UP kernels. I had a segv this morning building GCC with a UP 2.6.30.1: ad...@mx3210:~/gnu/gcc/objdir/hppa-linux/libjava$ gdb -c core

Re: HPPA and Squeeze

2009-07-05 Thread John David Anglin
Register $r10 contains the address of the next link map: (gdb) p (*preloads)-l_next $10 = (struct link_map *) 0x4e88 (gdb) p *(*preloads)-l_next $11 = {l_addr = 1076473856, l_name = 0x4e78 /lib/libdl.so.2, l_ld = 0x4029e5fc, l_next = 0x40001118, l_prev = 0x4bf0, l_real =

Re: HPPA and Squeeze

2009-07-05 Thread John David Anglin
(gdb) p *(*preloads)-l_next $11 = {l_addr = 1076473856, l_name = 0x4e78 /lib/libdl.so.2, l_ld = 0x4029e5fc, l_next = 0x40001118, l_prev = 0x4bf0, l_real = 0x4e88, l_ns = 0, l_libname = 0x400010dc, l_info = {0x0, 0x4029e5fc, 0x0 repeats 74 times}, l_phdr = 0x4029b034,

Re: HPPA and Squeeze

2009-07-05 Thread Carlos O'Donell
On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 1:19 PM, John David Anglind...@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca wrote: Carlos, what do you think? I think the dynamic linker is always the first to touch the mmap'd file and therefore the most likely to fail if something is wrong in our VM layer. Cheers, Carlos. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: HPPA and Squeeze

2009-07-05 Thread Carlos O'Donell
On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 7:07 PM, John David Anglind...@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca wrote: After staring at the dynamic loader code for a while, I think the following mmap call in dl-load.c doesn't correctly map the info data for /lib/libdl.so.2.        /* Remember which part of the address space this

Re: HPPA and Squeeze

2009-07-05 Thread John David Anglin
The info data is near the end of the mapped segment. =A0The l_info field is initialized by elf_get_dynamic_info from the dynamic data mapped at l-ld. Why do you think this is wrong? I don't know about the specifics. My supposition is that we may not be copying the entire segment

Re: HPPA and Squeeze

2009-07-05 Thread James Bottomley
On Sun, 2009-07-05 at 20:17 -0400, John David Anglin wrote: The info data is near the end of the mapped segment. =A0The l_info field is initialized by elf_get_dynamic_info from the dynamic data mapped at l-ld. Why do you think this is wrong? I don't know about the specifics. My

Re: HPPA and Squeeze

2009-07-05 Thread John David Anglin
On Sun, 2009-07-05 at 20:17 -0400, John David Anglin wrote: The info data is near the end of the mapped segment. =A0The l_info field is initialized by elf_get_dynamic_info from the dynamic data mapped at l-ld. Why do you think this is wrong? I don't know about the

Re: HPPA and Squeeze

2009-07-05 Thread John David Anglin
On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 1:19 PM, John David Anglind...@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca wrote: Carlos, what do you think? I think the dynamic linker is always the first to touch the mmap'd file and therefore the most likely to fail if something is wrong in our VM layer. From the core dump, this is the

Re: HPPA and Squeeze

2009-07-05 Thread Randolph Chung
I seem to recall that the kernel mmap implementation on hppa is somewhat unique. I don't recall anything, Kyle? This came up with respect to the GCC PCH implementation for parisc. See comments in host-hpux.h. At the moment, we do have a PCH related bug. See PR 39355.

Re: HPPA and Squeeze

2009-07-04 Thread John David Anglin
And then there is glob2 that fails with: /usr/bin/ld: libgag/src/libgag.a(FileManager.o)(.text+0x2fc8): cannot reach f9bf_memcpy@@GLIBC_2.2+0, recompile with -ffunction-sections /usr/bin/ld: libgag/src/libgag.a(FileManager.o)(.text+0x2fc8): cannot handle R_PARISC_PCREL17F for

Re: HPPA and Squeeze

2009-07-04 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sat, Jul 04, 2009 at 11:03:01PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: On Sat, Jul 04, 2009 at 03:52:16PM -0400, John David Anglin wrote: And then there is glob2 that fails with: /usr/bin/ld: libgag/src/libgag.a(FileManager.o)(.text+0x2fc8): cannot reach f9bf_memcpy@@GLIBC_2.2+0, recompile

Re: HPPA and Squeeze

2009-07-04 Thread John David Anglin
On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 09:28:00PM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 08:57:56PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: Did something change to peri? I'm currently only seeing them on penalosa. UP kernel, maybe? Both peri and penalosa run 2.6.29-2-parisc64-smp and from what I

Re: HPPA and Squeeze

2009-07-03 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 05:43:24PM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 05:15:26PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: Here is a list of packages that failed to build because of instability on the buildds today: package | buildd | error qgit| penalosa | make: ***

Re: HPPA and Squeeze

2009-07-03 Thread Philipp Kern
On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 08:57:56PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: Did something change to peri? I'm currently only seeing them on penalosa. UP kernel, maybe? Kind regards, Philipp Kern -- .''`. Philipp KernDebian Developer : :' : http://philkern.de

Re: HPPA and Squeeze

2009-07-03 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 09:28:00PM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 08:57:56PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: Did something change to peri? I'm currently only seeing them on penalosa. UP kernel, maybe? Both peri and penalosa run 2.6.29-2-parisc64-smp and from what I can tell

Re: HPPA and Squeeze

2009-06-27 Thread Martin
On Thu, 2009-06-25 at 10:10 +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: Mike Hommey schrieb: On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 01:32:09AM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: Luk Claes schrieb: Matthias Klose wrote: Grant Grundler schrieb: On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 08:49:26AM +0200, Luk Claes wrote: Grant Grundler

Re: HPPA and Squeeze

2009-06-25 Thread Matthias Klose
Mike Hommey schrieb: On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 01:32:09AM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: Luk Claes schrieb: Matthias Klose wrote: Grant Grundler schrieb: On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 08:49:26AM +0200, Luk Claes wrote: Grant Grundler wrote: On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 03:07:35PM +0100, Neil McGovern

Re: HPPA and Squeeze

2009-06-24 Thread Matthias Klose
Luk Claes schrieb: Matthias Klose wrote: Grant Grundler schrieb: On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 08:49:26AM +0200, Luk Claes wrote: Grant Grundler wrote: On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 03:07:35PM +0100, Neil McGovern wrote: http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2009/04/msg00303.html Note that

Re: HPPA and Squeeze

2009-06-24 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 01:32:09AM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: Luk Claes schrieb: Matthias Klose wrote: Grant Grundler schrieb: On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 08:49:26AM +0200, Luk Claes wrote: Grant Grundler wrote: On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 03:07:35PM +0100, Neil McGovern wrote:

Re: HPPA and Squeeze

2009-06-21 Thread Carlos O'Donell
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Aurelien Jarnoaurel...@aurel32.net wrote: On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 09:08:37PM +0200, Helge Deller wrote: On 06/16/2009 08:25 AM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: On 15/06/09 at 11:31 -0600, Grant Grundler wrote: PS: if you want an HPPA-specific issue to play with,

Re: HPPA and Squeeze

2009-06-20 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 05:15:26PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: So it's my understanding that the porters have no idea about the problems. So I will start to mail you about problems as soon as I see them and they look like porting issues specific to hppa. netgen fails to built with an internal

Re: HPPA and Squeeze

2009-06-20 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 05:15:26PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: So it's my understanding that the porters have no idea about the problems. So I will start to mail you about problems as soon as I see them and they look like porting issues specific to hppa. Ruby1.9 hangs in test_thread.rb and

Re: HPPA and Squeeze

2009-06-20 Thread Thibaut VARENE
On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 4:39 PM, Kurt Roeckxk...@roeckx.be wrote: On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 05:15:26PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: So it's my understanding that the porters have no idea about the problems.  So I will start to mail you about problems as soon as I see them and they look like porting

Re: HPPA and Squeeze

2009-06-20 Thread John David Anglin
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 05:15:26PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: So it's my understanding that the porters have no idea about the problems. So I will start to mail you about problems as soon as I see them and they look like porting issues specific to hppa. netgen fails to built with an

Re: HPPA and Squeeze

2009-06-20 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 12:02:54PM -0400, John David Anglin wrote: On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 05:15:26PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: So it's my understanding that the porters have no idea about the problems. So I will start to mail you about problems as soon as I see them and they look like

Re: HPPA and Squeeze

2009-06-20 Thread Grant Grundler
On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 07:48:38PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: ... I know how to file gcc bugs. I've just filed one. I didn't have time to try and reduce the testcase, and I can't try different versions of g++ yet. I've asked to have different versions installed on paer. The bug report is

Re: HPPA and Squeeze

2009-06-20 Thread John David Anglin
I've never been able to file any (non-automated) bug report in 5 minutes. And if you don't even have direct access to the hardware it takes longer. I agree. I'm trying to build netgen here too and if the ICE is easy to reproduce, can make that available to danglin and add to the

Re: HPPA and Squeeze

2009-06-20 Thread John David Anglin
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 05:15:26PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: Here is a list of packages that failed to build because of instability on the buildds today: package | buildd | error qgit| penalosa | make: *** [install] Segmentation fault acpica-unix | peri | make: ***

Re: HPPA and Squeeze

2009-06-20 Thread Grant Grundler
On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 06:25:20PM -0400, John David Anglin wrote: I've never been able to file any (non-automated) bug report in 5 minutes. And if you don't even have direct access to the hardware it takes longer. I agree. I'm trying to build netgen here too and if the ICE is easy

Re: HPPA and Squeeze

2009-06-20 Thread John David Anglin
I've pretty much localized the problem. It's a GCC middle-end bug. The problem is in passing a complex double from a thunk. The hppa specification says that values larger than 64 bits are passed by reference in the 32-bit runtime. However, the value is in a pair of registers and not

HPPA and Squeeze

2009-06-19 Thread Luk Claes
Hmm... It's right that some of my comments are rather harsh, though you must know that I'm not speaking from a personal perspective. Personally (and as Release Manager), I would be very happy to have a good working hppa port for Squeeze and beyond. I made sure that the hppa port was included

Re: HPPA and Squeeze

2009-06-19 Thread Kurt Roeckx
not speaking from a personal perspective. Personally (and as Release Manager), I would be very happy to have a good working hppa port for Squeeze and beyond. I made sure that the hppa port was included into Lenny even when the Debian System Administrators (DSA), package maintainers, release team

Re: HPPA and Squeeze

2009-06-19 Thread Philipp Kern
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 05:15:26PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: Here is a list of packages that failed to build because of instability on the buildds today: package | buildd | error qgit| penalosa | make: *** [install] Segmentation fault acpica-unix | peri | make: *** [install]

Re: HPPA and Squeeze

2009-06-18 Thread Luk Claes
Matthias Klose wrote: Grant Grundler schrieb: On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 08:49:26AM +0200, Luk Claes wrote: Grant Grundler wrote: On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 03:07:35PM +0100, Neil McGovern wrote: http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2009/04/msg00303.html Note that it's wrong to assume we

Re: HPPA and Squeeze

2009-06-18 Thread Luk Claes
John David Anglin wrote: Grant Grundler schrieb: On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 08:49:26AM +0200, Luk Claes wrote: Grant Grundler wrote: I can understand the desire to trim architectures. However, it's clear the current decision was based on some misinformation, and an unclear rational. There is

Re: HPPA and Squeeze

2009-06-18 Thread Randolph Chung
considering dropping support for HPPA in Squeeze. Please reconsider. randolph -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: HPPA and Squeeze

2009-06-18 Thread Thibaut VARENE
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 8:33 AM, Luk Claesl...@debian.org wrote: John David Anglin wrote: Grant Grundler schrieb: On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 08:49:26AM +0200, Luk Claes wrote: Grant Grundler wrote: I can understand the desire to trim architectures.  However, it's clear the current decision was

Re: HPPA and Squeeze

2009-06-18 Thread John David Anglin
It's very easy to tell there is nothing wrong when you don't have to deal with unreliable build daemons, endless discussions but no visible progress (except for java support) and complaints from DSA, package maintainers and others. The problem with the build daemons may be a buggy version of

Re: HPPA and Squeeze

2009-06-18 Thread Luk Claes
Thibaut VARENE wrote: On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 8:33 AM, Luk Claesl...@debian.org wrote: John David Anglin wrote: Grant Grundler schrieb: On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 08:49:26AM +0200, Luk Claes wrote: Grant Grundler wrote: I can understand the desire to trim architectures. However, it's clear

Re: HPPA and Squeeze

2009-06-18 Thread Luk Claes
Randolph Chung wrote: Luk, There is no desire to trim working architectures. It's very easy to tell there is nothing wrong when you don't have to deal with unreliable build daemons, endless discussions but no visible progress (except for java support) and complaints from DSA, package

Re: HPPA and Squeeze

2009-06-17 Thread Carlos O'Donell
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Aurelien Jarnoaurel...@aurel32.net wrote: On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 09:08:37PM +0200, Helge Deller wrote: On 06/16/2009 08:25 AM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: On 15/06/09 at 11:31 -0600, Grant Grundler wrote: PS: if you want an HPPA-specific issue to play with,

Re: HPPA and Squeeze

2009-06-17 Thread Grant Grundler
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 05:13:44PM -0600, dann frazier wrote: On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 12:01:31AM +0100, Stephen Gran wrote: This one time, at band camp, dann frazier said: Are we still having random segfaults on paer? If so - that's be a good one to resolve. Not sure if DSA would be

Re: HPPA and Squeeze

2009-06-17 Thread Matthias Klose
Grant Grundler schrieb: On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 08:49:26AM +0200, Luk Claes wrote: Grant Grundler wrote: +linux-parisc (hppa kernel, compiler and !debian tech forum) Neil, thanks for the summary. I know this is an unpleasant business in general. On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 03:07:35PM +0100,

Re: HPPA and Squeeze

2009-06-17 Thread John David Anglin
Grant Grundler schrieb: On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 08:49:26AM +0200, Luk Claes wrote: Grant Grundler wrote: +linux-parisc (hppa kernel, compiler and !debian tech forum) Neil, thanks for the summary. I know this is an unpleasant business in general. On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 03:07:35PM

Re: HPPA and Squeeze

2009-06-16 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 15/06/09 at 11:31 -0600, Grant Grundler wrote: I was expecting a summary of specific issues from an organization that claims to operate transperently. The hand waving is easy. But doesn't resolve problems and doesn't meet my expectation of an open organization that I've donated money,

Re: HPPA and Squeeze

2009-06-16 Thread Aurelien Jarno
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 09:08:37PM +0200, Helge Deller wrote: On 06/16/2009 08:25 AM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: On 15/06/09 at 11:31 -0600, Grant Grundler wrote: PS: if you want an HPPA-specific issue to play with,

Re: HPPA and Squeeze

2009-06-16 Thread Helge Deller
On 06/16/2009 08:25 AM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: On 15/06/09 at 11:31 -0600, Grant Grundler wrote: PS: if you want an HPPA-specific issue to play with, http://experimental.debian.net/fetch.php?pkg=ruby1.9ver=1.9.0.1-5arch=hppastamp=1213563978file=logas=raw might be a good candidate. In reality

Re: HPPA and Squeeze

2009-06-16 Thread Grant Grundler
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 08:25:31AM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: ... BTW, that firewall was reviewed and approved by Lamont (a pretty well known DD and buildd maintainer). Thibaut Varene (who is a DD) has offered to host HPPA buildd machines as well but hasn't heard any response to that

Re: HPPA and Squeeze

2009-06-16 Thread dann frazier
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 02:50:27PM -0600, Grant Grundler wrote: On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 08:25:31AM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: ... BTW, that firewall was reviewed and approved by Lamont (a pretty well known DD and buildd maintainer). Thibaut Varene (who is a DD) has offered to host

Re: HPPA and Squeeze

2009-06-16 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, dann frazier said: Are we still having random segfaults on paer? If so - that's be a good one to resolve. Not sure if DSA would be willing to grant (heh) you access to that box, or if we should try running a dummy buildd on another rp2470. We're running paer on a

Re: HPPA and Squeeze

2009-06-16 Thread dann frazier
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 12:01:31AM +0100, Stephen Gran wrote: This one time, at band camp, dann frazier said: Are we still having random segfaults on paer? If so - that's be a good one to resolve. Not sure if DSA would be willing to grant (heh) you access to that box, or if we should try

Re: HPPA and Squeeze

2009-06-15 Thread Grant Grundler
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 08:49:26AM +0200, Luk Claes wrote: Grant Grundler wrote: +linux-parisc (hppa kernel, compiler and !debian tech forum) Neil, thanks for the summary. I know this is an unpleasant business in general. On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 03:07:35PM +0100, Neil McGovern

Re: HPPA and Squeeze

2009-06-14 Thread dann frazier
On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 08:29:14PM +0200, Thibaut VARENE wrote: On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 5:35 PM, dann frazierda...@dannf.org wrote: On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 09:16:25AM -0500, James Bottomley wrote: It seems to be related to what machine you actually have. And the load - buildds for

Re: HPPA and Squeeze

2009-06-14 Thread Thibaut VARENE
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 5:35 PM, dann frazierda...@dannf.org wrote: On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 09:16:25AM -0500, James Bottomley wrote: It seems to be related to what machine you actually have. And the load - buildds for unstable seem to trip over issues that we don't see elsewhere. Workload

Re: HPPA and Squeeze

2009-06-13 Thread Brian Szymanski
dann frazier wrote: On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 09:16:25AM -0500, James Bottomley wrote: Just to say that I'm personally not so unhappy with deb hppa, and that not everything is bad. I think the main class of problem machines are anything with SMP ... unfortunately, I don't have one,

Re: HPPA and Squeeze

2009-06-12 Thread Luk Claes
Grant Grundler wrote: +linux-parisc (hppa kernel, compiler and !debian tech forum) Neil, thanks for the summary. I know this is an unpleasant business in general. On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 03:07:35PM +0100, Neil McGovern wrote: Hi, As mentioned previously[0], the release team haven't been

Re: HPPA and Squeeze

2009-06-12 Thread Bart Schelstraete
Hello all, Everybody is talking about the 'random crashes' and 'segfaults' in the HPPA version. Over here I'm using the hppa on a small HP-UX workstation, and that has an uptime of 542 days!. So it's not that unstable. I even need to say that I had a lot more crashes with the x86 version then

Re: HPPA and Squeeze

2009-06-12 Thread Bart Schelstraete
Hello all, Everybody is talking about the 'random crashes' and 'segfaults' in the HPPA version. Over here I'm using the hppa on a small HP-UX workstation, and that has an uptime of 542 days!. So it's not that unstable. I even need to say that I had a lot more crashes with the x86 version

Re: HPPA and Squeeze

2009-06-12 Thread James Bottomley
On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 09:55 +0200, Bart Schelstraete wrote: Hello all, Everybody is talking about the 'random crashes' and 'segfaults' in the HPPA version. Over here I'm using the hppa on a small HP-UX workstation, and that has an uptime of 542 days!. So it's not that unstable. I even

Re: HPPA and Squeeze

2009-06-12 Thread dann frazier
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 09:16:25AM -0500, James Bottomley wrote: On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 09:55 +0200, Bart Schelstraete wrote: Hello all, Everybody is talking about the 'random crashes' and 'segfaults' in the HPPA version. Over here I'm using the hppa on a small HP-UX workstation, and