[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1718227] Re: replacement of ifupdown with netplan needs integration for /etc/network/if{up, down}.d scripts

2019-11-11 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
** No longer affects: epoptes (Ubuntu) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to ubuntu-fan in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1718227 Title: replacement of ifupdown with netplan needs integration for

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 183303] Re: Can't create new wireless network using mac80211 based drivers

2019-10-03 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
** No longer affects: ltsp (Ubuntu) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/183303 Title: Can't create new wireless network using mac80211 based drivers Status in

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1815172] Re: [bionic] drm/i915: softpin broken, needs to be fixed for 32bit mesa

2019-09-16 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Hi Timo, if I remember correctly, there were some schools that were affected by this issue, but I wasn't able to reproduce it in the office due to lack of similar hardware. Unfortunately it's not easy to check which were those schools; but I can keep an eye on this issue, in case I hear about

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1840945] Re: Mixed compression initrds partially work

2019-08-24 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
** Description changed: - Concatenating multiple initrds works fine with gzipped initrds. - (microcode+gzip+gzip) => the kernel properly decompresses that + Updated description: - With lz4, it can't decompress anything after the first lz4: - (microcode+lz4+whatever) => it doesn't decompress

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1840945] Re: Mixed compression initrds partially work

2019-08-24 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
** Summary changed: - Concatenated lz4 initrds don't work + Mixed compression initrds partially work -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1840945 Title: Mixed compression

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1840945] Re: Concatenated lz4 initrds don't work

2019-08-23 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
@xnox, thank you, in #3 I was testing date.img as a plain cpio without compression, while with your updated lz4/xz commands, it appears that when date.img matches the compression of initrd.img, then it works fine. So the problem only happens when mixed compressions are used. Btw, the reason I

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1840945] Re: Concatenated lz4 initrds don't work

2019-08-23 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
I tried all the COMPRESS= methods available in /etc/initramfs- tools/initramfs.conf in both eoan and bionic. For each one, I ran: date > date.txt echo date.txt | cpio -oH newc > date.img update-initramfs -u cat initrd.lz4 date.img > initrd.img kvm -m 512 -kernel vmlinuz -initrd initrd.img -append

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1840945] Re: Concatenated lz4 initrds don't work

2019-08-21 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
This is about loading the kernel/initrd, so running apport-collect on the host won't provide any useful info, and running it inside the initramfs isn't possible. ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1840945] [NEW] Concatenated lz4 initrds don't work

2019-08-21 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Public bug reported: Concatenating multiple initrds works fine with gzipped initrds. (microcode+gzip+gzip) => the kernel properly decompresses that With lz4, it can't decompress anything after the first lz4: (microcode+lz4+whatever) => it doesn't decompress whatever. To reproduce: Get vmlinuz

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1411330] Re: vmlinuz permissions

2019-05-17 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 759725 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/759725 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 759725 The kernel is no longer readable by non-root users -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 759725] Re: The kernel is no longer readable by non-root users

2019-05-17 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
This forces us to run tftpd as root, to serve $CHROOT/boot to netboot clients, so it's actually LESS secure than it was before the change. Applying the stat workaround isn't always easy; sometimes $CHROOT/boot comes from a read-only loopback image. Also note that initrd.img, which may actually

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1411330] Re: vmlinuz permissions

2019-05-17 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
This affects the ltsp.org project too; tftp can't access this file and we don't want to run tftpd as root for better security, so we end up copying vmlinuz to a dedicated tftp folder just for the Ubuntu use case. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1815172] Re: Black screen on skylake after 18.0 => 18.2 update

2019-03-13 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Exactly. I did the "verification-done-bionic" step for 18.2.2 in comment #12 above; and unfortunately I don't have an affected school nearby, where I could test 18.2.8 in cosmic, and installing cosmic in a remote school would be hard. Thanks a lot Timo! -- You received this bug notification

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1815172]

2019-02-14 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Just correcting a wrong comment (#2) I made: > It happens on both 32bit and 64bit installations. I asked the school that reported the issue on 64bit to check again, and they said they have a 32bit installation after all. So the problem has only been reported in 32bit installations; I don't know

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1815172]

2019-02-09 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
I tried a small kernel bisection using the ubuntu kernel binaries, 4.19.2-041902=fails, 4.19.3-041903=works -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1815172 Title: Black screen on

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1815172]

2019-02-09 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Hello Sergii, I tried with 4.20.7 and it appears to work fine! Thanks! Output of the commands: # uname -a Linux srv-6gym-chalk 4.20.7-042007-generic #201902061234 SMP Wed Feb 6 17:49:39 UTC 2019 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux # file /usr/bin/glxinfo /usr/bin/glxinfo: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object,

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1815172]

2019-02-09 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
I don't know the software stacks involved: If I understood it correctly, mesa 18.3.3 doesn't work with older kernels while 18.0 did work, and so I'll do a bisection to see which kernel commit fixes the issue, and then distro kernel maintainers may cherrypick it for older kernels. If there's no

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1815172]

2019-02-09 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
I just tried with 4.18.0-14-generic, the same issue happens there as well. And, another school reported the issue on HD Graphics 630: root@pc02:~# lspci -nn -k | grep -A 2 VGA 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation HD Graphics 630 [8086:5912] (rev 04) Subsystem:

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1815172] Re: Black screen on skylake after 18.0 => 18.2 update

2019-02-08 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
I verify that the bionic-proposed package addresses the issue. Tested in: # lspci -nn -k | grep -A 2 VGA 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation HD Graphics 630 [8086:5912] (rev 04) Subsystem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd HD Graphics 630 [1458:d000] Kernel

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1650337] Re: unknown filesystem efivarfs

2018-11-01 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
** Package changed: linux-lts-xenial (Ubuntu) => linux-signed (Ubuntu) ** Changed in: linux-signed (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Low ** Changed in: linux-signed (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages,

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1718227] Re: replacement of ifupdown with netplan needs integration for /etc/network/if{up, down}.d scripts

2018-03-29 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
For the maintainers of the affected packages to be able to help in this issue, addressing the main question already stated above would be most helpful: To support netplan, do we have to implement netlink events listeners ourselves? I'm not sure all maintainers are willing to do that. Or is there

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1745118] Re: Unable to boot with i386 4.13.0-25 / 4.13.0-26 / 4.13.0-31 kernel on Xenial / Artful

2018-02-01 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
I had bisected this issue and I had reported upstream on 19 Jan: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198529. I verify that the patch/test kernel by wgrant works fine here. Thanks a lot! ** Bug watch added: Linux Kernel Bug Tracker #198529

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 696435] Re: wait-for-root fails to detect nbd root

2017-11-11 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
I'm the bug reporter, and I have a problem in doing the verification. a) The initial testcase that I reported happens in both 4.4 unpatched and 4.10. I.e. the bug that I reported is not yet fixed. b) Some Ubuntu developer wrote a new testcase as part of doing the SRU. I cannot reproduce that

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1259861] Re: 5-10 second delay in kernel boot with kernel command line ip=

2016-03-22 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
apw uploaded a test kernel without CONFIG_IP_PNP in http://people.canonical.com/~apw/lp1259861-xenial/. I tested it with "ip=dhcp break=top" and it didn't have the 10 sec delay. Thanks a lot Andy! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1259861] Re: 5-10 second delay in kernel boot with kernel command line ip=

2016-03-21 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
$ for d in karmic lucid maverick natty oneiric precise quantal raring saucy trusty utopic vivid wily xenial; do echo "$d: $(wget -q http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/configs/$d/i386-config.flavour.generic -O - | grep -w CONFIG_IP_PNP)" done karmic: lucid: maverick: natty: #

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1259861] Re: 5-10 second delay in kernel boot with kernel command line ip=

2016-03-21 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
> TJ (tj) wrote 9 hours ago:#26 > Originally introduced into the Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy) configuration with commit > 301b4bb > UBUNTU: rebase to v3.10-rc4 TJ, that doesn't match my tests as mentioned in comment #21, i.e. that I see the issue since kernel 3.8, and that

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1259861] Re: 5-10 second delay in kernel boot

2016-03-20 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
I think the upstream commit that set CONFIG_IP_PNP=y is this: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/c1b362e3b4d331a63915b268a33207311a439d60#diff-364c3610ebc6899c22148ba10636c71c Ubuntu and openSUSE now have CONFIG_IP_PNP=y and experience the issue. Debian and Fedora do not have CONFIG_IP_PNP

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1259861] Re: 5-10 second delay in kernel boot

2016-03-20 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
The problem is not there in Ubuntu 12.04.2 (kernel 3.5.0-54) and it is there in Ubuntu 12.04.3 (kernel 3.8.0-44). My test case is to boot with ip=dhcp break=top. When the problem doesn't exist, I get an initramfs prompt in 2 seconds, when it exists I get it in 12 seconds, and that shows up in

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1259861] Re: 5-10 second delay in kernel boot

2016-03-19 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
@rhansen, sorry, it turns out you were right! ip= is what's causing my kernel delay. I even tried without an initramfs to verify it, and it caused 10 seconds of delay before the kernel panic because of the missing initramfs. I'll try to gather more info about it. -- You received this bug

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1259861] Re: 5-10 second delay in kernel boot

2016-03-19 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
@rhansen, your bug might be a different one, since ip=dhcp is processed by the initramfs, while I'm talking about the kernel, before the initramfs gets to run. The bug is still there in Xenial. I noticed that it doesn't happen in all hardware; I've seen it in *some* real clients and under

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 345374] Re: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 191 Gigabit Ethernet

2015-01-19 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Expired = Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/345374 Title: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 191 Gigabit Ethernet

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1259861] Re: 5-10 second delay in kernel boot

2014-06-15 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Yes it's still happening on 3.13.0-29-generic. [3.912539] random: nonblocking pool is initialized [ 19.999335] Adding 3957756k swap on /dev/sda7. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:3957756k FS ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete = Confirmed ** Tags removed:

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1259861] Re: 5-10 second delay in kernel boot

2014-02-25 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
@penalvch: as I mention in comment #6, the kernel-fixed-upstream tag is not appropriate because this was never an upstream bug, so nothing was fixed upstream. It's an ubuntu-specific bug, so upstream is not related at all to this bug and shouldn't appear in any tags. The needs-kernel-logs tag

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1259861] Re: 5-10 second delay in kernel boot

2014-02-18 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
I think anyone can just run `dmesg` and verify that the bug exists in all recent Ubuntu kernels and in none of the vanilla or Debian kernels. I don't know why the logs are important here. I don't think there's any point in closing bugs just to lower the bug count (which means nothing if the bugs

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1259861] Re: 5-10 second delay in kernel boot

2014-02-18 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
@penlalvch: I was asked in #ubuntu-kernel to file this bug report so that they can assign someone to work on it. If you keep adding it needs this and that tags, then this bug report appears to be incomplete, and no developer will start working on it until I satisfy/remove the tags. But as I keep

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 853244] Re: 8086:0046 Acer Aspire 5742Z brightness keys not working

2013-12-26 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Hi Christopher, as mentioned in my other kernel related bug reports I just didn't know that launchpad wasn't the appropriate place to report kernel bugs. So for some of my bug reports I provided feedback for 3-4 years and the only result I got was the occasional can we close it now? answer. I'll

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1262287] [NEW] SSH sockets on overlayfs report connection refused

2013-12-18 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Public bug reported: Reusing a master ssh socket that is created on an overlayfs mount reports connection refused, while on real filesystems or on tmpfs it works fine. Steps to reproduce (/var is ext4, /tmp is tmpfs.): # mkdir -p /var/overlayfs-socket # cd /var/overlayfs-socket # mkdir root rofs

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1262287] Re: SSH sockets on overlayfs report connection refused

2013-12-18 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
AFAIK, overlayfs is not mainlined yet. The problem I reported exists in the Ubuntu patched kernels of at least Precise, Raring and Trusty though. ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete = Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 338328] Re: Acer Aspire 5920G - some Fn keys not working

2013-12-17 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
-- append key=input.keymap.data type=strliste078:fn/append !-- Fn key -- append key=input.keymap.data type=strliste079:f23/append !-- Launch NTI shadow -- Kind regards, Alkis Georgopoulos --- AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.21

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1259861] [NEW] 5-10 second delay in kernel boot

2013-12-11 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Public bug reported: In Trusty I see a big delay while the kernel boots that I did not see back in Precise. Some people have been experiencing this in Saucy too, so I don't know exactly when it started happening. Excerpt from dmesg: [3.740100] Switched to clocksource tsc [ 14.208118] PM:

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1259861] Re: 5-10 second delay in kernel boot

2013-12-11 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
...ignoring the bot and changing the state back to New, as the exact kernel version doesn't matter... ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete = New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu.

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1259861] Re: 5-10 second delay in kernel boot

2013-12-11 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Changing to confirmed to satisfy the bot. :) ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete = Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1259861 Title: 5-10

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1259861] Re: 5-10 second delay in kernel boot

2013-12-11 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
I just tested with linux- image-3.13.0-031300rc3-generic_3.13.0-031300rc3.201312061335_i386.deb, it doesn't happen there. I don't think I should put the 'kernel-fixed-upstream' tag as the problem might be in some Ubuntu-specific kernel patch or configuration option that's been around for a couple

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 853244] Re: Acer Aspire 5742Z brightness keys not working

2013-11-17 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Hi! No, updating the BIOS didn't change anything at all. $ sudo dmidecode -s bios-version sudo dmidecode -s bios-release-date V1.30 08/13/2012 I tried both with the raring kernel (3.8.0-33-generic ) on my Precise system, and with a Trusty daily live CD, with the same results as usual. Summary: