Re: Bug#983357: Bug#988776: Bug#983357: Netinst crashes xen domU when loading kernel

2021-09-21 Thread Chuck Zmudzinski
On 8/24/2021 7:12 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Tue, Aug 24, 2021 at 03:27:19PM -0400, Phillip Susi wrote: Ben Hutchings writes: I think a proper fix would be one of: a. If the Xen virtual keyboard driver is advertising capabilities it doesn't have, stop it doing that. b. Change the

Re: Bug#983357: Bug#988776: Bug#983357: Netinst crashes xen domU when loading kernel

2021-08-26 Thread Chuck Zmudzinski
On 8/24/2021 7:12 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: The current limit on the environment of a uevent appears to be 2 KB (UEVENT_BUFFER_SIZE defined in ). That seems like it *might* be easier to change, so long as user-space doesn't have a similar limit. I looked into systemd/udev, and it seems to use

Re: Bug#983357: Bug#988776: Bug#983357: Netinst crashes xen domU when loading kernel

2021-08-25 Thread Chuck Zmudzinski
On 8/25/2021 4:16 PM, Phillip Susi wrote: Chuck Zmudzinski writes: If it doesn't work, I am also willing to try approach a by patching the Linux kernel xen-kbdfront driver by removing the for loops that advertise those 654 keys. I tend to agree with Philip that this is totally unnecessary

Re: Bug#988776: Bug#983357: Netinst crashes xen domU when loading kernel

2021-08-25 Thread Chuck Zmudzinski
On 8/24/2021 7:12 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: Text-based sysfs attributes are limited to a page, but udev receives uevents through netlink, not sysfs. The current limit on the environment of a uevent appears to be 2 KB (UEVENT_BUFFER_SIZE defined in ). That seems like it *might* be easier to

Re: Bug#988776: Bug#983357: Netinst crashes xen domU when loading kernel

2021-08-25 Thread Chuck Zmudzinski
On 8/25/2021 12:45 PM, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: On 8/24/2021 7:12 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Tue, Aug 24, 2021 at 03:27:19PM -0400, Phillip Susi wrote: Ben Hutchings writes: I think a proper fix would be one of: a. If the Xen virtual keyboard driver is advertising capabilities it ��ï

Re: Bug#988776: Bug#983357: Netinst crashes xen domU when loading kernel

2021-08-25 Thread Chuck Zmudzinski
On 8/24/2021 7:12 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Tue, Aug 24, 2021 at 03:27:19PM -0400, Phillip Susi wrote: Ben Hutchings writes: I think a proper fix would be one of: a. If the Xen virtual keyboard driver is advertising capabilities it doesn't have, stop it doing that. b. Change the

Re: Bug#988776: Bug#983357: Netinst crashes xen domU when loading kernel

2021-08-24 Thread Chuck Zmudzinski
On 8/24/2021 1:12 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Tue, 2021-08-24 at 10:56 -0400, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: On 5/24/2021 3:30 AM, Michael Biebl wrote: Hi Phillip Am 24.05.2021 um 06:19 schrieb Cyril Brulebois: trigger to cold plug all devices.  Both scripts are set -e.  The Xen Virtual Keyboard

Re: Bug#983357: Netinst crashes xen domU when loading kernel

2021-08-24 Thread Chuck Zmudzinski
drivers so they are compatible with the modern version? Does the Xen virtual keyboard need to be managed by udev? Is there a simple way to disable incompatible devices so udev ignores them? Chuck Zmudzinski

Re: Bug#983357: Netinst crashes xen domU when loading kernel

2021-08-23 Thread Chuck Zmudzinski
is for. Chuck Zmudzinski