Your message dated Sun, 15 Dec 2013 12:41:30 +0000 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Bug#671342: Removed package(s) from unstable has caused the Debian Bug report #381641, regarding Video mode change during init script disrupts fixed freq monitor to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: initscripts Version: 2.86.ds1-14.1 Part way through the boot scripts, the bottom half of the text mode display suddenly goes black and stays that way. The screen isn't compressed; the messages that have already scrolled to the top half are still there, but all the messages in the bottom half are gone until they scroll into the top half, and the cursor is gone. At the end of boot, gdm starts X Windows, and the display comes up correctly according to the custom modeline in /etc/X11/xorg.conf. During shutdown the text mode display returns, and the lower half of the screen is again black, and stays that way through shutdown. Reboot restores the display. The installed distro is Etch. This behavior began after an aptitude update some time in the last 2 weeks. Before that, the text mode display worked correctly all the way through boot, and through text-mode login when gdm was disabled. The display system is a Software Integrators Gemini P1 fixed-frequency video board based on a Tseng ET6000 chip. The monitor is an HP A1097C. The machine is a dual Athlon MP, with an unused ATI Rage chip on the motherboard. I couldn't catch the exact moment the mode change happened, because the boot messages scroll by very fast on this machine. The last message I caught was "Starting portmap daemon". In general, it's _most_ unwise for any program to touch video modes, until the user has logged in and taken control. Otherwise, there is too much risk of making the display unreadable, and making it impossible to boot into a rescue console. (gdm isn't necessarily an obstacle in this regard, because it can be disabled during initial installation by deleting /etc/rc2.d/S99gdm before gdm starts for the first time. This is an essential step when using a fixed-frequency monitor as an installation console, which requires installing a custom modeline before starting X for the first time.) $ lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-760 MP [IGD4-2P] System Controller (rev 11) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-760 MP [IGD4-2P] AGP Bridge 00:07.0 ISA bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-768 [Opus] ISA (rev 05) 00:07.1 IDE interface: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-768 [Opus] IDE (rev 04) 00:07.3 Bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-768 [Opus] ACPI (rev 03) 00:0a.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AIC-7902 U320 (rev 03) 00:0a.1 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AIC-7902 U320 (rev 03) 00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82545EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Copper) (rev 01)00:10.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-768 [Opus] PCI (rev 05) 02:00.0 USB Controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-768 [Opus] USB (rev 07) 02:04.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 0a) 02:04.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! MIDI/Game Port (rev 0a) 02:05.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905B Deluxe Etherlink 10/100/BNC [Cyclone] 02:06.0 VGA compatible controller: Tseng Labs Inc ET6000 (rev 30) 02:07.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL (rev 27) 02:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 10)
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--- Begin Message ---Version: 2:0.2.3-73+rm Dear submitter, as the package console-tools has just been removed from the Debian archive unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports. We are sorry that we couldn't deal with your issue properly. For details on the removal, please see http://bugs.debian.org/671342 The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal can still be found using http://snapshot.debian.org/. This message was generated automatically; if you believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing [email protected]. Debian distribution maintenance software pp. Joerg Jaspert (the ftpmaster behind the curtain)
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