Re: Has anybody recently done a Debian install on a playstation-3?

2010-02-18 Thread Julian Hernandez Gomez
Hello Frans,

What is the contents of /proc/cpuinfo for a PS3?
>
>
cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor   : 0
cpu : Cell Broadband Engine, altivec supported
clock   : 3192.00MHz
revision: 16.0 (pvr 0070 1000)

processor   : 1
cpu : Cell Broadband Engine, altivec supported
clock   : 3192.00MHz
revision: 16.0 (pvr 0070 1000)

timebase: 7980
platform: PS3
model   : SonyPS3




> Also, what is the output of 'archdetect' when run in a debug shell of the
> installer?
>


powerpc/ps3


I saw the following message during netboot install:

Feb 18 05:02:23 base-installer: warning: Unknown powerpc subarchitecture
'ps3'.


HTH.


Re: Has anybody recently done a Debian install on a playstation-3?

2010-02-18 Thread Julian Hernandez Gomez
Hello Otavio,

The squeeze_di_alpha1 uses this installer; so it will give you same result.
>
>
squeeze_di_alpha1 installation failed because it couldn't find the
BD/DVD/CD-ROM unit.

I got the same results as Fabiano using netboot.


> We need people to investigate the kernel issue for next release; if
> you're up to, please contact me.
>


Please let me know if I can help with this too.




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Re: Bug#564150: Is Debian on PowerPC dead? [Re: Bug still present [Re: Bug#562575: installation-reports: Buisnesscard PowerPC installer loops with Segmentation faults]]

2010-01-17 Thread Julian Hernandez Gomez
Hi,

I ran the debian-installer in another tty and here is the output (I had to
wrote it by hand due to a dhclient error)

~ # set -x
~# . /sbin/debian-installer
+ set -e
+ export MENU=/usr/bin/main-menu
+ . /lib/debian-installer.d/S20speakup
+ lsmod
+ grep -q speakup_
+ . /lib/debian-installer.d/S30term
+ . /lib/debian-installer/detect-console
+ [ -z  ]
+ readlink /proc/self/fd/0
+ TERM_TYPE=virtual
+ TERM_FRAMEBUFFER_TRY=yes
+ export TERM_TYPE
+ . /lib/debian-installer.d/S35framebuffer-linux
+ [ -n yes ]
+ [ -e /dev/fb0 ]
+ debconf-get debian-installer/framebuffer
Segmentation fault
[snip]
+ debconf-get debian-installer/theme
Segmentation fault
+ theme=
~ #


The only powerpc computer that I have (PS3) is the one that I'm trying to
install :(

maybe Rick had other machines previously installed and he could run the
cdebconf powerpc version.

--
Julian.

On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 7:38 PM, Ian Campbell  wrote:

> On Sat, 2010-01-16 at 17:56 +0800, Julian Hernandez Gomez wrote:
> > * Problem seems to be related to the changes made to cdebconf 0.146
> > (debconf-get segfault)
>
> Can you repro in a non-d-i environment with the non-udeb cdebconf? Or
> maybe by unpacking the cdebconf udeb onto your system? Or by unpacking
> an installer initrd and chrooting? (any of these will make debugging a
> lot easier).
>
> 0.145 was r59369 in d-i svn and 0.146 was r61813 so I guess you could
> have a poke/bisect through there. 59369-61813 includes lots of
> non-cdebconf changes, and many of the cdebconf changes are l10n ones
> which I reckon can be ignored on a first pass, leaving only around 20
> actual commits, assuming 0.145 is ok.
>
> Ian.
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Re: Bug#564150: Is Debian on PowerPC dead? [Re: Bug still present [Re: Bug#562575: installation-reports: Buisnesscard PowerPC installer loops with Segmentation faults]]

2010-01-16 Thread Julian Hernandez Gomez
Hi,

More hints:


* D-I 20091223-00:00 doesn't have this problem (but has other bugs related
to dhcp and then the install fails also)
* D-I 20091224-00:00 is the first image to introduce the bug.  I'm attaching
the udeb list diff for those builds.
* Problem seems to be related to the changes made to cdebconf 0.146
(debconf-get segfault)


Best regards.


On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 1:35 AM, Rick Thomas  wrote:

>
> On Jan 15, 2010, at 5:00 AM, Michel Dänzer wrote:
>
>  On Thu, 2010-01-14 at 16:23 -0500, Rick Thomas wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> This bug is still present in the "Thu Jan 14 16:08:46 UTC 2010"
>>> businesscard CD downloaded from
>>>
>>>
>>> http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/sid_d-i/arch-latest/powerpc/iso-cd/
>>>
>>> So far as I can tell, this bug has not been looked at by the debian-
>>> installer folks.
>>>
>>> Is PowerPC simply so unimportant that resources cannot be spared to
>>> even *look* at a problem that renders the installer unusable on that
>>> hardware?
>>>
>>
>> It means there hasn't been a volunteer so far. Are you volunteering?
>>
>
> Yes.  I'm volunteering to help anyone who knows the structure of the
> installer disks better than I do.
>
> I have hardware I can test things on.  I have a good general knowledge of
> Unix and Linux. I can perform experiments and report on the results.
>
> As far as diagnosing the problem: It looks like a necessary library is
> missing, but I don't have the background knowledge to figure out which one,
> and I don't have the knowledge of the installer disk build processes to
> figure out how it's getting missed, even if I knew which one it was.
>
> As it stands, unless somebody knowledgeable can help me track this down,
> Squeeze will not be available for PowerPC.
>
> That will be too bad.
>
> Rick
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--- udeb20091223.list	2010-01-12 22:08:52.0 +0800
+++ udeb20091224.list	2010-01-12 22:09:25.0 +0800
@@ -7,11 +7,11 @@
 bogl-bterm-udeb 0.1.18-3 powerpc
 brltty-udeb 4.1-3 powerpc
 busybox-udeb 1:1.14.2-2 powerpc
-cdebconf-newt-terminal 0.5 powerpc
-cdebconf-newt-udeb 0.145+b1 powerpc
-cdebconf-priority 0.145 all
-cdebconf-text-udeb 0.145+b1 powerpc
-cdebconf-udeb 0.145+b1 powerpc
+cdebconf-newt-terminal 0.6 powerpc
+cdebconf-newt-udeb 0.146 powerpc
+cdebconf-priority 0.146 all
+cdebconf-text-udeb 0.146 powerpc
+cdebconf-udeb 0.146 powerpc
 cdrom-checker 1.16 powerpc
 cdrom-core-modules-2.6.30-2-powerpc-di 1.60 powerpc
 cdrom-core-modules-2.6.30-2-powerpc64-di 1.60 powerpc
@@ -25,10 +25,10 @@
 core-modules-2.6.30-2-powerpc64-di 1.60 powerpc
 debian-archive-keyring-udeb 2009.01.31 all
 dhcp3-client-udeb 3.1.3-1 powerpc
-di-utils 1.72 powerpc
-di-utils-reboot 1.72 all
-di-utils-shell 1.72 all
-di-utils-terminfo 1.72 powerpc
+di-utils 1.73 powerpc
+di-utils-reboot 1.73 all
+di-utils-shell 1.73 all
+di-utils-terminfo 1.73 powerpc
 download-installer 1.24 all
 eject-udeb 2.1.5+deb1+cvs20081104-7 powerpc
 env-preseed 1.43 all
@@ -59,9 +59,9 @@
 kernel-image-2.6.30-2-powerpc-di 1.60 powerpc
 kernel-image-2.6.30-2-powerpc64-di 1.60 powerpc
 libblkid1-udeb 2.16.2-0 powerpc
-libdebconfclient0-udeb 0.145+b1 powerpc
+libdebconfclient0-udeb 0.146 powerpc
 libdebian-installer4-udeb 0.69 powerpc
-libfribidi0-udeb 0.10.9-1 powerpc
+libfribidi0-udeb 0.10.9-1+b1 powerpc
 libiw30-udeb 30~pre9-3 powerpc
 libnss-dns-udeb 2.10.2-2 powerpc
 libsysfs2-udeb 2.1.0-6 powerpc
@@ -69,14 +69,14 @@
 libuuid1-udeb 2.16.2-0 powerpc
 load-cdrom 1.19 all
 load-iso 1.28 all
-localechooser 2.20 powerpc
+localechooser 2.21 powerpc
 loop-modules-2.6.30-2-powerpc-di 1.60 powerpc
 lowmemcheck 1.31 powerpc
 main-menu 1.30 powerpc
 media-retriever 1.20 all
 module-init-tools-udeb 3.11-1 powerpc
 mountmedia 0.19 all
-nano-udeb 2.2.0-1 powerpc
+nano-udeb 2.2.1-1 powerpc
 net-retriever 1.24 all
 netcfg 1.51+b1 powerpc
 network-preseed 1.43 all
@@ -95,11 +95,11 @@
 pcmcia-modules-2.6.30-2-powerpc64-di 1.60 powerpc
 pcmcia-storage-modules-2.6.30-2-powerpc-di 1.60 powerpc
 pcmcia-storage-modules-2.6.30-2-powerpc64-di 1.60 powerpc
-pcmciautils-udeb 014-4 powerpc
+pcmciautils-udeb 014-4+b1 powerpc
 preseed-common 1.43 all
 reiserfs-modules-2.6.30-2-powerpc-di 1.60 powerpc
 rescue-check 1.21 all
-rootskel 1.81 powerpc
+rootskel 1.82 powerpc
 sata-modules-2.6.30-2-powerpc-di 1.60 powerpc
 save-logs 2.39 all
 scsi-common-modules-2.6.30-2-powerpc-di 1.60 powerpc