Re: libbpf distro packaging

[Julia Kartseva]

Hi Jiri,

systemd folks published libbpf CentOS 7 package in systemd corp repo: [1],
so guess that proves that deps from other repo are fine.

Rebuild is fairly simple: [2]

[1] 
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/mrc0mmand/systemd-centos-ci/build/1053694/
[2] https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/13744#issuecomment-541168076

On 10/8/19, 12:40 AM, "Jiri Olsa"  wrote:
>
> On Mon, Oct 07, 2019 at 12:25:51AM +, Julia Kartseva wrote:
> > 
> > I wonder what are the steps to make libbpf available for CentOS {7|8} as 
> > well?
> > One (likely the quickest) way to do that is to publish it to Fedora's EPEL 
> > [1].
> > 
> > I have a little concern about dependencies, namely elfutils-libelf-devel 
> > and 
> > elfutils-devel are sourced directly by CentOS repos, e.g. [2], not sure if 
> > dependencies from another repo are fine.
> > 
> > Thoughts? Thanks!
>
> I think that should be ok, I'll ask around and let you know
>
> jirka

Bug#941946: resolution

[Peter Upton]

Bug no longer occurs after BIOS update.
Looks like this was a bug with the bios and not Debian.

Re: RTL 8169 driver

[Nicolas Schier]

On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 09:22:20PM +0200, Nicolas Schier wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> (see below for my comment/question)
> 
> On Thu, Oct 03, 2019 at 09:45:10PM -0300, Werner Horsch wrote:
> > Package linux-headers-4.19.0-6-amd64
> > 
> > I'm writing to you after looking for days on a solution to a boot error I'm
> > experiencing with the ethernet board on two machines, both have the same
> > board provider. Both ran Mint in the past with no issues at all
> > 
> > [ [0;1;31mFAILED [0m] Failed to start [0;1;39mRaise network interfaces [0m.
> > See 'systemctl status networking.service' for details.
> > 
> > I enabled the use of nonfree repositories so as to get RTL drivers, tried
> > several things out with no success at all. I inspect a 3rd box which has
> > the same RTL board but runs LinuxMint flawless, the only difference I could
> > see is that has a different kernel
> > 
> > Here some outputs that may help
> > werner@G42 ~ $ lspci | egrep -i --color 'network|ethernet'
> > 02:00.0 Network controller: Ralink corp. RT3090 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe
> > 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101/2/6E
> > PCI Express Fast/Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 02)
> > 
> > $ sudo journalctl -xe
> > -- Support: https://www.debian.org/support
> > -- 
> > -- An ExecStart= process belonging to unit networking.service has exited.
> > -- 
> > -- The process' exit code is 'exited' and its exit status is 1.
> > Oct 01 22:13:52 G42 systemd[1]: networking.service: Failed with result
> > 'exit-cod
> > -- Subject: Unit failed
> > -- Defined-By: systemd
> > -- Support: https://www.debian.org/support
> > -- 
> > -- The unit networking.service has entered the 'failed' state with result
> > 'exit-
> > Oct 01 22:13:52 G42 systemd[1]: Failed to start Raise network interfaces.
> > -- Subject: A start job for unit networking.service has failed
> > -- Defined-By: systemd
> > -- Support: https://www.debian.org/support
> > 
> > 
> > $ sudo systemctl status networking.service
> > ● networking.service - Raise network interfaces
> > Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/networking.service; enabled; vendor
> > prese
> > Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Tue 2019-10-01 22:17:42 -03; 29s
> > ago
> > Docs: man:interfaces(5)
> > Process: 1904 ExecStart=/sbin/ifup -a --read-environment (code=exited,
> > status=
> > Main PID: 1904 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
> > 
> > Oct 01 22:17:42 G42 systemd[1]: Starting Raise network interfaces...
> > Oct 01 22:17:42 G42 ifup[1904]: Cannot find device "eth0"
> > Oct 01 22:17:42 G42 ifup[1904]: ifup: failed to bring up eth0
> > Oct 01 22:17:42 G42 systemd[1]: networking.service: Main process exited,
> > code=ex
> > Oct 01 22:17:42 G42 systemd[1]: networking.service: Failed with result
> > 'exit-cod
> > Oct 01 22:17:42 G42 systemd[1]: Failed to start Raise network interfaces.
> > 
> > I appreciate any advice
> 
> on a freshly installed system I would not expect any network device
> being named 'eth*'.  Is your /etc/network/interfaces (or corresponding)
> auto-generated?  It might give a clue if you would forward the output of
> 'ip link'.
> 

FTR: solution has been found (offlist); there had been a mismatch
between the actual device name (enpXXX) and the /etc/network/interfaces*
stanza (eth0).

Bug#942173: firmware-amd-graphics: seg fault with ati picasso grafic card and libqt5 software

[Claudia Neumann]

Package: firmware-amd-graphics
Version: 20190717-2~bpo10+1
Severity: important



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.1
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.2.0-0.bpo.2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), 
LANGUAGE=de:en_US (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

firmware-amd-graphics depends on no packages.

firmware-amd-graphics recommends no packages.

Versions of packages firmware-amd-graphics suggests:
ii  initramfs-tools  0.133+deb10u1

-- no debconf information

program using libqt5 crashes, see crash report.
The same program has no problems on debian buster with intel grafic cards or 
older 
ati grafic cards. 
The same problem occurs with certain nvidia grafic cards.


grafic card:
45: PCI 2a00.0: 0300 VGA compatible controller (VGA)
  [Created at pci.386]
  Unique ID: CvqU.ZnnDY2ASNb1
  Parent ID: JZZT.A_VqgZKlSp2
  SysFS ID: /devices/pci:00/:00:08.1/:2a:00.0
  SysFS BusID: :2a:00.0
  Hardware Class: graphics card
  Model: "ATI Picasso"
  Vendor: pci 0x1002 "ATI Technologies Inc"
  Device: pci 0x15d8 "Picasso"
  SubVendor: pci 0x1462 "Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI]"
  SubDevice: pci 0x7b84 
  Revision: 0xc8
  Driver: "amdgpu"
  Driver Modules: "amdgpu"
  Memory Range: 0xe000-0xefff (ro,non-prefetchable)
  Memory Range: 0xf000-0xf01f (ro,non-prefetchable)
  I/O Ports: 0xe000-0xefff (rw)
  Memory Range: 0xfcb0-0xfcb7 (rw,non-prefetchable)
  Memory Range: 0x000c-0x000d (rw,non-prefetchable,disabled)
  IRQ: 71 (451696 events)
  Module Alias: "pci:v1002d15D8sv1462sd7B84bc03sc00i00"
  Driver Info #0:
Driver Status: amdgpu is active
Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe amdgpu"
  Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
  Attached to: #32 (PCI bridge)

crash report:
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libthread_db.so.1".
[New Thread 0x711cc700 (LWP 6135)]
[New Thread 0x7fffe9f17700 (LWP 6136)]
[New Thread 0x7fffe3fff700 (LWP 6138)]

Thread 1 "hbftp64.unx" received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x7fffd90d9a21 in ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libLLVM-7.so.1
#0  0x7fffd90d9a21 in ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libLLVM-7.so.1
#1  0x7fffd8f646f4 in llvm::ManagedStaticBase::RegisterManagedStatic(void* 
(*)(), void (*)(void*)) const () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libLLVM-7.so.1
#2  0x7fffd90d90df in llvm::PassRegistry::getPassRegistry() () from 
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libLLVM-7.so.1
#3  0x7fffd90d1134 in 
llvm::PassNameParser::PassNameParser(llvm::cl::Option&) () from 
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libLLVM-7.so.1
#4  0x7fffd8e585c3 in ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libLLVM-7.so.1
#5  0x77fe437a in ?? () from /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
#6  0x77fe4476 in ?? () from /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
#7  0x77fe82d3 in ?? () from /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
#8  0x762cbb2f in _dl_catch_exception () from 
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
#9  0x77fe7bba in ?? () from /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
#10 0x77e27256 in ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2
#11 0x762cbb2f in _dl_catch_exception () from 
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
#12 0x762cbbbf in _dl_catch_error () from 
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
#13 0x77e27975 in ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2
#14 0x77e272e6 in dlopen () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2
#15 0x7fffe80c1919 in ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGLX_mesa.so.0
#16 0x7fffe80c9ce7 in ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGLX_mesa.so.0
#17 0x7fffe80b6859 in ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGLX_mesa.so.0
#18 0x7fffe80b1f64 in ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGLX_mesa.so.0
#19 0x7fffe80b297d in ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGLX_mesa.so.0
#20 0x724b99c0 in ?? () from 
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/plugins/xcbglintegrations/libqxcb-glx-integration.so
#21 0x72386358 in QXcbWindow::create() () from 
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQt5XcbQpa.so.5
#22 0x7237139e in QXcbIntegration::createPlatformWindow(QWindow*) const 
() from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQt5XcbQpa.so.5
#23 0x7720d565 in QWindowPrivate::create(bool, unsigned long long) () 
from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQt5Gui.so.5
#24 0x76644b6d in QWidgetPrivate::create_sys(unsigned long long, bool, 
bool) () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQt5Widgets.so.5
#25 0x766451ad in QWidget::create(unsigned long long, bool, bool) () 
from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQt5Widgets.so.5
#26 0x76651ff3 in QWidget::setVisible(bool) () from 
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQt5Widgets.so.5
#27 0x55642f49 in hb_vmSend (uiParams=) at 
../../../hvm.c:6115
#28 0x55640552 in hb_vmExecute