On Mon, 5 Sep 2011, Bob Tracy wrote:
> I noticed another change in "the way things are done" which is a clear
> violation of the principle of least astonishment: it appears "/var/run"
> is now symlinked to "/run" following a recent upgrade I applied. This
> broke "radvd" which wants to put its PI
On Tue, 10 Aug 2010, Bob Tracy wrote:
> On the plus side, we know it's possible to build a working 3.5.3 from
> the standard mozilla source. Is there an approved replacement for the
> gcjwebplugin functionality I had prior to the hard disk failure? If
> not, looks like another thing on my "to do
On Sat, 31 Oct 2009, Michael Cree wrote:
> Unstable may still be there for alpha, but I don't think any new binary
> packages have been built since the start of the week.
That's probably due to the FTPMaster team meeting - they've stopped
mirror updates while they are working on dak and related
Not a buildd, but [1] notes that there's an alpha porting machine waiting
for more than a year to be set up by DSA. I don't know if there's an RT
ticket, but there is a bug [2] about this, which was closed this week,
although it looks like by accident.
[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-alpha/2
On Sun, 4 Nov 2007, Gary Lee Phillips wrote:
I thought that too, but aboot.conf doesn't have any console
specification included. I checked my theory by connecting a laptop to
the serial port, though, and it seems I was right that the console is
switching to the serial port when init mode 2 com
On Thu, 1 Nov 2007, Tom Evans wrote:
I remember this process for Etch - what will need to be done to re-certify
Alpha for the next Debian release?
I've created http://wiki.debian.org/alphaLennyReleaseRecertification from
the template. Sections that needs work include:
Availability
Developer
determine whether or not to load partman-md. And since it's a fresh
partition that's been created there's no md signature to detect.
James Andrewartha
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On Fri, 6 Apr 2007, Ulrich Teichert wrote:
>>I'm investigating using Debian-alpha to replace tru64 unix on our
>> DS-20 & Alpha 1200 servers (old iron for sure). During installation of
>> Debian 3.1r0a for alpha when I arrive at disk partitioning I don't see
>> options for LVM or RAID type pa
would be given to people planning to use it for something
Debian-related, but so long as it's going to get used we're not really
fussed where it ends up.
James Andrewartha
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On Wed, 13 Dec 2006, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
>>> May be it is running out of space for per cpu area. You can try by
>>> increasing the PERCPU_ENOUGH_ROOM in include/linux/percpu.h and see if
>>> get pass. I looked other 64 bit archs x86_64 and ia64 and they both have
>>> different value. May be al
Hi all,
Some of you may be aware that SMP has been broken on Alpha for most of
2.6. As of linux-image-2.6.18-3-smp, I'm pleased to report that it boots
and runs acceptably because scsi_mod is compiled in (bug 369517). However,
things like ip_conntrack and ipv6 are still broken - inserting them
On Mon, 3 Apr 2006, Emmanuel Kasper wrote:
> A propos SRM is it possible to set SRM environment variables from a running
> OS, like on sun's sparc ?
You can load the srm_en module which creates /proc/srm_environment,
although some variables (particularly ones which specify disk devices) are
no
On Wed, 29 Mar 2006, Dermot Paikkos wrote:
> Compaq Alpha DS10, 1 x SCSI HDD (dsk0) with root on /dsk0a.
>
> I am trying to overwrite my Tru64 install with a fresh copy of
> debian. I am not multi-booting and would like to use all the
> available space on dsk0 for the Debian install.
>
> I have a
On Sun, 26 Feb 2006, James Andrewartha wrote:
> It boots without any of the SCSI problems and starts up the md device and
> LVM ok, just has problems because as you pointed out, 2.6.15 has no devfs.
I rebuilt yaird and kernel-package, and using them under 2.6.8 does create
a working init
On Sat, 25 Feb 2006, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 02:13:25AM +0800, James Andrewartha wrote:
>> I've hit that when trying to run a 2.6.15 compiled using the debian config
>> on a UP2000+ system (based on DP264, same as the DS20) with two EV68ALs.
On Fri, 24 Feb 2006, Steve Langasek wrote:
On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 09:47:04AM -0800, Bill MacAllister wrote:
You should be able to do that, but you will also need an initramfs generator
package, since 2.6.15 doesn't support devfs and initrd-tools depends on
devfs for operation. If you already h
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