/run (was: Alpha build progress and suggestions for helping)

2011-09-05 Thread James Andrewartha
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

Re: firefox-3.6.8

2010-08-10 Thread James Andrewartha
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

Re: /debian/dists/testing/Contents-alpha* missing

2009-10-30 Thread James Andrewartha
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

Re: No buildd redundancy for alpha/mips/mipsel

2007-11-29 Thread James Andrewartha
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

Re: S3 Trio64 support

2007-11-04 Thread James Andrewartha
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

Re: No port maintainers?

2007-11-02 Thread James Andrewartha
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

Re: alpha raid?

2007-04-14 Thread James Andrewartha
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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: alpha raid?

2007-04-09 Thread James Andrewartha
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

Alpha available in Sydney

2007-01-29 Thread James Andrewartha
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 -- # TRS-80 trs80(a)ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au #/ "Otherwise Bub here will do \ # UCC Wheel Member htt

Re: Alpha SMP status

2006-12-16 Thread James Andrewartha
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

Alpha SMP status

2006-12-11 Thread James Andrewartha
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

Re: auto_action

2006-04-03 Thread James Andrewartha
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

Re: Install query

2006-03-29 Thread James Andrewartha
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

Re: smp problems on AlphaServer 4100

2006-02-26 Thread James Andrewartha
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

Re: smp problems on AlphaServer 4100

2006-02-26 Thread James Andrewartha
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.

Re: smp problems on AlphaServer 4100

2006-02-25 Thread James Andrewartha
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