Bug#1071480: libldap: sends some IPv6 addresses as server name

2024-05-20 Thread Elliott Mitchell
On Mon, May 20, 2024 at 04:25:57PM -0700, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote: > > --On Monday, May 20, 2024 3:45 PM -0700 Elliott Mitchell > wrote: > > Side note - I did raise this issue with the rest of the OpenLDAP project, > and Howard noted: > > "DNS names are require

Bug#1071480: libldap: sends some IPv6 addresses as server name

2024-05-20 Thread Elliott Mitchell
On Mon, May 20, 2024 at 12:46:34PM -0700, Ryan Tandy wrote: > However, I tested your patch, and I'm not sure it's correct. > > If the IPv6 address contains a letter a-f before the first colon, I > think the code you changed is never reached. On seeing the first > non-digit, we break the loop

Bug#1071480: libldap: sends some IPv6 addresses as server name

2024-05-19 Thread Elliott Mitchell
em+sig...@m5p.com PGP 87145445 |) / \_CS\ | _ -O #include O- _ | / _/ 8A19\___\_|_/58D2 7E3D DDF4 7BA6 <-PGP-> 41D1 B375 37D0 8714\_|_/___/5445 From: Elliott Mitchell Date: Sun, 19 May 2024 09:49:36 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] tls: fix handling of numeric IPv6 addre

Bug#1070033: libgnutls30: rejects numeric IPv6 addresses during connection

2024-05-18 Thread Elliott Mitchell
On Sat, May 18, 2024 at 10:47:55AM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > On 2024-05-18 Elliott Mitchell wrote: > > On Sat, May 18, 2024 at 08:16:25AM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > [...] > > >> You seem to argue that it is major problem for a gnutls client to *send* > >

Bug#1070033: libgnutls30: rejects numeric IPv6 addresses during connection

2024-05-18 Thread Elliott Mitchell
On Sat, May 18, 2024 at 08:16:25AM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > On 2024-05-18 Elliott Mitchell wrote: > > On Sat, May 18, 2024 at 07:40:13AM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > >> On 2024-05-18 Elliott Mitchell wrote: > >>> On Sat, May 18, 2024 at 06:55:06A

Bug#1070033: libgnutls30: rejects numeric IPv6 addresses during connection

2024-05-18 Thread Elliott Mitchell
On Sat, May 18, 2024 at 07:40:13AM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > On 2024-05-18 Elliott Mitchell wrote: > > On Sat, May 18, 2024 at 06:55:06AM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > [...] > > > > > I notice the `_gnutls_dnsname_is_valid()` function in > > > >

Bug#1070033: libgnutls30: rejects numeric IPv6 addresses during connection

2024-05-17 Thread Elliott Mitchell
On Sat, May 18, 2024 at 06:55:06AM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > On 2024-05-17 Elliott Mitchell wrote: > > On Thu, May 16, 2024 at 07:06:49PM -0700, Elliott Mitchell wrote: > > > On Tue, May 14, 2024 at 06:22:09PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > [...] > > > > Co

Bug#1070033: libgnutls30: rejects numeric IPv6 addresses during connection

2024-05-17 Thread Elliott Mitchell
On Thu, May 16, 2024 at 07:06:49PM -0700, Elliott Mitchell wrote: > On Tue, May 14, 2024 at 06:22:09PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > > On 2024-05-14 Elliott Mitchell wrote: > > > On Wed, May 01, 2024 at 01:45:00PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > > [...] > > >&

Bug#1070033: libgnutls30: rejects numeric IPv6 addresses during connection

2024-05-16 Thread Elliott Mitchell
On Tue, May 14, 2024 at 06:22:09PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > On 2024-05-14 Elliott Mitchell wrote: > > On Wed, May 01, 2024 at 01:45:00PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > [...] > >> well you could post the complete output of > >> gnutls-cli --port 636 fd12:3456:

Bug#1070033: libgnutls30: rejects numeric IPv6 addresses during connection

2024-05-13 Thread Elliott Mitchell
affects 1070033 nslcd quit On Wed, May 01, 2024 at 01:45:00PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > On 2024-04-30 Elliott Mitchell wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 30, 2024 at 05:55:15AM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > > > On 2024-04-29 Elliott Mitchell wrote: > [...] > > &g

Bug#1070033: libgnutls30: rejects numeric IPv6 addresses during connection

2024-04-29 Thread Elliott Mitchell
On Tue, Apr 30, 2024 at 05:55:15AM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > On 2024-04-29 Elliott Mitchell wrote: > > Package: libgnutls30 > > Version: 3.7.9-2+deb12u2 > > Severity: important > > > Long story to finding this one. Trying to get LDAP setup on this > &

Bug#1070033: libgnutls30: rejects numeric IPv6 addresses during connection

2024-04-28 Thread Elliott Mitchell
Package: libgnutls30 Version: 3.7.9-2+deb12u2 Severity: important Long story to finding this one. Trying to get LDAP setup on this network. As a recent deployment it seemed appropriate to use IPv6. >From `nslcd` on clients I was getting the message: nslcd[12345]: [1a2b3c] failed to bind to

Bug#1069264: grub: chooses stale RAID1 mirror over fresh mirror

2024-04-18 Thread Elliott Mitchell
Package: grub Version: 2.06-13+deb12u1 >From `dmesg`: md: kicking non-fresh from array! This is using MD-RAID1. Appears GRUB is opting to load grub.cfg, kernel and initial ramdisk off of this device, rather than the still operational mirror. The result is without manual intervention an older

Bug#988477: Also observing #988477

2024-01-18 Thread Elliott Mitchell
tags 988477 - moreinfo found 988477 4.17.2+76-ge1f9cb16e2-1~deb12u1 affects 988477 src:linux severity 988477 critical quit I am also observing #988477 occur. This machine has a AMD Zen 4 processor. The first observation was when motherboard/processor was swapped out, the older

Bug#810964: #810964 is more kernel driver than Xen

2023-10-02 Thread Elliott Mitchell
reassign 810964 src:linux tags 810964 -moreinfo affects 810964 src:xen found 810964 5.10.191-1 found 810964 6.1.52-1 found 810964 6.5.3-1 found 810964 5.10.127-2~bpo10+1 found 810964 6.1.38-4~bpo11+1 found 810964 6.4.4-3~bpo12+1 quit Upon further investigation, while some part of #810964 may be

Bug#1050030: Similar reproduction

2023-08-23 Thread Elliott Mitchell
On Fri, Aug 18, 2023 at 02:05:31PM -0700, Elliott Mitchell wrote: > >From reading the available information I suspect Tianocore/EDK2 may have > tried to move some functionality to a distinct build and neither setup > quite works. Notably there is now a "OvmfPkg/OvmfXen.dsc"

Bug#1050030: Similar reproduction

2023-08-18 Thread Elliott Mitchell
affects 1050030 src:xen quit I'm seeing a similar situation, though instead using FreeBSD/x86 in the VM. For FreeBSD the bootloader appears to operate normally, but something fails quickly after loading the kernel: Loading kernel... /boot/kernel/kernel text=0x18aa98 text=0xdfd150 text=0x675154

Bug#978595: #978595 is looking higher priority

2023-08-17 Thread Elliott Mitchell
On Tue, Jul 04, 2023 at 11:56:39PM +0300, Michael Tokarev wrote: > Out of curiocity, what value is it to boot a xen domU (or qemu) guest in uefi > mode? > I mean, bios mode is still recommended for at least commercial virt solutions > such > as vmware, and it works significantly faster in qemu

Bug#452721: irt: irt: Bug#452721 notes from explorations

2023-08-17 Thread Elliott Mitchell
Synthesizing things since I hadn't been copied on previous message... On Mon Jul 31 18:10:34 BST 2023, zithro wrote: > > On 31 Jul 2023 03:39, Elliott Mitchell wrote: > > > Presently I hope to convince the Xen core to allow full Python in domain > > configurati

Bug#1049450: New rpc.mountd rejects -N 2 option

2023-08-16 Thread Elliott Mitchell
On Wed, Aug 16, 2023 at 08:57:16AM +0200, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 15, 2023 at 04:13:59PM -0700, Elliott Mitchell wrote: > > Package: nfs-kernel-server > > Version: 1:2.6.2-4 > > > > Hopefully SSIA. > > > > `rpc.mountd` has a -N opt

Bug#1049450: New rpc.mountd rejects -N 2 option

2023-08-15 Thread Elliott Mitchell
Package: nfs-kernel-server Version: 1:2.6.2-4 Hopefully SSIA. `rpc.mountd` has a -N option to disable versions of NFS. I had been previously using "-N 2", but that is now broken. The error message was quite non-helpful ("nfsd2" if I recall correctly). Upon removing "-N 2", luckily NFSv2

Bug#452721: irt: Bug#452721 notes from explorations

2023-07-30 Thread Elliott Mitchell
Even though there hasn't been any discussion recently, bug #452721 is very much still of major concern to me. First issue is how to parse domain configuration files. Reason being a foo.cfg file might have the configuration 'name = "bar"'. This would also let the script retrieve the UUID if that

Bug#1036364: zfsutils-linux: please remove GPT creation bug

2023-05-19 Thread Elliott Mitchell
Package: zfsutils-linux Version: 2.0.3-9+deb11u1 Would the Debian ZFS maintainers be so kind as to remove the GPT creation bug from zfsutils-linux? Full details are at: https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/issues/94 The issue is simply zpool's create/replace and other subcommands try to

Bug#1034811: linux: consider CONFIG_HW_RANDOM_VIRTIO=n

2023-04-24 Thread Elliott Mitchell
Package: src:linux Version: 6.0.3-1~bpo11+1 Severity: wishlist Looks like someone had the idea of a virtualized HW RNG. Yet looking at the kernel source, there isn't a single actual implementation. Unless I'm missing something, having CONFIG_HW_RANDOM_VIRTIO simply wastes processor time during

Bug#1034463: closing 1034463

2023-04-16 Thread Elliott Mitchell
On Sun, Apr 16, 2023 at 07:08:03AM +0200, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: > CONFIG_AGP is built-in in Debian, in particular for: > > debian/config/alpha/config:CONFIG_AGP=y > debian/config/amd64/config:CONFIG_AGP=y > debian/config/hppa/config.parisc64:CONFIG_AGP=y >

Bug#1034463: linux: consider CONFIG_AGP=m

2023-04-15 Thread Elliott Mitchell
Package: src:linux Version: 5.10.158+2 Severity: wishlist Could AGP support be turned into a module for Debian kernels? I'm tempted to suggest it shouldn't even be built for amd64, but does seem reasonable for i686 kernels. Given this, module seems to make sense. -- (\___(\___(\__

Bug#1032480: xen: Important cherry-picks for bookworm/updates

2023-03-18 Thread Elliott Mitchell
On Tue, Mar 07, 2023 at 01:13:56PM -0800, Elliott Mitchell wrote: > > ad15a0a8ca2515d8ac58edfc0bc1d3719219cb77 > x86/time: prevent overflow with high frequency TSCs Okay, looks like this one had already been grabbed. Sorry for the way too late alert. Thanks for staying on to

Bug#1032480: xen: Important cherry-picks for bookworm/updates

2023-03-07 Thread Elliott Mitchell
Package: src:xen Version: 4.17.0+46-gaaf74a532c-1 Severity: important Two major bugs have shown with the release of new hardware from AMD. Since the new hardware is likely to become common during the life of Debian/bookworm, you may wish to grab them early:

Bug#921187: IRT: backports for Xen

2023-01-18 Thread Elliott Mitchell
>From looking, it doesn't appear necessary to remove the dependency of QEMU on libxenmiscX.YY to make backports possible. According to DPKG, multiple versions of libxenmisc can be installed at the same time, so the issue is simply whether multiple versions of QEMU can be installed at the same

Bug#1026914: arcanist client improperly uploading files

2022-12-23 Thread Elliott Mitchell
Package: arcanist Version: 0~git20200925-1 Severity: grave If one has one or more commits in /some/repo one can create a Phabricator diff by running `arc diff $oldver`. If there are are untracked files in the directory the arcanist client gives the message:

Bug#1006418: #1006418: Linux stubdomains?

2022-09-21 Thread Elliott Mitchell
Not a proper In-Reply-To since that message ended up /somewhere/ and I'm thus going back to the bug DB for this reply. I guess I'm neutral-ish on Linux versus Mini-OS for doing stub domains for Debian on Xen. I suspect development on Xen's Mini-OS isn't all that active. On the flip side due to

Bug#1017944: Another reproduction of #1017944

2022-09-11 Thread Elliott Mitchell
X-Debbugs-Cc: pkg-xen-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org Guess we're finding out where everyone's update windows are. Some though may report before resolving the issue or somewhat after. Yet another reproducer of the issue here. I also observed the failure in Xen's dmesg and confirm the issue

Bug#737564: #737564 is becoming more urgent

2022-04-18 Thread Elliott Mitchell
For some time the Linux kernel hasn't guaranteed the order of block devices. #737564 is a good solution to this issue. (yeah, suddenly running into devices getting different designations due to restart) -- (\___(\___(\__ --=> 8-) EHM <=-- __/)___/)___/) \BS (|

Bug#1009793: linux-source 5.10.106-1 changes block device order

2022-04-17 Thread Elliott Mitchell
Package: src:linux Version: 5.10.106-1 Between 5.10.103-1 and 5.10.106-1 (image -13) something changed which reliably causes what used to show as /dev/sda to show as /dev/sdb. Other block devices plugged into the SCSI subsystem may have swapped around, but I've yet to untangle the others. A few

Bug#1008911: initscripts: /run often mounted nodev, "/run/rootdev" likely to fail

2022-04-03 Thread Elliott Mitchell
Package: initscripts Version: 3.02-1 Often /run is mounted with the "nodev" option, at which point doing a `mknod` "/run/rootdev", then trying to `fsck` that doesn't work as a fallback. Perhaps "/dev/fsckfallbackdev"? -- (\___(\___(\__ --=> 8-) EHM <=--

Bug#1008910: mount-functions: Only allows for LABEL/UUID

2022-04-03 Thread Elliott Mitchell
found 1008910 3.02-1 found 1008910 2.96-7+deb11u1 found 1008910 2.93-8 quit On Mon, Apr 04, 2022 at 12:48:07AM +0200, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > On Sun, 3 Apr 2022, Elliott Mitchell wrote: > > > Perhaps the test should be: "[A-Z][A-Z]*[A-Z][A-Z]=*"? > > No, that???s

Bug#1008910: mount-functions: Only allows for LABEL/UUID

2022-04-03 Thread Elliott Mitchell
Package: initscripts Version: 3.01-1 This is *almost* #677420, but not quite. The test in /lib/init/mount-functions.sh, _read_fstab() tests for "LABEL=*|UUID=*" before resorting to `findfs`. Thing is `findfs` has two other cases it can handle and that test misses those two. Perhaps the test

Bug#1008857: irt: fsck: Automatic filesystem check skipped

2022-04-03 Thread Elliott Mitchell
Come to think of it, my initial message may have pointed to the root cause. May very well be `fsck` skips checks on filesystems on USB devices. Problem is this behavior is taking precedence over checking filesystems listed in /etc/fstab. If the root filesystem is located on USB it is irrelevant

Bug#1008857: fsck: Automatic filesystem check skipped

2022-04-02 Thread Elliott Mitchell
Package: util-linux Version: 2.36.1-8+devuan2 Severity: important For some reason on this aarch64 device, the automated filesystem checks which should be done via `fsck -T -M -A -a -t ext4` are getting skipped. When trying to run this manually, no error messages of any sort was observed. During

Bug#1008308: radicale: TLS broken with several clients

2022-03-26 Thread Elliott Mitchell
On Sat, Mar 26, 2022 at 05:38:21PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Quoting Elliott Mitchell (2022-03-26 16:35:53) > > Has been reported upstream: > > https://github.com/Kozea/Radicale/issues/1183 > > > > Upstream has been completely unresponsive. No fix is available

Bug#1008308: radicale: TLS broken with several clients

2022-03-26 Thread Elliott Mitchell
Package: radicale Version: 3.0.6-3 Severity: important Has been reported upstream: https://github.com/Kozea/Radicale/issues/1183 Upstream has been completely unresponsive. No fix is available. Their changelog fails to mentions any fix for this. Reputedly upstream plans to force upgrades and

Bug#1006595: libexec move patch update

2022-02-27 Thread Elliott Mitchell
145445 |) / \_CS\ | _ -O #include O- _ | / _/ 8A19\___\_|_/58D2 7E3D DDF4 7BA6 <-PGP-> 41D1 B375 37D0 8714\_|_/___/5445 >From b7477e7fab01b48b663d3e89e4f4c7bd352c8b7e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Elliott Mitchell Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2022 17:15:46 -0800 Subject: [PATCH]

Bug#1005176: xen-utils-4 library dependencies need update

2022-02-25 Thread Elliott Mitchell
On Fri, Feb 25, 2022 at 06:40:23PM +0100, Hans van Kranenburg wrote: > > However, I hope you understand that there's no way we can help when you > use something else than the actual packages in Debian, do not provide > any error messages seen, and describe what you see instead as "it felt >

Bug#466064: xserver-xorg-core: -novtswitch is still broken

2022-02-13 Thread Elliott Mitchell
found 466064 2:1.20.11-1+deb11u1 quit I almost wonder whether I'm seeing a distinct bug since #466064 is so old. -novtswitch continues(?) to be problematic. Current version the option doesn't work. Not switching VTs is rather valuable for having multiple X-servers started by init and running

Bug#1002670: grub2-common: Unable to force MBR/embedding installation

2022-02-12 Thread Elliott Mitchell
On Mon, Jan 03, 2022 at 05:17:19PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 03, 2022 at 08:52:48AM -0800, Elliott Mitchell wrote: > > > arm64 machines categorically do *not* have any capability to run this > way. It has never been a thing. Instead, systems running GRU

Bug#1005176: xen-utils-4 library dependencies need update

2022-02-08 Thread Elliott Mitchell
Package: src:xen Version: 4.16.0-1~exp1 I'm guilty of pulling in later Xen source and building it based on the experimental 4.16 packaging. As such this may actually only be an issue for a package version beyond 4.16.0. I'm uncertain which it is, but xen-utils-4.16 appears to need an update to

Bug#989560: Bug #989560 solved by update?

2022-02-04 Thread Elliott Mitchell
Nothing further has been heard. Was bug #989560 resolved by updating to the GRUB 2.04 packages? Possibly as part of upgrading to bullseye? The provided information looks like what one might expect from trying to load Xen on ARM via GRUB 2.02. As such I'm left suspecting this was resolved by

Bug#1002670: grub2-common: Unable to force MBR/embedding installation

2022-01-03 Thread Elliott Mitchell
On Mon, Jan 03, 2022 at 05:17:19PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 03, 2022 at 08:52:48AM -0800, Elliott Mitchell wrote: > >On Mon, Jan 03, 2022 at 02:35:48PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: > >> > >> What you're asking for here won't work;

Bug#1002670: grub2-common: Unable to force MBR/embedding installation

2022-01-03 Thread Elliott Mitchell
On Mon, Jan 03, 2022 at 02:35:48PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 26, 2021 at 05:12:38PM -0800, Elliott Mitchell wrote: > > > >Hopefully the subject tells the tale. Due to some odd hardware, I need > >to force `grub-install` to install the EFI version of G

Bug#1002670: grub2-common: Unable to force MBR/embedding installation

2021-12-26 Thread Elliott Mitchell
Package: grub2-common Version: 2.04-20 Severity: important Hopefully the subject tells the tale. Due to some odd hardware, I need to force `grub-install` to install the EFI version of GRUB into the MBR/boot area gap. Unfortunately the documentation suggest none of `grub-install`'s options can

Bug#991967: (Presently) Not in 5.10 source

2021-12-06 Thread Elliott Mitchell
Having finally gotten to test this, the issue does NOT effect 5.10.70-1. So far I've only gotten to try reboot, but that went fine. Might have been an ACPI or Xen mismerge into 4.19. Alas this may simply disappear into history. -- (\___(\___(\__ --=> 8-) EHM <=--

Bug#1000147: radicale: Non-working init script

2021-11-18 Thread Elliott Mitchell
On Thu, Nov 18, 2021 at 07:26:50PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > Quoting Elliott Mitchell (2021-11-18 16:45:58) > > Appears the documentation for `start-stop-daemon` is misleading or > > wrong, and the "--exec" option is needed if "--startas" is given

Bug#1000147: radicale: Non-working init script

2021-11-18 Thread Elliott Mitchell
Package: radicale Version: 3.0.6-3 Severity: important The init script `/etc/init.d/radicale` which is included with the 3.0.6-3 package failed to start Radicale for me. Radicale's "--daemon" option was apparently removed with 3.0.6-3. Attempting to use the "--daemon" option resulted in an

Bug#972950: ncal: cal fails to highlight current date (and rejects -h flag)

2021-10-24 Thread Elliott Mitchell
Yet another person who has noticed this. Highlighting the current date is rather handy for interactive use. The basis of #904839 is incorrect. Without that change `cal` uses isatty() to determine whether output is a terminal. If not a terminal, highlighting is disabled (compare `ncal -b` and

Bug#996988: Should Provide: flash-kernel on ARM(64)

2021-10-21 Thread Elliott Mitchell
Package: pv-grub-menu Version: 1.3 SSIA. On ARM(64) systems typical Linux kernel packages Recommends "flash-kernel", but for VMs this is quite undesireable. As such I would suggest pv-grub-menu should be marked as providing flash-kernel on ARM(64). (I suspect this is harmless on other

Bug#996666: Xen PVH domains lack console

2021-10-16 Thread Elliott Mitchell
Package: grub-xen-host Version: 2.04-20 I'm unsure which versions from stable were tried, but at a minimum 2.02+dfsg1-20+deb10u4 was and also had this issue. I'm also unsure whether this is actually a GRUB bug versus a Linux kernel bug. When booting in x86 PVH mode the Linux kernel fails to

Bug#996608: linux-source-5.10: Mising dependency: dwarves

2021-10-15 Thread Elliott Mitchell
Package: linux-source-5.10 Version: 5.10.70-1 SSIA. Debian's 5.10 configuration will NOT build without the "dwarves" package (`pahole`). In light of this some package, likely linux-source-5.10 should recommend "dwarves". -- (\___(\___(\__ --=> 8-) EHM <=--

Bug#452721: [Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#452721: "xendomains" does not restore domains in same order as it would start them

2021-09-28 Thread Elliott Mitchell
On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 11:39:49PM +0200, Diederik de Haas wrote: > On Tuesday, 28 September 2021 13:41:57 CEST Andy Smith wrote: > > > > > Could the domain ID be used for that? > > > > I don't like it because it only says how recent a domain was > > started relative to others, not any intention

Bug#452721: [Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#452721: #452721 moreinfo?

2021-09-27 Thread Elliott Mitchell
On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 05:13:04PM +, Andy Smith wrote: > On Sun, Sep 26, 2021 at 08:07:58PM -0700, Elliott Mitchell wrote: > > During a full downtime when all VMs were fully shut down, this effect > > can be achieved by including numbers in the filename. Say > > /et

Bug#452721: #452721 moreinfo?

2021-09-26 Thread Elliott Mitchell
I'm surprised #452721 is tagged moreinfo since it seems simple, but that may depend on installation capability. Note, I am not the original reporter, so I might actually be observing something distinct. I doubt this, but I cannot be certain. Issue is this, a hypervisor machine could have tens

Bug#939186: irt: Bug #939186 and 4.11/4.14

2021-09-26 Thread Elliott Mitchell
found 939186 4.14.2+25-gb6a8c4f72d-2 found 939186 4.14.3-1 tags 939186 upstream quit Upon a bit more experimentation, seems my minimal example had become too minimal. Bring in the less minimal example and things explode again. Finally setup an appropriate downtime window and it reproduced.

Bug#939186: Bug #939186 and 4.11/4.14

2021-09-26 Thread Elliott Mitchell
Control: found 939186 4.11.4+107-gef32c7afa2-1 Certainly reproduced with 4.11. Most recently I tried 4.14 and it *didn't* occur. Problem is I've got two guesses: First, system had most VMs shutdown for some experimentation. Could be having >50% of memory allocated is needed for this to occur.

Bug#991967: Simply ACPI powerdown/reset issue?

2021-09-25 Thread Elliott Mitchell
On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 06:33:20AM -0400, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: > I presume you are suggesting I try booting 4.19.181-1 on the > current version of Xen-4.14 for bullseye as a dom0. I am not > inclined to try it until an official Debian developer endorses > your opinion that the bug I am seeing

Bug#991967: #991967: Simply ACPI powerdown/reset issue?

2021-09-20 Thread Elliott Mitchell
On Mon, Sep 20, 2021 at 10:23:39PM -0400, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: > > On 9/20/21 7:39 PM, Diederik de Haas wrote: > > On dinsdag 21 september 2021 01:15:15 CEST Elliott Mitchell wrote: > >> Merely having the path is a sufficiently strong indicator for me to > >>

Bug#991967: #991967: Simply ACPI powerdown/reset issue?

2021-09-20 Thread Elliott Mitchell
On Mon, Sep 20, 2021 at 06:29:49PM -0400, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: > On 9/20/21 1:43 PM, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: > > > > On 9/20/21 12:27 AM, Elliott Mitchell wrote: > >> On Sun, Sep 19, 2021 at 01:05:56AM -0400, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: > >> > >>>

Bug#991967: #991967: Simply ACPI powerdown/reset issue?

2021-09-19 Thread Elliott Mitchell
On Sun, Sep 19, 2021 at 01:05:56AM -0400, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: > xen hypervisor version: 4.14.2+25-gb6a8c4f72d-2, amd64 > > linux kernel version: 5.10.46-4 (the current amd64 kernel > for bullseye) > > Boot system: EFI, not using secure boot, booting xen > hypervisor and dom0 bullseye with

Bug#991967: #991967: Simply ACPI powerdown/reset issue?

2021-09-19 Thread Elliott Mitchell
On Sun, Sep 19, 2021 at 01:05:56AM -0400, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: > On Sat, 11 Sep 2021 13:29:12 +0200 Salvatore Bonaccorso > wrote: > > > > On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 06:47:12PM -0700, Elliott Mitchell wrote: > > > An experiment lead to a potential alternat

Bug#991967: #991967: Simply ACPI powerdown/reset issue?

2021-09-12 Thread Elliott Mitchell
On Sat, Sep 11, 2021 at 01:29:12PM +0200, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: > On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 06:47:12PM -0700, Elliott Mitchell wrote: > > An experiment lead to a potential alternative explanation for #991967. > > The issue may be ACPI (non-UEFI) powerdown/reset was broken at

Bug#991967: #991967: Simply ACPI powerdown/reset issue?

2021-09-10 Thread Elliott Mitchell
An experiment lead to a potential alternative explanation for #991967. The issue may be ACPI (non-UEFI) powerdown/reset was broken at 4.19.194-3. Presence of Xen on the system may be unrelated. Failing that, it could be Xen and non-UEFI systems are effected. (Xen was tried on a UEFI system and

Bug#991967: linux-src 4.19.194-3 breaks Xen Dom0 powerdown and reboot

2021-08-06 Thread Elliott Mitchell
Package: src:linux Version: 4.19.194-3 Control: affects -1 src:xen SSIA. Previous versions of 4.19 had no issues (4.19.181-1 according to notes), but this cropped up with 4.19.194-3 (-1 and -2 weren't tested). When a Xen domain 0 tries to reboot or powerdown the computer, it hangs with the

Bug#989560: Bug #989560 is grub-common, not xen-hypervisor-common

2021-08-03 Thread Elliott Mitchell
I rate #989560 as a grub-common bug, *not* a xen-hypervisor-common bug. As you've noticed, the problem is with the file /etc/grub.d/20_linux_xen, which is part of grub-common, not xen-hypervisor-common. A working grub.cfg will be generated by the version of the file from GRUB 2.04. If you can

Bug#979548: u-boot: Package Xen build

2021-01-14 Thread Elliott Mitchell
On Thu, Jan 07, 2021 at 11:34:44PM -0800, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > On 2021-01-07, Elliott Mitchell wrote: > > Might it be possible to get a u-boot-xen-arm64 package built? While > > "PyGRUB" is great for Linux, it isn't so good for booting other OSes. > &g

Bug#979548: u-boot: Package Xen build

2021-01-11 Thread Elliott Mitchell
On Thu, Jan 07, 2021 at 11:34:44PM -0800, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > This doesn't describe how to use it or, importantly, what files we would > need to ship in the package. If you could help clarify that (possibly > provide a patch), and ideally get it clarified in the upstream > documentation,

Bug#979548: u-boot: Package Xen build

2021-01-08 Thread Elliott Mitchell
On Thu, Jan 07, 2021 at 11:34:44PM -0800, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > On 2021-01-07, Elliott Mitchell wrote: > > Might it be possible to get a u-boot-xen-arm64 package built? While > > "PyGRUB" is great for Linux, it isn't so good for booting other OSes. > &g

Bug#974755: smartd: Problematic memory activity

2020-12-12 Thread Elliott Mitchell
Hmm, don't see a copy of the follow-up message anywhere. Sent to the bug and not me? 6 devices are being monitored, they're behind a HP controller (cciss driver). I don't know for certain that triggering self-tests is the cause, this is merely obvious speculation. My most recent observations

Bug#976123: u-boot-rpi: Unreliable USB with storage+keyboard

2020-11-29 Thread Elliott Mitchell
Package: u-boot-rpi Version: 2020.10+dfsg-1+b1 Severity: important Hopefully SSIA. U-Boot's USB support is highly unreliable. Trying to interact with an advanced bootloader (GRUB) via USB-keyboard is highly troublesome if the Raspberry PI is also booting from a USB storage device. There is

Bug#976122: u-boot-rpi: Fails with mini-UART

2020-11-29 Thread Elliott Mitchell
Package: u-boot-rpi Version: 2020.10+dfsg-1+b1 Severity: important Appears "standard" device trees for the Raspberry PI 4B connect the serial pins to the mini-UART. This is troublesome due to the mini-UART's baud rate changing when the processor clock changes. Often Raspberry PI devices have an

Bug#939633: More severe #939633 for RP4 on 5.8?

2020-11-27 Thread Elliott Mitchell
found 935456 5.9.6-1~bpo10+1 quit After having spent several hours on kernel compiles and experimenting with the situation, I'm fairly sure this also applies to linux-source-5.9. Odd thing is, when I booted the device using the Tianocore implementation it came right up with no problems. I'm

Bug#824954: IRT: [bug #52939] [PATCH] 10_linux: support loading device trees

2020-11-26 Thread Elliott Mitchell
The patch to have GRUB load a device-tree is interesting. This is certainly worthy of discussion. Three issues come up when looking though: First, your patch modifies /etc/grub.d/10_linux, but misses /etc/grub.d/10_linux_xen. /etc/grub.d/10_linux_xen needs a fairly similar treatment. Second,

Bug#963962: /etc/grub.d/20_linux_xen generates non-functional menu entries

2020-11-26 Thread Elliott Mitchell
found 963962 2.02+dfsg1-20+deb10u2 2.04-10 quit I was going to report I'd never observed this bug, but then I examined the grub.cfg files and I discover they're present. I would tend to rate this as minor, but the original submitter didn't adjust severity. With 2.04-10 the xen-4.*.config file

Bug#824954: flash-kernel: GRUB? via U-Boot?

2020-11-26 Thread Elliott Mitchell
For a Raspberry PI, I've got the initial workings of a script to accomplish this goal. First, install u-boot-rpi, raspi-firmware, and grub-efi-arm64. Next, create a filesystem on a device the Raspberry PI will boot from. For anything pre-RP4, this will have to VFAT and show up in a MBR. A

Bug#940628: Working in 2.04-8 and 2.04-10

2020-11-26 Thread Elliott Mitchell
As of 2.04-8 it was possible to boot Xen on ARM. The funky mechanism by which GRUB loads its modules does a good job of obscuring which modules to confirm presence of. Seeing 'xen_loader="xen_hypervisor"' makes one expect to find "/usr/lib/grub/arm64-efi/xen_hypervisor.mod", not for it to be

Bug#939633: More severe #939633 for RP4 on 5.8?

2020-11-25 Thread Elliott Mitchell
found 939633 5.8.10-1~bpo10+1 severity 939633 important merge 935456 939633 quit I'm left suspecting bugs #935456 and #939633, are in reality a single bug: Raspberry Pi device trees were garbled during Debian's 5.2 kernel development. They appear to remain very garbled, to the point of being

Bug#939186: [Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#939186: HVM + Balloon crashes Xen hypervisor

2020-11-25 Thread Elliott Mitchell
On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 01:32:10PM +0100, Hans van Kranenburg wrote: > Can you still reproduce this with Xen 4.11 or 4.14? > If not, can you mail 939186-cl...@bugs.debian.org to close it? > > I just tried a few things with maxmem and memory with a PVH guest on Xen > 4.14, and it just seems to

Bug#921547: u-boot: Please consider making u-boot* arch:all

2020-11-24 Thread Elliott Mitchell
My thinking mirrors one of Jonathan McDowell's: One should be able to build an installation image for $device/$architecture on $random_device/$random_architecture. This is very useful for exactly the same situations where using `debootstrap --foreign` is. Say if one has a desktop already

Bug#975685: grub-install fails with U-Boot EFI

2020-11-24 Thread Elliott Mitchell
Package: grub2-common Version: 2.04-10 `grub-install` fails to install properly when run on a system using U-Boot's implementation of the EFI protocol (potentially also effects package grub-efi-arm64, perhaps this should be against src:grub2). Since a Tianocore-based implementation of the EFI

Bug#824954: flash-kernel: GRUB? via U-Boot?

2020-11-23 Thread Elliott Mitchell
There may be several distinct bugs involved with #824954. For one, I suspect `grub-install`'s behavior needs to change if EFI variables aren't supported. I use this as a flag which could distinguish installation on top of a full EFI implementation (perhaps Tianocore-derived), versus U-Boot's

Bug#948712: Returned mail: see transcript for details

2020-11-23 Thread Elliott Mitchell
reopen 948712 quit There should be a rather obvious use case where absent /boot/firmware is quite appropriate. For someone needing a copy of the firmware, but using other tools to build the boot area. Notably one might use raspi-firmware to retrieve start*.elf/fixup*.dat. Then add u-boot-rpi

Bug#563204: Recommends is really too strong for os-prober

2020-11-22 Thread Elliott Mitchell
Commenting since the report still exists in the bug DB... I've found `os-prober` often produces many false positive OS installation detections. As such I really find recommends too strong, simply including during installation and then merely suggests would be better. If someone removes it,

Bug#968965: xen: FTBFS woes in sid

2020-11-20 Thread Elliott Mitchell
On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 08:02:26PM +0100, Hans van Kranenburg wrote: > So, > > On 9/21/20 4:16 PM, Hans van Kranenburg wrote: > > [...] > > > > gcc-Wl,-z,relro -Wl,-z,now -pthread -Wl,-soname > > -Wl,libxentoolcore.so.1 -shared -Wl,--version-script=libxentoolcore.map > > -o

Bug#546392: Isn't bug #546392 complete?

2020-11-20 Thread Elliott Mitchell
I'm pretty sure bug #546392 was completed several /years/ ago, yet the bug was never marked complete. I don't recall when, but perhaps near version 2.01 or earlier? -- (\___(\___(\__ --=> 8-) EHM <=-- __/)___/)___/) \BS (| ehem+sig...@m5p.com PGP

Bug#975062: Python 3 (pygrub) in 4.14 packages

2020-11-18 Thread Elliott Mitchell
DF4 7BA6 <-PGP-> 41D1 B375 37D0 8714\_|_/___/5445 >From 1bb407482fa82ad5034a4e4bdfa34dfa3a828f9a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Elliott Mitchell Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2020 15:19:33 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] tools/python: Correct extension filenames for Python 3 Appears Python became *more* diff

Bug#974756: idle3-tools: Needs support for drives behind controllers

2020-11-14 Thread Elliott Mitchell
Package: idle3-tools Version: 0.9.1-2 `idle3ctl` needs an implementation of `smartctl`'s -d option in order to talk to disks behind hardware RAID controllers. This is nearly a bug in smartmontools of the code for the -d option needing to turn into a library so other low-level tools can utilize

Bug#974755: smartd: Problematic memory activity (triggers oom-killer)

2020-11-14 Thread Elliott Mitchell
Package: smartmontools Version: 6.6-1 `smartd` is doing some sort of activity which tends to trigger the kernel oom-killer. I suspect this may relate to triggering self-tests. System in question has plenty of swap available, and presently reports more than 50MB of available memory. Presently

Bug#774129: dpkg-buildpackage: Should set the cross build profile automatically

2020-10-25 Thread Elliott Mitchell
(sending a second copy to the body of the message since <774...@bugs.debian.orgg> didn't quite work) retitle 774129 dpkg-buildpackage: Should set the cross build profile automatically severity 774129 normal quit Setting the "cross" build profile could be the difference between a successful cross

Bug#971397: dpkg-dev: dpkg-buildpackage -P option behavior change in update

2020-09-29 Thread Elliott Mitchell
Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.19.7 Severity: important Between versions 1.19.6 and 1.19.7 the behavior of the -P option for dpkg-buildpackage changed. At 1.19.6 if there was no string directly on the -P option, the following argument would be interpreted as the profiles to set. At 1.19.7 the

Bug#961511: [Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#961511: [PATCH] d/xen-utils-common.xen.init: disable oom killer for xenstored

2020-09-22 Thread Elliott Mitchell
On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 02:39:09PM +0200, Hans van Kranenburg wrote: > How did you test it and how did you get a working process without the --? By reading the man page, noticing there was no mention of "--" and then trying `choom -n +5 sleep 5` and found that worked. When you sent this message

Bug#961511: [PATCH] d/xen-utils-common.xen.init: disable oom killer for xenstored

2020-09-20 Thread Elliott Mitchell
This is fun. Actually isn't too difficult to trigger, simply slowly reduce the memory Xen allocates to Dom0 and eventually the oom-killer is likely to trigger (having tried to shrink Dom0 as far as possible, believe me, I know). I had been wondering which of the Xen daemons could be safely

Bug#774129: dpkg-*: Doesn't set cross-build profile with -a or -t

2020-09-13 Thread Elliott Mitchell
found 774129 1.19.7 quit You might consider -a/--target-arch or -t/--target-type to merely be conveniences, but /not/ enabling the cross profile when the build arch differs from the host arch is stopping a decimeter shy of the goal line. Is it even possible someone /wouldn't/ want the cross

Bug#965245: [Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#965245: Cross-build issues

2020-07-18 Thread Elliott Mitchell
On Sat, Jul 18, 2020 at 04:08:50PM +0200, Hans van Kranenburg wrote: > On 7/18/20 5:53 AM, Elliott Mitchell wrote: > > Package: src:xen > > Version: 4.13 > > Tags: patch > > > > I've been playing try to get Xen 4.13 to cross-build for ARM. In the > >

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