Re: open issues with the hppa port

2010-01-09 Thread Andreas Barth
* Andreas Barth (a...@not.so.argh.org) [091007 14:43]: There are still more issues with hppa popping up than with other architectures, but the general direction looks promising. For this reason, we have decided that we try to avoid the additional burden of packages getting out of sync, and

Re: open issues with the hppa port

2010-01-09 Thread Carlos O'Donell
On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 7:26 AM, Andreas Barth a...@not.so.argh.org wrote: * Andreas Barth (a...@not.so.argh.org) [091007 14:43]: There are still more issues with hppa popping up than with other architectures, but the general direction looks promising. For this reason, we have decided that we

Re: open issues with the hppa port

2009-10-10 Thread Carlos O'Donell
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 4:37 PM, Florian Weimer f...@deneb.enyo.de wrote: * Carlos O'Donell: The nptl enabled hppa libc packages are in experimental. e.g. apt-get -t experimental install libc6 Out of curiosity, does this version support cross-process mutexes? Yes, two applications that are

Re: open issues with the hppa port

2009-10-09 Thread Florian Weimer
* Carlos O'Donell: The nptl enabled hppa libc packages are in experimental. e.g. apt-get -t experimental install libc6 Out of curiosity, does this version support cross-process mutexes? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-hppa-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: open issues with the hppa port

2009-10-07 Thread Andreas Barth
* Andreas Barth (a...@not.so.argh.org) [090816 13:24]: * Andreas Barth (a...@not.so.argh.org) [090730 16:51]: As from release team point of view, it is necessary that there is a plan how hppa can and will return in the forseeable future to normal mode of operation, i.e. there are not many

Re: open issues with the hppa port

2009-10-07 Thread Carlos O'Donell
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 8:43 AM, Andreas Barth a...@not.so.argh.org wrote: Things have become better, I'd like to thank you for that. Thanks! There are still more issues with hppa popping up than with other architectures, but the general direction looks promising. For this reason, we have

Re: open issues with the hppa port

2009-10-07 Thread Helge Deller
On 10/07/2009 02:43 PM, Andreas Barth wrote: * Andreas Barth (a...@not.so.argh.org) [090816 13:24]: * Andreas Barth (a...@not.so.argh.org) [090730 16:51]: As from release team point of view, it is necessary that there is a plan how hppa can and will return in the forseeable future to normal

Re: open issues with the hppa port

2009-09-29 Thread Thibaut VARENE
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 1:22 AM, Kyle McMartin k...@mcmartin.ca wrote: I'm correct they're both A500's, right? Nope. Both J6700's. -- Thibaut VARENE http://www.parisc-linux.org/~varenet/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-hppa-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: open issues with the hppa port

2009-09-28 Thread dann frazier
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 08:46:48PM -0400, Carlos O'Donell wrote: On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 4:52 PM, Carlos O'Donell car...@systemhalted.org wrote: Please issue a sysrq-t (ctrl^c, send break, t) on peri's console and tell me if it crashes the kernel? Yes, it does. (echo t

Re: open issues with the hppa port

2009-09-28 Thread Carlos O'Donell
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 2:50 PM, dann frazier da...@dannf.org wrote: I'm still working on providing you with a new kernel for penalosa. Just fyi, peri has been up 2 weeks. penalosa had been up 13 days, but crashed in the past day or so. The console log follows. This is more evidence that

Re: open issues with the hppa port

2009-09-28 Thread dann frazier
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 04:08:28PM -0400, Carlos O'Donell wrote: On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 2:50 PM, dann frazier da...@dannf.org wrote: I'm still working on providing you with a new kernel for penalosa. Just fyi, peri has been up 2 weeks. penalosa had been up 13 days, but crashed in the

Re: open issues with the hppa port

2009-09-28 Thread Kyle McMartin
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 02:09:09PM -0600, dann frazier wrote: On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 04:08:28PM -0400, Carlos O'Donell wrote: On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 2:50 PM, dann frazier da...@dannf.org wrote: I'm still working on providing you with a new kernel for penalosa. Just fyi, peri has been

Re: open issues with the hppa port

2009-09-28 Thread dann frazier
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 07:22:14PM -0400, Kyle McMartin wrote: On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 02:09:09PM -0600, dann frazier wrote: On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 04:08:28PM -0400, Carlos O'Donell wrote: On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 2:50 PM, dann frazier da...@dannf.org wrote: I'm still working on

Re: open issues with the hppa port

2009-09-14 Thread Carlos O'Donell
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Andreas Bartha...@not.so.argh.org wrote: As from release team point of view, it is necessary that there is a plan how hppa can and will return in the forseeable future to normal mode of operation, i.e. there are not many issues with e.g. architecture specific

Re: open issues with the hppa port

2009-09-14 Thread Carlos O'Donell
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 1:26 PM, dann frazier da...@dannf.org wrote: After about a week of loaded uptime, penalosa returned to instability over the weekend. It began with an Illegal instruction leading to a panic:  http://people.debian.org/~dannf/penalosa/penalosa.0 I then rebooted it, and

Re: open issues with the hppa port

2009-09-14 Thread dann frazier
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 03:36:48PM -0400, Carlos O'Donell wrote: On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 1:26 PM, dann frazier da...@dannf.org wrote: After about a week of loaded uptime, penalosa returned to instability over the weekend. It began with an Illegal instruction leading to a panic:  

Re: open issues with the hppa port

2009-09-14 Thread Carlos O'Donell
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 3:56 PM, dann frazierda...@dannf.org wrote: On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 03:36:48PM -0400, Carlos O'Donell wrote: On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 1:26 PM, dann frazier da...@dannf.org wrote: After about a week of loaded uptime, penalosa returned to instability over the weekend.

Re: open issues with the hppa port

2009-09-13 Thread Carlos O'Donell
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 7:31 PM, Thibaut VARENE vare...@debian.org wrote: On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 10:44 PM, LaMont Joneslam...@debian.org wrote: On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 02:35:00PM -0600, dann frazier wrote: That would prevent it from getting uploaded, but won't that package get marked as

Re: open issues with the hppa port

2009-09-13 Thread Carlos O'Donell
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 4:01 PM, LaMont Jones lam...@mmjgroup.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 02:06:36PM -0400, Carlos O'Donell wrote: On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 1:06 PM, dann frazierda...@dannf.org wrote: What happened to sarti? Loosing a box like that would certainly add load to the others.

Re: open issues with the hppa port

2009-09-11 Thread Carlos O'Donell
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 1:06 PM, dann frazierda...@dannf.org wrote: I think the way forward is: * You get me a console trace. * I give you an instrumented kernel/initrd. * Repeat. *nod* Trimming CC. fyi, now that I've started logging the console, penalosa has become strangely stable:

Re: open issues with the hppa port

2009-09-11 Thread Carlos O'Donell
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 1:06 PM, dann frazierda...@dannf.org wrote: lafayette is hosted by Thibaut @ ESIEE - I'm not sure what hardware it is or what kernel it runs. It only does security builds as I understand it, which should keep the load relatively low. Thibaut indicates that this machine

Re: open issues with the hppa port

2009-09-11 Thread Carlos O'Donell
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 2:11 PM, dann frazierda...@dannf.org wrote: On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 02:06:36PM -0400, Carlos O'Donell wrote: On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 1:06 PM, dann frazierda...@dannf.org wrote: lafayette is hosted by Thibaut @ ESIEE - I'm not sure what hardware it is or what kernel it

Re: open issues with the hppa port

2009-09-11 Thread dann frazier
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 02:06:36PM -0400, Carlos O'Donell wrote: On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 1:06 PM, dann frazierda...@dannf.org wrote: lafayette is hosted by Thibaut @ ESIEE - I'm not sure what hardware it is or what kernel it runs. It only does security builds as I understand it, which

Re: open issues with the hppa port

2009-09-11 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi, On Fri Sep 11, 2009 at 14:15:06 -0400, Carlos O'Donell wrote: On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 2:11 PM, dann frazierda...@dannf.org wrote: On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 02:06:36PM -0400, Carlos O'Donell wrote: On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 1:06 PM, dann frazierda...@dannf.org wrote: lafayette is hosted

Re: open issues with the hppa port

2009-09-11 Thread Carlos O'Donell
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Martin Zobel-Helaszo...@ftbfs.de wrote: Where is sarti physically located? Has there been an attempt to revive it? yes, its dead. we asked the local admin recently to decommission it. Has debian asked the original sponsors for a replacement machine? Cheers,

Re: open issues with the hppa port

2009-09-11 Thread LaMont Jones
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 02:35:00PM -0600, dann frazier wrote: That would prevent it from getting uploaded, but won't that package get marked as built, preventing other buildds from trying? Yep. If you just want to build packages over and over, then don't start the buildd up, and just run

Re: open issues with the hppa port

2009-09-11 Thread dann frazier
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 02:01:24PM -0600, LaMont Jones wrote: On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 02:06:36PM -0400, Carlos O'Donell wrote: On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 1:06 PM, dann frazierda...@dannf.org wrote: What happened to sarti? Loosing a box like that would certainly add load to the others. Sarti

Re: open issues with the hppa port

2009-09-11 Thread Thibaut VARENE
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 10:44 PM, LaMont Joneslam...@debian.org wrote: On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 02:35:00PM -0600, dann frazier wrote: That would prevent it from getting uploaded, but won't that package get marked as built, preventing other buildds from trying? Yep.  If you just want to build

Re: open issues with the hppa port

2009-09-11 Thread Thibaut VARENE
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 10:01 PM, LaMont Joneslam...@mmjgroup.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 02:06:36PM -0400, Carlos O'Donell wrote: On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 1:06 PM, dann frazierda...@dannf.org wrote: What happened to sarti? Loosing a box like that would certainly add load to the others.

Re: open issues with the hppa port

2009-09-10 Thread Carlos O'Donell
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 11:53 PM, dann frazierda...@dannf.org wrote: We have been running with UP kernels for quite some time, and they haven't proven to be any more stable. Most recently I've upgraded peri/penalosa to 2.6.31-rc6-based kernels since they were inclusive of the various changes I

Re: open issues with the hppa port

2009-09-10 Thread dann frazier
[correcting lamont's e-mail] LaMont: have you been seeing further random segfault bugs on peri/penalosa over the past week or two? Is this something you can monitor for us? Rest inline.. On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 12:10:28PM -0400, Carlos O'Donell wrote: On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 11:53 PM, dann

Re: open issues with the hppa port

2009-09-04 Thread Carlos O'Donell
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Luk Claesl...@debian.org wrote: Peter Palfrader wrote: On Tue, 01 Sep 2009, Luk Claes wrote: Some of the buildd kernels still cause segfaults, it would be good to have an idea what's been done for them and how long you estimate it to take to solve them. Not

Re: open issues with the hppa port

2009-09-03 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Tue, 01 Sep 2009, Luk Claes wrote: Some of the buildd kernels still cause segfaults, it would be good to have an idea what's been done for them and how long you estimate it to take to solve them. Not some. All of our buildd kernels are broken to various degrees. This needs to get fixed

Re: open issues with the hppa port

2009-09-03 Thread Luk Claes
Peter Palfrader wrote: On Tue, 01 Sep 2009, Luk Claes wrote: Some of the buildd kernels still cause segfaults, it would be good to have an idea what's been done for them and how long you estimate it to take to solve them. Not some. All of our buildd kernels are broken to various degrees.

Re: open issues with the hppa port

2009-09-02 Thread Carlos O'Donell
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 2:29 PM, Luk Claesl...@debian.org wrote: Did I miss a plan or was there no real plan written down? I'm especially thinking of some kind of milestones and deadlines about the nptl transition and the buildd kernel problems. AFAIK the nptl transition is currently being

Re: open issues with the hppa port

2009-09-01 Thread Luk Claes
Andreas Barth wrote: * Andreas Barth (a...@not.so.argh.org) [090730 16:51]: As from release team point of view, it is necessary that there is a plan how hppa can and will return in the forseeable future to normal mode of operation, i.e. there are not many issues with e.g. architecture

Re: open issues with the hppa port

2009-08-22 Thread Andreas Barth
* Frans Pop (elen...@planet.nl) [090822 07:34]: Andreas Barth wrote: * Carlos O'Donell (car...@systemhalted.org) [090821 16:49]: xmms2 is the only package that doesn't build. Analysis of the xmms2 build shows that this is a python crash. Thankfully the python crash reproduces (in a

Re: open issues with the hppa port

2009-08-22 Thread Frans Pop
Andreas Barth wrote: BTW, I'm still missing the vlc upload for hppa (as well as for mipsel, but the mipsel problem is found + solved on IRC). Built but awaiting upload together with 124 other packages :-( -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-hppa-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: open issues with the hppa port

2009-08-22 Thread Carlos O'Donell
On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 1:33 AM, Frans Popelen...@planet.nl wrote: Good. I might still break this package because libcdio is blocking lots of binNMUs, and we need to try to keep transitions as small as possible, but of course as soon as this package is fixed it's welcome to get in sync (and if

Re: open issues with the hppa port

2009-08-21 Thread Carlos O'Donell
On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 7:24 AM, Andreas Bartha...@not.so.argh.org wrote: As an current exmaple, take the libcdio-transition. This transition needs to have updated packages xmms2, xmp and vlc. However, the packages are out-of-date on hppa, and for this reason cannot enter testing (and they

Re: open issues with the hppa port

2009-08-21 Thread Andreas Barth
* Carlos O'Donell (car...@systemhalted.org) [090821 16:49]: On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 7:24 AM, Andreas Bartha...@not.so.argh.org wrote: As an current exmaple, take the libcdio-transition. This transition needs to have updated packages xmms2, xmp and vlc. However, the packages are out-of-date

Re: open issues with the hppa port

2009-08-21 Thread Frans Pop
Andreas Barth wrote: * Carlos O'Donell (car...@systemhalted.org) [090821 16:49]: xmms2 is the only package that doesn't build. Analysis of the xmms2 build shows that this is a python crash. Thankfully the python crash reproduces (in a different location each time). I'll look into this.

Re: open issues with the hppa port

2009-08-19 Thread Carlos O'Donell
On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Andreas Bartha...@not.so.argh.org wrote: Or are you simply asking the hppa porters to be more active in filing FTBFS bugs against packages after build failures? If they would do that, that might be quite helpful to distinguish between hppa issue and package

Re: open issues with the hppa port

2009-08-19 Thread Andreas Barth
* Carlos O'Donell (car...@systemhalted.org) [090819 14:56]: I didn't know vlc, xmms2, and xmp were not building. I'll add them to my list and look over the failures. I don't know how to get visibility into what's failing for hppa. Basically, by e.g. checking the testing excuse page which

Re: open issues with the hppa port

2009-08-19 Thread Carlos O'Donell
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 9:20 AM, Andreas Bartha...@not.so.argh.org wrote: * Carlos O'Donell (car...@systemhalted.org) [090819 14:56]: I didn't know vlc, xmms2, and xmp were not building. I'll add them to my list and look over the failures. I don't know how to get visibility into what's failing

Re: open issues with the hppa port

2009-08-19 Thread Carlos O'Donell
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 9:53 AM, Frans Popelen...@planet.nl wrote: Carlos O'Donell wrote: I didn't know vlc, xmms2, and xmp were not building. I'll add them to my list and look over the failures. I don't know how to get visibility into what's failing for hppa. Do you know of:

Re: open issues with the hppa port

2009-08-19 Thread Frans Pop
So I should be looking for packages in the Failed state that say (N-1)/N (fails only on hppa)? Yes, especially when N is already high (i.e. most arches have built the package). Packages with (N-2)/N or even (N-3) are probably also worth looking at but can be given lower priority. And

Re: open issues with the hppa port

2009-08-16 Thread Andreas Barth
* Andreas Barth (a...@not.so.argh.org) [090730 16:51]: As from release team point of view, it is necessary that there is a plan how hppa can and will return in the forseeable future to normal mode of operation, i.e. there are not many issues with e.g. architecture specific build failures. I

Re: open issues with the hppa port

2009-08-16 Thread Luk Claes
Frans Pop wrote: Andreas Barth wrote: As an current exmaple, take the libcdio-transition. This transition needs to have updated packages xmms2, xmp and vlc. However, the packages are out-of-date on hppa, and for this reason cannot enter testing (and they depend on an old library that will go

Re: open issues with the hppa port

2009-08-16 Thread Andreas Barth
* Frans Pop (elen...@planet.nl) [090816 15:57]: Andreas Barth wrote: As an current exmaple, take the libcdio-transition. This transition needs to have updated packages xmms2, xmp and vlc. However, the packages are out-of-date on hppa, and for this reason cannot enter testing (and they

Re: open issues with the hppa port

2009-08-04 Thread Carlos O'Donell
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 1:14 PM, John David Anglind...@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca wrote: End of assembler dump. (gdb) p/x $r21 $2 = 0x1 From the values in the core dump and the code, I calculate that r21 should contain the value 0x40368880.  So, it seems another instance of cache corruption.  

Re: open issues with the hppa port

2009-08-03 Thread John David Anglin
In summary, the segfault problem is still there and a major issue, particularly with SMP kernels. Without a testcase that consistently triggers the problem, it's almost impossible to debug what's going wrong. I have updated and attached my patch set for 2.6.30.4. So, changes are now in

Re: open issues with the hppa port

2009-08-03 Thread John David Anglin
End of assembler dump. (gdb) p/x $r21 $2 = 0x1 From the values in the core dump and the code, I calculate that r21 should contain the value 0x40368880. So, it seems another instance of cache corruption. However, in this case, it's not at program startup. Dave -- J. David Anglin

Re: open issues with the hppa port

2009-07-31 Thread Helge Deller
On 07/30/2009 07:44 PM, John David Anglin wrote: On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Andreas Bartha...@not.so.argh.org wrote: You know your porters mailing list best, but I want to highlight some of the issues: http://lists.debian.org/debian-hppa/2009/07/msg2.html I can't comment on this

open issues with the hppa port

2009-07-30 Thread Andreas Barth
Hi, there are some issues in the hppa port that currently let us doubt whether we should continue to carry on that port to next stable. Apart the fact that hppa is no longer buyable as new, there are quite a few technical issues. You know your porters mailing list best, but I want to highlight

Re: open issues with the hppa port

2009-07-30 Thread Carlos O'Donell
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Andreas Bartha...@not.so.argh.org wrote: You know your porters mailing list best, but I want to highlight some of the issues: http://lists.debian.org/debian-hppa/2009/07/msg2.html I can't comment on this issue. I hope Dave can?

Re: open issues with the hppa port

2009-07-30 Thread Carlos O'Donell
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 1:44 PM, John David Anglind...@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca wrote: On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Andreas Bartha...@not.so.argh.org wrote: You know your porters mailing list best, but I want to highlight some of the issues:

Re: open issues with the hppa port

2009-07-30 Thread John David Anglin
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Andreas Bartha...@not.so.argh.org wrote: You know your porters mailing list best, but I want to highlight some of the issues: http://lists.debian.org/debian-hppa/2009/07/msg2.html I can't comment on this issue. I hope Dave can? Over the past few

Re: open issues with the hppa port

2009-07-30 Thread dann frazier
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 01:44:03PM -0400, John David Anglin wrote: On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Andreas Bartha...@not.so.argh.org wrote: You know your porters mailing list best, but I want to highlight some of the issues: http://lists.debian.org/debian-hppa/2009/07/msg2.html

Re: open issues with the hppa port

2009-07-30 Thread John David Anglin
On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, Carlos O'Donell wrote: In your opinion, what is the most stable kernel configuration that should be run on the buildds? If the buildd has to run a SMP kernel, then 2.6.22.19 as patched for gsyprf11. There is a minor issue wrt setting the RTC at startup, but it can be