Bug#691576: [reverse-bisected] GDB stops with SIGTRAP at 0 address fixed with GCC 4.8

2014-07-25 Thread Émeric MASCHINO
Hi, Please have a look at upstream bug report: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61799 I was asked to test GCC 4.8 and found this issue go away with locally-recompiled GCC 4.8.2 (upstream source, as ia64 is no more supported by Debian). Whether this was expected or not, I don't know.

Bug#691576: [bisected] GDB stops with SIGTRAP at 0 address

2014-07-14 Thread Émeric MASCHINO
This has nothing to do with kernel version, but with gcc version, as alluded to nearly two years ago by Stephan Schreiber [1]... Upstream bug report: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61799 Émeric [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=691576#10 -- To

Bug#691576: GDB still broken with 3.11.10-1

2014-04-12 Thread Émeric MASCHINO
-19 20:55 GMT+01:00 Kurt Roeckx k...@roeckx.be: On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 08:40:27PM +0100, Émeric MASCHINO wrote: [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-68k/2013/05/msg00065.html === BTW, why is it archived on debian-68k? Because it was send to debian-ports@lists and not debian-ia64@lists like

Bug#691576: GDB still broken with 3.11.10-1

2014-01-19 Thread Émeric MASCHINO
2014/1/12 Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk: If you have space to install wheezy on a separate partition, please can you try that. (Of course, that crash ought to be fixed in 3.2.y. But I don't know that anyone will have the time and knowledge to do so. And it's not part of this bug.)

Bug#691576: GDB still broken with 3.11.10-1

2014-01-12 Thread Émeric MASCHINO
2014/1/7 Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk: On Mon, 2014-01-06 at 10:15 +0100, Émeric MASCHINO wrote: I don't understand that - I still have 3.2 installed on this unstable (i386) system and can still boot it. How does it go wrong? It seems to crash with something wrong with systemd. You're

Bug#691576: GDB still broken with 3.11.10-1

2014-01-12 Thread Émeric MASCHINO
2014/1/12 Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk: So this is a crash, not an incompatibility with the newer systemd. [...] Can you test the 3.2 kernel with sysvinit, in case this is a bug that's specifically provoked by systemd? That's why I was saying too old for my current Debian install on

Bug#691576: GDB still broken with 3.11.10-1

2014-01-12 Thread Émeric MASCHINO
2014/1/12 Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk: You can have sysvinit and systemd installed in parallel and then use the 'init' kernel parameter to switch between them. Only systemd-sysv conflicts/replaces sysvinit. So, I've reinstalled sysvinit and sysvinit-core that purged systemd-sysv. I

Bug#691576: GDB still broken with 3.11.10-1

2014-01-12 Thread Émeric MASCHINO
2014/1/12 Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk: Sorry, I'm being silly. udev is built as part of systemd now, so this is independent of whether you use systemd as init. And systemd doesn't currently run as init in the initramfs. Uh, OK. How can I help further? Emeric -- To

Bug#691576: GDB still broken with 3.11.10-1

2014-01-06 Thread Émeric MASCHINO
Hi, And happy new year! 2013/12/20 Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk: I actually tried building the kernel like that, so you could try the packages in: http://people.debian.org/~benh/packages/wheezy-ia64-kernel-O1/ Was your O1-compiled kernel working fine? I have no idea as no-one

Bug#691576: GDB still broken with 3.11.10-1

2013-12-20 Thread Émeric MASCHINO
2013/12/12 Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk: So far as I know, there is no longer any commercial development of Linux on Itanium. Some old 'enterprise' distributions might continue to be supported for a few years but mainline isn't supported. It seems that Intel must provide hp with

Bug#691576: GDB still broken with 3.11.10-1

2013-12-12 Thread Émeric MASCHINO
[1] http://marc.info/?l=linux-ia64m=134858659916369w=2 [2] http://marc.info/?l=linux-ia64m=133124040906499w=2 [3] http://lists.debian.org/debian-ia64/2013/09/msg00024.html 2013/12/11 Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk: On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 11:36:37PM +0100, Émeric MASCHINO wrote: FYI, linux

Bug#691576: GDB still broken with 3.11.10-1

2013-12-10 Thread Émeric MASCHINO
FYI, linux-image-3.11-2-mckinley 3.11.10-1 in today's Jessie updates didn't change anything w.r.t. gdb problem. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Bug#691576: linux-image-mckinley 3.11+54 breaks gdb again

2013-11-20 Thread Émeric MASCHINO
FYI, linux-image-3.11-2-mckinley 3.11.8-1 in today's Jessie updates breaks gdb again. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Bug#691576: linux-image-mckinley 3.10+52 is fine again with gdb

2013-09-25 Thread Émeric MASCHINO
FYI, linux-image-3.10-3-mckinley 3.10.11-1 in today's Jessie updates brought back gdb to life. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: kernel in stable breaks gdb (on merulo)

2013-09-24 Thread Émeric MASCHINO
Hi, Just to let you know that linux-image-mckinley 3.10+52 in today's Jessie updates once again brought back gdb to life. Go figure... Émeric 2013/9/21 Émeric MASCHINO emeric.masch...@gmail.com: Hi, I don't know what kind of information this can provide, if any, but here's

Re: kernel in stable breaks gdb (on merulo)

2013-09-21 Thread Émeric MASCHINO
or cgroups support, or PPP module, gdb doesn't work anymore. I've also tested the working configuration for kernels 3.5.7, 3.5.7-r1, 3.7.10, 3.7.10-r1 and 3.8.13 without a success. Any ideas/suggestions to go further? Émeric 2013/8/15 Émeric MASCHINO emeric.masch...@gmail.com: Hi, Just

Re: kernel in stable breaks gdb (on merulo)

2013-08-15 Thread Émeric MASCHINO
Hi, Just to let you know that, while kernel 3.9.8-1 was working fine, the gdb stops with SIGTRAP at 0 bug is back with kernel 3.10.5-1 in today's Jessie Testing updates :-( Émeric 2013/8/8 Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk: On Wed, 2013-08-07 at 16:54 -0400, Camm Maguire wrote:

Bug#638068: Re : initramfs-tools generates unbootable initrd.img on IA-64

2012-06-15 Thread Émeric Maschino
Hello, To pass parameters to kernel, add an append= line in your elilo.conf file, just below the initrd= line. In the present case: append=debug=vc Please find attached the log that I've just recorded on a serial console passing debug=vc to kernel. Well, I don't see anything useful or

Re: [bisected] Unstable desktop experience with kernel 2.6.38

2012-05-10 Thread Émeric Maschino
/15 Émeric Maschino emeric.masch...@gmail.com: Hi, Patch proposed by Tony Luck in https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42757 works for me :-) Bug report updated accordingly.     Emeric Le 11 février 2012 16:54, Émeric Maschino emeric.masch...@gmail.com a écrit : Hi, Time

Bug#659485: Problem solved

2012-04-15 Thread Émeric Maschino
Hi, Tony Luck proposed a patch to fix this issue in https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42757. Current Debian Testing kernel 3.2-14 locally rebuilt including this patch works as expected :-) Many thanks, Emeric -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: [bisected] Unstable desktop experience with kernel 2.6.38

2012-04-15 Thread Émeric Maschino
Hi, Patch proposed by Tony Luck in https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42757 works for me :-) Bug report updated accordingly. Emeric Le 11 février 2012 16:54, Émeric Maschino emeric.masch...@gmail.com a écrit : Hi, Time to track this issue: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin

Bug#659485: [regression][bisected] General stability issues since futex: Sanitize cmpxchg_futex_value_locked API commit

2012-02-11 Thread Émeric Maschino
Package: linux-image-3.2.0-1-mckinley Version: 3.2.4-1 Severity: important As reported first in http://lists.debian.org/debian-ia64/2012/01/msg00016.html, I'm getting stability issues with kernel 2.6.38. I've bisected the problem to commit 37a9d912b24f96a0591773e6e6c3642991ae5a70 (futex:

Re: [bisected] Unstable desktop experience with kernel 2.6.38

2012-02-11 Thread Émeric Maschino
used by the callers. Patrick On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 6:43 AM, Émeric Maschino emeric.masch...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Just to let you know that I've bisected this issue to commit 37a9d912b24f96a0591773e6e6c3642991ae5a70 (futex: Sanitize cmpxchg_futex_value_locked API).     Émeric Le 17

Re: [bisected] Unstable desktop experience with kernel 2.6.38

2012-02-05 Thread Émeric Maschino
and that renders IA-64 barely usable at this time. Émeric Le 4 février 2012 19:32, Émeric Maschino emeric.masch...@gmail.com a écrit : Hi, Just to let you know that, as could have been guessed from my initial post (http://lists.debian.org/debian-ia64/2012/01/msg00016.html), PulseAudio is involved

Re: [bisected] Unstable desktop experience with kernel 2.6.38. PulseAudio involved

2012-02-04 Thread Émeric Maschino
looking at the x86 version (agh, inline asm is hard to parse), it does modify the return value based on whether the comparison was a success or not, and the return value is certainly used by the callers. Patrick On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 6:43 AM, Émeric Maschino emeric.masch...@gmail.com

Re: [bisected] Unstable desktop experience with kernel 2.6.38

2012-01-28 Thread Émeric Maschino
Hi, Just to let you know that I've bisected this issue to commit 37a9d912b24f96a0591773e6e6c3642991ae5a70 (futex: Sanitize cmpxchg_futex_value_locked API). Émeric Le 17 janvier 2012 23:11, Émeric Maschino emeric.masch...@gmail.com a écrit : Hi, Since there's a workaround allowing us

Unstable desktop experience with kernel 2.6.38

2012-01-17 Thread Émeric Maschino
Hi, Since there's a workaround allowing us to go kernel 2.6.38 (http://lists.debian.org/debian-ia64/2012/01/msg00013.html), I obviously updated my Testing system to current linux-image-3.1.0-1-mckinley_3.1.8-2_ia64.deb. Well, graphical desktop experience is _unstable_. When I say desktop

Bug#638068: Root cause: busybox binary in initrd.img is incorrectly overwritten by klibc hook

2012-01-15 Thread Émeric Maschino
Hi, I've identified the root cause of this issue: busybox hook is called _before_ klibc one. This ends up with /bin/sh binary in the generated initrd.img being a copy of (or a symlink to) system /usr/lib/klibc/bin/sh binary whereas it is expected to be a copy of (or a symlink to) system

Bug#638068: busybox binary in initrd.img is incorrectly overwritten by klibc hook

2012-01-15 Thread Émeric Maschino
Le 15 janvier 2012 19:08, maximilian attems m...@stro.at a écrit : Nice detective work.  So the next question is: why does klibc-utils on ia64 provide /usr/lib/klibc/bin/sh instead of sh.shared like other architectures? #439181  ia64 works only static Thanks for pointing this out. I'd also

[PATCH] ia64: Add accept4() syscall

2011-11-12 Thread Émeric Maschino
From: Émeric Maschino emeric.masch...@gmail.com Subject: ia64: Add accept4() syscall While debugging udev 170 failure on Debian Wheezy (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=648325), it appears that the issue was in fact due to missing accept4() in ia64. This patch simply adds

Bug#638068: initramfs-tools status?

2011-11-04 Thread Émeric Maschino
Hi, Any progress on this? How can I help further? It's still impossible to either install Wheezy on ia64 from Debian netinst CD or upgrade from a running Lenny system as kernel 2.6.38 need initramfs-tools 0.99 that produces unbootable initrd images. Best regards, Émeric -- To

Bug#638068: [bisected] initramfs-tools generates unbootable initrd.img on IA-64 platform (Itanium)

2011-08-17 Thread Émeric Maschino
Hi, does initramfs-tools boot with BUSYBOX=no in initramfs.conf? Well, I don't know! Indeed, with BUSYBOX=no in initramfs.conf, initrd.img generation fails: root@longspeak:/# dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-3.0.0-1-mckinley Running depmod. Examining /etc/kernel/postinst.d. run-parts: executing

Bug#638068: [bisected] initramfs-tools generates unbootable initrd.img on IA-64 platform (Itanium)

2011-08-16 Thread Émeric Maschino
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.99 Severity: grave As stated in this thread http://lists.debian.org/debian-ia64/2011/08/msg1.html, Debian Wheezy Testing cannot be booted at all on IA-64 (current linux-image-3.0.0-1-mckinley in Testing depends on initramfs-tools 0.99, so initramfs-tools

Bug#546655: Same problem with libdrm2 2.4.13-1 update

2010-02-02 Thread Émeric Maschino
2010/2/2 maximilian attems m...@stro.at: I've bisected this problem to commit f1a2a9b6189f9f5c27672d4d32fec9492c6486b2 (drm: Preserve SHMLBA bits in hash key for _DRM_SHM mappings), during kernel 2.6.30 development cycle. please report upstream on bugzilla.kernel.org and let us know the bug