Bug#1077238: Upgrade will break networking, thus unable to download missing packages

2024-07-27 Thread Dan Jacobson
Yes. The news item needs to warn: ** Warning: if you take no action, upon the next boot you might 1. Not be able to network. 2. Not be able to see your screen. 3. Not be able to boot. and thus unable to install the new packages to fix it too. Therefore be sure to install the new packages ... now,

Bug#1077238: Upgrade will break networking, thus unable to download missing packages

2024-07-27 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: firmware-misc-nonfree Version: 20240709-1 > Several firmware files were moved from firmware-misc-nonfree into > their own package Are you sure that won't break networking for some people? Best to have a transitional package that pulls in the rest, and leave it up to the user to remove

Bug#1074505: dpkg: warning: while removing linux-image-6.8.11-amd64, directory '/lib/modules/6.8.11-amd64' not empty so not removed

2024-06-29 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: linux-image-amd64 dpkg: warning: while removing linux-image-6.8.11-amd64, directory '/lib/modules/6.8.11-amd64' not empty so not removed # ls -l /lib/modules/6.8.11-amd64 total 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 55 05-27 14:48 modules.weakdep

Bug#1059936: tons of them

2024-01-05 Thread Dan Jacobson
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-6.6.9-amd64 cp: warning: behavior of -n is non-portable and may change in future; use --update=none instead cp: warning: behavior of -n is non-portable and may change in future; use --update=none instead cp: warning: behavior of -n is non-portable and

Bug#1057121: dpkg: warning: unable to delete old directory '/lib/firmware/...

2023-11-29 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: firmware-misc-nonfree Version: 20230625-1 Saw tons of these. Unpacking firmware-misc-nonfree (20230625-1) over (20230515-3) ... dpkg: warning: unable to delete old directory '/lib/firmware/wfx': Directory not empty dpkg: warning: unable to delete old directory '/lib/firmware/ueagle-atm':

Bug#972678: initramfs-tools: bad error message when zstd requested but not installed

2022-04-15 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-5.16.0-6-amd64 W: No zstd in /usr/bin:/sbin:/bin, using gzip Shouldn't it just not remind the user?

Bug#947356: Please have upstream fix this

2020-03-20 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Please have upstream fix this soon. Thanks.

Bug#953522: W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8125a-3.fw for module r8169

2020-03-09 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: src:linux Version: 5.4.19-1 No idea where to report this. # update-initramfs -u update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-5.4.0-4-amd64 W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8125a-3.fw for module r8169

Bug#948357: thousands of identical lookup_builtin_file warnings

2020-01-07 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: initramfs-tools-core Version: 0.135 Severity: important $ aptitude full-upgrade gives thousands of identical depmod: ERROR: ../libkmod/libkmod.c:515 lookup_builtin_file() could not open builtin file '/lib/modules/5.4.0-2-amd64/modules.builtin.bin' depmod: ERROR: ../libkmod/libkmod.c:515

Bug#947356: Kernel install warnings

2019-12-29 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Kernel install warns W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8125a-3.fw for module r8169

Bug#925891: AMD/ATI Carrizo driver incorrectly detected

2019-04-06 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
unmerge 925891 retitle 925891 AMD/ATI Carrizo driver incorrectly detected? thanks Now making the incorrect driver detection a separate issue. All I know is with that minimal install, it somehow assumes the correct driver is present, or it is, but it uses it wrong. See also https://wiki.debian.org

Bug#926149: AMD: Add nomodeset kernel parameter to avoid black screen

2019-04-06 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
clone 926149 -1 retitle -1 [AMD/ATI] Carrizo driver incorrectly detected retitle 926149 Add nomodeset kernel parameter for recovery boot grub entry thanks > "BH" == Ben Hutchings writes: BH> However it might be reasonable to add "nomodeset" to the command line BH> in GRUB's "recovery" boot m

Bug#926149: AMD: Add nomodeset kernel parameter to avoid black screen

2019-04-05 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
> However it might be reasonable to add "nomodeset" to the command line > in GRUB's "recovery" boot menu items. OK, great. Now all that is left is for me to help you figure out why the installer incorrectly detects that the drivers are available, etc. I am able to workaround all this, I just want

Bug#926149: Subject: Re: Bug#926149: AMD: Add nomodeset kernel parameter to avoid black screen

2019-04-04 Thread Dan Jacobson
B> However it might be reasonable to add "nomodeset" to the command line B> in GRUB's "recovery" boot menu items. OK, great. Now all that is left is for me to help you figure out why the installer incorrectly detects that the drivers are available, etc. I am able to workaround all this, I just wa

Bug#926149: AMD: Add nomodeset kernel parameter to avoid black screen

2019-04-03 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
And lo and behold, in /etc/grub.d/10_linux : if [ "$ubuntu_recovery" = 1 ]; then GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_RECOVERY="$GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_RECOVERY nomodeset" fi

Bug#926149: AMD: Add nomodeset kernel parameter to avoid black screen

2019-04-03 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
> "BH" == Ben Hutchings writes: BH> The installer normally uses a dumb framebuffer driver (probably efifb BH> on this system) that is built into the kernel. This is too low- BH> performance for a proper desktop. OK, the installer could first double check that the framebuffer driver it inten

Bug#926149: AMD: Add nomodeset kernel parameter to avoid black screen

2019-04-02 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
So the question becomes why does that installer ISO know how to properly deal with the BH> 00:01.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Carrizo [1002:9874] (rev e6) BH> Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:8719] giving nice splash screens, a sna

Bug#926149: AMD: Add nomodeset kernel parameter to avoid black screen

2019-04-02 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
BH> Please send the output of "lspci -vnn" for the system that shows this BH> problem. Would lspci -knn be good enough for now?: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?att=0;bug=925556;filename=logs.gz;msg=50

Bug#766385: Generating /boot/initrd.img-* twice in the same full-upgrade

2018-09-23 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Doesn't happen every time, only sometimes. # egrep init.*Genera\|Log\ started /var/log/apt/term.log Log started: 2018-09-23 09:51:40 update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.18.0-1-686-pae update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.18.0-1-686-pae term.log.gz Description: applicatio

Bug#906310: video=SVIDEO-1:d

2018-08-20 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Preliminary results show that the video=SVIDEO-1:d boot line workaround is working...

Bug#906310: actually vblank wait timed out on crtc 0

2018-08-18 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
rename 906310 vblank wait timed out on crtc 0 thanks It turns out this is just still the vblank wait timed out on crtc 0 bug seen on kernels later than 4.15 syslog.gz Description: syslog Xorg.0.log.gz Description: Xlog

Bug#906310: notified xrandr source (7.7+8)

2018-08-17 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
I created https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/xrandr/issues/40 .

Bug#906310: Need xrandr in two steps, else: vblank wait timed out on crtc 0

2018-08-16 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: src:linux Version: 4.17.14-1 I discovered that the user needs to use xrandr in _two_ steps for certain resolutions, else he will make his system unusable, needing to be rebooted, probably after minutes of pressing sysrq... # egrep initial\ m\|stride /var/log/Xorg.0.log [20.183] (II)

Bug#905607: certain crash about a half an hour browsing Facebook with chromium

2018-08-06 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: src:linux Version: 4.17.8-1 Just wanted to let you know that after about a half an hour browsing Facebook with chromium, (I didn't try other browsers) the kernel always crashes. There are never any logs to send. The system just freezes for 10 seconds and reboots. Nothing gets recorded ab

Bug#903679: happens in all of 4.16.

2018-07-16 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Happens in all of 4.16. 4.15 unaffected.

Bug#903679: Bad: 4.16.16-2

2018-07-13 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Problem turns out not to be related to xrandr. Problem occurs when starting or stopping X windows. OK: linux-image-4.16.0-1-amd64:amd64 4.16.5-1 Bad: linux-image-4.16.0-2-amd64:amd64 4.16.16-2

Bug#903679: /build/linux-hny3SU/linux-4.16.5/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_vblank.c:1073 drm_wait_one_vblank+0x16e/0x180 [drm]

2018-07-12 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: src:linux Version: 4.16.16-2 Severity: important Problem occurs with vmlinuz-4.16.0-2-amd64 No problem in vmlinuz-4.15.0-3-amd64 Problem occurs if user puts xrandr --output LVDS-1 --mode 1024x576 in his ~/.xsession file. Problem doesn't occur if user just invokes xrandr --output LVDS-1 -

Bug#898814: When I log in, it hangs until crng init done

2018-05-15 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: linux-image-4.16.0-1-amd64 I am also experiencing: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/442698/when-i-log-in-it-hangs-until-crng-init-done

Bug#886510: OK now I installed libelf-dev, but...

2018-01-06 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
OK now I did, # aptitude install libelf-dev The following NEW packages will be installed: libelf-dev The following packages will be REMOVED: linux-headers-4.14.0-1-amd64{pu} linux-headers-4.14.0-1-common{pu} (D: linux-headers-4.14.0-1-amd64) And now the error is gone, # aptitude reinstall

Bug#876977: hwdb.bin does not exist, please run systemd-hwdb update

2017-09-27 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.130 Severity: wishlist Showing the user warnings like systemd-udevd[68]: hwdb.bin does not exist, please run systemd-hwdb update in journalctl is bad, because according to e.g., https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=189536 there is nothing he can do about i

Bug#876977: Maybe related to 875924

2017-09-27 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Maybe related to https://bugs.debian.org/875924 .

Bug#875924: "Please convert the driver to use hwmon_device_register_with_info()." messages

2017-09-15 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: src:linux Version: 4.12.6-1 There is not enough information in these messages to determine what package to assign this bug to. # journalctl | grep -C 1 deprecated Sep 16 09:10:48 jidanni6 kernel: ACPI: bus type USB registered Sep 16 09:10:48 jidanni6 kernel: (NULL device *): hwmon_device

Bug#873767: W: mdadm: failed to auto-generate the mdadm.conf file

2017-08-30 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.130 Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.130) ... update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.12.0-1-amd64 W: mkconf: MD subsystem is not loaded, thus I cannot scan for arrays. W: mdadm: failed to auto-generate the mdadm.conf file. W: mdadm: please rea

Bug#869670: Depends: linux-headers-4.11.0-2-common ... but it is not going to be installed

2017-07-25 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: linux-headers-4.11.0-2-amd64 Version: 4.11.11-1 The following packages have unmet dependencies: linux-headers-4.11.0-2-amd64 : Depends: linux-headers-4.11.0-2-common (= 4.11.11-1+b1) but it is not going to be installed

Bug#861057: Today I suddenly see swap warning

2017-04-24 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Today I suddenly see: Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.129) ... update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.9.0-2-amd64 W: initramfs-tools configuration sets RESUME=UUID=eff505d5-d5bf-4bba-8a07-f3d0d11018b9 W: but no matching swap device is available. I: The initramfs will attempt t

Bug#852194: make a /run/initramfs/messages

2017-01-22 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
BH> There is no log daemon for logger to talk to. Err... I mean talk to the same thing that is saving them up to put them into journalctl.

Bug#852194: make a /run/initramfs/messages

2017-01-22 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
BH> initramfs-tools does not use systemd. If systemd is failing to log its BH> output at boot time, that is not a bug in initramfs-tools. OK I filed #852229 [systemd] failing to log output at boot time BH> (I recognise that initramfs-tools should log output before it hands BH> over to systemd (

Bug#852192: using boot_delay=500 renders system unbootable

2017-01-22 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
BH> The delay is applied after every line that is logged, whether or not BH> it's displayed on the console. OK maybe they should warn about that in /usr/share/doc/linux-doc-4.9/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt.gz And add a new parameter that only applies to ones that are shown on the console.

Bug#852194: make a /run/initramfs/messages

2017-01-22 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.126 Severity: wishlist You generate /run/initramfs/fsck-root /run/initramfs/fsck.log Good. Please also generate a similar log of the messages that the user sees fly by upon boot before the ones that are captured by journalctl. Actually it turns out they are no

Bug#852192: using boot_delay=500 renders system unbootable

2017-01-22 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: src:linux Version: 4.8.15-2 $ cat /proc/cmdline BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.8.0-2-amd64 root=UUID=50c0e259-55bb-4fc0-867e-63160edef01f ro single systemd.log_level=debug systemd.log_target=kmsg log_buf_len=262144 enforcing=0 panic=33 earlyprintk=vga worked fine. But if boot_delay=500 is

Bug#849280: say 'incompatible binary version', not "not found"

2016-12-24 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
> "MH" == Marc Haber writes: MH> Does /lib/ld-linux.so.2 exist on your system? No. MH> If not, the error message is correct. The kernel just knows that the MH> interpreter given in the executable does not exist, it cannot give a MH> more meaningful error message because lack of knowledge.

Bug#849280: say 'incompatible binary version', not "not found"

2016-12-24 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: src:linux Version: 4.8.11-1 Severity: wishlist Please give a more correct message, like 'incompatible binary version'. Returning a not found error to shells is just plain misleading. $ set who who2 $ for i in 'ls -l ' 'file ' './'; do $i$1; $i$2; done -rwxr-xr-x 1 jidanni jidanni 51092 1

Bug#849276: cp: cannot stat '/etc/modprobe.d/*': No such file or directory

2016-12-24 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: src:linux Version: 4.8.11-1 Severity: minor Please check to see if /etc/modprobe.d really exists (it might not!) first. Log started: 2016-12-23 22:37:09 Selecting previously unselected package linux-image-4.8.0-1-amd64. (Reading database ... 9940 files and directories currently installe

Bug#848724: now just a directory left behind

2016-12-19 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
OK now there is only the directory /etc/kernel/signed_postinst.d/ left behind.

Bug#848724: unable to delete old directory '/etc/kernel/signed_postinst.d': Directory not empty

2016-12-19 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.126 Severity: minor Unpacking initramfs-tools (0.126) over (0.125) ... dpkg: warning: unable to delete old directory '/etc/kernel/signed_postinst.d': Directory not empty /etc/kernel/signed_postinst.d: drwxr-xr-x 2 root 4096 12-20 04:20 . drwxr-xr-x 7 roo

firmware-linux obsolete?

2016-12-06 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Hello, do I just purge these? # aptitude search ~o~i~nfirm i firmware-amd-graphics i firmware-linux i firmware-linux-nonfree i firmware-misc-nonfree i firmware-realtek Won't my computer stop working?

Bug#843485: mention () vs (()) of filename

2016-11-12 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
All I know is "one may have noticed () vs. (())". I don't know how they got there. So I am not the best person to write about it.

Bug#843485: mention () vs (()) of filename

2016-11-12 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
BH> The extra parentheses have no special meaning. Well please document how they got there at least. BH> What the documentation ought to mention is that a thread's name can BH> be overridden using prctl(PR_SET_NAME, ...). Care to send a patch? I have no kernel knowledge.

Bug#843485: mention () vs (()) of filename

2016-11-06 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: linux-doc-4.8 Version: 4.8.5-1 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/share/doc/linux-doc-4.8/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt.gz One only sees tcomm filename of the executable But no explanation of () vs (()) $ perl -anwle 'print $F[1]' /proc/[0-9]*/stat|sort -u|head ((sd-pam)) (Xor

Bug#843113: better missing kernel headers message

2016-11-03 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: src:linux Version: 4.8.5-1 Severity: wishlist Setting up linux-image-4.8.0-1-686-pae (4.8.5-1) ... I: /vmlinuz.old is now a symlink to boot/vmlinuz-4.7.0-1-686-pae I: /initrd.img.old is now a symlink to boot/initrd.img-4.7.0-1-686-pae I: /vmlinuz is now a symlink to boot/vmlinuz-4.8.0-1-6

Bug#841690: freezes with blank screen after printing two lines.

2016-10-26 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Sorry, at least Bug #842221, dpkg-checkbuilddeps: error: Unmet build dependencies: openssl:native, and # df /var/cache/apt/archives/ -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sdc2 3.1G 2.0G 1018M 66% /var/cache/apt/archives mean I give up trying to make a .deb. Please send me

Bug#841690: freezes with blank screen after printing two lines.

2016-10-22 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
I forgot how to save the traceback to disk.

Bug#841690: freezes with blank screen after printing two lines.

2016-10-22 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
No... unplugging all USB and rebooting doesn't help.

Bug#841690: freezes with blank screen after printing two lines.

2016-10-22 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Thanks. It's the Bad EIP value problem of http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/fedora-35/bad-eip-value-189710/ I will try unplugging all USB...

Bug#841690: freezes with blank screen after printing two lines.

2016-10-22 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
In the changelog it seems some detection of Thinkpad r50e hardware (wifi) perhaps has been added. causing Blinking cursor at top-left corner / A plain black screen as mentioned in https://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/842 Of course there are no logs available at this point.

Bug#841690: freezes with blank screen after printing two lines.

2016-10-22 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: src:linux Version: 4.7.8-1 Version: 4.7.6-1 works fine. Version: 4.7.8-1 freezes with blank screen after printing two lines. Thinkpad r50e.

Bug#818252: swap.target: Job swap.target/start failed with result 'dependency'.

2016-03-14 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: src:linux Version: 4.4.4-2 Today I got a bug very much like https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=764539 but without a custom kernel. 3月 15 10:17:23 jidanni2 swapon[310]: swapon: sys-utils/swapon.c:653: parse_options: Assertion `ctl->discard' failed. 3月 15 10:17:23 jidanni

Bug#809206: dpkg: warning: unable to delete old directory '/etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d': Directory not empty

2016-01-21 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
> "BH" == Ben Hutchings writes: BH> I can't reproduce this, using either APT or direct invocation of dpkg. BH> Please explain how you attempted to upgrade. I always use aptitude full-upgrade. Anyway on my jidanni2 machine I also find: $ set /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d /var/lib/initramfs-to

Bug#809206: so can I delete them by hand?

2016-01-03 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
So can I delete them anyway?

Bug#809204: busybox is required but not installed

2015-12-31 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
> "BH" == Ben Hutchings writes: BH> You've convinced me that this isn't a good way to handle the change. Glad! BH> What I intend to do is to add a third option, BUSYBOX=auto, with the BH> old semantics of BUSYBOX=y, and make that the default.  On upgrade you BH> may be prompted to resolve co

Bug#808563: better cover up this version fast

2015-12-30 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
You really need to put something else it its place fast. Else users will end up with scrambled disks, and unable to boot. Treat it like a virus. Can't you just copy the previous kernel into a "4.3a" release? That way the damaging kernel won't be the default anymore.

Bug#809204: busybox is required but not installed

2015-12-29 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
> "BH" == Ben Hutchings writes: >> OK, but you are still going to run into problems if the user has set >> >> # apt-config dump|egrep Rec\|Sugg >> APT::Install-Recommends "false"; >> APT::Install-Suggests "0"; BH> Users that do that need to accept that they will encounter errors like BH> thi

Bug#809204: busybox is required but not installed

2015-12-29 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
> "BH" == Ben Hutchings writes: BH> Wrong, initramfs-tools-core does (and initramfs-tools used to do so BH> directly). OK, but you are still going to run into problems if the user has set # apt-config dump|egrep Rec\|Sugg APT::Install-Recommends "false"; APT::Install-Suggests "0";

Bug#809204: closed by Ben Hutchings (Re: Bug#809204: busybox is required but not installed)

2015-12-28 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
>>>>> "BH" == Ben Hutchings writes: BH> On Mon, 2015-12-28 at 21:20 +0800, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote: >> OK I find BUSYBOX=y. >> But I don't think I ever tampered with that file. BH> That is the default. >> That means that ... you are going t

Bug#809204: closed by Ben Hutchings (Re: Bug#809204: busybox is required but not installed)

2015-12-28 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
OK I find BUSYBOX=y. But I don't think I ever tampered with that file. That means that ... you are going to have a lot of people with problems shortly...

Bug#809204: closed by Ben Hutchings (Re: Bug#809204: busybox is required but not installed)

2015-12-28 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
B> Read the NEWS. "You may need to modify /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs-tools.conf or install busybox when upgrading." $ ls /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs-tools.conf ls: cannot access /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs-tools.conf: No such file or directory Maybe that means the default stat

Bug#809206: dpkg: warning: unable to delete old directory '/etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d': Directory not empty

2015-12-28 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.121~rc2 Unpacking initramfs-tools (0.121~rc2) over (0.120) ... dpkg: warning: unable to delete old directory '/etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d': Directory not empty dpkg: warning: unable to delete old directory '/var/lib/initramfs-tools': Directory not empty $ ls

Bug#809204: busybox is required but not installed

2015-12-28 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.121~rc2 Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.121~rc2) ... update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.3.0-1-686-pae E: busybox is required but not installed E: /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/busybox failed with return 1. update-initramfs: failed for

Bug#808563: really should be serious bug: data loss

2015-12-27 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Will try Wednesday. Actually better to have the raid people test. I only have one disk... too risky.

Bug#808563: really should be serious bug: data loss

2015-12-22 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Rotational. watch outscrambled data fsck forced can't boot stay away...

Bug#808563: really should be serious bug: data loss

2015-12-21 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
ata1.00: exception Emask 0x60 SAct 0x1c SErr 0x800 action 0x6 frozen ata1.00: irq_stat 0x2000, host bus error ata1: SError: { HostInt } ata1.00: failed command: WRITE FPDMA QUEUED ata1.00: cmd 61/00:10:00:a8:10/08:00:26:00:00/40 tag 2 ncq 1048576 out res 40/00:20:00:48:11/00:00:26:00:0

Bug#808563: really should be serious bug: data loss

2015-12-21 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: src:linux Version: 4.3.3-2 -- Package-specific info: ** Kernel log: boot messages should be attached ** Model information not available ** PCI devices: 00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family DRAM Controller [8086:0104] (rev 09) Subsys

Bug#808563: really should be serious bug: data loss

2015-12-20 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
The first time it happened I couldn't boot again without a fsck.ext4 via a rescue CD!

Bug#808563: Boot with 4.3: SATA errors. Returning to 4.2: no errors

2015-12-20 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: src:linux Version: 4.3.3-2 Severity: important I am getting these errors (sort -u'd here) with linux-image-4.3.0-1-686-pae res 40/00:20:00:48:11/00:00:26:00:00/40 Emask 0x60 (host bus error) ata1.00: cmd 61/d0:d8:80:9e:10/05:00:26:00:00/40 tag 27 ncq 761856 out ata1.00: configur

Bug#683237: closed by Ben Hutchings (Re: document how one uses the firmware here)

2015-10-22 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
> "B" == Debian Bug Tracking System writes: B> This is covered by the Installation Manual: B> https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/amd64/ch06s04.html.en OK but maybe you should mention that somewhere in the package docs. Also not everybody has an AMD64.

Bug#786385: /init: touch not found

2015-05-21 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.120 Severity: wishlist I saw "/init: touch not found" during the messages flashing by at boot, but even installing bootlogd offers no way of capturing them because they are from initrd.img-4.0.0-1-686-pae . -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@li

Bug#785435: init: touch not found

2015-05-16 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.120 Severity: wishlist I swear I saw something about init: touch not found fly past on my screen, but I have no log file to prove it. I wish there was a log file. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscri

Bug#780239: log timestamps could be off by a whole minute

2015-03-10 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
reopen 780239 reassign 780239 rsyslog found 780239 8.8.0-1 thanks I'll try the above. BH> On Wed, 2015-03-11 at 10:57 +0800, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote: >> Please reassign. BH> What's the point? I could only reassign it to general so that Holger BH> could close it. --

Bug#780239: closed by Ben Hutchings (Re: Bug#780239: log timestamps could be off by a whole minute)

2015-03-10 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Please reassign. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/87vbi844w9@jidanni.org

Bug#780239: log timestamps could be off by a whole minute

2015-03-10 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: src:linux Version: 3.16.7-ckt7-1 Severity: wishlist Here's a risk I sent to http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/28.55.html#subj13 which ought to also be reported here. One day in a court of law, the log files of a computer system will be used to prove that some incident happened at some certa

Bug#766448: why one would want fstype auto for /

2014-10-25 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
You might ask why one would want fstype auto for /. Well sometimes it is a lifesaver. E.g., when trying to boot with a older kernel that doesn't understand newer filesystems. I don't recall the exact details... but it gave me the flexibility to change something... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to deb

Bug#766448: root fstype "auto" in /etc/fstab guaranteed unbootable

2014-10-24 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
For 0.118 not only did I discover setting the root fstype to "auto" in /etc/fstab and then running mkinitramfs -u make the system guaranteed unbootable, furthermore I found this code in /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hook-functions # check that fstype rootfs recognition if [ "${FSTYPE}

Bug#766448: root fstype "auto" in /etc/fstab guaranteed unbootable

2014-10-23 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
reopen 766448 retitle root fstype "auto" in /etc/fstab guaranteed unbootable thanks Please try these simple steps: Change /etc/fstab making the type for / be "auto", not ext4 etc. Now with initramfs-tools Ver: 0.118 installed, run update-initramfs -u and reboot. But first see also #766578. -- T

Bug#766446: mention what disk when saying Warning: couldn't identify filesystem type

2014-10-23 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.118 Severity: wishlist Please mention what disk you are talking about in messages like "Warning: couldn't identify filesystem type for fsck hook, ignoring." else the user will get very worried that one of his disks are bad and need to test them all. Thanks. Pre

Bug#766447: add parameter to override the seconds of 'Will restart in 5 seconds.'

2014-10-23 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: src:linux Version: 3.16.5-1 Severity: wishlist Regarding 'Attempt to start maintenance shell failed. Will restart in 5 seconds.' 5 seconds is not long enough to read all but a few of the words on the screen. Please add a boot parameter to control this. Also document it in Documen

Bug#766448: 0.116 to 0.118 makes systems unbootable with 5 second message

2014-10-23 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.118 Severity: grave On all my systems, 0.116 works fine, 0.118 just gives some message about rebooting in 5 seconds that is not enough time to read. I.e., the system becomes unbootable. 1. Please tell me what steps you would like me to take. Thanks. -- To

Bug#766385: Generating /boot/initrd... seen twice in a single aptitude full-upgrade

2014-10-22 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.116 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/sbin/update-initramfs Often I see Generating /boot/initrd... twice # aptitude full-upgrade ... Setting up linux-image-3.16-3-686-pae (3.16.5-1) ... /etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs-tools: update-initramfs: Generating /boot/init

Bug#686544: upstream response

2014-10-14 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Upstream closed https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85471 Now what should I do? Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141014211043.ga9..

Bug#764019: closed by Ben Hutchings (Re: Bug#764019: /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume out of date)

2014-10-05 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
BH> Then you'll need to update it. BH> Are you expecting update-initramfs to warn about this? All I know is reportbug --template initramfs-tools alerted me to the existence of /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume and its outdated contents. All I know is initramfs-tools created this file, not me.

Bug#764019: closed by Ben Hutchings (Re: Bug#764019: /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume out of date)

2014-10-05 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
B> The latter file is left over from the device ID conversion in a B> lenny-squeeze upgrade, and is not used. Yes but the former file points to a non-usable partition too!! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listm

Bug#764021: 118 fails to boot to boot

2014-10-04 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Your 118 also fails to boot to boot. (Your 118 also fails to boot in addition.) It says "rebooting in 5 seconds" and indeed reboot in 5 seconds, too short for me to read what else it said. Even though I have panic=33 to give it more time. Maybe it has to do with the "Warning: couldn't identify f

Bug#764022: inaccurate DEBUG method on man page

2014-10-04 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.117 File: /usr/share/man/man8/initramfs-tools.8.gz We read DEBUG It is easy to check the generated initramfs for its content. One may need to double-check if it contains the relevant binaries, libs or mod- ules: mkdir tmp/i

Bug#764021: How are we going to boot with an empty etc/fstab?

2014-10-04 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.117 Severity: critical File: /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/fsck How are we going to boot with an empty etc/fstab? It is the only empty file in the whole initrd.img ! dd if=/boot/initrd.img-3.16-2-686-pae skip=6|zcat| cpio -vt|perl -anwle 'next if /^d/; prin

Bug#764020: list lsinitramfs on initramfs-tools man page's SEE ALSO

2014-10-04 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.117 Severity: minor Please list lsinitramfs on initramfs-tools man page's SEE ALSO. In fact maybe there are others missing too. Problem, lsinitramfs is in manual section 8 but in bin, not sbin. Perhaps make it section 1. Maybe other pages have this problem too

Bug#764019: /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume out of date

2014-10-04 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.117 I discovered these ancient files $ find /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d -type f|xargs more|cat :: /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume :: # RESUME=/dev/hda5 RESUME='UUID=89a43990-ecd9-426f-adf2-529902935af4' :: /etc/initramfs-t

Bug#686544: bug happing again

2014-10-02 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
OK submitted https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85471 . Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/87y4sytloi@jidanni.org

Bug#686544: bug happing again

2014-10-02 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
> "BH" == Ben Hutchings writes: BH> Control: close -1 3.5.5-1~experimental.1 BH> You don't have the same hardware, so don't hijack this bug. Should I file a new bug? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listm

Bug#686544: bug happing again

2014-10-01 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
# journalctl 10月 02 10:01:12 jidanni5 kernel: ACPI: AC Adapter [ACAD] (on-line) 10月 02 10:01:12 jidanni5 kernel: ACPI Warning: SystemIO range 0x0428-0x042f conflicts with OpRegion 0x0400-0x047f (\PMIO) (20140424/utaddress-258) 10月 02 10:01:12 jidanni5 kernel: ACPI: If an ACPI dri

Bug#763123: mention grub can now do badram directly

2014-09-27 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: linux-doc-3.16 Version: 3.16.3-2 X-debbugs-Cc: Jan-Simon Moeller Severity: minor File: /usr/share/doc/linux-doc-3.16/Documentation/bad_memory.txt.gz Please mention now grub can do badram directly! $ info grub commands 'command-line and menu entry commands' badram -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Bug#762870: can't boot!

2014-09-25 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
All I know is I couldn't boot with that thing at the top of # ls /boot/ -ltog -rw-r--r-- 1 2907647 09-26 08:46 initrd.img-3.16-2-686-pae drwxr-xr-x 54096 09-23 00:39 grub -rw-r--r-- 1 2726738 09-22 23:00 initrd.img-3.16-1-686-pae -rw-r--r-- 1 2089608 09-21 01:56 System.map-3.16-2-686-pae -rw-r-

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