Bug#586494: Dell PowerEdge 4200 scsi, worked in 2.6.18, not in 2.6.26

2011-09-12 Thread trouble daemon
Hello, On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 2:56 AM, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Sorry we dropped the ball on this.  Dan, any news (e.g., do later > kernels do any better)?  Alexey, any ideas for tracking this down? No worries, not like these machines are useful for much beyond museum pieces any more ;) Sorry a

Bug#586494: Dell PowerEdge 4200 scsi, worked in 2.6.18, not in 2.6.26

2011-09-23 Thread trouble daemon
Heya, On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 5:48 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > trouble daemon wrote: > >> As for later kernels, I have no idea tbh. Currently they seem to run >> flawless with noapic, so that is what I use when installing and >> running them. I do know that the Debian

Bug#586494: Possible PNP issue on Dell PowerEdge 4200 unless noapic used

2011-09-25 Thread trouble daemon
Heya, On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 8:24 AM, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > [Resending since gmail made it HTML, which LKML thinks is spam.  sigh] > > On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 6:28 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote: >> >> (just cc-ing linux-kernel so any work on this gets archived) &g

Bug#586494: linux-image-2.6.26-2-686: Dell PowerEdge 4200's don't work with 2.6.26

2010-06-19 Thread trouble daemon
Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.26-22lenny1 Severity: important I am using a pair of Dell PowerEdg 4200's that have been working with debian since 2002 or so, 100% perfectly. However, since testing out Lenny with a 2.6.26 kernel, it seems that both systems panic in an unbootable fashion with 2.6.2

Bug#586494: linux-image-2.6.26-2-686: Dell PowerEdge 4200's don't work with 2.6.26

2010-06-20 Thread trouble daemon
Ben, > My guess is that something has gone wrong with interrupt routing.  Can > you try adding 'acpi=noirq' to the kernel parameters? Okay, I tied acpi=noirq with the stock lenny 2.6.26 kernel, and it looks like the same exact problem still. I can capture a dmesg for that as well if you want thou

Bug#586494: linux-image-2.6.26-2-686: Dell PowerEdge 4200's don't work with 2.6.26

2010-06-20 Thread trouble daemon
> Ok, I am currently compiling the 2.6.32 debianized kernel with the > config from the lenny package. Ooops, small correction. What I meant to say was that I am compiling the 2.6.32 source from squeeze using the squeeze config in the .deb, not the lenny config. ie: it should end up effectively a s

Bug#586494: linux-image-2.6.26-2-686: Dell PowerEdge 4200's don't work with 2.6.26

2010-06-21 Thread trouble daemon
Ben, > Another option that may be worth trying is 'noapic'. Wow, that worked just fine actually on 2.6.26 stock kernel. Thanks a lot! I am curious though, what in the world changed since 2.6.18 and lower versions that might have required noapic? I've seen the option needed by so many people on m

Bug#586494: linux-image-2.6.26-2-686: Dell PowerEdge 4200's don't work with 2.6.26

2010-06-21 Thread trouble daemon
> BTW, I also attached the dmesg for 2.6.26 working just > for reference to anyone else who might stumble upon this bug, and for > your curiosity as well. ooops, forgot the attachement. Attached as promised! troubled [0.00] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset [0.00] Initializing c

Bug#586494: linux-image-2.6.26-2-686: Dell PowerEdge 4200's don't work with 2.6.26

2010-06-23 Thread trouble daemon
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 9:35 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > I'm afraid I don't know much about interrupt routing so I don't think I > can get useful information out of it. That's okay, the important thing is that noapic works at least. > I see that you also wrote to LKML and that you found an older

Bug#586494: Kernel bisect

2010-07-05 Thread trouble daemon
As requested by Andrew, I did a kernel bisect and tracked the patch which introduced the problem due to the following commit from the linux git branch: $ git bisect bad f8924e770e048429ae13bfabe1ddad9bf1e64df7 is first bad commit commit f8924e770e048429ae13bfabe1ddad9bf1e64df7 Author: Alexey Stari