Re: [Stretch] Status for architecture qualification

2016-06-15 Thread Stephen Powell
PAR, which is essentially a virtual machine running under PR/SM. And the physical machine behind those (at least) two levels of virtualization doesn't really have the same hardware architecture as a virtual machine, such as physical chpids vs. logical chpids and logical channel subsystems, et

Re: Upgrading the minimum required s390x CPU to z10?

2016-06-02 Thread Stephen Powell
ing systems, such as z/VM, they start cutting off older hardware. We still run z/VM 5.4.0 because it is the last release of z/VM that still supports our z/890. Starting with z/VM 6.1.0, a z10 or newer is required. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: Upgrading the minimum required s390x CPU to z10?

2016-05-31 Thread Stephen Powell
nsive. Which case are you talking about? (I must confess that I haven't looked at the source code for openssl.) -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: Bug#825141: dasd_mod: module verification failed: signature and/or required key missing - tainting kernel

2016-05-25 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, May 23, 2016, at 22:16, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Mon, 2016-05-23 at 21:06 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: >> >> The following message is received at boot time when booting the stock Debian >> kernel >> version 4.5.3-2 on the s390x architecture: >> >&g

Bug#825141: dasd_mod: module verification failed: signature and/or required key missing - tainting kernel

2016-05-23 Thread Stephen Powell
- tainting kernel The kernel does boot; but the kernel gets tainted, which disables lock debugging. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `-

Bug#801913: init-premount boot script is now superfluous

2015-10-15 Thread Stephen Powell
is superfluous. It is no longer needed. It should be dropped from the package. That's one less piece of code to maintain, and one less item that needs to be included in the initial RAM file system image file. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `-

Bug#801912: DASD options are ignored because device is already online

2015-10-15 Thread Stephen Powell
script is attempting to set the DASD options *after* bringing the device online. Thus, the DASD options are ignored. A patch which fixes the problem is attached. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `-diff -ura a/etc/sysconfig/scripts/hardware/hwup-ccw-

python3-minimal (3.4.3-4) fails configuration under Hercules

2015-09-21 Thread Stephen Powell
lation of the s390x hardware which causes configuration of the above package to fail. I downloaded Hercules 3.11 directly from upstream, compiled it from source, and installed it. The above error disappears under Hercules 3.11. The bottom line: We really need a new hercules package for Debian! -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: Adding DASD to a Debian guest

2015-09-19 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 19 Sep 2015 18:15:16 -0400 (EDT), Philipp Kern wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 05, 2015 at 05:12:30PM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: >> No. The hook script was written by me years ago, and I put it in the >> bug report, but it was never incorporated into the official package

Re: Adding DASD to a Debian guest

2015-09-05 Thread Stephen Powell
ith running grub2 from a kernel image booted by zipl and then > kexec()ing into the right kernel and initrd is a bit too much, though. I agree. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: [OT] Re: Hercules - how to get a zVM OS (legally bought!) and put it on a VM under Hercules?

2015-09-05 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 05 Sep 2015 13:40:27 -0400 (EDT), Philipp Kern wrote: > > What is the canonical place to get new Hercules releases from? > It's neither http://www.hercules-390.org nor > https://github.com/hercules-390/hyperion http://www.hercules-390.eu -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: Possible bug in GCC 5, need help

2015-08-31 Thread Stephen Powell
ing the testcase > to start debugging. I'll open a GCC BZ with the reduced testcase. You beat me to it. Thanks, Andreas -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: [OT] Re: Hercules - how to get a zVM OS (legally bought!) and put it on a VM under Hercules?

2015-08-26 Thread Stephen Powell
package updated. The current production upstream release is 3.11, released on September 15, 2014. 3.07 was released on March 10, 2010. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `-

Bug#797023: Linux kernel FTBFS error for ARCH=s390, CONFIG_SMP=n, and CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG=y

2015-08-26 Thread Stephen Powell
=a313bdc5310dd807655d3ca3eb2219cd65dfe45a -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: Hercules - how to get a zVM OS (legally bought!) and put it on a VM under Hercules?

2015-08-22 Thread Stephen Powell
n't top-post Respectfully, -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `-

[OT] Re: Hercules - how to get a zVM OS (legally bought!) and put it on a VM under Hercules?

2015-08-22 Thread Stephen Powell
ulated tape file to a Hercules volume. That's one way to do it. Perhaps the folks on the above Yahoo group know a better way. Regards, -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: Hercules - Error: undefined configuration on first boot after installation

2015-08-20 Thread Stephen Powell
the menu item number for a kernel to boot. I suggest leaving LOADPARM blank. But since you are running Debian under Hercules, you might find the following web page useful: http://users.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/hercules.htm -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: Possible bug in GCC 5, need help

2015-08-20 Thread Stephen Powell
possibly filing a GCC bug? If you will produce a compiler listing that shows the generated machine language and pseudo-assembly language for the problem piece of code, both for the good case and the failing case, and send me a link to it, I'll take a look at it. I can't promise you success, but I'll look at it. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `-

Bug#795954: sysconfig-hardware contains various syntax errors in "case" commands

2015-08-18 Thread Stephen Powell
e of bash (yes, bash, not dash) may tighten up standards and the code will fail. I have attached a patch file which corrects the problems. Note: the portion of the patch which changes chandev-convert affects only the source package. It is not included in the binary package. -- .&#x

Re: Adding DASD to a Debian guest

2015-08-16 Thread Stephen Powell
o how it works on all other hardware platforms that Debian supports. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: Adding DASD to a Debian guest

2015-08-13 Thread Stephen Powell
e / big enough so that after installation is complete it is no more than 50% full, to allow for future growth. Let me know how it goes. If you add new DASD devices to your system after installation, whether you mount them directly or add them to a logical volume, be sure to create files in /etc/sysconfig/hardware so that sysconfig-hardware will bring them online at the next boot. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: Please add

2015-08-11 Thread Stephen Powell
uot;. When replying to a message from the list, please change the "Reply To" field to the list's e-mail address, if your e-mail client does not do this automatically, and do not CC the sender unless specifically requested to do so. Regards, -- .''`. Stephen Powell

Re: Please add

2015-08-11 Thread Stephen Powell
t there and re-send it. Instead, check the mailing list archives at https://lists.debian.org/debian-s390/ or by some other means, to verify that your post was received and posted to the list. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Bug#758115: Disabled wait state X'32EE' on IPL of zIPL

2014-08-26 Thread Stephen Powell
ne the external interruption code. I do worry, though, about this being a more general problem. What about the interrupt handler in the Linux kernel? Or any other portion of the kernel that needs to examine (or change) data in real page 0 for whatever reason? -- .'&#

Bug#758115: Disabled wait state X'32EE' on IPL of zIPL

2014-08-22 Thread Stephen Powell
a: a7 f4 00 01 j 32ec 32ee: 07 07 nopr%r7 - Obviously bad code. Something is terribly wrong here. The complete eckd2.list file is available for download at http://users.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/zipl/eckd2.list It was compiled w

Bug#758115: Disabled wait state X'32EE' on IPL of zIPL

2014-08-21 Thread Stephen Powell
ruction" starts at storage address 32EC, and is two bytes long, that means that the updated instruction address in the PSW at the time of the program interruption will be 32EE, which is the value used in the disabled wait PSW. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' :

Re: custom kernels and s390x

2014-08-20 Thread Stephen Powell
On Tue, 19 Aug 2014 21:20:23 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote: > > I maintain a Debian-specific custom-kernel-building web page at > >http://users.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/Kernel.htm > ... One thing I forgot to mention earlier is that there are links to a couple of s390-specifi

custom kernels and s390x

2014-08-19 Thread Stephen Powell
0x, when it normally does not. See the "Alternatives" section for this tip. Perhaps this information will be useful to at least some of those who subscribe to this list. Cheers. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#758115: Disabled wait state X'32EE' on IPL of zIPL

2014-08-16 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 15 Aug 2014 19:12:24 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote: > > The full PSW is as follows: > >0002 8000 32EE By the way, Hercules has an instruction tracing facility, similar to the CP TRACE command on z/VM. The "T" command, along with the

Bug#758115: Disabled wait state X'32EE' on IPL of zIPL

2014-08-15 Thread Stephen Powell
d Machine check interruptions are all disabled, and the instruction address (i.e. disabled wait state code) is set to X'32EE'. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-s390-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Bug#758115: Disabled wait state X'32EE' on IPL of zIPL

2014-08-14 Thread Stephen Powell
rary (zipl/boot/libc.c), which the 1.17.1 version doesn't need. Yes, this bug has C breakage written all over it. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-s390-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe

Bug#758115: Disabled wait state X'32EE' on IPL of zIPL

2014-08-14 Thread Stephen Powell
ior to the zipl menu being written out. The system is unbootable. This may be related to the "general brokenness" of C on s390x in jessie/sid. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-s390-requ...@lists.debian.org

interruption code 0x4003B in libperl.so.5.18.2[3fffcfff000+1d0000]

2014-07-22 Thread Stephen Powell
upgrade the rest of your database. apt-get upgrade apt-get clean apt-get --purge dist-upgrade apt-get clean apt-get --purge autoremove aptitude forget-new aptitude keep-all I hope this helps someone. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `-

Bug#753592: interruption code 0x4003B in libperl.so.5.18.2[3fffcfff000+1d0000]

2014-07-03 Thread Stephen Powell
od measure. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-s390-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1270242434.431488.1404389237787.javamail.r...@md01.wow.synacor.com

Re: [SOLVED] debconf bricked -- undefined variable $ARGV[0] and similar issues

2014-07-01 Thread Stephen Powell
On Tue, 01 Jul 2014 06:12:07 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote: > > I found version 5.20.0-1 in experimental, and installed it. > Problem solved. Well, version 5.20.0-1 did solve the problem, as far as eliminating the program exception is concerned. But it also broke packages such a

[SOLVED] debconf bricked -- undefined variable $ARGV[0] and similar issues

2014-07-01 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 15 Jun 2014 12:40:38 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote: > > I tried an "apt-get dist-upgrade" of my jessie system yesterday, with bad > results. It seems that debconf is bricked. Currently, there are three > packages > that are unpacked but not configured: tzd

Re: Debian-390 / Hercules Problems

2014-03-01 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 23 Feb 2014 21:24:43 -0500 (EST), Philipp Kern wrote: > > Is znetconf solely doing runtime configuration or does it also try to persist > it? >From what I can tell, it appears to be doing runtime configuration only. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :'

av_register_all() segfaults on s390x in some cases (regression, causes FTBFS)

2014-03-01 Thread Stephen Powell
s.htm -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-s390-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1015660444.101479.1393691702191.javamail.r...@md01.wow.synacor.com

Re: Hercules Bus Error

2014-02-24 Thread Stephen Powell
/70-persistent-net.rules), and part ifupdown. There doesn't seem to be a single, well-defined place to document it. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-s390-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscrib

Re: Hercules Bus Error

2014-02-20 Thread Stephen Powell
then great, otherwise... I did not lecture to you. That is your interpretation. I was just trying to be helpful. Let me know how your strategy of insulting those from whom you are trying to obtain free help works out for you. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `&

Re: Hercules Bus Error

2014-02-19 Thread Stephen Powell
s the way Debian was designed to work. If Hercules is working properly, and you have configured your interfaces properly in both Hercules and Debian, it should "just work". If not, asking for help on this list with your devices configured the "Debian way" will likely cause bette

Re: Debian-390 / Hercules Problems

2014-02-18 Thread Stephen Powell
sts my CTCA. I think this is a question for the package maintainer. Philipp, are you listening? -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-s390-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: Debian-390 / Hercules Problems

2014-02-17 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 17 Feb 2014 15:19:13 -0500 (EST), David Clements wrote: > Stephen Powell wrote: >> ... >> The standard Debian package for >> Hercules, 3.07, does not support an Open Systems Adapter Express in QDIO >> mode, so that's the end of that. >> >>

Re: Debian390 / Hercules Problems

2014-02-14 Thread Stephen Powell
e is some output from my system: # whereis lsqeth lsqeth: /sbin/lsqeth /usr/share/man/man8/lsqeth.8.gz By the way, I'd be interested to hear your opinion of my "Debian Under Hercules" web page at http://users.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/hercules.htm . -- .''`. Stephen

Re: Hercules and a strange CTCI error

2013-08-18 Thread Stephen Powell
an under Hercules under Debian. See the following web site for more information: http://users.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/hercules.htm Maybe the above will help in some way. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-s390-requ.

Instructions for installing Debian GNU/Linux for IBM System z in the Hercules emulator

2013-07-14 Thread Stephen Powell
ositive or negative, is welcome. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-s390-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/39

Re: Using netboot Debian installation images in the Hercules emulator

2013-07-08 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 06 Jul 2013 14:56:29 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote: > > On Sat, 06 Jul 2013 12:31:25 -0400 (EDT), Philipp Kern wrote: >> >> Maybe you could check out the debian-installer manual from SVN and create a >> patch? I'd be happy to commit it. > > I'

Re: Using netboot Debian installation images in the Hercules emulator

2013-07-06 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 06 Jul 2013 12:31:25 -0400 (EDT), Philipp Kern wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 04, 2013 at 11:55:00AM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: >> >> There is no need to do a list-directed IPL from a CD image, there is no >> need to create an emulated tape file, etc. Just use the ne

Using netboot Debian installation images in the Hercules emulator

2013-07-04 Thread Stephen Powell
C" command on the Hercules console, of course. (Or you may use "iplc 000C" if you want to do a "load clear" instead of a "load normal".) I hope this helps someone. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBS

Bug#714581: Debian Installer "partition disks" step fails on s390/s390x when a "small" disk is used

2013-06-30 Thread Stephen Powell
lower than 4096. I'm not sure where that boundary is. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-s390-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org A

How do I get the box-drawing characters to look right for Debian Installer? (SOLVED)

2013-06-29 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 29 Jun 2013 15:37:42 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote: > > As you know, the installation procedure for Debian on the s390 and s390x > architectures involves using the Integrated System Console (or the virtual > 3215 console in a virtual machine under z/VM) to get the ne

How do I get the box-drawing characters to look right for Debian Installer?

2013-06-29 Thread Stephen Powell
y properly. How do I get the Linux ssh client to work with the Debian installer to get the box-drawing characters to look right? Or must I use Windows to install Debian? -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-s390-

Bug#696943: /etc/initramfs/post-update.d/zz-zipl script invokes zipl unnecessarily at times

2012-12-29 Thread Stephen Powell
oked once on a kernel update now. But zipl still gets invoked when the initial RAM file system is re-built for other reasons. A machine-readable copy of this script can be found on my web site at http://users.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/zipl/runzipl -- .''`. Stephen

Re: s390x upgrade squeeze to wheezy.

2012-11-13 Thread Stephen Powell
you will probably want to do a fresh install of s390x anyway. It is theoretically possible to migrate from the hybrid environment to a full s390x environment, but you really have to know what you're doing, and it's unsupported. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `

Re: dasd-id vol-id

2012-11-13 Thread Stephen Powell
point in the boot process, the errors go away. I trust it will be addressed eventually. Philip may wish to elaborate. I do not speak for the port team. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-s390-requ..

Re: installer problem

2012-11-02 Thread Stephen Powell
elease to offer a complete s390x architecture, where both kernel space and user space are 64 bit. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-s390-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: Adding DASD to Debian wheezy..

2012-10-26 Thread Stephen Powell
being run afterwords, if your system is configured properly.) -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-s390-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listma

Re: Adding DASD to Debian wheezy..

2012-10-26 Thread Stephen Powell
http://users.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/index.htm -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-s390-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1966085070.713662.1351267528749.javamail.r...@md01.wow.synacor.com

Re: No security updates available for s390x

2012-10-17 Thread Stephen Powell
support is available for the testing release and enables security support by default when installing the testing release. I have always enabled it, and it works fine for i386 and s390, but not for s390x. Thanks for filing the bug report. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' :

No security updates available for s390x

2012-10-15 Thread Stephen Powell
rmed correctly: deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib non-free deb-src http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib non-free A search of the internet using the above error messages produced no useful hits. Why is there no security support? --

Re: RFH: segfault on s390x (hyperestraier)

2012-08-18 Thread Stephen Powell
ge address: 01 23 45 67. amd64 stores the bytes in RAM in reverse order: 67 45 23 01. This is "little-endian" format. Sometimes hidden assumptions of little- endian format creep into programs that cause them to not work properly on s390x. -- .''`. Stephen Powell :

Re: Architecture conversion instructions (s390 -> s390x)

2012-08-17 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 11 Aug 2012 09:43:12 -0400 (EDT), Bastian Blank wrote: > On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 07:54:04AM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: >> Are there any architecture conversion instructions available anywhere? >> (I.e. how to convert an existing s390 server to an s390x server?) >> O

Architecture conversion instructions (s390 -> s390x)

2012-08-11 Thread Stephen Powell
Are there any architecture conversion instructions available anywhere? (I.e. how to convert an existing s390 server to an s390x server?) Or is it a requirement that any s390x server must be installed from scratch? -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: Installing a custom kernel on Debian S/390(wheezy/sid)

2012-08-05 Thread Stephen Powell
the most recently installed kernel will get the vmlinuz symbolic link, and the initial RAM file system which goes with it will get the initrd.img symbolic link.) (3) zz-zipl, which will run zipl to re-create the map file. The newly installed kernel will now be the defau

Re: Installing a custom kernel on Debian S/390(wheezy/sid)

2012-08-05 Thread Stephen Powell
r reading the entire web page, if you still have specific questions, ask away. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-s390-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...

Re: Installing a custom kernel on Debian S/390(wheezy/sid)

2012-08-05 Thread Stephen Powell
Please reply to the list, not to me personally. Placing my reply on the list. On Sun, 05 Aug 2012 09:20:47 -0400 (EDT), Sampsa Laine wrote: > On 5 Aug 2012, at 16:09, Stephen Powell wrote: >> >> First of all, are you running Debian or Ubuntu? This is a Debian list. >> A

Re: Installing a custom kernel on Debian S/390(wheezy/sid)

2012-08-05 Thread Stephen Powell
x, I recommend the web page http://users.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/Kernel.htm This is not an official Debian web page, but this is what I use. Take it with however many grains of salt you think it's worth. Finally, a request to include DECNET support in the kernel by default should probab

Re: S390 Release 6.0.5

2012-06-16 Thread Stephen Powell
nnectivity problem. Are you using the correct network device in the correct mode? -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-s390-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: [Linux/390] Problem to find packages (under z/VM 5.3.0 on a Z800 2066)

2012-05-16 Thread Stephen Powell
a fan of Debian (on PC) and > has tried to help, to no avail. > > > Is there a simple solution to get the s90x packages in our configuration? Yes. See my comments above. > > Thanks & regards, > > Christian & Jean-Claude -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-s390-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1965585554.1213112.1337211783121.javamail.r...@md01.wow.synacor.com

Re: Access to s390 porter machine

2012-04-05 Thread Stephen Powell
#x27;t face any problem. > > Please guide me how to install it on LPAR. > > Regards > Shahanawaz I have never installed Debian in an LPAR. I have always used a virtual machine under z/VM. But it looks like Philipp Kern has already answered you. -- .''`. Stephen Powell

Bug#645836: Missing build dependency on libfuse-dev

2011-10-18 Thread Stephen Powell
"fuse.h" is not found during compilation. Installing package libfuse-dev seems to fix the problem. There seems to be a missing build dependency on libfuse-dev in source package s390-tools version 1.13.0-1. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- T

Re: Improvements to Debian for s/390 (was Java on Debian s/390)

2011-09-21 Thread Stephen Powell
On Wed, 21 Sep 2011 09:18:16 -0400 (EDT), Philipp Kern wrote: > On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 at 21:02:56 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote: >> That's good news, Philipp. A 64-bit user space will be a >> welcome addition. > > Actually its focus is to be a replacement for the

Re: Patch to enable build on s390x

2011-09-17 Thread Stephen Powell
amd64 Linux system, then run Linux for s390x under hercules. It's slow, due to the emulation, but it works. That's what Frans Pop used to do. hercules is free software, and it is pre-packaged for Debian and many other Linux distributions. If you have a Debian system, Issue "aptitude show he

Improvements to Debian for s/390 (was Java on Debian s/390)

2011-09-10 Thread Stephen Powell
driver for the first time. Yet the Debian package continues to use release 2.3. The package maintainer is aware of this, or should be, but I've seen no progress as of yet. Perhaps your influence might help. Respectfully yours, -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `.

Re: Debian Version for System Z

2011-05-13 Thread Stephen Powell
, and call IBM for support, IBM will tell you that Debian is not a supported environment and hang up. And then what good is the support that you're paying for? I love Debian for s390, but if I were going to use it I would want to use it in an all-open-source envi

Re: [Linux/390 under z/VM 4.2.0] more details on problem with lenny, but we could install centos 4.6, maybe a bug in debian somewhere?

2011-05-13 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 12 May 2011 19:22:53 -0400 (EDT), Christian Boitet wrote: > Stephen Powell wrote: >> ... >> No, that's not right. Did you try an unmodified file, >> as I suggested? Here is the unmodified PARMFILE DEBIAN >> file, in hexadecimal ASCII. For readability,

Re: Debian Version for System Z

2011-05-12 Thread Stephen Powell
. The source code is available, and you can compile it yourself. But in most cases, that's not necessary. Both of those products, as well as about 25,000 others, are already packaged for Debian. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUB

Re: Debian Version for System Z

2011-05-11 Thread Stephen Powell
memory. But the system can make use of more than 2G of real memory, since the kernel can allocate (in theory) up to a 2G address space to EACH user-space process. HTH -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-s390-requ..

Re: [Linux/390 under z/VM 4.2.0] CP works forever (Lenny): new attempt

2011-05-11 Thread Stephen Powell
Wed, 11 May 2011 10:20:12 -0400 (EDT), Christian Boitet wrote: > At 7:42 -0400 11/05/11, Stephen Powell wrote: >> First, please do not "top post" on this list. (See >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-posting#Top-posting for >> more details.) Please use the us

Re: [Linux/390 under z/VM 4.2.0] CP works forever (Lenny): new attempt

2011-05-11 Thread Stephen Powell
grins, try using the unmodified PARMFILE DEBIAN file. If that works, you can abort the installation and try again with a modified one. I think that is the most likely cause of trouble. It is VERY important that the last used charater be followed by a linefeed (X'0A' in ASCII, X

Re: [Linux/390 under z/VM 4.2.0] CP works forever (Lenny)

2011-04-09 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 09 Apr 2011 09:16:13 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote: > I will explain the installation steps in detail. > Maybe there's something you're missing. > ... One more thing I forgot to mention. I'm not sure if the kernel boot messages are written to the virtual 32

Re: [Linux/390 under z/VM 4.2.0] CP works forever (Lenny)

2011-04-09 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 07 Apr 2011 11:49:00 -0400 (EDT), Christian Boitet wrote: > At 22:23 -0400 5/04/11, Stephen Powell wrote: >> On Tue, 05 Apr 2011 20:50:23 -0400 (EDT), Christian Boitet wrote: >>> Bonsoir Stephen, >>> >>> we are trying to upgrade some virtual machines

Bug#621080: Improving the s390 boot process

2011-04-06 Thread Stephen Powell
vmhalt=LOGOFF and vmpoff=LOGOFF kernel boot parameters are used. For a Linux system running in a virtual machine under z/VM, this causes the CP LOGOFF command to be issued during shutdown when a "halt" or "power-off" signal is received. But this only works if the vmcp kernel

Re: Debian 6 - qdio Device

2011-03-31 Thread Stephen Powell
g to /var/lib/dpkg/info/sysconfig-hardware.list on my actual installed system, they exist in both places. I have erased the copies in /etc/udev/rules.d on my system. Perhaps this will save me some trouble on the next upgrade. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'`

Re: gdm3 on s390

2011-03-22 Thread Stephen Powell
a browser-based application, with the browser running on somebody's PC and the web server and its server-side programming running in a virtual machine under z/VM. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-s390-req

Re: Debian 6 - qdio Device

2011-02-17 Thread Stephen Powell
the files. In many cases, erasing one of the files in /etc/udev/rules.d will cause a new one to be generated at the next boot up, but it may or may not be what the user wants. This is particularly the case when the system has more than one network adapter. -- .''`. Stephen Powell

Re: Debian 6 - qdio Device

2011-02-16 Thread Stephen Powell
nst the "upgrade-reports" pseudo-package is a good idea when you are having upgrade problems. Sometimes, someone else has had the same problem already. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-s390-requ...@lis

Re: IBM z/VM + z/Series + Debian

2010-11-16 Thread Stephen Powell
On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 09:19:37 -0500 (EST), anandhakrishn...@tcs.com wrote: > Stephen Powell wrote: >> >> The installation instructions don't contain much detail on this step. >> Here is what it says: >> >> - >> >> 3.6.4. Setting up an install

Bug#600100: zipl's postinst hook fails upon initial kernel installation by d-i

2010-10-14 Thread Stephen Powell
in the step after kernel installation: I am not a package maintainer for s390-tools; I am a user who is an interested party to this bug report. This bug is related to bug number 599931, and the hook script templates provided in the body of bug report 599931 will fix both that problem and this one.

Bug#599931: zipl hook scripts invoke zipl multiple times

2010-10-12 Thread Stephen Powell
the script to exit without invoking zipl when called for purge processing, but allows zipl to be invoked during remove processing. (It also forces a clean exit in case of an error from zipl, which is desirable during a remove.) -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' :

Re: IBM z/VM + z/Series + Debian

2010-09-30 Thread Stephen Powell
rivate mirror, ask for help on the debian-mirrors mailing list (debian-mirr...@lists.debian.org). -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-s390-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsub

Re: IBM z/VM + z/Series + Debian

2010-09-23 Thread Stephen Powell
f much help here, since I've never set up my own internal Debian mirror. I have always used an external public Debian mirror to do my installs. Perhaps you could set up a Debian mirror from a PC that has access to the external internet, then once you have it working, move it to another LAN segment

Re: IBM z/VM 6.1 + z/Series + Debian

2010-09-22 Thread Stephen Powell
lists is to reply to the list only and not to CC the OP unless explicitly requested. But in this case I will CC you since you apparently did not get my previous reply. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-s390-requ

Re: Re: Installation of Debian under z/VM 530

2010-09-16 Thread Stephen Powell
are successful, with details of what you did and how you did it, and a list of pitfalls to avoid. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-s390-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/429461488.37321.1284665962356.javamail.r...@md01.wow.synacor.com

Re: IBM z/VM 6.1 + z/Series + Debian

2010-09-16 Thread Stephen Powell
l. Last login: Wed Sep 15 10:42:06 2010 from 10.14.91.79 st...@debian3:~$ - The above was extracted from PuTTY via the method described. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-s390-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subj

Re: Installation of Debian under z/VM 530

2010-09-15 Thread Stephen Powell
one can bring some light ? That's would be fine :) That is documented in the installation guide. (I am assuming that you want to install Squeeze.) http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.s390/index.html See section 5.2, boot parameters. -- .''`. Stephen Powell :

Re: IBM z/VM 6.1 + z/Series + Debian

2010-09-15 Thread Stephen Powell
You may also want to visit my web site at http://www.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/index.htm I have a number of things on that site that may be useful to you, such as how to implement the dasd diag driver, which I recommend for anyone running Debian in a virtual machine under z/VM

Re: IBM z/VM 6.1 + z/Series + Debian

2010-09-14 Thread Stephen Powell
On Tue, 14 Sep 2010 06:48:39 -0400 (EDT), anandhcoe wrote: > > I am trying to install Debian Linux on Z/VM. Could you pls help me in > this.. It would bve very helpful I'll try. What problem are you having? -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `

Re: Access to s390 porter machine

2010-09-11 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 11 Sep 2010 06:33:42 -0400 (EDT), Matthijs Kooijman wrote: > Stephen Powell wrote: >> Matthijs Kooijman wrote: >>> Never mind, we've managed to test this in an emulator already. >> Sorry for the slow response. > > No problem, I know how it is. I didn&

Re: Access to s390 porter machine

2010-09-10 Thread Stephen Powell
times test things for Debian, if it is in my employer's interests to do so; but I am not in a position to offer a "porter box" to Debian. It doesn't belong to me. I run Debian for s390 in a virtual machine under z/VM; so if there's anything VM-specific that n

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