Re: Testers wanted for kernel/discover1

2005-03-24 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 24 March 2005 05:51, Jurij Smakov wrote: We have a couple of pretty important bugfixes, which I would like to see tested as soon (and as much) as possible. Those are: * Modular IDE in kernel 2.4.27. That change potentially may affect all sparc machines with IDE controllers I've

Re: RFC and status report: Kernel upgrades for woody-sarge upgrades

2005-03-24 Thread Robin Harmsen
Hi, at this moment I am testing the Debian Installer on a SS5 (sun4m I thougt) cause I wanted a newer kernel then 2.2.20. but it isn't working very well I am willing to test this upgrade-kernel to get a beter kernel and be able to do a woody-sarge upgrade I think I will start with it right afther

Re: RFC and status report: Kernel upgrades for woody-sarge upgrades

2005-03-24 Thread Thiemo Seufer
Frank Lichtenheld wrote: Hi all. As many of you may know on some machines users will need to install a current kernel before they will be able to upgrade woody to sarge (or better: glibc of woody to glibc of sarge). I've tried to use the available information to provide the needed files for

Re: RFC and status report: Kernel upgrades for woody-sarge upgrades

2005-03-24 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 02:31:55PM +0100, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: As many of you may know on some machines users will need to install a current kernel before they will be able to upgrade woody to sarge (or better: glibc of woody to glibc of sarge). I've tried to use the available information

Re: RFC and status report: Kernel upgrades for woody-sarge upgrades

2005-03-24 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi Matthew, On Thursday, 24 Mar 2005, you wrote: On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 02:31:55PM +0100, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: As many of you may know on some machines users will need to install a current kernel before they will be able to upgrade woody to sarge (or better: glibc of woody to glibc of

Re: RFC and status report: Kernel upgrades for woody-sarge upgrades

2005-03-24 Thread Robin Harmsen
I installed a minimal basic stable installation of Debian (no packages selected with tasksel or dselect) when doing the upgade as stated on http://higgs.djpig.de/upgrade/upgrade-kernel/ via the dpkg method. I first needed to install zlib1g, ash and stat. maby it is better to mention that those

Re: Sparc32 Floppy Eject

2005-03-24 Thread David S. Miller
On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 14:27:27 +0100 Frans Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David: do you maybe have some ideas? If you are referring to me here, can I ask that you CC: people you wish to get the attention of? I only noticed this by accident while scanning my debian-sparc folder. I can't think of

Re: RFC and status report: Kernel upgrades for woody-sarge upgrades

2005-03-24 Thread Robin Harmsen
Actualy the SS5 (at least the one I have got here) does have the problem for libc6 version I need a kernel above 2.4.21, and for that kernel I need that libc6 version. - Original Message - From: Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-release@lists.debian.org;

Re: Testers wanted for kernel/discover1

2005-03-24 Thread Jurij Smakov
On Wed, 23 Mar 2005, David S. Miller wrote: That's great that you were able to make this work. What was the exact kernel config change you made to achieve this? I ask because I hate letting things like this go and just say great it works now, I'd like to sit down and try and figure out what the

Re: Testers wanted for kernel/discover1

2005-03-24 Thread Jurij Smakov
On Thu, 24 Mar 2005, Frans Pop wrote: I still get the errors on boot: [...] kernel: Partition check: kernel: hda:end_request: I/O error, dev 03:00 (hda), sector 0 kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:00 (hda), sector 2 kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:00 (hda), sector 4 kernel:

Re: Bug#261824: time's up

2005-03-24 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 07:54:14AM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: I did the new upstream, so I can tell you that it was only a couple of lines of code changes, and they were tested well before being put into the silo repo. I don't think it needs extensive testing. It seems that this version of