USB still dies during boot on Ultra 25 with kernel 6.0.0

2022-12-17 Thread Connor McLaughlan
Hello All, i still have trouble with newer kernels than 5.6.0 on my Ultra25 up to and including 6.0.0. During boot the USB ohci-pci dies and mouse and keyboard (both Sun HW) stop working. I found no way to get mouse and keyboard recognized after that event, e.g. by unloading and reloading

Re: unable to install (upgrade) git - git-man dependency

2022-11-28 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi Frank, On 23/11/2022 16:57, Frank Scheiner wrote: ...which is good enough for my purposes. Not been able to mount the NFS root FS is unfortunately not.  I will see for myself when I get to try Linux 6.x on my gear. I did not use NFS root, however I stress-test standard NFS mount. I

Re: unable to install (upgrade) git - git-man dependency

2022-11-24 Thread Frank Scheiner
Hi Adrian, On 24.11.22 19:50, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: [...] Would be a nice surprise if this particular stability issue has been fixed now. Machine is still running with the 6.0.0 kernel which is definitely a huge improvement over the 5.x kernels which would have already crashed the

Re: unable to install (upgrade) git - git-man dependency

2022-11-24 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello! On 11/23/22 16:27, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: FWIW, I also upgraded one of the buildds that is an UltraSPARC IIIi as well that never ran stable with kernels beyond 4.19 to 6.0.8. Let's see how reliable the machine is with the new kernel. Would be a nice surprise if this

Re: unable to install (upgrade) git - git-man dependency

2022-11-23 Thread Frank Scheiner
Hi Adrian, On 23.11.22 16:27, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 11/23/22 17:23, Riccardo Mottola wrote: let's see how 6.0 will fare for you. [...] Would be a nice surprise if this particular stability issue has been fixed now. Indeed. I will test it with my reproducer (i.e. apt upgrade

Re: unable to install (upgrade) git - git-man dependency

2022-11-23 Thread Frank Scheiner
Hi Riccardo, On 23.11.22 17:23, Riccardo Mottola wrote: [...] let's see how 6.0 will fare for you. I did try to mount nfs v3 on my system and it worked, I did a classic mount with mount.nfs once booted. Mount works and I was able list and to touch and remove a file. I did not try further

Re: unable to install (upgrade) git - git-man dependency

2022-11-23 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi! On 11/23/22 17:23, Riccardo Mottola wrote: let's see how 6.0 will fare for you. FWIW, I also upgraded one of the buildds that is an UltraSPARC IIIi as well that never ran stable with kernels beyond 4.19 to 6.0.8. Let's see how reliable the machine is with the new kernel. Would be a

Re: unable to install (upgrade) git - git-man dependency

2022-11-23 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, (removing Adrian from CC, who can read us on ML anyway) Frank Scheiner wrote: Good to know, looks like I missed that. Checking my logs 5.18.0-2 still oopses on my T1000 when trying to `nfsmount` its root FS using the klibc tools eventually making it unresponsive. So although this kernel

Re: unable to install (upgrade) git - git-man dependency

2022-11-21 Thread Frank Scheiner
Hi Riccardo On 22.11.22 00:52, Riccardo Mottola wrote: On 2022-11-18 10:16:07 +0100 Frank Scheiner wrote: IIRC in the past newer kernels (>5.9.0-2) already crashed during startup on your T2000. "Running kernel 6.0.x" would then be already an advancement. That gives hope for UltraSPARC IIIi

Re: unable to install (upgrade) git - git-man dependency

2022-11-21 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi Frank! On 2022-11-18 10:16:07 +0100 Frank Scheiner wrote: IIRC in the past newer kernels (>5.9.0-2) already crashed during startup on your T2000. "Running kernel 6.0.x" would then be already an advancement. That gives hope for UltraSPARC IIIi (and maybe also III) driven machines. I'll

Re: unable to install (upgrade) git - git-man dependency

2022-11-18 Thread Frank Scheiner
Hi Riccardo, On 18.11.22 02:32, Riccardo Mottola wrote: I fetched the older version of git-man required from snapshot.debian.org, installed it with dpkg. Then I was able to install git, compile stuff again and also finish upgrading. Running kernel 6.0.x serie son the Niagara CPU now... let's

Re: unable to install (upgrade) git - git-man dependency

2022-11-17 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi Adrian, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: It's the usual problem in Debian Ports [1] due to some Qt5 packages FTBFS on sparc64. In particular, it's kconfig that blocks subversion which blocks git. You can fetch git-man from snapshot.debian.org in the meantime. FWIW, the various build

Re: openldap: FTBFS on sparc64 due to unaligned access in testsuite

2022-11-17 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Control: tags -1 +patch Hello! Upstream has provided a patch now [1] which fixes the issue for me. It applies against both OpenLDAP 2.5.13 and 2.6.3 with fuzz and by fixing a single printf() statement manually. I am attaching the backported patch which applies cleanly. Thanks, Adrian [1]

Re: unable to install (upgrade) git - git-man dependency

2022-11-14 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello Ricardo! On 11/15/22 00:07, Riccardo Mottola wrote: after an upgrade, I found myself out of git. An attempt to reinstall shows: The following packages have unmet dependencies: git : Depends: git-man (< 1:2.37.2-.) but 1:2.38.1-1 is to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you

unable to install (upgrade) git - git-man dependency

2022-11-14 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, after an upgrade, I found myself out of git. An attempt to reinstall shows: The following packages have unmet dependencies:  git : Depends: git-man (< 1:2.37.2-.) but 1:2.38.1-1 is to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. It's been this way since past

Re: openldap: FTBFS on sparc64 due to unaligned access in testsuite

2022-10-25 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi! On 9/20/22 00:16, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: openldap FTBFS on sparc64 due to an unaligned access in the testsuite: Test succeeded test000-rootdse completed OK for mdb after 1 seconds. Starting test001-slapadd for mdb... running defines.sh Running slapadd to build slapd

Re: Bug#1022031: perl: FTBFS on sparc64: test failures in t/re

2022-10-19 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi! On 10/19/22 11:06, Niko Tyni wrote: The perl package currently fails to build on sparc64 due to two failing tests: t/re/reg_fold ok t/re/reg_mesg FAILED--no leader found

Bug#1022031: perl: FTBFS on sparc64: test failures in t/re

2022-10-19 Thread Niko Tyni
Source: perl Version: 5.36.0-4 Tags: ftbfs X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org The perl package currently fails to build on sparc64 due to two failing tests: t/re/reg_fold ok t/re/reg_mesg

Re: Sun Ultra 45: Kernel Panic (corrupted stack end detected inside scheduler) with 5.19

2022-10-14 Thread j...@pawlicker.com j...@pawlicker.com
(Since I didn't hit reply all on the previous one, whoops I'm not so good at mailing lists) Thanks for the advice. The 5.16 CD is stable enough to pass the installation (aside from a video text bug), however in rebooting it blows up. I was able to console install it using the same trick as

Re: Sun Ultra 45: Kernel Panic (corrupted stack end detected inside scheduler) with 5.19

2022-10-13 Thread Frank Scheiner
Hi Jake, On 13.10.22 07:13, j...@pawlicker.com j...@pawlicker.com wrote: I've also been able to confirm that this happens with Kernel 5.16 or at least similar bugs do such as Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference, programs such as postgresql break dramatically, and another time SSH

Re: Sun Ultra 45: Kernel Panic (corrupted stack end detected inside scheduler) with 5.19

2022-10-12 Thread j...@pawlicker.com j...@pawlicker.com
I've also been able to confirm that this happens with Kernel 5.16 or at least similar bugs do such as Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference, programs such as postgresql break dramatically, and another time SSH panicked the system with a kernel unaligned access. This happened during

Sun Ultra 45: Kernel Panic (corrupted stack end detected inside scheduler) with 5.19

2022-10-12 Thread j...@pawlicker.com j...@pawlicker.com
On my Sun Ultra 45 with two CPUs, Debian does not boot a finished installation using Kernel 5.19. On the 5.16 kernel included on the CD the OS boots just fine if this is selected using GRUB. This also seems to be intermittent, as first booting into 5.19 was stable after trying to use quiet to

Aluminium details

2022-10-05 Thread Aidan Wallace
Good morning, Do you have a requirement for aluminium die-cast parts? As a casting manufacturer, we provide you with comprehensive service - from mould design, through fabrication to delivery of the machined casting with dimensional and weight accuracy to your specifications. The large range

Bug#1020974: glibc: Please build with --disable-default-pie on sparc64

2022-09-29 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Source: glibc Version: 2.35-1 Severity: normal User: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org Usertags: sparc64 X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org Hi! Starting with 2.35, glibc causes segmentation faults in some programs on sparc64, these can also be seen in the build log [1], e.g.: test ! -x

[Warning]: Do not upgrade glibc to 2.35-1

2022-09-29 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello! glibc is currently broken on sparc64. All versions 2.35-1 and newer result in a segmentation fault during upgrade, so please don't upgrade the package for the time being. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `-GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0

Re: Installation fails with current release image 2022-03-28 and server set

2022-09-25 Thread Connor McLaughlan
Hello Adrian, thank you for your reply. Health comes first, please take your time to get well. I encountered the usr-merge problem i guess when i first tried to set up a separate /usr partition. This will abort the installation with an error saying one needs an initramfs. After repartitioning

Re: Installation fails with current release image 2022-03-28 and server set

2022-09-25 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello! On 9/25/22 15:56, Connor McLaughlan wrote: This worked earlier this year but currently fails with the updated files from debian servers during tasksel as follows: This might be related to the ongoing usr-merge but I'm not sure. I'm planning to publish new installation images next week.

Re: Bug#1020319: openldap: FTBFS on sparc64 due to unaligned access in testsuite

2022-09-25 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Gregor! On 9/25/22 17:07, Gregor Riepl wrote: openldap FTBFS on sparc64 due to an unaligned access in the testsuite: Adding __attribute__((packed)) to the MDB_page struct creates some memory alignment warnings, but it will make the test cases succeed: ./../../../libraries/liblmdb/mdb.c:

Re: Bug#1018076: mini-transition: gjs built against mozjs102

2022-09-25 Thread Simon McVittie
On Sun, 25 Sep 2022 at 15:41:04 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Could you blacklist the test > > “ large-arraybuffers/basic.js” > > on all affected big-endian targets (powerpc, ppc64, sparc64)? > > The test is blacklist on s390x and fails on powerpc and ppc64 as well. I'm not

Re: Bug#1020319: openldap: FTBFS on sparc64 due to unaligned access in testsuite

2022-09-25 Thread Gregor Riepl
openldap FTBFS on sparc64 due to an unaligned access in the testsuite: Adding __attribute__((packed)) to the MDB_page struct creates some memory alignment warnings, but it will make the test cases succeed: ./../../../libraries/liblmdb/mdb.c: In function ‘mdb_cursor_put’:

Installation fails with current release image 2022-03-28 and server set

2022-09-25 Thread Connor McLaughlan
Hello All, i am using the sparc64 netinstall image of 2022-03-28. This worked earlier this year but currently fails with the updated files from debian servers during tasksel as follows: ep 25 13:42:18 pkgsel: starting tasksel Sep 25 13:42:21 in-target: Reading package lists... Sep 25 13:42:23

Re: Bug#1018076: mini-transition: gjs built against mozjs102

2022-09-25 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello! > On Sep 25, 2022, at 3:08 PM, Simon McVittie wrote: > > Control: retitle -1 mini-transition: gjs built against mozjs102 > Control: unblock -1 by 1018819 > Control: tags -1 = pending > >> On Thu, 25 Aug 2022 at 11:19:30 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: >> I think we need to be looking at

Bug#1020319: openldap: FTBFS on sparc64 due to unaligned access in testsuite

2022-09-19 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Source: openldap Version: 2.5.13+dfsg-1 Severity: normal Tags: ftbfs upstream User: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org Usertags: sparc64 X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org Hi! openldap FTBFS on sparc64 due to an unaligned access in the testsuite: > Test succeeded > test000-rootdse

Bug#1019133: ffmpeg: Please disable filter-overlay_yuv420p10 test on all BE targets

2022-09-04 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Source: ffmpeg Version: 7:5.1.1-1 Severity: normal User: debian-powe...@lists.debian.org Usertags: hppa m68k powerpc ppc64 sparc64 X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-...@lists.debian.org,debian-h...@lists.debian.org,debian-powe...@lists.debian.org,debian-sparc@lists.debian.org Hello! The test

Re: Debian 10.0 source code

2022-09-02 Thread Ionut Hristodorescu
Thank you, Joost. The CrossCompiling looks closer to what I want to do. I’m thinking about compiling with LLVM, any issues with that ? I’ve seen that documented for X86 only, so was wondering if the community knows about general issues that could arise on other architectures. Thank you. > On

Re: Debian 10.0 source code

2022-09-02 Thread Joost van Baal-Ilić
Hi Ionut, On Thu, Sep 01, 2022 at 02:33:04PM -0700, Ionut Hristodorescu wrote: > > I’d like to build Debian 10.0 for SPARC64 from source That's not trivial. But interesting nonetheless. I asume you want to do that for educational purposes? (I mean, we already do supply those builds.) >

Debian 10.0 source code

2022-09-01 Thread Ionut Hristodorescu
Hi, I’d like to build Debian 10.0 for SPARC64 from source but cannot seem to find it. Could someone point me to it ? Thank you. Ionut

Re: Install debian sparc64 with a hdd/ssd as source

2022-07-14 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 7/14/22 23:28, Connor McLaughlan wrote: Alright, Ctrl-a a n works...thanks! I also might have figured out my installation problem...my netinstall cd is to old and doesn't have the required 2022 debian signing keys for the repositories. While network access works, it seems to refuse to

Re: Install debian sparc64 with a hdd/ssd as source

2022-07-14 Thread Connor McLaughlan
Alright, Ctrl-a a n works...thanks! I also might have figured out my installation problem...my netinstall cd is to old and doesn't have the required 2022 debian signing keys for the repositories. While network access works, it seems to refuse to connect/install from the debian mirror. Can i

Re: Install debian sparc64 with a hdd/ssd as source

2022-07-14 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 7/14/22 21:57, Jan Engelhardt wrote: Don’t use “screen” as a terminal program, use “minicom”. Your local screen session intercepts the escape sequences in the running debian-installer’s screen session. It's ok to use screen. Since ^A is escaped by the upper screen instance, the key sequence

Re: Install debian sparc64 with a hdd/ssd as source

2022-07-14 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Thursday 2022-07-14 21:37, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > >> On Jul 14, 2022, at 9:03 PM, Connor McLaughlan wrote: >> >> ctrl+a or do not work. I get a message of "no other window". >> >> I am using screen like this. to connect: screen /dev/ttyUSB0 9600,cs8 > >Don’t use “screen” as a

Re: Install debian sparc64 with a hdd/ssd as source

2022-07-14 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
> On Jul 14, 2022, at 9:03 PM, Connor McLaughlan wrote: > > ctrl+a or do not work. I get a message of "no other window". > > I am using screen like this. to connect: screen /dev/ttyUSB0 9600,cs8 Don’t use “screen” as a terminal program, use “minicom”. Your local screen session intercepts

Re: Install debian sparc64 with a hdd/ssd as source

2022-07-14 Thread Connor McLaughlan
Hello Adrian, ctrl+a or do not work. I get a message of "no other window". I am using screen like this. to connect: screen /dev/ttyUSB0 9600,cs8 Regards, Connor On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 8:26 PM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > > > > On Jul 14, 2022, at 8:07 PM, Connor McLaughlan wrote:

Re: Install debian sparc64 with a hdd/ssd as source

2022-07-14 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
> On Jul 14, 2022, at 8:07 PM, Connor McLaughlan wrote: > > do you or someone reading this know how to change tabs in the > installer on sparc64 in order to get to the logfile? Ctrl+a and should work. See the manpage of GNU screen. Adrian

Re: Install debian sparc64 with a hdd/ssd as source

2022-07-14 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
> On Jul 12, 2022, at 4:16 PM, Connor McLaughlan wrote: > > How can i find the cause of it and manually correct it and install > grub from the rescue system? > (also does anyone know the key combination to switch console tabs in > the installer when the serial connection runs over the screen

Re: Install debian sparc64 with a hdd/ssd as source

2022-07-14 Thread Connor McLaughlan
Hello Jon, do you or someone reading this know how to change tabs in the installer on sparc64 in order to get to the logfile? I am using a serial connection over screen to the machine, but sending ctrl+a + 1-4 will not change the tabs? Regards, Connor On Tue, Jul 12, 2022 at 6:46 PM Stan

Re: Install debian sparc64 with a hdd/ssd as source

2022-07-12 Thread Connor McLaughlan
Hello again, i had mixed results for now with the installation on a T1000 using the dd'ed netinstall iso. All went seemingly well until suddenly some files on the debian mirrors could not be found and i had to ignore it and went with a base system. The message was "Downloading a file failed"

Re: Install debian sparc64 with a hdd/ssd as source

2022-07-06 Thread Connor McLaughlan
Sorry..obvious error in my last post, resulting from a cut-paste-mix of a grub2 iso-boot tutorial... "casper" should be "install"...or wherever the kernel and initrd reside in the iso. linux (loop)/install/vmlinux iso-scan/filename=${isofile} quiet splash initrd (loop)/install/casper/initrd.gz

Re: Install debian sparc64 with a hdd/ssd as source

2022-07-06 Thread Connor McLaughlan
Thank you Stan, this looks promising and easy enough. Another method i found working, but not as convenient as the above, is to install grub2 on another system with a working cdrom and then to add an iso residing on an existing partition as menuenty in grub. The only difference compared to x86/64

Re: Install debian sparc64 with a hdd/ssd as source

2022-07-05 Thread Stan Johnson
On 7/5/22 9:15 AM, Connor McLaughlan wrote: > Hello, > > is there a sparc64 debian installer image available somewhere that i > could write with dd to a hdd/ssd and boot from it? > > > Regards, > Connor > Hi Connor, As I recall, the last time I tried to install Debian SID from the Debian

Install debian sparc64 with a hdd/ssd as source

2022-07-05 Thread Connor McLaughlan
Hello, is there a sparc64 debian installer image available somewhere that i could write with dd to a hdd/ssd and boot from it? Regards, Connor

Re: enabling link time optimizations in package builds

2022-07-01 Thread Timo Röhling
Hi Matthias, * Matthias Klose [2022-06-17 10:18]: The proposal is to turn on LTO by default on most 64bit release architectures. Not proposing to do this on 32bit architectures because of the limited address space at link time, and up to now nobody tested LTO on 32bit archs. In test

enabling link time optimizations in package builds

2022-06-17 Thread Matthias Klose
Link time optimizations are an optimization that helps with a single digit percent number optimizing both for smaller size, and better speed. These optimizations are available for some time now in GCC. Link time optimizations are also at least turned on in other distros like Fedora, OpenSuse

Re: Anyone ever tried Debian on a Fujitsu/Oracle M3000 ?

2022-05-16 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
> On May 16, 2022, at 1:20 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote: > > On 5/16/22 04:01, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> Hi Dennis! >> On 5/16/22 03:58, Dennis Clarke wrote: The last update released for 11.3 is called "Oracle Solaris 11.3 Limited Support Updates (LSRU) 11.3.36.24.0"

Re: Anyone ever tried Debian on a Fujitsu/Oracle M3000 ?

2022-05-16 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 5/16/22 04:01, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Hi Dennis! On 5/16/22 03:58, Dennis Clarke wrote: The last update released for 11.3 is called "Oracle Solaris 11.3 Limited Support Updates (LSRU) 11.3.36.24.0" and can be found on some torrent sites. I have 11.3 but need an Oracle

Re: Anyone ever tried Debian on a Fujitsu/Oracle M3000 ?

2022-05-16 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Dennis! On 5/16/22 03:58, Dennis Clarke wrote: >> The last update released for 11.3 is called >> >> "Oracle Solaris 11.3 Limited Support Updates (LSRU) 11.3.36.24.0" >> >> and can be found on some torrent sites. >> > > I have 11.3 but need an Oracle contract to get much of anything done.

Re: Anyone ever tried Debian on a Fujitsu/Oracle M3000 ?

2022-05-16 Thread BERTRAND Joël
Frank Scheiner a écrit : > Hi Betrand, Dennis, > > On 13.05.22 17:32, BERTRAND Joël wrote: >> Dennis Clarke a écrit : >>> Thus with 64G of ECC memory and four very expensive 15k rpm SAS disks >>> the thing is a brick.  Or is it ? >>> >>> Is there any reasonable way to : >>> >>> >>> [A]

Re: Anyone ever tried Debian on a Fujitsu/Oracle M3000 ?

2022-05-15 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 5/15/22 18:18, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Hi! On 5/16/22 00:15, Chris Quayle wrote: It is a damn good machine. However it can *only* run Solaris 10 or maybe Solaris 11.3 and in both cases you need an Oracle contract. Otherwise good luck getting updates or access to the IPS repo.

Re: Anyone ever tried Debian on a Fujitsu/Oracle M3000 ?

2022-05-15 Thread Frank Scheiner
Hi Betrand, Dennis, On 13.05.22 17:32, BERTRAND Joël wrote: Dennis Clarke a écrit : Thus with 64G of ECC memory and four very expensive 15k rpm SAS disks the thing is a brick.  Or is it ? Is there any reasonable way to :     [A] netboot Debian     [B] toss it on a scrap heap for re-cycle

Re: Anyone ever tried Debian on a Fujitsu/Oracle M3000 ?

2022-05-15 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi! On 5/16/22 00:15, Chris Quayle wrote: >> It is a damn good machine. However it can *only* run Solaris 10 or maybe >> Solaris 11.3 and in both cases you need an Oracle contract. Otherwise >> good luck getting updates or access to the IPS repo. > > Never bothered about updates, but what is the

Re: Anyone ever tried Debian on a Fujitsu/Oracle M3000 ?

2022-05-15 Thread Chris Quayle
On 05/15/22 22:25, Dennis Clarke wrote: On 5/15/22 14:58, Chris Quayle wrote: On 05/15/22 15:57, Chris Newport wrote: On 15/05/2022 14:52, Dennis Clarke wrote: On 5/14/22 17:52, Rick Leir wrote: From folks who have tried? Sorry, no. If the info below is not helpful, sorry and please just

Re: Anyone ever tried Debian on a Fujitsu/Oracle M3000 ?

2022-05-15 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 5/15/22 14:58, Chris Quayle wrote: On 05/15/22 15:57, Chris Newport wrote: On 15/05/2022 14:52, Dennis Clarke wrote: On 5/14/22 17:52, Rick Leir wrote:  From folks who have tried? Sorry, no. If the info below is not helpful, sorry and please just delete my message. Is illumos or SmartOS

Re: Anyone ever tried Debian on a Fujitsu/Oracle M3000 ?

2022-05-15 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 5/15/22 16:43, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Hi! On 5/15/22 15:52, Dennis Clarke wrote: Yep .. been there and read that. Even if any of those did work at all we are going in a circle and landing back on some Solaris thing. That is not really of any value any more. It is beginning to

Re: Anyone ever tried Debian on a Fujitsu/Oracle M3000 ?

2022-05-15 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi! On 5/15/22 15:52, Dennis Clarke wrote: > Yep .. been there and read that. Even if any of those did work at all we > are going in a circle and landing back on some Solaris thing. That is > not really of any value any more. It is beginning to sound a lot like > Oracle sold a whack of machines

Re: Anyone ever tried Debian on a Fujitsu/Oracle M3000 ?

2022-05-15 Thread Chris Quayle
On 05/15/22 15:57, Chris Newport wrote: On 15/05/2022 14:52, Dennis Clarke wrote: On 5/14/22 17:52, Rick Leir wrote: From folks who have tried? Sorry, no. If the info below is not helpful, sorry and please just delete my message. Is illumos or SmartOS an option? Info from Bryan Cantrill:

Re: Anyone ever tried Debian on a Fujitsu/Oracle M3000 ?

2022-05-15 Thread Chris Newport
On 15/05/2022 14:52, Dennis Clarke wrote: On 5/14/22 17:52, Rick Leir wrote:  From folks who have tried? Sorry, no. If the info below is not helpful, sorry and please just delete my message. Is illumos or SmartOS an option? Info from Bryan Cantrill:

Re: Anyone ever tried Debian on a Fujitsu/Oracle M3000 ?

2022-05-15 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 5/14/22 17:52, Rick Leir wrote: From folks who have tried? Sorry, no. If the info below is not helpful, sorry and please just delete my message. Is illumos or SmartOS an option? Info from Bryan Cantrill: http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2017/09/04/the-sudden-death-and-eternal-life-of-solaris/

Re: Anyone ever tried Debian on a Fujitsu/Oracle M3000 ?

2022-05-14 Thread Rick Leir
From folks who have tried? Sorry, no. If the info below is not helpful, sorry and please just delete my message. Is illumos or SmartOS an option? Info from Bryan Cantrill: http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2017/09/04/the-sudden-death-and-eternal-life-of-solaris/ Following a few links from that

Re: Anyone ever tried Debian on a Fujitsu/Oracle M3000 ?

2022-05-13 Thread BERTRAND Joël
Dennis Clarke a écrit : > > Somewhat annoyed by reality but I have to ask. > > [ here you need to hear a long whine noise like metal failing ] > I have a Fujitsu/Oracle M3000 brick sitting in my world and near as I > can tell it runs nothing other than Oracle Solaris 11.3 and will never > be

Re: Anyone ever tried Debian on a Fujitsu/Oracle M3000 ?

2022-05-13 Thread Dennis Clarke
I haven't this kind of server, but some others Sparc64. OpenBSD and NetBSD don't run on M3000. You can test FreeBSD that supported some SPARC64, but... "UltraSPARC is a Tier 2 architecture through FreeBSD 12.x. It is no longer supported in FreeBSD 13.0 and later." Best

Anyone ever tried Debian on a Fujitsu/Oracle M3000 ?

2022-05-13 Thread Dennis Clarke
Somewhat annoyed by reality but I have to ask. [ here you need to hear a long whine noise like metal failing ] I have a Fujitsu/Oracle M3000 brick sitting in my world and near as I can tell it runs nothing other than Oracle Solaris 11.3 and will never be able to run anything else. Not even the

Re: newfstatat available on sparc64?

2022-05-13 Thread Gregor Riepl
> LLVM has been failing to build on sparc64 for some weeks with the > following error which indicates that the syscall newfstatat is not > available on sparc64 (see below). > > Looking at [1] it seems to be missing. Can it be wired up? The glibc man page[1] states: > The underlying system call

newfstatat available on sparc64?

2022-05-12 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi! LLVM has been failing to build on sparc64 for some weeks with the following error which indicates that the syscall newfstatat is not available on sparc64 (see below). Looking at [1] it seems to be missing. Can it be wired up? Adrian > [1] >

Failt to start after select option on GRUB

2022-05-04 Thread Alexandre Bencz
I installed the latest version of Debian Sparc64 using QEMU, with the following command line: qemu-system-sparc64 \     -m size=1024M \     -hda hda_debian_sparc64.qcow2 \     -cdrom debian-10.0.0-sparc64-NETINST-1.iso \     -net nic \     -net user \     -nographic \     -boot once=d \    

Re: nasty bug in /usr/sbin/grub-probe

2022-04-04 Thread Mike Tremaine
I have working Ultra 5 if it is of any help….. root@xray:/boot/grub# uname -a Linux xray 5.10.0-8-sparc64 #1 Debian 5.10.46-4 (2021-08-03) sparc64 GNU/Linux > On Apr 3, 2022, at 8:28 PM, Stan Johnson wrote: > > On 4/3/22 11:04 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> Hi Stan! >> >> On 4/3/22

sparc64 kernel bug

2022-04-03 Thread Dennis Clarke
Time for a better subject line. Therefore here we are. original message Message-ID: Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2022 00:00:41 +0200 Subject: Re: nasty bug in /usr/sbin/grub-probe In-Reply-To: Resent-Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2022 22:01:00 + (UTC) On

Re: nasty bug in /usr/sbin/grub-probe

2022-04-03 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 4/3/22 23:54, Dennis Clarke wrote: > No, I am not. I am going with whatever is in the Makefile. > > https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/fc7c028dcdbfe981bca75d2a7b95f363eb691ef3 > > So this was seen before regardless. Please just follow my advise and use Linus' tree and don't use any LTS

Re: nasty bug in /usr/sbin/grub-probe

2022-04-03 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 4/3/22 12:13, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 4/3/22 17:19, Dennis Clarke wrote: I am curious if you can get the linux-4.19.114 kernel to compile. For me it just blows up with : . . . arch/sparc/kernel/mdesc.c: In function 'mdesc_node_by_name': arch/sparc/kernel/mdesc.c:648:22: error:

Re: nasty bug in /usr/sbin/grub-probe

2022-04-03 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Stan! On 4/3/22 16:39, Stan Johnson wrote: > If this problem is expected to occur on an Ultra 5 or an Ultra 30, > please let me know and I'll be happy to help with a git bisect, using a > spare 9 GB disk for the installation. I think you should see the issue on both the Ultra 5 and Ultra 30.

Re: nasty bug in /usr/sbin/grub-probe

2022-04-03 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 4/3/22 14:23, Dennis Clarke wrote: > Are you sure of 4.19 ? I see that 4.19.237 exists but I will guess the > same bug exists there also. I was going to begin with 4.19.114 which was > released 02-Apr-2020. A solid two years ago seems like as good a place > to start as any. However building

Re: nasty bug in /usr/sbin/grub-probe

2022-04-03 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 4/3/22 17:19, Dennis Clarke wrote: > I am curious if you can get the linux-4.19.114 kernel to compile. For me it > just blows up with : > > . > . > . > arch/sparc/kernel/mdesc.c: In function 'mdesc_node_by_name': > arch/sparc/kernel/mdesc.c:648:22: error: 'strcmp' reading 1 or more bytes >

Re: nasty bug in /usr/sbin/grub-probe

2022-04-03 Thread Dennis Clarke
I am curious if you can get the linux-4.19.114 kernel to compile.  For me it just blows up with : . . . arch/sparc/kernel/mdesc.c: In function 'mdesc_node_by_name': arch/sparc/kernel/mdesc.c:648:22: error: 'strcmp' reading 1 or more bytes from a region of size 0 [-Werror=stringop-overread]

Re: nasty bug in /usr/sbin/grub-probe

2022-04-03 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 4/3/22 10:39, Stan Johnson wrote: Hello Adrian and Dennis, If this problem is expected to occur on an Ultra 5 or an Ultra 30, please let me know and I'll be happy to help with a git bisect, using a spare 9 GB disk for the installation. The Ultra 5 is even older. At least I think so. There

Re: nasty bug in /usr/sbin/grub-probe

2022-04-03 Thread Stan Johnson
Hello Adrian and Dennis, If this problem is expected to occur on an Ultra 5 or an Ultra 30, please let me know and I'll be happy to help with a git bisect, using a spare 9 GB disk for the installation. -Stan - On 4/3/22 5:57 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hello! > > On 4/3/22

Re: nasty bug in /usr/sbin/grub-probe

2022-04-03 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 4/3/22 07:57, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Hello! On 4/3/22 13:42, Dennis Clarke wrote: But since you seem to have a reliable reproducer, you can start trying to bisect the kernel to find the commit that introduced this regression. That will be nearly impossible. I can not even recall

Re: nasty bug in /usr/sbin/grub-probe

2022-04-03 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello! On 4/3/22 13:42, Dennis Clarke wrote: >> But since you seem to have a reliable reproducer, you can start trying to >> bisect >> the kernel to find the commit that introduced this regression. > > That will be nearly impossible. I can not even recall when the bug first > appeared or when

Re: nasty bug in /usr/sbin/grub-probe

2022-04-03 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 4/2/22 03:30, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Hello Dennis! On 4/2/22 03:34, Dennis Clarke wrote: I am not so sure about this yet until I can rebuild the required grub binaries with full debug info. For at least a year ( or more ) I have seen "really bad things"(tm) happen when I try to

Re: nasty bug in /usr/sbin/grub-probe

2022-04-02 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello Dennis! On 4/2/22 03:34, Dennis Clarke wrote: > I am not so sure about this yet until I can rebuild the required grub > binaries with full debug info. For at least a year ( or more ) I have > seen "really bad things"(tm) happen when I try to make a new initrd on > sparc64. Generally the

Re: nasty bug in /usr/sbin/grub-probe

2022-04-01 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 4/1/22 22:03, Stan Johnson wrote: Hi Dennis, Unless you already know that your system's memory is ok... Sparc machines generally have ECC memory and the diagnostics are quite well trusted. However ... just for giggles ( yes the battery is crap ) : root@hades:~# root@hades:~# shutdown

nasty bug in /usr/sbin/grub-probe

2022-04-01 Thread Dennis Clarke
I am not so sure about this yet until I can rebuild the required grub binaries with full debug info. For at least a year ( or more ) I have seen "really bad things"(tm) happen when I try to make a new initrd on sparc64. Generally the machine seems to pack up and go away with nary a single

Re: Updated Debian Ports installation images 2022-03-28

2022-03-31 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 3/31/22 14:53, Joost van Baal-Ilić wrote: Hi, On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 04:30:52PM -0400, Dennis Clarke wrote: On 3/29/22 15:48, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Dennis Clarke wrote: # dd if=/cdrom/test/debian_20220328/debian-11.0.0-sparc64-NETINST-1.iso of=/dev/rdsk/c0t1d0s0 bs=2048 count=189529 dd:

Re: Updated Debian Ports installation images 2022-03-28

2022-03-31 Thread Joost van Baal-Ilić
Hi, On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 04:30:52PM -0400, Dennis Clarke wrote: > On 3/29/22 15:48, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > Dennis Clarke wrote: > > > # dd if=/cdrom/test/debian_20220328/debian-11.0.0-sparc64-NETINST-1.iso > > > of=/dev/rdsk/c0t1d0s0 bs=2048 count=189529 > > > dd: unexpected short write,

Re: Updated Debian Ports installation images 2022-03-28

2022-03-29 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 3/29/22 15:48, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, Dennis Clarke wrote: # dd if=/cdrom/test/debian_20220328/debian-11.0.0-sparc64-NETINST-1.iso of=/dev/rdsk/c0t1d0s0 bs=2048 count=189529 dd: unexpected short write, wrote 1536 bytes, expected 2048 65725+0 records in 65725+0 records out So that is

Re: Updated Debian Ports installation images 2022-03-28

2022-03-29 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Dennis Clarke wrote: > # dd if=/cdrom/test/debian_20220328/debian-11.0.0-sparc64-NETINST-1.iso > of=/dev/rdsk/c0t1d0s0 bs=2048 count=189529 > dd: unexpected short write, wrote 1536 bytes, expected 2048 > 65725+0 records in > 65725+0 records out > So that is strange. Perhaps the iso image file

Updated Debian Ports installation images 2022-03-28

2022-03-29 Thread Dennis Clarke
Progress is very slow, if at all. For reasons that elude me I have been unable to dump the install image to a secondary scsi disk with dd. Every time I try I get told some bad things : # dd if=/cdrom/test/debian_20220328/debian-11.0.0-sparc64-NETINST-1.iso of=/dev/rdsk/c0t1d0s0 bs=2048

Updated Debian Ports installation images

2022-03-18 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello! I have created the first set of installation images in 2022, these are available at the usual location in [1]. The ISO image for sparc64 has been verified to work correctly, I don't know about the other architectures, however. I have also created the first images which include non-free

Re: Bug#1007219: mariadb-10.6: FTBFS on sparc64:

2022-03-13 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello! On 3/13/22 21:00, Otto Kekäläinen wrote: > This might be related to: > - uring on sparc64? log has warning about anon_inode:[io_uring] > - slow builder? value might be to small for > innodb_fatal_semaphore_wait_threshold > - something else in sparc64, e.g. MDEV-27954 FWIW, there are

Bug#1007219: mariadb-10.6: FTBFS on sparc64:

2022-03-13 Thread Otto Kekäläinen
Source: mariadb-10.6 Version: 1:10.6.7-3 Tags: upstream, confirmed, ftbfs User: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org Usertags: sparc64 Forwarded: https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MDEV-28052 X-Debbugs-CC: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org After upload of mariadb-10.6 1:10.6.7-3 I noticed that sparc64 builds

Bug#1007136: abseil: Please disable tests on affected targets to unblock rdepends

2022-03-11 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Source: abseil Version: 0~20210324.2-2 Severity: normal User: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org Usertags: sparc64 X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org Hello! abseil's testsuite fails on several targets such as sparc64 since it makes some assumptions about the system information it can obtain

Re: vala: FTBFS on sparc64

2022-02-28 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi! This has been fixed as of 0.55.3-1. vala now builds fine on sparc64 [1]. Adrian > [1] https://buildd.debian.org/status/logs.php?pkg=vala=sparc64 -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin -

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