FYI: [regression] 2.16.1 - fail to link with -Wl,--as-needed on sparc

2005-07-20 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
Hi guys, yesterday i started digging into a new problem with the recent toolchain in Debian/ubuntu and ended up with this: https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=12822 The problem is reproducible in Debian sid too. Up till now only gnome pkgs are using --as-needed (as far as i can tell

Re: XFree86-4.4.0 on Ultra5 behaves funny

2004-03-30 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
hi Arvin, this question is more appropriate for debian-x mailing list. On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, Arvind R. wrote: Hi, I installed XFree86-4.4.0 on an i386 and Ultra5, both otherwise strictly Debian-stable. On both, some apps ( I think session aware apps ) have a 10-second loading delay.

Re: how to get audio working on ultra 80 w/ debian testing

2004-03-04 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Abe Olson wrote: xmms works if I plug my headphones or speakers into the jack on the front of the cdrom. I get nothing from any of the sound card outputs that are on the back of the machine. You need to configure xmms properly. afaik you have to use the xmms-cdread

Re: how to get audio working on ultra 80 w/ debian testing

2004-03-03 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
Hi Abe, On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, Abe Olson wrote: I can get sound by plugging headphones or speakers into the cdrom drive and some applications send sound out the (admittadly not bad sounding) tower speaker. None of the outputs on the sound card itself seem to work though. How can I get

Re: debian nfsroot installation

2004-03-01 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
Hi Philipp, On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, Philipp Michels wrote: Hi list, I would like to setup my debian box as a server for diskless clients. I created a directory /nfsroot and setup dhcp3-server and atftpd. Now i have two options to create a nfsroot fs: copy/rsync the real root to /nfsroot

Debian on SUN Enteprise 10000 /A SUCCESS)

2004-03-01 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
Hi all, I am finally glad to announce that it works and it works fine. Probably some of you already did it.. probably it was a waste of time.. but for sure it was a nice challenge that i want to share with the community. I placed a draft here:

Re: Debian on Enterprise 10000 (almost a success!)

2004-01-12 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
Hi Ben, On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, Ben Collins wrote: Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:00 Press L1-A to return to the boot prom Are you booting a kernel image, or the tftpboot image? Ok I am back and ready to go further to complete this installation. I did the following tests

Debian on Enterprise 10000 (almost a success!)

2003-12-19 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
AHHAHAHAHAHAHAAH YEAHHH! WATCH THIS: #28 ok boot net linux -p Boot device: /[EMAIL PROTECTED],0/SUNW,[EMAIL PROTECTED],8c0 File and args: linux -p Timeout waiting for ARP/RARP packet Timeout waiting for ARP/RARP packet Timeout waiting for ARP/RARP packet 535400 PROMLIB: Sun IEEE Boot Prom

Re: Debian on Enterprise 10000 (almost a success!)

2003-12-19 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, Ben Collins wrote: Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:00 Press L1-A to return to the boot prom Are you booting a kernel image, or the tftpboot image? The tftpimage but I was happy enough to see it booting. I will dig into the root problem another time. I

Re: Problem with pthreads compiling php4

2003-11-29 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
Hi David, On Sat, 29 Nov 2003, David Leggett wrote: Hi all I have been trying to compile php4 against the apt version of apache2 (with apache2-mpm-worker apache2-threaded-dev installed). php4 needs to be patched in order to compile with apache2. The debian maintainer is informed and will

Re: Problem with pthreads compiling php4

2003-11-29 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
On Sat, 29 Nov 2003, David Leggett wrote: apache2 on all archs or just apache2 on sparc? the first -- Our mission: make IPv6 the default IP protocol We are on a mission from God - Elwood Blues http://www.itojun.org/paper/itojun-nanog-200210-ipv6isp/mgp4.html

Re: gcc-3.2.3 for sparc64 kernels

2003-05-24 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
Hi Ben, is there any specific reason for this approch or is it just to test the pkg before inclusion/merge/whatever? Thanks Fabio On Sat, 24 May 2003, Ben Collins wrote: In case anyone else is doing builds of 2.5.69 or newer on sparc64, here's an interim build of 3.2.3 that is able

Re: Kernel 2.4.20 and IPv6 ICMP on Sparc32/64 bomb

2003-05-11 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
On Sun, 11 May 2003, Peter Keel wrote: Could you try 2.4.21-rc2? I'll try whatever I can. ;) Right now, all my self-built kernels cannot boot with a Data Access Exception, I suspect its a compiler-problem. Which one should I use? It's a Sid. I tried 3.2.3-2 3.3-0pre8 (I'll try pre9 today)

Re: Kernel 2.4.20 and IPv6 ICMP on Sparc32/64 bomb

2003-05-09 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
Are you using standard debian kernels or a custom one? Actually IPv6 works just fine on my sparc. Never had this problem. Fabio On Fri, 9 May 2003, Peter Keel wrote: Hello I know this probably doesn't really belong here, but this is the only Sparc-ML I'm reading, and it may be of interest

kernel 2.5.68 and egcs64

2003-04-20 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
Hi all, from this kernel version init/main.c implements a check about gcc version used to compile the kernel (line 63) and it fails with egcs64 shipped with Debian. The only workaround I found on the fly and with basically no investigation was to purge egcs64 and create a symlink in

Re: kernel 2.5.68 and egcs64

2003-04-20 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
On Sun, 20 Apr 2003, Ben Collins wrote: For now I just removed that check from init/main.c. good idea :) For the long term, gcc-3.3 doesn't build working kernels for me. I expected so... mine didn't boot. Maybe one day it will, but when it does, it wont provide sparc64-linux-gcc, it will

Re: Ultra 5 SSH/Ethernet Lockup

2003-04-13 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
It looks to me like you are ssh'ing from behind a firewall (using ipv4) that has a very short timeout for tcp connections. does this happen between local machines as well??? If this is the case than it is not related to which ethernet card you use or which protocol... but just to the firewall

Re: ip6tables on sparc32: filter Table does not exist

2003-02-18 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
Hi On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, Peter Keel wrote: Hello I finally managed to compile 2.4.20 on my SS10. Since I recently got 2001:8A8:30:30::/60 I now definitely want to do ipv6. Welcome to the club :-) It works, BUT: josephine:~# ip6tables -L ip6tables v1.2.6a: can't initialize ip6tables