Re: SPARC daily d-i builds

2011-01-23 Thread Joey Hess
Philipp Kern wrote: > It'd make sense to Cc d-admin on this. FWIW, I do recall bad memory issues > with zee, it's currently down to 16G of RAM, too. As a point of comparison, the d-i armel builds are ran on a machine with 3 gb of disk, 128 mb of ram (no swap), and 1 cpu. :) d-i daily builds are

Re: Retiring the sparc32 port

2007-07-19 Thread Joey Hess
Austin Denyer wrote: > Again, that's fine if you have more work for it to do. I would gain no > benefit by replacing my SS5 as it works just as well for the task in > hand as it did when it was new. A new machine would just be spinning > it's wheels 98% of the time, using more electricity, which

Re: Debian Installer - Etch Beta 3 release

2006-06-22 Thread Joey Hess
Frederik Schueler wrote: > I would like to upload kernel-wedge 2.24 before creating new amd64 > udebs, as there have been some changes to k-w which are needed for the > new udebs. > > The k-w changes are specific to the nic-extra-modules udeb, and might > touch other architectures too. > > can I

Re: Sparc32 support?

2006-02-02 Thread Joey Hess
Frans Pop wrote: > Do you think we should make an effort to support sparc32 using 2.6 for > d-i? You said yourself that things were looking better and these reports > seem to confirm it. > This will be after the Beta2 release of the installer though. FWIW, my testing on that machine (wildebeest)

Re: Sparc32 support?

2006-02-02 Thread Joey Hess
Zoe Parsons wrote: > Hi, I've read in a couple of places that there's consideration of dropping > Sparc32 support totally for Etch? Is this true, and if so is there > anything I can do to help stop that happening? > > I've just reinstalled my Sparcbook laptops with Linux (and was going to do >

testing security status

2005-10-10 Thread Joey Hess
Another one of my periodic mails generated by checking every security holes listed on http://spohr.debian.org/~joeyh/testing-security.html as fixed in unstable but not in testing. CCing this time to the mailing lists for the ports that appear in the most issues below. You can grep for your archite

Re: zs_open tts/%d0, tty overwrite.

2005-05-18 Thread Joey Hess
Hanno Hecker wrote: > I think it's valid... or is it changed again after this part? It looked > ok when I logged in via ssh, and I'm able to log in after reboot. Well, I run this sparc 5 pretty much 18 hours a day doing test installs, and sometimes they succeed and sometimes not, and AFAIK the ini

zs_open tts/%d0, tty overwrite.

2005-05-17 Thread Joey Hess
I have a sparc 5 with serial console (9600 baud) which occasionally begins printing this on the console and seems to be pretty dead: zs_open tts/%d0, tty overwrite. zs_open tts/%d0, tty overwrite. zs_open tts/%d0, tty overwrite. zs_open tts/%d0, tty overwrite. zs_open tts/%d0, tty overwrite. zs_op

Re: Problem with /tmp d-i BUG?

2005-03-31 Thread Joey Hess
Uwe A. P. Wuerdinger wrote: > After my succesfull install of sarge on a Balde 100 I doscoverd > that the permissions for /tmp are wrong. > > It should be drwxrwxrwx but it is drwxr-xr-x also > the partition recipe of d-i created a seperated tmp partition > /dev/hda7 there was no ext3 filesystem cr

Re: SunBlade D-I problems

2005-03-14 Thread Joey Hess
> time now. And it works nicely with the recent (pre-RC3) installer images, > I have tested it myself just a few days ago on an Ultra 1. Unfortunately, > the submitter does not mention the version of the installer he used... > Anyway, as I was writing this message, the CIA bot reported that

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Joey Hess
Mark Brown wrote: > Me too, probably. I'd managed to completely miss the call for help in > the last status updates (looking at the announcement I must've started > skimming well before the call for help in the kernel section). > > Outside of the kernel what areas need attention for SPARC? We se

Re: New 2.4.27-2 kernel and d-i images available for sparc - testers wanted

2005-02-17 Thread Joey Hess
Peter Dey wrote: > Hi Jurij, > > >Bugger :-/. What image did you use? > > I used the 20050217 build; > from the listing: > sarge-sparc-businesscard.iso 18-Feb-2005 00:45 30.6M That narrows it down to two images, one of which has the new kernel on it, and one of which doesn't.. You need the one

Re: Sarge install cd mounting problem

2004-12-09 Thread Joey Hess
Jurij Smakov wrote: > The only thing which is pretty much guaranteed is that d-i for sparc is > not going to be released in this state :-). More seriously though, fixed > linux-kernel-di-sparc (version 0.62) has been uploaded yesterday and will > become available (in unstable) with today's mirro

strange hang on ultra5 boot in audioctl init script

2004-11-12 Thread Joey Hess
I've an ultra 5, and if I install unstable with the 2.6 kernel on it, it hangs during boot like this. I've added set -x to the script that seems to be hanging it: Initializing random number generator...done. Recovering nvi editor sessions... done. + test -x /usr/bin/audioctl + PARAMS= + DEVICE= +

Re: Bug#243924: Status-report (Sparcstation LX) - netinst iso (24. Apr 2004)

2004-05-21 Thread Joey Hess
Morten Werner Olsen wrote: > On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 02:04:55PM -0300, Joey Hess wrote: > > > > Today I tried the daily build netinst iso [1] from 24. Apr 2004 with > > > the following result: > > > > I don't see the value of using a daily built image t

Re: Bug#243924: Status-report (Sparcstation LX) - netinst iso (24. Apr 2004)

2004-05-21 Thread Joey Hess
Morten Werner Olsen wrote: > Today I tried the daily build netinst iso [1] from 24. Apr 2004 with > the following result: I don't see the value of using a daily built image that is a month out of date and indeed predates the beta 4 release of the installer? -- see shy jo signature.asc Descript

Re: Bug#243924: Status-report (Sparcstation LX) - netinst iso (24. Apr 2004)

2004-04-27 Thread Joey Hess
Morten Werner Olsen wrote: > Hmm.. I'm quite sure I (mis)typed "linux boot=mount,dall rw", so maybe > it's the "rw" option that made it work? When looking at > svn:debian-installer/installer/build/boot/sparc/silo.conf (this is the > one used when booting netinst?) there is a "read-only" option pres

Re: Bug#243924: Status-report (Sparcstation LX) - netinst iso (24. Apr 2004)

2004-04-27 Thread Joey Hess
Morten Werner Olsen wrote: > Today I tried the daily build netinst iso [1] from 24. Apr 2004 with > the following result: > > - booting with just 'linux' from the silo prompt does still fail with >the "unable to mount root fs" error > - booting succedes with 'linux boot=mount,dall rw' from t

does anyone care about sparc CDs for sarge?

2004-04-11 Thread Joey Hess
Sparc CDs for sarge currently do not boot. Bug #243122. I've seen a lot of workarounds, and zero effort to fix the problem. If this problem remains in 2 weeks, then we will not ship sparc CDs as part of beta 4 of the Debian installer. Which puts us quite close to not including sparc CDs as part of

Re: a small C program to test xdm's /dev/mem reading on your architecture

2002-08-26 Thread Joey Hess
matthew green wrote: > bad ideas often hang around for a long time. the only surprising > thing to me is how long this one has taken to surface... Perhaps Branden is gathering information about what a bad idea this really is, to show upstream the error of their ways. I can't believe he actually i

whiptail problem

1999-11-16 Thread Joey Hess
reassign 50165 whiptail thanks It turns out that ruinning whiptail on a sparc yeilds: whiptail: error in loading shared libraries: libnewt.so.0.50: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Which is of course why debconf is breaking when it tries to use it.. -- see s

FWD: Re: Bug#36784: queue's line in /etc/suid.conf makes suid.register output an error

1999-06-03 Thread Joey Hess
Orion the Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 09:21:15 -0500 From: Orion the Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Bug#36784: queue's line in /etc/suid.conf makes suid.register output an error X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i Qu

Re: how to know the real device used by /dev/console ?

1999-02-08 Thread Joey Hess
de * was ripped from the open program, and this code is GPL'd * * Joey Hess, Fri Apr 4 14:58:50 EST 1997 */ #include #include main () { int fd = 0; struct vt_stat vt; if ((fd = open("/dev/console",O_WRONLY,0)) < 0) { perror(&qu

dpkg multiple arch support (Re: RFC: pentium optimized debian)

1998-07-25 Thread Joey Hess
[please follow up to debian-devel only] Steve Dunham wrote: > RPM does this. Yeah, I know, I do maintain rpm. ;-) > dpkg should too. I'm feeling less lazy and hackish this morning and am inclinded to agree. Here's a proposal: Make /etc/dpkg/arch be a conffile for dpkg. If it is not present, dp

Re: status: pass 1 complete

1998-05-23 Thread Joey Hess
Johnie Ingram wrote: > w-bassmannproc/whattime.h: No such file or directory Install libproc-dev. -- see shy jo, stuck on a trian somewhere in Texas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ready to help again

1997-12-30 Thread Joey Hess
cheated a lot, editing the .changes > file by hand...) Well, I've done it. I just use a command line like the following, and it only generated the binary package, and that's all that's listed in the changes file. dpkg-buildpackage -tc -B -m"Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

possible bug in sparc libc6-dev

1997-12-11 Thread Joey Hess
I think this is the right place to post this; I'm only beginning to work on some porting to the sparc. While compiling some packages for the sparc (a recent fileutils and bsdgames), I came upon this error: phantglobs.h:67: macro `strcpy' used without args phantglobs.h:68: macro `strncpy' used wit