Re: "Unkillable processes" and INFO: task ... blocked for more than 120 seconds

2015-02-20 Thread Manuel Reimer
) then I'm able to close GIMP without any problems but it seems to get stuck in exactly the same way as it happened the first time. My system kernel: Linux manuelspc 3.18.6-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Feb 7 08:44:05 CET 2015 x86_64 GNU/Linux On 02/20/2015 06:13 PM, Manuel Reimer wrote: Hello,

"Unkillable processes" and INFO: task ... blocked for more than 120 seconds

2015-02-20 Thread Manuel Reimer
Hello, today, I had the following problem: I was editing a few photos in GIMP and after I finished with that, I tried to close GIMP which failed. KDE offered me to terminate the application which also didn't work. So I opened a terminal and tried "killall -9 gimp" --> No success Next I

Unkillable processes and INFO: task ... blocked for more than 120 seconds

2015-02-20 Thread Manuel Reimer
Hello, today, I had the following problem: I was editing a few photos in GIMP and after I finished with that, I tried to close GIMP which failed. KDE offered me to terminate the application which also didn't work. So I opened a terminal and tried killall -9 gimp -- No success Next I tried

Re: Unkillable processes and INFO: task ... blocked for more than 120 seconds

2015-02-20 Thread Manuel Reimer
able to close GIMP without any problems but it seems to get stuck in exactly the same way as it happened the first time. My system kernel: Linux manuelspc 3.18.6-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Feb 7 08:44:05 CET 2015 x86_64 GNU/Linux On 02/20/2015 06:13 PM, Manuel Reimer wrote: Hello, today, I

Re: 3.15.4 runs *significantly* slower than 3.15.3 on iMX233 CPU

2014-07-07 Thread Manuel Reimer
On 07/07/2014 09:42 PM, Guenter Roeck wrote: I tracked the problem down to the following patch: diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/imx23-olinuxino.dts b/arch/arm/boot/dts/imx23-olinuxino.dts index d107c4a..993da2e 100644 --- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/imx23-olinuxino.dts +++

Re: 3.15.4 runs *significantly* slower than 3.15.3 on iMX233 CPU

2014-07-07 Thread Manuel Reimer
On 07/07/2014 09:14 PM, Guenter Roeck wrote: Are you sure this did not just happen when you booted the new kernel for the first time ? I have seen similar behavior with some distributions. I did some more tries and found out that I had disabled some of my patches until I reached 3.15.4

3.15.4 runs *significantly* slower than 3.15.3 on iMX233 CPU

2014-07-07 Thread Manuel Reimer
Hello, maybe someone can help me to find the reason for this problem: If I run my iMX233 development board with an 3.15.3 kernel, then the performance is much better as with an 3.15.4 kernel. I have the first significant "hanging" here: [7.91] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI

3.15.4 runs *significantly* slower than 3.15.3 on iMX233 CPU

2014-07-07 Thread Manuel Reimer
Hello, maybe someone can help me to find the reason for this problem: If I run my iMX233 development board with an 3.15.3 kernel, then the performance is much better as with an 3.15.4 kernel. I have the first significant hanging here: [7.91] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI removable

Re: 3.15.4 runs *significantly* slower than 3.15.3 on iMX233 CPU

2014-07-07 Thread Manuel Reimer
On 07/07/2014 09:14 PM, Guenter Roeck wrote: Are you sure this did not just happen when you booted the new kernel for the first time ? I have seen similar behavior with some distributions. I did some more tries and found out that I had disabled some of my patches until I reached 3.15.4

Re: 3.15.4 runs *significantly* slower than 3.15.3 on iMX233 CPU

2014-07-07 Thread Manuel Reimer
On 07/07/2014 09:42 PM, Guenter Roeck wrote: I tracked the problem down to the following patch: diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/imx23-olinuxino.dts b/arch/arm/boot/dts/imx23-olinuxino.dts index d107c4a..993da2e 100644 --- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/imx23-olinuxino.dts +++

Re: Massive IDE problems. Who leaves data here?

2008-01-24 Thread Manuel Reimer
Jan Engelhardt wrote: Ugh, 250 W was a safe^[0] minimum even back in '98 when harddisks were like 4.3GB and a dual-speed CD-RW drive was like $400 and up. You seriously need to replace that. [0] e.g. suited for 2 CD drives and 2 harddisks, 2 PCI and 1 AGP I replaced with an 400 Watt one for

Re: Massive IDE problems. Who leaves data here?

2008-01-24 Thread Manuel Reimer
Alan Cox wrote: Yes, or dodgy connectors or other problems. The CRC itself is computed by the hardware each end so a BadCRC error really means the two ends disagree about the data. I'll have a closer look at the connectors, but as I replaced the whole cable for the fourth time, today, I

Re: Massive IDE problems. Who leaves data here?

2008-01-24 Thread Manuel Reimer
Ray Lee wrote: Oy. Just know that without CC:ing people, I'm having to add Jeff back in by hand, and we may not notice your messages. Please, with whatever you're using to send email, CC: people that you want to read your messages, okay? LKML gets a lot of messages, and it's easy to miss some.

Re: Massive IDE problems. Who leaves data here?

2008-01-24 Thread Manuel Reimer
Ray Lee wrote: Oy. Just know that without CC:ing people, I'm having to add Jeff back in by hand, and we may not notice your messages. Please, with whatever you're using to send email, CC: people that you want to read your messages, okay? LKML gets a lot of messages, and it's easy to miss some.

Re: Massive IDE problems. Who leaves data here?

2008-01-24 Thread Manuel Reimer
Ray Lee wrote: Oy. Just know that without CC:ing people, I'm having to add Jeff back in by hand, and we may not notice your messages. Please, with whatever you're using to send email, CC: people that you want to read your messages, okay? LKML gets a lot of messages, and it's easy to miss some.

Re: Massive IDE problems. Who leaves data here?

2008-01-24 Thread Manuel Reimer
Ray Lee wrote: Oy. Just know that without CC:ing people, I'm having to add Jeff back in by hand, and we may not notice your messages. Please, with whatever you're using to send email, CC: people that you want to read your messages, okay? LKML gets a lot of messages, and it's easy to miss some.

Re: Massive IDE problems. Who leaves data here?

2008-01-24 Thread Manuel Reimer
Alan Cox wrote: Yes, or dodgy connectors or other problems. The CRC itself is computed by the hardware each end so a BadCRC error really means the two ends disagree about the data. I'll have a closer look at the connectors, but as I replaced the whole cable for the fourth time, today, I

Re: Massive IDE problems. Who leaves data here?

2008-01-24 Thread Manuel Reimer
Jan Engelhardt wrote: Ugh, 250 W was a safe^[0] minimum even back in '98 when harddisks were like 4.3GB and a dual-speed CD-RW drive was like $400 and up. You seriously need to replace that. [0] e.g. suited for 2 CD drives and 2 harddisks, 2 PCI and 1 AGP I replaced with an 400 Watt one for

Re: Massive IDE problems. Who leaves data here?

2008-01-22 Thread Manuel Reimer
Ray Lee wrote: (Please always do a reply-to-all for this email list.) Currently I don't have a SMTP server configured. As soon as my system is trustworthy, again, I'll do that. Bad or almost bad power supplies can cause lots of unhappy problems such as these. If you have another power

Re: Massive IDE problems. Who leaves data here?

2008-01-22 Thread Manuel Reimer
Jeff Garzik wrote: If your IDE interface is complaining about BadCRC errors, then it's complaining about hardware problems (bad cable, etc.) The cable already has been replaced three times. I even got sure to *not* bend the cable. This all doesn't help. May a bad cable really cause

Massive IDE problems. Who leaves data here?

2008-01-22 Thread Manuel Reimer
Hello, anything started with a try to burn Slackware 12.0 from the original DVD to an new medium with different boot settings. I always got corrupted results and didn't know why. So I started with an "md5sum -c CHECKSUMS.md5" directly on the original media. This resulted in "anything OK".

Massive IDE problems. Who leaves data here?

2008-01-22 Thread Manuel Reimer
Hello, anything started with a try to burn Slackware 12.0 from the original DVD to an new medium with different boot settings. I always got corrupted results and didn't know why. So I started with an md5sum -c CHECKSUMS.md5 directly on the original media. This resulted in anything OK. Now

Re: Massive IDE problems. Who leaves data here?

2008-01-22 Thread Manuel Reimer
Jeff Garzik wrote: If your IDE interface is complaining about BadCRC errors, then it's complaining about hardware problems (bad cable, etc.) The cable already has been replaced three times. I even got sure to *not* bend the cable. This all doesn't help. May a bad cable really cause

Re: Massive IDE problems. Who leaves data here?

2008-01-22 Thread Manuel Reimer
Ray Lee wrote: (Please always do a reply-to-all for this email list.) Currently I don't have a SMTP server configured. As soon as my system is trustworthy, again, I'll do that. Bad or almost bad power supplies can cause lots of unhappy problems such as these. If you have another power

Re: Do people exaggerate in security advisories?

2008-01-04 Thread Manuel Reimer
Hello, Shame on me, but I didn't look carefully at the patch. The patch, of course, tries to get rid of root privileges and doesn't try to get them. As I also posted to the wrong list, by accident, lets assume this topic as closed. Yours Manuel Reimer -- To unsubscribe from this list

Do people exaggerate in security advisories?

2008-01-04 Thread Manuel Reimer
Hi, I found this one today: http://securitytracker.com/alerts/2007/Oct/1018782.html In the git changelog: http://git.kernel.org/?p=utils/util-linux-ng/util-linux-ng.git;a=commit;h=ebbeb2c7ac1b00b608390595783 7a271e80b187e noone leaves any word about privilege escalation. Is it really

Do people exaggerate in security advisories?

2008-01-04 Thread Manuel Reimer
Hi, I found this one today: http://securitytracker.com/alerts/2007/Oct/1018782.html In the git changelog: http://git.kernel.org/?p=utils/util-linux-ng/util-linux-ng.git;a=commit;h=ebbeb2c7ac1b00b608390595783 7a271e80b187e noone leaves any word about privilege escalation. Is it really

Re: udev: Inconsistency between %b and %p?

2007-09-11 Thread Manuel Reimer
Kay Sievers wrote: ATTRS{idVendor}=="0dda", ATTRS{idProduct}=="2005", SUBSYSTEM=="scsi", ACTION=="add", PROGRAM+="/usr/bin/test.sh %b %p" It's fine. $id, like some other values too, is a value of the device where all keys successful matched while walking up the chain of devices. But the

Re: udev: Inconsistency between %b and %p?

2007-09-11 Thread Manuel Reimer
Kay Sievers wrote: ATTRS{idVendor}==0dda, ATTRS{idProduct}==2005, SUBSYSTEM==scsi, ACTION==add, PROGRAM+=/usr/bin/test.sh %b %p It's fine. $id, like some other values too, is a value of the device where all keys successful matched while walking up the chain of devices. But the SUBSYSTEM

Re: udev: Inconsistency between %b and %p?

2007-09-06 Thread Manuel Reimer
Andreas Schwab wrote: Manuel Reimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: For me, this looks like a bug, or am I wrong? It's a feature. It's documented. man udev says: | The name of the device matched while searching the devpath upwards | for SUBSYSTEMS, KERNELS, DRIVERS and ATTRS. What e

Re: udev: Inconsistency between %b and %p?

2007-09-06 Thread Manuel Reimer
Andreas Schwab wrote: As I would prefer to use the USB device information (idVendor, idProduct) to detect the device, I also tried this one: ATTRS{idVendor}=="0dda", ATTRS{idProduct}=="2005", SUBSYSTEM=="scsi", ACTION=="add", PROGRAM+="/usr/bin/test.sh %b %p" Now this version returns the USB

udev: Inconsistency between %b and %p?

2007-09-06 Thread Manuel Reimer
Hello, I'm trying to write a UDEV rule, which has to hand over the SCSI device ID in the format $HOST:$CHANNEL:$ID:$LUN to a shellscript. My first try was: ATTR{vendor}=="", ATTR{model}=="", SUBSYSTEM=="scsi", ACTION=="add", PROGRAM+="/usr/bin/test.sh %b %p" This returns the SCSI

Re: video4linux, bttv, vbi and missing lines in teletext...

2007-09-06 Thread Manuel Reimer
Manuel Reimer wrote: Today I'll visit someone, who has a Windows PC. I've already removed the bt878 card from my PC. I'll try at his PC, if I get the same problem with the original driver and TV watching software. If this works, I'll boot Knoppix from his PC to get sure, that I also get

Re: video4linux, bttv, vbi and missing lines in teletext...

2007-09-06 Thread Manuel Reimer
Manuel Reimer wrote: Today I'll visit someone, who has a Windows PC. I've already removed the bt878 card from my PC. I'll try at his PC, if I get the same problem with the original driver and TV watching software. If this works, I'll boot Knoppix from his PC to get sure, that I also get

udev: Inconsistency between %b and %p?

2007-09-06 Thread Manuel Reimer
Hello, I'm trying to write a UDEV rule, which has to hand over the SCSI device ID in the format $HOST:$CHANNEL:$ID:$LUN to a shellscript. My first try was: ATTR{vendor}==, ATTR{model}==, SUBSYSTEM==scsi, ACTION==add, PROGRAM+=/usr/bin/test.sh %b %p This returns the SCSI device ID

Re: udev: Inconsistency between %b and %p?

2007-09-06 Thread Manuel Reimer
Andreas Schwab wrote: As I would prefer to use the USB device information (idVendor, idProduct) to detect the device, I also tried this one: ATTRS{idVendor}==0dda, ATTRS{idProduct}==2005, SUBSYSTEM==scsi, ACTION==add, PROGRAM+=/usr/bin/test.sh %b %p Now this version returns the USB device ID

Re: udev: Inconsistency between %b and %p?

2007-09-06 Thread Manuel Reimer
Andreas Schwab wrote: Manuel Reimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: For me, this looks like a bug, or am I wrong? It's a feature. It's documented. man udev says: | The name of the device matched while searching the devpath upwards | for SUBSYSTEMS, KERNELS, DRIVERS and ATTRS. What exactly does

video4linux, bttv, vbi and missing lines in teletext...

2007-09-02 Thread Manuel Reimer
Hello, I want to view teletext using my bt878 card. I tried with mtt, but I always had missing lines in the teletext display. As I have been unsure, which is the reason, I also downloaded and compiled alevt. Here, the same lines are missing. Now I used the test tools from the zvbi library,

video4linux, bttv, vbi and missing lines in teletext...

2007-09-02 Thread Manuel Reimer
Hello, I want to view teletext using my bt878 card. I tried with mtt, but I always had missing lines in the teletext display. As I have been unsure, which is the reason, I also downloaded and compiled alevt. Here, the same lines are missing. Now I used the test tools from the zvbi library,

Re: TV card detected wrongly by the kernel. Any chance to get this fixed?

2007-08-23 Thread Manuel Reimer
Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: If your board have an unique PCI ID, we may add it to the driver, avoiding this need. For this, we will need the results of the following command: lspci -vv -nn I'm using card=65 to use my card. I never tried the tuner (don't need it) but the composite-in works

Re: TV card detected wrongly by the kernel. Any chance to get this fixed?

2007-08-23 Thread Manuel Reimer
Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: If your board have an unique PCI ID, we may add it to the driver, avoiding this need. For this, we will need the results of the following command: lspci -vv -nn I'm using card=65 to use my card. I never tried the tuner (don't need it) but the composite-in works

TV card detected wrongly by the kernel. Any chance to get this fixed?

2007-08-22 Thread Manuel Reimer
lue gets auto-loaded? Thanks in advance Yours Manuel Reimer - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

TV card detected wrongly by the kernel. Any chance to get this fixed?

2007-08-22 Thread Manuel Reimer
Yours Manuel Reimer - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: Whats the problem with my IDE...

2007-08-01 Thread Manuel Reimer
At first: Thank you very much for the detailled information! Alan Cox wrote: Bad CRC indicates a data transfer problem between the drive and the controller. The CRC is computed one end and verified the other. The OS isn't directly involved. This usually means either #1 A 40 wire cable in use

Re: Whats the problem with my IDE...

2007-08-01 Thread Manuel Reimer
At first: Thank you very much for the detailled information! Alan Cox wrote: Bad CRC indicates a data transfer problem between the drive and the controller. The CRC is computed one end and verified the other. The OS isn't directly involved. This usually means either #1 A 40 wire cable in use

Whats the problem with my IDE...

2007-07-31 Thread Manuel Reimer
Hello, after my problems with my DVD drive, I've unplugged this device and jumpered my burning device as master, to start my linux setup from there. Now I don't longer get those silly DVD errors, but now I get something, which is much more worrying for me: http://pastebin.com/f6fc7552f

Whats the problem with my IDE...

2007-07-31 Thread Manuel Reimer
Hello, after my problems with my DVD drive, I've unplugged this device and jumpered my burning device as master, to start my linux setup from there. Now I don't longer get those silly DVD errors, but now I get something, which is much more worrying for me: http://pastebin.com/f6fc7552f

Re: Problems with reading DVD using 2.6.21.5

2007-07-29 Thread Manuel Reimer
Robert Hancock wrote: It's not entirely clear to me whether the kernel is doing any retries or not. It likely should be, but somebody more familiar with the block layer would likely have to answer whether it will be or not.. Would be pretty great to get answer of someone, who knows if the

Re: Problems with reading DVD using 2.6.21.5

2007-07-29 Thread Manuel Reimer
Robert Hancock wrote: It's not entirely clear to me whether the kernel is doing any retries or not. It likely should be, but somebody more familiar with the block layer would likely have to answer whether it will be or not.. Would be pretty great to get answer of someone, who knows if the

Re: Problems with reading DVD using 2.6.21.5

2007-07-28 Thread Manuel Reimer
Hello, I tried to reproduce this bug by mounting/unmounting the drive several times. It seems like this problem is caused, if the drive is at speed 0 after some time without access. In this situation, sometimes the drive seems to take a bit longer to speed up. Whenever it takes a bit

Re: Problems with reading DVD using 2.6.21.5

2007-07-28 Thread Manuel Reimer
Robert Hancock wrote: I don't think this is a bug, the drive was told to read a sector and returned error SK=03, ASC=02, ASCQ=00 which is "NO SEEK COMPLETE", in other words it couldn't find that sector. Could be that the disc is marginally readable and only sometimes causes read errors. The

Re: Problems with reading DVD using 2.6.21.5

2007-07-28 Thread Manuel Reimer
Robert Hancock wrote: I don't think this is a bug, the drive was told to read a sector and returned error SK=03, ASC=02, ASCQ=00 which is NO SEEK COMPLETE, in other words it couldn't find that sector. Could be that the disc is marginally readable and only sometimes causes read errors. The

Re: Problems with reading DVD using 2.6.21.5

2007-07-28 Thread Manuel Reimer
Hello, I tried to reproduce this bug by mounting/unmounting the drive several times. It seems like this problem is caused, if the drive is at speed 0 after some time without access. In this situation, sometimes the drive seems to take a bit longer to speed up. Whenever it takes a bit

Problems with reading DVD using 2.6.21.5

2007-07-27 Thread Manuel Reimer
Hello, today I've tried to install Slackware 12.0 As the installer just "skipped" some install steps, I tried to find the error. The problem seems to be unreadable parts on the DVD: http://pastebin.com/f381e8a88 But the DVD is OK. I've checked the MD5sum directly from disc on the same

Problems with reading DVD using 2.6.21.5

2007-07-27 Thread Manuel Reimer
Hello, today I've tried to install Slackware 12.0 As the installer just skipped some install steps, I tried to find the error. The problem seems to be unreadable parts on the DVD: http://pastebin.com/f381e8a88 But the DVD is OK. I've checked the MD5sum directly from disc on the same

Re: Will there be security updates for 2.6.17 kernels?

2006-12-14 Thread Manuel Reimer
my friends, who regularly compiled new kernels, lost files that way). If 2.6.16 is the "real stable" branch, then I'd vote for using this one. But it's not my decision. Anything I needed to know is that there will be definetly no more security updates for 2.6.17. Yours Manuel Reim

Will there be security updates for 2.6.17 kernels?

2006-12-14 Thread Manuel Reimer
to 2.6.16. Thank you very much in advance Yours Manuel Reimer - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Will there be security updates for 2.6.17 kernels?

2006-12-14 Thread Manuel Reimer
. Thank you very much in advance Yours Manuel Reimer - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: Will there be security updates for 2.6.17 kernels?

2006-12-14 Thread Manuel Reimer
, lost files that way). If 2.6.16 is the real stable branch, then I'd vote for using this one. But it's not my decision. Anything I needed to know is that there will be definetly no more security updates for 2.6.17. Yours Manuel Reimer - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe