Bug#745938: the future of sparc in unstable

2014-05-01 Thread Kieron Gillespie
Well it is a good start. =D There are still complaints, though haven't seen the bug reports, that modern kernel's are unstable on certain peices of hardware. Personally I can't reproduce any of these issues, I have rolled out the latest kernel for a while now on some of my sparc systems, my T2000

Bug#745938: the future of sparc in unstable

2014-04-30 Thread Kieron Gillespie
What is also weird is you have the debug package for it. So I am sure it compiled I think there might be something wrong with the packaging for it. On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 9:39 AM, Patrick Baggett wrote: > >>> I tried to build the gcc-4.8-4.8.2-20 and the build is broken. >> libstdc++ and lib64

Bug#745938: the future of sparc in unstable

2014-04-30 Thread Kieron Gillespie
I have also been able to build the gcc 4.8.2-21 packages as well. I am not sure what is causing the build systems so much grief when it comes to building these packages. Cheers, Kieron On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 9:27 AM, Patrick Baggett wrote: > I kicked off a gcc build (gcc-4.8_4.8.2-21) last nig

Bug#731806: debian-installer: FTBFS on sparc: genisoimage errors

2014-04-29 Thread Kieron Gillespie
: > Le 30/04/2014 00:12, Kieron Gillespie a écrit : > > Do we currently have a master list of all the major bugs facing the >> Sparc Port right now? >> >> I don't think so. I haven't been able to get one. > > You can start one. > > Seb >

Bug#731806: debian-installer: FTBFS on sparc: genisoimage errors

2014-04-29 Thread Kieron Gillespie
Do we currently have a master list of all the major bugs facing the Sparc Port right now? On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 3:53 PM, Patrick Baggett wrote: > > > > On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 2:35 PM, Patrick Baggett < > baggett.patr...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Yes, that's the one. Interestingly, in glibc-2.19

Bug#731806: debian-installer: FTBFS on sparc: genisoimage errors

2014-04-29 Thread Kieron Gillespie
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 10:47 AM, Patrick Baggett wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 9:34 AM, Kieron Gillespie < > ciaran.gilles...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I am currently investigating this unusual behavior with strcmp, and I am >> unable to reproduce the prob

Bug#731806: debian-installer: FTBFS on sparc: genisoimage errors

2014-04-29 Thread Kieron Gillespie
I'll rebuild one of my SunBlade 2500 latter with sid and see if I get the same result. If it doesn't show the symptom I will rebuild my T2000 and see if it is something specific to the Niagara T1. -Kieron On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 10:45 AM, Sébastien Bernard wrote: > Le 29/04/2014

Bug#731806: debian-installer: FTBFS on sparc: genisoimage errors

2014-04-29 Thread Kieron Gillespie
I am currently investigating this unusual behavior with strcmp, and I am unable to reproduce the problem using the test_strcmp example provided. It returns the correct output of, result from strcmp('\','\0001' is -1) This was built on Debian Wheezy with a T2000 SPARC processor using GCC 4.6.

Bug#648766: [sparc] BUG: NMI Watchdog detected LOCKUP on CPU0

2012-04-07 Thread Kieron Gillespie
load the firmware package and see if that causes the problem as it is the one package I have not reinstalled. On 04/07/2012 08:22 AM, Jonathan Nieder wrote: Kieron Gillespie wrote: With a completely clean install of Debian and every major version of the Linux kernel I haven't run into

Bug#648766: [sparc] BUG: NMI Watchdog detected LOCKUP on CPU0

2012-04-06 Thread Kieron Gillespie
04/06/2012 10:46 AM, Jonathan Nieder wrote: Kieron Gillespie wrote: I am right now testing one major kernel version at a time, and on the 3.0.0-1 I got Just to be clear, if each time you test the version halfway between the newest known-good and oldest known-bad kernel then you only have to

Bug#648766: [sparc] BUG: NMI Watchdog detected LOCKUP on CPU0

2012-04-06 Thread Kieron Gillespie
766 linux-2.6/3.3-1~experimental.1 tags 648766 + upstream quit Kieron Gillespie wrote: Now with that said I can't seem to crash the 2.6.32 kernel in the same way with SMP off, haven't tried with SMP on yet, but I have a feeling that will work fine as well. So this seems like it's so

Bug#648766: [sparc] BUG: NMI Watchdog detected LOCKUP on CPU0

2012-04-05 Thread Kieron Gillespie
seems like a real kernel bug. -Kieron On 04/03/2012 01:29 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote: Kieron Gillespie wrote: Here are the dmesg output from the current system running Linux 3.2.13 with SMP enabled with tickless disabled. Great. Is this reproducible without nouveau? It might be possible

Bug#648766: [sparc] BUG: NMI Watchdog detected LOCKUP on CPU0

2012-04-03 Thread Kieron Gillespie
han Nieder wrote: Kieron Gillespie wrote: Here are the dmesg output from the current system running Linux 3.2.13 with SMP enabled with tickless disabled. Great. Is this reproducible without nouveau? It might be possible to test by putting blacklist nouveau in /etc/modprobe.d/

Bug#648766: [sparc] BUG: NMI Watchdog detected LOCKUP on CPU0

2012-04-03 Thread Kieron Gillespie
au] [ 88.193449] Kernel unaligned access at TPC[105595a8] nv_wo32+0xb0/0xbc [nouveau] [ 88.291832] Kernel unaligned access at TPC[105595a8] nv_wo32+0xb0/0xbc [nouveau] On 04/03/2012 12:02 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote: severity 648766 important quit Kieron Gillespie wrote: I've a

Bug#648766: Another LOCKUP this time on CPU1

2012-04-02 Thread Kieron Gillespie
So I have obtain a similar error again, this time CPU1 locked up though. Once again all I have are images of the crash, I am still trying to set up a serial connection so I can log these errors better. I am right now trying out different configuration options in the kernel to see if one of the

Bug#648766: Same problem on Sun Blade 2500

2012-04-01 Thread Kieron Gillespie
I own a Sun Blade2500 that has two TI UltraSparc IIIi (Jalapeno) and 1GB of RAM using Kernel Version 3.2.12 with SMP enabled. When the system is in high load this tends to happen. I have only seen the fault occur with CPU0 though. I was wondering if anyone has any ideas of how to fix this? My deb

Bug#584725: Konsole on Sparc keeps crashing with "Bus Errors"

2010-06-05 Thread Kieron Gillespie
Package: Konsole Version: 4:4.4.4-1 When ever I attempt to invoke any command in konsole that seems to clear previously written text in the terminal it will crash with a signal "Bus Error". This can be recreated simply by trying to use the clear command. My system is a Sun Microsystems Ultra 5.