Bug#723081: amd64-microcode: installation never completes

2013-10-20 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
Hello Nick, Any chances of doing that testing? As things stand, I get reports of this issue even on kernels that have the very latest AMD microcode driver, on every arch that runs on an AMD processor (i686, amd64/x86-64 *and* apparently even x32!) and no hope to track it down since neither I nor

Bug#723081: amd64-microcode: installation never completes

2013-09-29 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 29 Sep 2013, Nick Lewycky wrote: > >Or failing that, if you could please purge the package, reboot (so that > >you'll be running with BIOS microcode) and install it again (which would do > >a "first microcode update"), just to make sure first installs are safe? > > This worked! (For clarif

Bug#723081: amd64-microcode: installation never completes

2013-09-29 Thread Nick Lewycky
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Thu, 19 Sep 2013, Nick Lewycky wrote: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: I am trying to reproduce this issue with AMD, so as to try to track down which kernels are affected (and if possibly, track down WHAT fixed the bug as that isn't clear right now). Did

Bug#723081: amd64-microcode: installation never completes

2013-09-20 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 19 Sep 2013, Nick Lewycky wrote: > Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > >I am trying to reproduce this issue with AMD, so as to try to track down > >which kernels are affected (and if possibly, track down WHAT fixed the bug > >as that isn't clear right now). > > > >Did the issue happen on a

Bug#723081: amd64-microcode: installation never completes

2013-09-19 Thread Nick Lewycky
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: Nick, I am trying to reproduce this issue with AMD, so as to try to track down which kernels are affected (and if possibly, track down WHAT fixed the bug as that isn't clear right now). Did the issue happen on a *first install* of amd64-microcode, or did it ha

Bug#723081: amd64-microcode: installation never completes

2013-09-19 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
Nick, I am trying to reproduce this issue with AMD, so as to try to track down which kernels are affected (and if possibly, track down WHAT fixed the bug as that isn't clear right now). Did the issue happen on a *first install* of amd64-microcode, or did it happen only when you tried to upgrade t

Bug#723081: amd64-microcode: installation never completes

2013-09-16 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
retitle 723081 more broken kernels need to be blacklisted (interruptible hangs) severity 723081 important thanks On Mon, 16 Sep 2013, Nick Lewycky wrote: > Setting up amd64-microcode (2.20131007.1+really20130710.1) ... > Using per-core interface to update microcode on online processors... > > it

Bug#723081: amd64-microcode: installation never completes

2013-09-16 Thread Nick Lewycky
Package: amd64-microcode Version: 2.20131007.1+really20130710.1 Severity: important At this stage: Setting up amd64-microcode (2.20131007.1+really20130710.1) ... Using per-core interface to update microcode on online processors... it hangs, for over an hour before I killed it. # ps ax | grep am