Bug#1016963: Please test u-boot for sheevaplug mx6cuboxi

2022-12-28 Thread Rick Thomas
Sadly, my sheevaplug was not revivable. I have a couple of OpenRD boxes and a couple of CUBox-i boxes I can test for you, as well as a RaspberryPi-4B and a couple of Orange-Pi boxes that can also be tested. I'll send results as I get to them. BTW, are there directions for installing and conf

Bug#1016963: Help with testing u-boot!

2022-12-28 Thread Rick Thomas
Here's another Cubox-i. This one's running Bookworm. shows a surprising number of u-boot- packages installed, ( = exynos, imx, omap, sunxi) as well as plain "u-boot". All of them are version 2022.04+dfsg-2+b1. Rebooting while watching the serial console output says "U-Boot SPL 2016.05-rc2+d

Bug#1016963: Help with testing u-boot!

2022-12-28 Thread Rick Thomas
A Cubox-i running Debian bullseye (11.6). According to It has "u-boot-tools" (version 2021.01+dfsg-5) installed, but none of the u-boot- packages installed. If I reboot it and watch the serial console, I see it showing "U-boot 2021.01-dfsg-5" so that version must have gotten into the firmwar

Bug#1016963: Help with testing u-boot!

2022-12-28 Thread Rick Thomas
Raspberry Pi 4B (8GB) running bullseye, but does not seem to have any version of u-boot installed. Weird? Running tells me that the following (among lots of others) versions are available. Should I install one of them and see what happens? Package u-boot-rpi: p 2021.01+dfsg-5 stable 500 P

Bug#989645: /usr/sbin/grub-mkconfig: dpkg: error processing package linux-image-powerpc (--configure):

2021-06-09 Thread Rick Thomas
Package: grub-common Version: 2.04-18 Severity: grave File: /usr/sbin/grub-mkconfig Justification: renders package unusable X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-powe...@lists.debian.org, glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de, rbtho...@pobox.com This is what happens when I attempt to do "aptitude full-upgrade" on my Power

Bug#837629: OpenRD* with debian's u-boot 2016.09

2016-11-12 Thread Rick Thomas
On 11/02/16 10:38, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: I've uploaded u-boot 2016.11~rc3 to the cascadia.debian.net repository. I won't hold my breath, but give it a try... Good thing you didn't hold your breath. I tried it. Same result as before: No response after "reset". I think I heard that suppor

Bug#837629: OpenRD* with debian's u-boot 2016.09

2016-11-02 Thread Rick Thomas
On Nov 2, 2016, at 10:38 AM, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > I've uploaded u-boot 2016.11~rc3 to the cascadia.debian.net > repository. I won’t hold my breath, but give it a try... I will. No promises on the target date, but “soon”! (-; > Another option which might help debug the issue is to build

Bug#837629: OpenRD* with debian's u-boot 2016.09

2016-10-27 Thread Rick Thomas
On Oct 5, 2016, at 1:26 PM, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > On 2016-10-03, Rick Thomas wrote: >> On Oct 1, 2016, at 3:39 PM, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: >>> On 2016-09-17, Rick Thomas wrote: >>>> On Sep 16, 2016, at 3:19 PM, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: >>>>>

Bug#837629: OpenRD* with debian's u-boot 2016.09

2016-10-07 Thread Rick Thomas
On Oct 5, 2016, at 1:26 PM, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > And now uploaded 2016.11~rc1 to my "UNRELEASED" repository, please test > that… Will do. Sometime this weekend. > >> let me know if there’s anything more I can do to help… > > If it's not fixed in 2016.11~rc1, the only thing left to try

Bug#837629: OpenRD* with debian's u-boot 2016.09

2016-10-03 Thread Rick Thomas
On Oct 1, 2016, at 3:39 PM, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > On 2016-09-17, Rick Thomas wrote: >> On Sep 16, 2016, at 3:19 PM, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: >>> https://bugs.debian.org/837629 >>> >>> If it can't be fixed, I'll likely remove OpenRD ultimat

Bug#837629: OpenRD* with debian's u-boot 2016.09

2016-10-01 Thread Rick Thomas
OK. I’ll give it a try. More when I know more. Rick On Oct 1, 2016, at 3:39 PM, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > On 2016-09-17, Rick Thomas wrote: >> On Sep 16, 2016, at 3:19 PM, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: >>> https://bugs.debian.org/837629 >>> >>> If it can&#

Bug#837629: OpenRD* with debian's u-boot 2016.09

2016-09-17 Thread Rick Thomas
On Sep 16, 2016, at 3:19 PM, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > There is at one report of an OpenRD ultimate that would not boot with > the 2016.09~rc2 version of u-boot in debian. Uploaded 2016.09+dfsg-1 to > unstable a few days ago. Would you be able to confirm if OpenRD variants > that you have still

Bug#837629: u-boot 2016.09 in Debian

2016-09-16 Thread Rick Thomas
On Sep 15, 2016, at 10:43 PM, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > Control: severity 837629 serious > > On 2016-09-14, Rick Thomas wrote: >> On Sep 14, 2016, at 5:31 PM, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: >> >>> Worst case, we have to remove it from stretch again if it really

Bug#832713: closed by Martin Pitt (Bug#832893: fixed in systemd 231-2)

2016-08-15 Thread Rick Thomas
On Aug 14, 2016, at 11:13 PM, Michael Biebl wrote: > Rick, if you comment out MemoryDenyWriteExecute=yes in your service > files in /lib/systemd/system, is the problem gone? Yeah, that seems to make the problem go away. Rick

Bug#832713: closed by Martin Pitt (Bug#832893: fixed in systemd 231-2)

2016-08-14 Thread Rick Thomas
Sorry, it’s not fixed in 231-2… Please see attached boot log. Rick screenlog.xz Description: Binary data

Bug#832713: systemd: after "systemd (231-1) unstable" update systemd-jurnald.service fails to start

2016-08-12 Thread Rick Thomas
On Aug 12, 2016, at 9:21 AM, Pete Batard wrote: > Okay. I have now gone through a dpkg -i install of all the (non dbgsym) .deb > I see on your server, and also issued a reboot for good measure, but I still > see the same problem with journald being failed, along with dependent services Hi Fil

Bug#832713: systemd: after "systemd (231-1) unstable" update systemd-jurnald.service fails to start

2016-08-03 Thread Rick Thomas
> On Aug 3, 2016, at 3:58 PM, Felipe Sateler wrote: > > On 3 August 2016 at 16:44, Rick Thomas wrote: >> >> On Aug 3, 2016, at 9:06 AM, Felipe Sateler wrote: >> >>> On 1 August 2016 at 18:32, Rick Thomas wrote: >>>> >>>> Thank

Bug#832713: systemd: after "systemd (231-1) unstable" update systemd-jurnald.service fails to start

2016-08-03 Thread Rick Thomas
On Aug 3, 2016, at 9:06 AM, Felipe Sateler wrote: > On 1 August 2016 at 18:32, Rick Thomas wrote: >> >> Thanks, Filipe! >> >> What do we have to do at this point to test this and then translate it into >> a patch? > > OK, so I have a proof-of-concept

Bug#800005: fbset gets 'ioctl FBIOPUT_VSCREENINFO: Invalid argument'

2015-09-25 Thread Rick Thomas
Package: fbset Version: 2.1-28 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Dear Maintainer, Prior to Jessie, I could use "fbset" toset the screen resolution on my PowerPC Macs. This was often necessary if the system happened to mis-guess the actual screen resolution, or the screen wa

Bug#791869: lvm2: updating src:lvm2 from 2.02.111-2.2 to 2.02.122-1 breaks booting, mounting LVs other than / fails

2015-07-25 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jul 25, 2015, at 3:21 PM, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 07:05:42PM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: >> I created a virtual machine with VMWare running on my Mac. It has a virtual >> DVD-drive (loaded with the Jessie 8.1.0 amd64 install image) and three >>

Bug#791869: lvm2: updating src:lvm2 from 2.02.111-2.2 to 2.02.122-1 breaks booting, mounting LVs other than / fails

2015-07-21 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jul 21, 2015, at 12:11 PM, Bastian Blank wrote: > However I'm still unable to reproduce the problem > without a sledgehammer. I reproduced the problem in a tiny test system as follows: I created a virtual machine with VMWare running on my Mac. It has a virtual DVD-drive (loaded with the

Bug#791869: Info received (Output of 'systemctl status' in broken state and just after un-breaking it...)

2015-07-19 Thread Rick Thomas
On a hunch, I made the following change > # diff /SAVE/etc/lvm/lvm.conf /etc/lvm/lvm.conf > 823c823 > < use_lvmetad = 1 > --- > > use_lvmetad = 0 and ran > # update-initramfs -u Then rebooted. The problem went away… As I understand it, this makes LVM always check the actual physical

Bug#791869: Output of 'systemctl status' in broken state and just after un-breaking it...

2015-07-19 Thread Rick Thomas
In case it helps, here’s systemctl status as logged during emergency shell. Rick Jul 19 22:43:49 stretch fixup[687]: + systemctl status Jul 19 22:43:49 stretch fixup[687]: * stretch Jul 19 22:43:49 stretch fixup[687]: State: maintenance Jul 19 22:43:49 stretch fixup[687]: Jobs: 0 queued

Bug#728936: Seems to be fixed in powerpc netinst from Jan 8

2014-01-13 Thread Rick Thomas
This bug seems to be fixed in Debian GNU/Linux testing "Jessie" - Official Snapshot powerpc NETINST Binary-1 20140108-22:14 However, that netinst image installs a system that refuses to boot on PowerPC64 -- works fine on powerpc (32-bit) though! I'll be submitting a s

Bug#728936: Seems to be fixed in PowerPC Netinst from Jan 8th

2014-01-13 Thread Rick Thomas
This bug seems to be fixed in Debian GNU/Linux testing "Jessie" - Official Snapshot powerpc NETINST Binary-1 20140108-22:14 However, that netinst image installs a system that refuses to boot on PowerPC64 -- works fine on powerpc (32-bit) though! I'll be submitting a s

Bug#728936: Is there a way to ssh into the debian installation process?

2014-01-05 Thread Rick Thomas
pose a fix. Do you have any experience making a pre seeded bootable CD for powerpc? If so, could you share it with us? Rick On Jan 5, 2014, at 9:48 AM, Gary Driggs wrote: > On Jan 5, 2014, at 1:22 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: >> So I think I could do the same thing on a PowerPC Ma

Bug#682946: latest weekly PowerPC CD#1 stalls because it cant find aptitude

2012-08-06 Thread Rick Thomas
On Aug 5, 2012, at 12:31 AM, Jonathan Nieder wrote: Hi Rick, Rick Thomas wrote: I just downloaded the beta1 netinst images for powerpc, i386 and amd64. I'll be testing them this weekend if I can get time. Thanks! Is the problem likely to be specific to the CD1 images and not show

Bug#682946: latest weekly PowerPC CD#1 stalls because it cant find aptitude

2012-08-05 Thread Rick Thomas
ug 4, 2012, at 4:07 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote: reassign 682946 cdimage.debian.org tags 682946 + wheezy moreinfo quit Hi Rick, Rick Thomas wrote: Boot method: CD Image version: /cdimage/weekly-builds/powerpc/iso-cd/debian-testing- powerpc-xfce+lxde-CD-1.iso (23-Jul-2012 07:59 635M) [...] Jul 2

Bug#682946: installation-report: latest weekly PowerPC CD#1 stalls because it cant find aptitude

2012-07-27 Thread Rick Thomas
Package: installation-reports Version: 2.47 Severity: grave Tags: d-i Justification: renders installer CD unusable -- Package-specific info: Boot method: CD Image version: /cdimage/weekly-builds/powerpc/iso-cd/debian-testing-powerpc-xfce+lxde-CD-1.iso (23-Jul-2012 07:59 635M) Date: 2012/07/

Bug#617469: Things that make you go hmmmm....

2011-03-11 Thread Rick Thomas
Joey Hess said: Rick Thomas wrote: Well, in the mean-time, there's no way to test new d-i businesscard or netinst CDs beyond the disk partition step. Or, to put it more bluntly: Testing grinds to a halt until this is fixed. Use http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/sid_d-i/cu

Bug#617469: Things that make you go hmmmm....

2011-03-09 Thread Rick Thomas
Anybody notice that the current PowerPC sid_d-i businesscard installed CD refuses to finish the booting process on a PowerMac? See bug report #617469 for details. I verified the md5 checksum. That's OK. I verified the CD against the ISO when I burned it. That's OK. I've tried this CD (and

Bug#617469: Bug#617204: Things that make you go hmmmm....

2011-03-08 Thread Rick Thomas
Joey Hess wrote: Rick Thomas wrote: Well, in the mean-time, there's no way to test new d-i businesscard or netinst CDs beyond the disk partition step. Or, to put it more bluntly: Testing grinds to a halt until this is fixed. Use http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/si

Bug#617469: installation-report: Debian sid_d-i wheezy PowerPC businesscard does not boot

2011-03-08 Thread Rick Thomas
Package: installation-reports Version: 2.44 Severity: grave Tags: d-i Justification: renders package unusable -- Package-specific info: Boot method: CD Image version: Businesscard iso from http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/sid_d-i/current/powerpc/iso-cd/ Daily build #7 for powerp

Bug#589701: ofpath is not compatible with non-builtin disk controllers

2010-09-28 Thread Rick Thomas
On Sep 29, 2010, at 12:12 AM, Milan Kupcevic wrote: On 09/28/2010 07:26 PM, Benjamin Cama wrote: Well, even if you didn't mention it explicitly, it was listed in the lspci dump since the beginning and nobody saw it until now. And one may also find it disturbing that a piece of software does

Bug#589701: ofpath is not compatible with non-builtin disk controllers

2010-09-24 Thread Rick Thomas
Hi Benjamin, First, let me apologize for the confusing non-specificity of my bug reports to you and everyone else who is following this (and related) bug(s). The only excuse I can offer is that at the time I was submitting them, I wasn't sure what was causing the symptoms I was seeing.

Bug#587290: Info received ([Debootloaders-yaboot] Bug#587290: Bug#587290: How does linux-base modify /etc/yaboot.conf ?)

2010-09-20 Thread Rick Thomas
I apologize for mangling the attachment. here it is again -- hopefully in a more useful form! Rick ybin.new2 Description: Binary data

Bug#587290: [Debootloaders-yaboot] Bug#587290: How does linux-base modify /etc/yaboot.conf ?

2010-09-18 Thread Rick Thomas
Comments in-line below... On Sep 18, 2010, at 1:34 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 15:44 +0200, Benjamin Cama wrote: Le jeudi 16 septembre 2010 à 15:12 +0200, Benjamin Cama a écrit : You mentioned that linux-base may modify /etc/yaboot.conf. I think it might be the culprit for

Bug#572869: yaboot: This bug is still present. Found on Blue&White G3 PowerPC Mac

2010-07-30 Thread Rick Thomas
Package: yaboot Version: 1.3.13a-1 Severity: normal Still broken. It's not G5 specific any more, if it ever was. debian:~# ofpath --debug /dev/sda1 ofpath: /proc/scsi/scsi does not exist ofpath: Make sure you compiled your kernel with CONFIG_SCSI_PROC_FS=y debian

Bug#589701: Fwd: please take a look at Debian Bug#589701: installation-reports: Install yaboot on a hard disk - Failed to install boot loader

2010-07-20 Thread Rick Thomas
Begin forwarded message: From: nello martuscielli Date: July 20, 2010 9:34:08 PM EDT To: Rick Thomas Cc: PowerPC List Debian Subject: Re: please take a look at Debian Bug#589701: installation- reports: Install yaboot on a hard disk - Failed to install boot loader On Tue, Jul 20, 2010

Bug#562575: These bugs are no longer present

2010-07-20 Thread Rick Thomas
These bugs have become extinct in the normal course of evolution. They can be closed. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#572420: Please change this bug to libsdl1.2debian

2010-04-04 Thread Rick Thomas
tude install". "Run it to confirm whether the crash is fixed" should be just like "confirm that it crashes" above. Should be no problem if we get this far. Would it be helpful if I set up an account for you on the machines after I've installed Sid on them?

Bug#572420: Please change this bug to libsdl1.2debian

2010-04-03 Thread Rick Thomas
I own both G3's and G4's running Debian Stable. I can take them down for limited periods (a day or so) to run other versions of Debian. If someone who knows what he/she's doing can walk me through the steps (I'm an experienced system admin. But I'm not a developer.) I'm willing to do wh

Bug#572605: installation-reports: Sid d-i on PowerPC can not find driver for network interface

2010-03-04 Thread Rick Thomas
Package: installation-reports Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable -- Package-specific info: Boot method: businesscard Sid_D-I CD Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/sid_d-i/arch-latest/powerpc/iso-cd/ This build finished at Fri Mar 5 04:06:02 UTC

Bug#562575: Bug still present [Re: Bug#562575: installation-reports: Buisnesscard PowerPC installer loops with Segmentation faults]

2010-02-17 Thread Rick Thomas
On Feb 17, 2010, at 8:05 AM, Otavio Salvador wrote: Hello, Please test the images at http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/squeeze_di_alpha1/powerpc Those are suppose to be OK; I want the confirmation to announce it. I just completed a successful install using the DVD-1 from http://cd

Bug#562575: Bug present in Sid D-i, but not in Squeeze d-i [Re: Bug#562575: installation-reports: Buisnesscard PowerPC installer loops with Segmentation faults]

2010-02-15 Thread Rick Thomas
At Norberto's suggestion I did a side-by side comparison of the PowerPC daily buisnesscard installer from the Sid d-i and the Squeeze d-i at http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/{squeeze,sid}_d-i/arch-latest/powerpc/iso-cd/ This build finished at Mon Feb 15 04:15:05 UTC 2010. (for S

Bug#569896: libdirectfb-1.2-0: Happens on PowerPC as well

2010-02-14 Thread Rick Thomas
Package: libdirectfb-1.2-0 Version: 1.2.10-1 Severity: normal PowerMac G4 running Sid. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: powerpc (ppc) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-powerpc Locale: LANG=C, LC_C

Bug#567756: xserver-xorg-input-all: keyboard not working after squeeze upgrade

2010-02-12 Thread Rick Thomas
On Feb 12, 2010, at 10:59 AM, Julien Cristau wrote: On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 12:45:57 -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: (II) config/udev: Adding input device "Mitsumi Electric Apple Extended USB Keyboard" (/dev/input/event4) (**) "Mitsumi Electric Apple Extended USB Keyboard": a

Bug#562575: Bug still present [Re: Bug#562575: installation-reports: Buisnesscard PowerPC installer loops with Segmentation faults]

2010-02-12 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 1:53 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: On Jan 31, 2010, at 6:45 PM, Otavio Salvador wrote: Hello, On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 9:41 PM, Norberto Feliberty wrote: That's great to hear Hopefully this will get things rolling again since I see that the latest daily squeeze

Bug#567756: [RFH] Errata and announcement help need

2010-02-10 Thread Rick Thomas
On Feb 5, 2010, at 1:45 PM, Frans Pop wrote: On Monday 01 February 2010, Otavio Salvador wrote: Current issues: - sparc images are broken - powerpc images are broken (a possible fix in the way) - kfreebsd images are broken (some patches are still needed to be merged) * Some USB keyboards m

Bug#567756: xserver-xorg-input-all: keyboard not working after squeeze upgrade

2010-02-07 Thread Rick Thomas
Now here's an observation that may help... The Macintosh USB keyboard has an "eject" key in the upper right hand corner. It has a symbol on it that looks like a triangle with an underline (commonly used for "eject" on audio CD players and video DVD players). Even though the rest of the key

Bug#567619: Bug#567756: Do you have firmware-linux installed?

2010-02-04 Thread Rick Thomas
On Feb 4, 2010, at 2:26 AM, Johan Walles wrote: To those of you who are having these problems, do you have the "firmware-linux" package installed? Otherwise it could be that firmware is missing for your hardware. Seems like firmware was extracted into its own package as of kernel 2.6.32. http

Bug#567756: Latest Squeeze upgrade did not help... Re: Bug#567756: xserver-xorg-input-all: keyboard not working after squeeze upgrade

2010-02-01 Thread Rick Thomas
Tonite I did an aptitude safe-upgrade on this system. Among other things it installed x11-common 1:7.5+3 keyboard-configuration 1.51 console-setup 1.51 xbase-clients 1:7.5+3 xserver-xorg-video-all 1:7.5+3 xserver-xorg-input-all 1:7.5+3 xserver-xorg 1:7.5+3 xorg 1:7.5+3 But that did not change

Bug#567756: xserver-xorg-input-all: keyboard not working after squeeze upgrade

2010-01-31 Thread Rick Thomas
For what it's worth, the mouse and the kensingon trackball both work fine. It's just the keyboard that doesn't respond. Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#562575: Bug still present [Re: Bug#562575: installation-reports: Buisnesscard PowerPC installer loops with Segmentation faults]

2010-01-31 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jan 31, 2010, at 6:45 PM, Otavio Salvador wrote: Hello, On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 9:41 PM, Norberto Feliberty wrote: That's great to hear Hopefully this will get things rolling again since I see that the latest daily squeeze build has stopped on Jan 11. This is also fixed now. Wonderf

Bug#567756: xserver-xorg-input-all: keyboard not working after squeeze upgrade

2010-01-31 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jan 31, 2010, at 4:49 AM, Brice Goglin wrote: Rick Thomas wrote: Package: xserver-xorg-input-all Version: 1:7.5+2 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable After upgrading my Squeeze system, my keyboard is non-responsive under X. By changing /etc/X11/default-display

Bug#567756: (xserver-xorg-input-all: keyboard not working after squeeze upgrade)

2010-01-31 Thread Rick Thomas
This sounds related. I tried a couple of variants of drz's solution, but none of them helped. In the PowerPC list, drz wrote: Resent-From: debian-powe...@lists.debian.org From: drz Date: January 29, 2010 1:04:38 PM EST To: Debian PowerPC Users Subject: after update -> no Keyboard in X ->

Bug#567756: xserver-xorg-input-all: keyboard not working after squeeze upgrade

2010-01-30 Thread Rick Thomas
Package: xserver-xorg-input-all Version: 1:7.5+2 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable After upgrading my Squeeze system, my keyboard is non-responsive under X. By changing /etc/X11/default-display-manager from /usr/bin/gdm to /bin/false thus disabling gnome, I w

Bug#562575: Bug still present [Re: Bug#562575: installation-reports: Buisnesscard PowerPC installer loops with Segmentation faults]

2010-01-28 Thread Rick Thomas
an test anything you want tested. But I can't diagnose it all by myself. I'll need help. Rick Rick Thomas wrote: > This bug (562575) is still present in today's netinst CD. > >> The businesscard installer boots and prints the ususal flock of kernel startup messages. &g

Bug#562575: Bug still present [Re: Bug#562575: installation-reports: Buisnesscard PowerPC installer loops with Segmentation faults]

2010-01-28 Thread Rick Thomas
st anything you want tested. But I can't diagnose it all by myself. I'll need help. Rick Rick Thomas wrote: This bug (562575) is still present in today's netinst CD. The businesscard installer boots and prints the ususal flock of kernel startup messages. then it

Bug#562575: Bug#564150: Is Debian on PowerPC dead? [Re: Bug still present [Re: Bug#562575: installation-reports: Buisnesscard PowerPC installer loops with Segmentation faults]]

2010-01-18 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jan 18, 2010, at 10:14 AM, Ian Campbell wrote: On Sun, 2010-01-17 at 13:17 -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: On Jan 17, 2010, at 10:31 AM, Julian Hernandez Gomez wrote: The only powerpc computer that I have (PS3) is the one that I'm trying to install :( I think someone reported that there

Bug#562575: Bug#564150: Is Debian on PowerPC dead? [Re: Bug still present [Re: Bug#562575: installation-reports: Buisnesscard PowerPC installer loops with Segmentation faults]]

2010-01-17 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jan 17, 2010, at 10:31 AM, Julian Hernandez Gomez wrote: The only powerpc computer that I have (PS3) is the one that I'm trying to install :( maybe Rick had other machines previously installed and he could run the cdebconf powerpc version. -- Julian. I do have such machines, and I'd

Bug#562575: Bug#564150: Is Debian on PowerPC dead? [Re: Bug still present [Re: Bug#562575: installation-reports: Buisnesscard PowerPC installer loops with Segmentation faults]]

2010-01-15 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jan 15, 2010, at 5:00 AM, Michel Dänzer wrote: On Thu, 2010-01-14 at 16:23 -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: This bug is still present in the "Thu Jan 14 16:08:46 UTC 2010" businesscard CD downloaded from http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/sid_d-i/arch-latest/powerpc/i

Bug#562575: Is Debian on PowerPC dead? [Re: Bug still present [Re: Bug#562575: installation-reports: Buisnesscard PowerPC installer loops with Segmentation faults]]

2010-01-14 Thread Rick Thomas
rPC simply so unimportant that resources cannot be spared to even *look* at a problem that renders the installer unusable on that hardware? Rick On Dec 28, 2009, at 6:18 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: This bug (562575) is still present in today's netinst CD. The businesscard installer boots

Bug#562575: Bug still present [Re: Bug#562575: installation-reports: Buisnesscard PowerPC installer loops with Segmentation faults]

2010-01-04 Thread Rick Thomas
Interestingly enough, this problem does not seem to be present in the i386 daily installer CDs. Just another datapoint... Rick On Dec 28, 2009, at 6:18 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: This bug (562575) is still present in today's netinst CD. The businesscard installer boots and prints the u

Bug#562575: Bug still present [Re: Bug#562575: installation-reports: Buisnesscard PowerPC installer loops with Segmentation faults]

2009-12-28 Thread Rick Thomas
This bug (562575) is still present in today's netinst CD. The businesscard installer boots and prints the ususal flock of kernel startup messages. then it says: Starting system log daemon Segmentation fault and then it loops saying INFO: kbd-mode: setting console mode to Unicode (UTF-

Bug#562575: installation-reports: Buisnesscard PowerPC installer loops with Segmentation faults

2009-12-25 Thread Rick Thomas
Package: installation-reports Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable -- Package-specific info: Boot method: CD Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/sid_d-i/arch-latest/powerpc/iso-cd/ Daily build #1 for powerpc, using installer build from sid debian-t

Bug#553533: Acknowledgement (debian-archive-keyring: squeeze Release: The following signatures were invalid: BADSIG 9AA38DCD55BE302B Debian Archive Automatic Signing Key (5.0/lenny)

2009-10-31 Thread Rick Thomas
Aptitude update gets the error message in the subject. The archive in question is http://debian.lcs.mit.edu squeeze I haven't tried it with other archives yet. I tried it with ftp.us.debian.org and got the same message. So it's not just one bad archive. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#553533: debian-archive-keyring: squeeze Release: The following signatures were invalid: BADSIG 9AA38DCD55BE302B Debian Archive Automatic Signing Key (5.0/lenny)

2009-10-31 Thread Rick Thomas
Package: debian-archive-keyring Version: 2009.01.31 Severity: critical Tags: security Justification: root security hole Aptitude update gets the error message in the subject. The archive in question is http://debian.lcs.mit.edu squeeze I haven't tried it with other archives yet. -- Syst

Bug#553463: installation-reports: "No kernel modules were found" at "Load Installer components from CD" PowerPC businesscard

2009-10-31 Thread Rick Thomas
Package: installation-reports Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable -- Package-specific info: Boot method: CD Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/squeeze_d-i/arch-latest/powerpc/iso-cd/debian-testing-powerpc-businesscard.iso Date: This build finished

Bug#526872: error messages during boot init.d/alsa-utils on PowerPC

2009-05-03 Thread Rick Thomas
Package: alsa-utils Version: 1.0.19-2 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable The hardware is an "Apple PowerMac G4 Silver"/"PowerMac3,4" 533 MHz with 1.5 GB RAM. When the boot process tries to run init.d/alsa-utils it gets several repetitions of the following error messages:

Bug#519028: linux-image-powerpc has the same broken dependency...

2009-04-25 Thread Rick Thomas
This bug prevents an "expert" mode install from properly installing Sid unless you chose a non-default kernel. Instead of depending on linux-image-2.6.26-2-powerpc, in Sid, it should depend on linux-image-2.6.29-1-powerpc, because 2.6.26-2 doesn't exist in Sid. The 2.6.26 version may (I

Bug#520711: Bug still here?

2009-04-25 Thread Rick Thomas
Wartan, Christian, On Apr 25, 2009, at 1:56 PM, Wartan Hachaturow wrote: I personally haven't seen it with the images I built yesterday, so I guess all the necessary libc parts are in place now. On 4/25/09, Christian Perrier wrote: Hello Rick, Do you still experience the "Bad archive mirror

Bug#499231: updated initramfs-tools now kernel oops during boot sequence - sorta fixed?

2008-09-18 Thread Rick Thomas
On Sep 18, 2008, at 3:55 AM, maximilian attems wrote: On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 11:54:01PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: Well... I did another dist-upgrade tonite, and the problem went away. Go figure... Some one of the following list of upgrades (extracted from /var/log/ dpkg.log) fixed it

Bug#499231: updated initramfs-tools now kernel oops during boot sequence - sorta fixed?

2008-09-17 Thread Rick Thomas
Well... I did another dist-upgrade tonite, and the problem went away. Go figure... Some one of the following list of upgrades (extracted from /var/log/ dpkg.log) fixed it. 2008-09-17 22:57:17 upgrade ncurses-bin 5.6+20080907-1 5.6+20080913-1 2008-09-17 22:57:23 upgrade libncurses5 5.6+200

Bug#499231: updated initramfs-tools now kernel oops during boot sequence

2008-09-17 Thread Rick Thomas
On Sep 17, 2008, at 4:02 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: I have another system running Sid. I haven't done a dist-upgrade on it yet. So I'll see what happens there. I did the dist-upgrade on my other G4 running Sid, and the oops doesn't happen. Looking at the syslog extracts

Bug#494265: Possible patch

2008-08-12 Thread Rick Thomas
Well, it doesn't install without some changes. So there's no point in including it in Lenny unless that's fixed. Rick On Aug 12, 2008, at 8:49 AM, Jurij Smakov wrote: Hi, On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 01:45:52AM +0200, Tomasz Mrugalski wrote: It would be great. I have prepared those new packages

Bug#494265: installing dibbler-client hangs calling /usr/bin/ucf

2008-08-07 Thread Rick Thomas
Package: dibbler-client Version: 0.7.1-1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable installing dibbler-client hangs calling /usr/bin/ucf to copy the finished configuration file. It's not eating u p CPU time, so it's probably waiting for user input that never arrives. -- System Infor

Bug#490990: xorg: xserver fails to start on PowerPC G4 mac with ATI Rage128 PF/PRO AGP 4x TMDS

2008-07-15 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jul 15, 2008, at 5:07 PM, Brice Goglin wrote: Rick Thomas wrote: Package: xorg Version: 1:7.3+12 Severity: important xserver fails to start on PowerPC G4 mac with ATI Rage128 PF/PRO AGP 4x TMDS following update to latest Lenny Add Driver "r128" to your Device secti

Bug#470840: marked as done (debian-installer: Fails to install Grub on a RAID5 system)

2008-03-13 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mar 13, 2008, at 8:18 PM, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: On Friday 14 March 2008, Andrea Lusuardi - uovobw wrote: I installed a debian stable system on a Pentium 4 machine with 4 320GB ide disks and the installation goes well, but when it comes to installing grub on the MBR i get an

Bug#404876: Doesn't work on Blue&White G3 either...

2007-02-11 Thread Rick Thomas
Previously I reported that my Blue&White G3 Powermac didn't get the wigglies. Apparently that was a lie. I recently re-installed this machine and there there were! So both my G3 machines (Beige OldWorld G3 and B&W NewWorld G3) have this problem. Has there been any progress lately? Ric

Bug#404876: G3 (or other non-altivec machines) testers sought

2007-01-26 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jan 14, 2007, at 5:08 PM, Sjoerd Simons wrote: Hi, Gstreamer currently has a release critical bug that seems to be only reproducable on powerpc machines without altivec support and even then not always. The best hint to what the problem might be seems to indicate there is an is

Bug#404876: PowerMac beige G3 - test of [Re: G3 (or other non-altivec machines) testers sought]

2007-01-21 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jan 14, 2007, at 5:08 PM, Sjoerd Simons wrote: The best hint to what the problem might be seems to indicate there is an issue in the libvisual altivec detection code[0].. I installed on my "beige G3" PowerMac (OldWorld) test machine. I used the latest d-i netinst CD dated 2007 Jan 21

Bug#404876: no background screen activity in GDE or KDE @debian

2007-01-06 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jan 6, 2007, at 2:21 AM, pranay prateek wrote: hi I am using debian 2.6 kernel . When i log in , the screen which i am greeted with doesnt show any activity in the background screen .i.e i dont get any pop up when i click mouse on my background , no icons in my desktop screen and havi

Bug#404876: Quick G3 Wiggly Gnome Fix

2007-01-01 Thread Rick Thomas
On Dec 31, 2006, at 12:37 PM, b9 wrote: I've created a quick hack fix for the Wiggly Gnome Bug. This is not a good fix as it doesn't address *why* the problem occurred or prevent it from occurring again. However, it's good enough for me to get work done on my G3 iMac, and I figured you might fi

Bug#404876: Re:

2006-12-30 Thread Rick Thomas
On Dec 30, 2006, at 8:11 PM, Paul Mackerras wrote: Rick Thomas writes: However, after rebooting following the install, and logging in to gnome, it seems to be repeatedly trying to start/re-start something having to do with the appearance of the desktop. Things are very slow (as if a process

Bug#404876: Output of gst-launch

2006-12-30 Thread Rick Thomas
On Dec 30, 2006, at 2:23 AM, Yavor Doganov wrote: On Fri, Dec 29, 2006 at 02:45:14PM -0800, David Schleef wrote: Could you run: rm ~/.gstreamer-0.10/registry.*.xml GST_DEBUG=*:3 gst-launch --gst-debug-no-color and attach the output? Attached is the output produced on my machine running

Bug#404876: Fwd: Problems with GNOME on Beige G3

2006-12-29 Thread Rick Thomas
Begin forwarded message: Resent-From: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org From: Yavor Doganov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: December 29, 2006 1:47:46 PM EST To: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Problems with GNOME on Beige G3 Rick Thomas wrote:

Bug#404876:

2006-12-29 Thread Rick Thomas
On Dec 29, 2006, at 4:42 AM, Josselin Mouette wrote: Well, nothing really useful here, except this confirms this is a problem somewhere in the GStreamer stack. Reassigning. @debian-powerpc: as it seem to render gstreamer completely useless on G3 processors, I think this must be addressed

Bug#402267: PowerPC Netinst CD "Invalid Release File"

2006-12-09 Thread Rick Thomas
On Dec 9, 2006, at 5:16 PM, Frans Pop wrote: Hmmm Bug#401586 seems to indicate that this may not be limited to the powerpc port. Bug#401586 is for x86. Not sure what you see in that report that makes you say that. I only see unrelated issues. Well... the first few lines of this em

Bug#373586: PMac install - probs w/ finish install

2006-06-21 Thread Rick Thomas
On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 14:24 -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: > I can confirm this problem ("finish install" doesn't finish the > install - just flashes the screen and returns to the main menu) when > installing on a PowerMac G4. > > I saw it when installing directly

Bug#373586: PMac install - probs w/ finish install

2006-06-20 Thread Rick Thomas
I can confirm this problem ("finish install" doesn't finish the install - just flashes the screen and returns to the main menu) when installing on a PowerMac G4. I saw it when installing directly from the June 12 jigdo DVD. I haven't had a chance to try the June 19th jigdo DVD just yet.