Bug#1032104:

2023-11-18 Thread Timothy Pearson
Root cause found, merge request here: https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux/-/merge_requests/917

Bug#1032104: Status update

2023-11-13 Thread Timothy Pearson
I have traced this bug to a missing memory barrier in the powerpc IPI handling code. io_uring uses task_work_add() to schedule I/O worker creation, which in turn issues an IPI, and when precise timing conditions are met the inconsistent state between the two CPU cores can lead to corruption of

Bug#1032104: Status update

2023-11-07 Thread Timothy Pearson
I have traced this to a regression in the Linux kernel. The issue appears to be a type of data race that is more likely to occur on ppc64el than on other architectures, but is also likely to affect other architectures. The issue remains in the latest GIT version of the Linux kernel, and I am w

Bug#1051355: Processed: your mail

2023-09-10 Thread Timothy Pearson
For 16 to work we'll need the Debian clang team to include this patchset: https://reviews.llvm.org/D158066 Any chance of that happening? - Original Message - > From: "Andres Salomon" > To: "Leandro Cunha" , 1051...@bugs.debian.org > Cc: "Timothy

Bug#1032104: Still present in Bookworm

2023-09-07 Thread Timothy Pearson
We've started hitting this on a busy server after upgrading to Bookworm: 2023-09-07 17:00:31 0 [Warning] You need to use --log-bin to make --expire-logs-days or --binlog-expire-logs-seconds work. 2023-09-07 17:00:31 0 [Note] Server socket created on IP: '127.0.0.1'. 2023-09-07 17:00:31 0 [Note] /

Bug#990017: [REGRESSION] Bullseye CD installer images fail to install GRUB on OpenPOWER machines

2021-06-17 Thread Timothy Pearson
- Original Message - > From: "Steve McIntyre" > To: "Timothy Pearson" , 990...@bugs.debian.org > Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2021 7:43:15 PM > Subject: Re: Bug#990017: [REGRESSION] Bullseye CD installer images fail to > install GRUB on OpenPOWER ma

Bug#990017: [REGRESSION] Bullseye CD installer images fail to install GRUB on OpenPOWER machines

2021-06-17 Thread Timothy Pearson
- Original Message - > From: "Timothy Pearson" > To: "Steve McIntyre" > Cc: "990017" <990...@bugs.debian.org> > Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2021 7:56:27 PM > Subject: Re: Bug#990017: [REGRESSION] Bullseye CD installer images fail to >

Bug#990017: [REGRESSION] Bullseye CD installer images fail to install GRUB on OpenPOWER machines

2021-06-17 Thread Timothy Pearson
Package: debian-cd Severity: Grave Attempting to use the latest Bullseye RC2 CD installer on an OpenPOWER machine results in a fatal error during bootloader installation: Jun 17 21:14:45 grub-installer: info: Installing grub on '/dev/sda1' Jun 17 21:14:45 grub-installer: info: grub-install does

Bug#836881: X509 card-based logins fail with SIGSEGV

2016-09-06 Thread Timothy Pearson
Package: libhx509-5-heimdal Version: 1.7~git20160703+dfsg-1 Severity: grave Heimdal's X509 PAM authentication plugin crashes with the following backtrace when attempting to use a cryptographic card to log in: Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x7f5c0f30e38d in _hx509_match_

Bug#808246: binutils bug report

2015-12-30 Thread Timothy Pearson
I went ahead and filed a bug report upstream at: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19421 Hopefully this helps prod some action on this serious bug... P,S. I completely agree with the previous commenter; this bug is unreal. This is 2015, not 1998...core libraries breaking modern pla

Bug#808246: Stretch fails to install on OpenPOWER systems

2015-12-17 Thread Timothy Pearson
Package: linux-image-4.2.0-1-powerpc64le Version: 4.2.6-3 Severity: grave Using the latest debian-installer netboot kernel to install on an OpenPOWER server; install proceeds normally until disk detection when it fails stating no disks can be found. dmesg shows a slew of errors similar to the fol