Bug#691576: GDB still broken with 3.11.10-1

2014-01-19 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 08:40:27PM +0100, Émeric MASCHINO wrote: > > [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-68k/2013/05/msg00065.html <=== > BTW, why is it archived on debian-68k? Because it was send to debian-ports@lists and not debian-ia64@lists like this, and debian-ports goes to all the porter l

Bug#691576: GDB still broken with 3.11.10-1

2014-01-19 Thread Émeric MASCHINO
2014/1/12 Ben Hutchings : > > If you have space to install wheezy on a separate partition, please can > you try that. > > (Of course, that crash ought to be fixed in 3.2.y. But I don't know > that anyone will have the time and knowledge to do so. And it's not > part of this bug.) No more empty p

Bug#691576: GDB still broken with 3.11.10-1

2014-01-12 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2014-01-12 at 22:48 +0100, Émeric MASCHINO wrote: > 2014/1/12 Ben Hutchings : > > > > Sorry, I'm being silly. udev is built as part of systemd now, so this > > is independent of whether you use systemd as init. And systemd doesn't > > currently run as init in the initramfs. > > Uh, OK. >

Bug#691576: GDB still broken with 3.11.10-1

2014-01-12 Thread Émeric MASCHINO
2014/1/12 Ben Hutchings : > > Sorry, I'm being silly. udev is built as part of systemd now, so this > is independent of whether you use systemd as init. And systemd doesn't > currently run as init in the initramfs. Uh, OK. How can I help further? Emeric -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debi

Bug#691576: GDB still broken with 3.11.10-1

2014-01-12 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2014-01-12 at 22:30 +0100, Émeric MASCHINO wrote: > 2014/1/12 Ben Hutchings : > > > > You can have sysvinit and systemd installed in parallel and then use the > > 'init' kernel parameter to switch between them. Only systemd-sysv > > conflicts/replaces sysvinit. > > So, I've reinstalled sy

Bug#691576: GDB still broken with 3.11.10-1

2014-01-12 Thread Émeric MASCHINO
2014/1/12 Ben Hutchings : > > You can have sysvinit and systemd installed in parallel and then use the > 'init' kernel parameter to switch between them. Only systemd-sysv > conflicts/replaces sysvinit. So, I've reinstalled sysvinit and sysvinit-core that purged systemd-sysv. I can't however remov

Bug#691576: GDB still broken with 3.11.10-1

2014-01-12 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2014-01-12 at 21:16 +0100, Émeric MASCHINO wrote: > 2014/1/12 Ben Hutchings : > > > > So this is a crash, not an incompatibility with the newer systemd. > > [...] > > > Can you test the 3.2 kernel with sysvinit, in case this is a bug that's > > specifically provoked by systemd? > > That'

Bug#691576: GDB still broken with 3.11.10-1

2014-01-12 Thread Émeric MASCHINO
2014/1/12 Ben Hutchings : > > So this is a crash, not an incompatibility with the newer systemd. [...] > Can you test the 3.2 kernel with sysvinit, in case this is a bug that's > specifically provoked by systemd? That's why I was saying "too old for my current Debian install" on Jan 6th. Since

Bug#691576: GDB still broken with 3.11.10-1

2014-01-12 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2014-01-12 at 19:15 +0100, Émeric MASCHINO wrote: > 2014/1/7 Ben Hutchings : > > On Mon, 2014-01-06 at 10:15 +0100, Émeric MASCHINO wrote: > > > > I don't understand that - I still have 3.2 installed on this unstable > > (i386) system and can still boot it. How does it go wrong? > > It s

Bug#691576: GDB still broken with 3.11.10-1

2014-01-12 Thread Émeric MASCHINO
2014/1/7 Ben Hutchings : > On Mon, 2014-01-06 at 10:15 +0100, Émeric MASCHINO wrote: > > I don't understand that - I still have 3.2 installed on this unstable > (i386) system and can still boot it. How does it go wrong? It seems to crash with something wrong with systemd. You're getting in loop

Bug#691576: GDB still broken with 3.11.10-1

2014-01-06 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2014-01-06 at 10:15 +0100, Émeric MASCHINO wrote: > Hi, > > And happy new year! > > 2013/12/20 Ben Hutchings : > >> > I actually tried building the kernel like that, so you could try the > >> > packages in: > >> > > >> > http://people.debian.org/~benh/packages/wheezy-ia64-kernel-O1/ > >>

Bug#691576: GDB still broken with 3.11.10-1

2014-01-06 Thread Émeric MASCHINO
Hi, And happy new year! 2013/12/20 Ben Hutchings : >> > I actually tried building the kernel like that, so you could try the >> > packages in: >> > >> > http://people.debian.org/~benh/packages/wheezy-ia64-kernel-O1/ >> >> Was your O1-compiled kernel working fine? > > I have no idea as no-one has

Bug#691576: GDB still broken with 3.11.10-1

2013-12-20 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 09:15:23PM +0100, Émeric MASCHINO wrote: > 2013/12/12 Ben Hutchings : > > So far as I know, there is no longer any commercial development of > > Linux on Itanium. Some old 'enterprise' distributions might > > continue to be supported for a few years but mainline isn't > > s

Bug#691576: GDB still broken with 3.11.10-1

2013-12-20 Thread Émeric MASCHINO
2013/12/12 Ben Hutchings : > So far as I know, there is no longer any commercial development of > Linux on Itanium. Some old 'enterprise' distributions might > continue to be supported for a few years but mainline isn't > supported. It seems that Intel must provide hp with Itanium CPUs till 2017

Bug#691576: GDB still broken with 3.11.10-1

2013-12-12 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 10:20:30PM +0100, Émeric MASCHINO wrote: > Ben, > > I was not reporting this as a reproach, I understood that. > but simply to track down which kernels work and which don't. > From my records: > - 2.6.38: KO (*) see below > - 3.0.0-2: OK > - 3.1.0-1: KO > - 3.2.23: KO > -

Bug#691576: GDB still broken with 3.11.10-1

2013-12-12 Thread Patrick Baggett
I kind of wonder if it has anything to do with compiler code generation; I don't remember if you checked whether -O[0,1,2,3] on the kernel changed anything. The appearance is so random, but when it does appear, it's stuck for that version (i.e. not just a race issue that is hard to repro). Patrick

Bug#691576: GDB still broken with 3.11.10-1

2013-12-12 Thread Émeric MASCHINO
Ben, I was not reporting this as a reproach, but simply to track down which kernels work and which don't. From my records: - 2.6.38: KO (*) see below - 3.0.0-2: OK - 3.1.0-1: KO - 3.2.23: KO - 3.2.35-2: OK - 3.2.46-1+deb7u1: KO - 3.10.11-1: OK - 3.11.8-1: KO - 3.11.10-1: KO About upstream, I stil

Bug#691576: GDB still broken with 3.11.10-1

2013-12-10 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 11:36:37PM +0100, Émeric MASCHINO wrote: > FYI, linux-image-3.11-2-mckinley 3.11.10-1 in today's Jessie updates > didn't change anything w.r.t. gdb problem. Of course it didn't. If you want ia64 fixed then you'll have to talk to upstream or fix it yourself. Ben. -- Ben

Bug#691576: GDB still broken with 3.11.10-1

2013-12-10 Thread Émeric MASCHINO
FYI, linux-image-3.11-2-mckinley 3.11.10-1 in today's Jessie updates didn't change anything w.r.t. gdb problem. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org