http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.kernel hourly 1 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://gmane.org/img/gmane-25t.png http://gmane.org http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.kernel/43373 Hi, I've found that the e1000e driver isn't up-to-date for some new hardware our school has received. I'm trying to package it [properly], but I'm having trouble finding instructions on packaging a kernel module. If someone could look at what I tried (below) and tell me what I'm doing wrong, that would be appreciated. Thanks. * lspci to find hardware id (0x10de) * google search to find hardware name (intel 82567LM-3) * intel download search to find driver * http://downloadcenter.intel.com/confirm.aspx?httpDown=http://downloadmirror.intel.com/15817/eng/e1000e-0.5.8.2.tar.gz&agr=&ProductID=3003&DwnldId=15817&strOSs=&OSFullName=&lang=eng tar -zxvf e1000e-0.5.8.2.tar.gz cd e1000e-0.5.8.2/ cat > Makefile << end default: $(MAKE) -C src default install: $(MAKE) -C src install end dh_make -e jayen< at >science.unsw.edu.au -f ../e1000e-0.5.8.2.tar.gz -s -p e1000e sed -i s/INSTALL_MOD_PATH/DESTDIR/ src/Makefile fakeroot debian/rules binary sudo dpkg --force-overwrite -i e1000e_0.5.8.2- Jayen Ashar 2008-12-04T01:36:17 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.kernel/43372 Package: linux-image-2.6.26-1-686 Version: 2.6.26-10 Severity: important -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 USB mass storage devices always seem to fail after a few moments of reading or writing when they are connected via a USB hub. This is accompanied by messages such as the following: Dec 3 22:56:32 xerces kernel: [ 3975.148272] sd 6:0:0:0: [sda] Result: hostbyte=DID_ERROR driverbyte=DRIVER_OK,SUGGEST_OK Dec 3 22:56:32 xerces kernel: [ 3975.148286] end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 8065 Dec 3 22:56:32 xerces kernel: [ 3975.148303] Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 1 Dec 3 22:56:32 xerces kernel: [ 3975.148307] lost page write due to I/O error on sda1 Dec 3 22:56:32 xerces kernel: [ 3975.148625] usb 4-3.1: USB disconnect, address 10 Dec 3 22:56:32 xerces kernel: [ 3975.151790] Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 8192 Dec 3 22:56:32 xerces kernel: [ 3975.151800] lost page write due to I/O error on sda1 Dec 3 22:56:32 xerces hald[3015]: forcibly attempting Sam Morris 2008-12-03T23:05:54 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.kernel/43371 From what i've heard from previous posts, you can try with the "rootdelay=n" kernel boot parameter, where n is the number of seconds to wait. Good luck. Cesare. Cesare Leonardi 2008-12-03T23:18:35 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.kernel/43370 If you haven't received a reply from upstream, please resend and keep the maintainer and the specific development list in CC, it's probably been overseen in the enourmous amount of l-k traffic: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh< at >kernel.crashing.org> and linux-fbdev-devel< at >lists.sourceforge.net Also, please add a Signed-off-by: line as described in Documentation/SubmittingPatches Cheers, Moritz Moritz Muehlenhoff 2008-12-03T22:40:29 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.kernel/43369 Your message dated Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:42:22 +0000 with message-id <E1L80QI-0002Mj-W9< at >ries.debian.org> and subject line Bug#504668: fixed in firmware-nonfree 0.14 has caused the Debian Bug report #504668, regarding firmware-nonfree: Add License handler in gencontrol.py to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. 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Debian Bug Tracking System 2008-12-03T22:57:04 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.kernel/43366 Accepted: firmware-bnx2_0.14_all.deb to pool/non-free/f/firmware-nonfree/firmware-bnx2_0.14_all.deb firmware-ipw2x00_0.14_all.deb to pool/non-free/f/firmware-nonfree/firmware-ipw2x00_0.14_all.deb firmware-iwlwifi_0.14_all.deb to pool/non-free/f/firmware-nonfree/firmware-iwlwifi_0.14_all.deb firmware-nonfree_0.14.dsc to pool/non-free/f/firmware-nonfree/firmware-nonfree_0.14.dsc firmware-nonfree_0.14.tar.gz to pool/non-free/f/firmware-nonfree/firmware-nonfree_0.14.tar.gz firmware-qlogic_0.14_all.deb to pool/non-free/f/firmware-nonfree/firmware-qlogic_0.14_all.deb firmware-ralink_0.14_all.deb to pool/non-free/f/firmware-nonfree/firmware-ralink_0.14_all.deb Override entries for your package: firmware-bnx2_0.14_all.deb - optional non-free/admin firmware-ipw2x00_0.14_all.deb - optional non-free/admin firmware-iwlwifi_0.14_all.deb - optional non-free/admin firmware-nonfree_0.14.dsc - optional non-free/admin firmware-qlogic_0.14_all.deb - optional non-free/admin firmware-ralink_0.14_all.deb - option Debian Installer 2008-12-03T22:42:22 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.kernel/43365 Your message dated Wed, 3 Dec 2008 23:42:14 +0100 with message-id <20081203224214.GA5476< at >galadriel.inutil.org> and subject line Re: problem seemss to be corrrected in 2.6.26 has caused the Debian Bug report #507220, regarding linux-source-2.6.24: Kernel panic when accessing Adaptec 1542CF SCSI controller (aha1542 driver) to be marked as done. 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Debian Bug Tracking System 2008-12-03T22:48:05 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.kernel/43364 Package: squashfs-modules-2.6-686 Version: 2:2.6.26-4 Severity: wishlist master< at >bagnat:~/EMINENT$ sudo mount -t squashfs -o loop 0 /mnt/ mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop0, missing codepage or helper program, or other error In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so master< at >bagnat:~/EMINENT$ dmesg |tail -n2 [43287.986603] SQUASHFS error: Major/Minor mismatch, Squashfs 1.0 filesystems are unsupported [43287.986619] SQUASHFS error: Please recompile with Squashfs 1.0 support enabled Would it be possible to do so by default? Thanks in advance. Lionel Elie Mamane 2008-12-03T22:47:11 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.kernel/43363 Your message dated Wed, 3 Dec 2008 23:20:38 +0100 with message-id <20081203222037.GA4765< at >galadriel.inutil.org> and subject line Re: linux-image-2.6.18-4-sparc64: Kernel oops on Ultra-10 serial break has caused the Debian Bug report #428847, regarding linux-image-2.6.18-4-sparc64: Kernel oops on Ultra-10 serial break to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith. (NB: If you are a system administrator and have no idea what this message is talking about, this may indicate a serious mail system misconfiguration somewhere. Please contact owner< at >bugs.debian.org immediately.) 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Debian Bug Tracking System 2008-12-03T22:12:08 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.kernel/43360 Your message dated Wed, 03 Dec 2008 21:42:19 +0100 with message-id <4936EF2B.1060000< at >debian.org> and subject line Re: Bug#507712: Followup-For: Bug #502375- seem to be a problem with version notation change has caused the Debian Bug report #507712, regarding Followup-For: Bug #502375- seem to be a problem with version notation change to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith. (NB: If you are a system administrator and have no idea what this message is talking about, this may indicate a serious mail system misconfiguration somewhere. Please contact owner< at >bugs.debian.org immediately.) Debian Bug Tracking System 2008-12-03T20:48:04 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.kernel/43359 Package: virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6.26-1-686 Version: 1.6.6-dfsg-3+2.6.26-10 *** Please type your report below this line *** version notation changed from 2.6.26+1.6.2-dfsg-4 to 1.6.6-dfsg-3+2.6.26-10 apparantly causing update-manager to consider the former as latest. solved locally by locking version in synaptic after doing the proposed a-i. should be fixed by reformatting version number of new (or old) package salonh< at >t2.technion.ac.il 2008-12-03T20:29:53 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.kernel/43358 Package: linux-image-2.6.26-1-amd64 Version: 2.6.26-10 Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system Peter 2008-12-03T20:26:51 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.kernel/43357 My solution is to insert: echo -e "\033[1;33;40mSelf-imposed wait of 10s...(12/02/08)\033[0;37;40m" /bin/sleep 10.0 just ahead of wait_for_udev 10 in /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/local function mountroot (). But I don't think I should have to do that. Hugo hugo vanwoerkom 2008-12-03T19:32:09 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.kernel/43356 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 05:30:40PM +0100, Bernhard Kleine wrote: Using the alternative ramdisk-generator yaird also solves issues like this - but really: Both rebooting and yaird is merely _workarounds_, not real bugfixes. Regards, - Jonas - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkk2v1EACgkQn7DbMsAkQLiD7wCghLJT+g5mnf8UAq8NUXOEOqS9 r/gAnRdUrX2eSJ1Twf/v7qTo+n8RQgAL =EmNs -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Jonas Smedegaard 2008-12-03T17:18:09 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.kernel/43355 Am Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:30:30 +0100 schrieb hugo vanwoerkom: I had a similar problem 2 days ago, one usb partition as /dev/sda1, boot stopped with an error, I do not remember but related to a missing device. Rebooting solved the problem. Bernhard Bernhard Kleine 2008-12-03T16:30:40 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.kernel/43354 Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.92l Severity: normal Booting linux-image-2.6.26-1-686 initramfs does not wait for the 2 USB disks that are in /etc/fstab to show up, causing the boot to fail. This is the relevant section of /etc/fstab: ... # 80GB PATA Seagate disk USB LABEL=ST380211.01 /sda1 ext2 defaults,user,noauto,errors=remount-ro 0 1 LABEL=ST380211.02 /sda2 ext2 defaults,user,noauto,errors=remount-ro 0 1 LABEL=ST380211.03 /sda3 ext2 defaults,user,noauto,errors=remount-ro 0 1 LABEL=ST380211.05 /sda5 ext2 defaults,user,noauto,errors=remount-ro 0 1 LABEL=ST380211.06 /sda6 ext2 defaults,user,noauto,errors=remount-ro 0 1 LABEL=ST380211.07 /sda7 ext2 defaults,user,noauto,errors=remount-ro 0 1 ##LABEL=ST380211.07 /sda7 ext2 auto,user,exec 0 0 # 80GB SATA Western Digital disk USB LABEL=wd80_0jd-60.03 /sdb3 ext2 de hugo vanwoerkom 2008-12-03T15:15:17 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.kernel/43353 you could cross-build upstream kernels, e.g. with my cross-toolchain for lenny: http://people.debian.org/~ths/toolchain/ Thiemo Thiemo Seufer 2008-12-03T13:40:21 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.kernel/43352 ok, do you have a chance to test something newer preferred git-current ? Thomas. Thomas Bogendoerfer 2008-12-03T12:30:29 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.linux.debian.devel.kernel