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RAOFpersia: Was your ping here a couple of days ago re: nouveau?02:44
persiaRAOF, yes, in the sense of "was the sync a good thing?"02:45
RAOFWhen I saw the intrepid-changes notification, I immediately came in here and asked why it had been syncd :)02:46
RAOFs/here/#ubuntu-motu/02:46
RAOFI don't think it'll be bad, it just won't build unless we potentially break all free 3d.02:47
RAOF(_Still_ needs a libdrm git snapshot)02:47
RAOFOh, and we'd actually need to build the kernel module.02:47
* Hobbsee wonders why more people aren't test building before uploading.02:48
RAOFThat's a fair question.02:49
Hobbseeparticularly for stuff that's never supposed to be working anyway02:49
persiaSo we should probably unsync it?02:57
Hobbseeoh, someone has reported the system-occasionally-doesn't-boot bug.  I"ve been meaning to report that02:57
persiaIn the "hardware detection" phase?  I've never been able to reproduce reliably enough to call it a bug.02:58
Hobbseepersia: https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/263059/02:58
ubottuLaunchpad bug 263059 in linux "[regression] 2.6.27-6 sometimes fails to boot (iwl3945 issue?)" [High,Confirmed]02:58
Hobbseeyeah02:58
Hobbseeit's better htan it used to be, though02:58
persiaHrm.  That hardware isn't in the device that sometimes hangs for me.02:59
wgrantI've never seen it, but I reboot rarely enough that I might not have had a chance.02:59
Hobbseei used to have about 1 boot out of 5 succeed.03:00
persiawgrant, That's probably it.  I've never seen it except on things I most use for testing.03:03
ScottKlamont`: So now that openexr is built on hppa, I retried kde4libs.  FTBFS twice due to GCC segfaults in different places in the build.  I give up.03:36
MacSlowanybody with a clue where polkit-dbus is suppose to come from?03:37
MacSlowI can't find it neither at freedesktop.org nor at svn.gnome.org03:38
MacSlowthanks in advance!03:38
james_wMacSlow: hey, it's part of policykit03:40
james_wMacSlow: are you reporting bugs, or just after the source?03:40
MacSlowjames_w, just needing to compile it03:40
MacSlowjames_w, no bugs03:40
james_wMacSlow: it's built from the policykit source package03:40
james_wlibpolkit-dbus0 is the package I believe03:41
MacSlowjames_w, but which configure option causes polkit-dbus to be built and installed?03:41
james_wMacSlow: none I think, you just need the dbus libs installed03:43
james_wand it's libpolkit-dbus2 for the Intrepid package03:44
MacSlowjames_w, I'm looking at PolicyKit upstream atm and there is no src/polkit-dbus ... ???03:44
MacSlowwas that dropped from PolicyKit?03:45
james_wit's in the 0.9 version I have here03:45
james_wsrc/polkit-dbus/polkit-dbus.h etc.03:45
MacSlowjames_w, I grabbed PolicyKit from gitweb.freedesktop.org earlier today and there's no PolicyKit/src/polkit-dbus03:46
MacSlowjames_w, only the deb source from intrepid has that03:47
MacSlowI'm confused03:47
james_wso there isn't03:47
MacSlowhm... looking at "git log" from upstream PolicyKit libpolkit-dbus was merged with libpolkit03:48
MacSlowin july this year03:48
james_whttp://cgit.freedesktop.org/PolicyKit/commit/?id=2a35667777841f7ea1ef2912963962f04955f9e603:48
MacSlowyeah03:48
MacSlow*sigh*03:49
* james_w hopes this isn't face-browser related :-)03:49
* MacSlow coughs loudly03:50
james_wMacSlow: are you at the hackfest this weekend?03:50
MacSlowjup...03:50
MacSlowactually the hackfest is over since yesterday and right now is the summit03:51
MacSlowI wanted to go to bed, but all that dbus, ck, pk mess is keeping me up03:51
MacSlowso polkit-gnome isn't up to speed with polkit03:52
james_wis it not?03:55
james_wthat commit said policykit would be broken for a bit03:55
MacSlowpolkit-gnome upstream still requires polkit-dbus03:55
james_wrubbish03:56
james_whow was the UE sprint?03:56
MacSlowyeah *sigh*03:56
MacSlowintense03:56
MacSlowlots of good ideas, lots of work to do03:56
james_wexcellent03:56
NCommanderhola persia04:03
NCommanderajmitch, I won'tbe able to get to your FTBFS until at least tommorw, I lack access to an Ubuntu box ATM04:04
ajmitchNCommander: no rush04:04
* ajmitch has been looking at other stuff anyway04:04
NCommanderajmitch, if you wish it done tongiht, please provide one (1) SSH account to an intrepid box or equivelent ;-)04:05
NCommanderajmitch, I can also attempt to teach you about libtool ;-)04:06
ajmitchI already know enough to run away screaming thanks04:06
NCommanderBut M4 and shell-independent scripting is awesome :-)04:07
* NCommander notes though sometimes its easier to port a shell to a system them port a script to a shell04:07
ajmitchsigh, looks like the previously useful NZ ubuntu mirror is now horribly out of date04:11
NCommanderHrm04:13
NCommanderajmitch, a little over a week behind04:14
NCommanderajmitch, the other NZ mirror however is only six hours behind04:14
ajmitchor more04:14
NCommanderLaunchpad says its only six hours since the last push04:14
ajmitchwhich one are you looking at as the 'other'?04:14
NCommanderUbuntu mirror "Ftp-citylink-co-nz"04:15
NCommanderdeb http://nz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ YOUR_DISTRO_SERIES_HERE main04:15
NCommander"Six hours behind"04:15
NCommandernz2 is a week behind04:15
ajmitchright, nz2.archive.ubuntu.com used to be a better option04:15
ajmitchbetter peering, same ISP as my home DSL, more frequent updates04:16
NCommanderWell, launchpad says its still syncing with ftp-master04:16
NCommander(last check in 3-4 hours ago)04:16
ajmitch     mdadm | 2.6.7-3ubuntu5 | http://nz2.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Sources04:17
ajmitch     mdadm | 2.6.7-3ubuntu7 | http://archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Sources04:17
ajmitchdefinitely over a week, the mirror admin used to be in the nz loco channel too04:17
ajmitchanyway, it's only relevant for my screwed up pbuilder configs now04:17
NCommanderchange .pbuilderc and then pbuilder update --override-config ;-)04:18
ajmitchand anything I've had to build :P04:18
NCommanderIt could be worse04:18
ajmitchyes04:19
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mcasadevalljames_w, ping05:23
ScottK-laptopmcasadevall: So I retired kde4libs on hppa after openexr built (thinks)  FTBFS twice with GCC segfaults in different places in the package.  I think I give.05:24
StevenKYay, ICE05:25
mcasadevallYeah ...05:27
mcasadevallEven I would call it quits after that05:27
mcasadevallOnce NPTL is somewhat more settled on HPPA, it might be possible to help fix up the port05:28
mcasadevallUntil that time ...05:28
ScottK-laptopWhat decade does that happen in?05:28
StevenKWhen someone cares to fix the toolchain, I guess05:30
StevenKhppa is more than able to keep up and not affect general Ubuntu issues -- Dapper proved that05:30
wgrantIsn't hppa ahead of ia64 at the moment?05:31
wgrantOr is that just because everything fails?05:31
StevenKMostly everything fails on hppa05:32
superm1why is it still kept in the buildd farm?  Is there really enough real world usage to justify it?05:32
mcasadevallsuperm1, its probably easier to leave it up than dismantle the buildds05:33
mcasadevallStevenK, the main issue is that NPTL on hppa is notoriously unstable, to the point that the Debian port continued using LinuxThreads all the way to glibc 2.705:34
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NCommanderStevenK, since HP pushes HP-UX on HPPA more than Linux, there has been relatively little corperate support for the architecture as far as I can tell (although lamont would easily know more than I do)05:35
StevenKbdale, too05:37
* NCommander is just sad thatarm still isn't an architecture05:40
StevenKNo, arm is a body part05:41
StevenK:-P05:41
ScottK-laptophttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Known_Space#ARM05:45
StevenKScottK-laptop: Did you file a kio-sword removal bug?05:49
ScottK-laptopStevenK: No txwikinger said he'd do it after he cared for the rdepends.05:50
ScottK-laptopThere are some sword packages that depend on it and it's in the ichthux meta package.05:50
StevenKAh, kay05:50
StevenKLooks like I missed libflashsupport, too05:51
ScottK-laptopAn action passed is an action completed.  ;-)05:51
ScottK-laptopCan't that one be removed?05:51
StevenKI dunno, can it?05:51
StevenKI think james_w filed removals for pnet and pnet-assemblies, too05:52
ScottK-laptopStevenK: Reading debian/changelog for this upload, I think investigating removal is a better use of time than fixing: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/flashplugin-nonfree/10.0.12.10ubuntu105:53
StevenKdesktop-multiplier requires it05:55
StevenKBut only on i38605:55
StevenKScottK-laptop: It looks like libflashsupport makes Pulse + Flash happier05:56
superm1well at least it's supposed to.05:57
ScottK-laptopStevenK: From what little I know about it, I think the theory and the practice were different.05:59
StevenKScottK-laptop: I'd like to confirm that first06:00
ScottK-laptopOf course06:01
HobbseeStevenK: libflashsupport is generally a pain, and the first thing to do to solve flash-based crashes is to remove it.06:15
Hobbseeyou don't need it, and it crashes less if you don't ahve it.06:16
StevenKAh ha.06:17
StevenKSo it should be gotten rid of06:17
StevenKScottK-laptop, Hobbsee: One of you file a bug06:17
StevenK:-P06:17
* ScottK-laptop is roughly one minute from going to sleep, so Hobbsee, would you please?06:18
wgrantlibflashsupport works fine often.06:24
StevenKSee. Conflicting information06:27
Hobbseewgrant: do you even use flash? :P07:22
wgrantHobbsee: No, but other family members do.07:36
TreenaksOn amd64, flash works fine when it works.. but that's only 50% of the time07:37
Treenaksthe other 50% I get a grey rectangle in the web page..07:38
TreenaksScottK2: (wow, you're high :P)07:42
TreenaksScottK2: (~8611m)07:43
mdkeasac: I don't think we have any documentation for that type of connection, so it shouldn't be a problem. But the thing to do is to email the ubuntu-doc mailing list; there is someone who takes particular care over the internet documentation so he will take a look09:58
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ograKeybuk, did udev drop /dev/video support ?11:55
ogragrep video /etc/udev/rules.d/* doesnt reveal any rule that would create a /dev/video0 apparently11:56
ograhmm, might as well be the kernel, i dont even see my webcam with the current uvcvideo driver anymore12:04
TuX_Claudiuhi, i have a problem, i'm unable to find my floppy device in /dev, i tried to install my grub on floppy, but i don't have any floppy in /dev how do i fix this ?12:21
TuX_Claudiui'm using ubuntu 8.1012:21
persiaTuX_Claudiu, Have you tried #ubuntu+1 ?12:23
TuX_Claudiunope12:24
* ogra really doesnt get where his webcam went ... 12:24
ograi dont even see it in lsusb anymore12:25
ograThe following NEW packages will be installed:15:04
ogra  autotools-dev{a} bsdmainutils{a} debhelper{a} ...15:04
ograhmm, what does the {a} mean ?15:04
* ogra hasnt seen that before15:04
ion_Automatically installed, probably.15:05
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persiaIndeed.  Automatic.  It means they will be automatically removed when rdepends are removed.15:20
persia(theoretically : the logic isn't quite perfect)15:20
ograwell, makes sense15:24
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ograhmm16:32
* ogra wonders why the profile bootoption doesnt create any readahead file anymore16:32
ograogra@osiris:~$ ls -l /etc/readahead/boot16:32
ogra-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2008-10-12 17:25 /etc/readahead/boot16:32
persiaogra, Are you about for a bit?16:41
ograpersia, probably rebooting here and there, but apart from that, yes16:41
persiaogra, we're discussing bug #281984 in -motu, and think we have a fix : otherwise network breaks on upgrade for most users (we think), and doesn't restore unless network manager is working.  Could you sponsor it once the testing is complete?16:43
ubottuLaunchpad bug 281984 in ifupdown "Updating ifupdown to 0.6.8ubuntu10 breaks non-NM configurations that have /etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf" [Critical,In progress] https://launchpad.net/bugs/28198416:43
* ogra looks16:43
ogradid you talk to asac ?16:43
ograseems he is running an outdated version of NM16:44
james_whe's not running NM16:45
ograwell, thats required16:45
ograafaik16:45
james_wwhat's required?16:45
ogranm16:46
james_wjoin -server and say that :-)16:46
ograofr setting routes etc16:46
ograit wont touch static devices, but manages all setting beyonf that16:46
ogra*beyond16:46
persiaogra, No, the logic is wrong.  It *always* manages all devices, even when it's not installed.16:50
ograwell, that case should simply not happen :)16:51
ograit should be installed16:51
persiaapt-get install network-manager && apt-get remove network-manager16:51
ograat least the commandline pieces, you dont need the applet16:51
persiaNot on a server.16:51
persiaFor Jaunty, network-manager might be able to go on a server, but 0.7 doesn't do system-level stuff yet : it's still session-level.16:52
ogranope16:52
ograsince 0.7 it does all the system level stuff16:52
persiaOh, right, but we have 0.6.8.16:52
* persia was confused.16:52
ogranope16:52
ograwe have 0.7 in intrepid16:52
persiaifupdown (0.6.8ubuntu10) intrepid; urgency=low ... Alexander Sack <asac@ubuntu.com>  Thu, 09 Oct 2008 16:46:47 +020016:53
ograogra@osiris:~$ dpkg -l network-manager|grep ii16:53
ograii  network-manager                            0.7~~svn20081008t224042-0ubuntu2      network management framework daemon16:53
persia*you* have 0.7 installed.16:53
ograyes, from the standard archive16:53
persiaOh, so do I.  Now I'm very confused.16:53
ograwith the recent updates16:53
* persia looks at the seeds16:53
ograit can even set your hostname etc16:53
ogra(which i think alex patched out for now)16:54
persiaLooking at the seeds, it appears that network-manager is only installed for kubuntu, ubuntu desktop, ubuntu mid, ubuntu mobile, and xubuntu (although I don't have a local copy of the mythbuntu seeds : I should fix that)16:55
ograwell, what exactly the prob now ?16:56
superm1persia, it is installed for mythbuntu as well16:57
james_wif I have a remote server, and I once installed network-manager, and then removed, but did not purge it, and I upgrade to the latest ifupdown and reboot16:57
ograif the user has created a /etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf thats his own fault16:57
superm1persia, in our desktop seed: desktop: * (network-manager-gnome)16:57
persiaIf /etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf is present, and network-manager not installed, ifupdown doesn't manage interfaces16:57
ograwhy would it be present ?16:58
james_wthen it will see /etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf and "ifup -a" won't work, so I won't get networking on boot16:58
persiaapt-get install network-manager && apt-get remove network-manage16:58
jcristauogra: because nm is removed but not purged.16:58
ograunless you played with it, in which case i exepct you to know how to cleanly remove it16:58
persiaogra, Except the standard advice for quite a while when dealing with network-manager issues was to remove it.16:59
ograjcristau, well, if you are able to install it on a server to tiner with it i wuld expect you to be capable to bring your system into a clean state16:59
ogra*tinker16:59
james_wogra: ok, how about I don't want nm to manage my devices to I edit that file and delete the managed line? In that case neither nm nor ifupdown will manage my devices, again giving me no networking16:59
ograwhy would you want to have that file at all ?17:00
jcristauogra: and other people expect removed packages to not get in the way17:00
ograif it doesnt exist ifupdown DTRT17:00
ograas well so if you installed it and it has the right option in it (which is the default)17:00
ograthe only breakage will happen if you *manually edited the file*17:01
persiaogra, OK.  Let's ignore that.  We've a logic test that looks for the string "managed" and defaults to true if the string isn't found.  Surely that's a bug, right?17:01
ograor if you used a development version of NM in which case i would expect you to know that you use a *development* version and can cope with it17:01
persia(it also returns true if the string is found)17:01
ograpersia, no, since managed is *off* in the default file since two versions of NM17:02
ograthe only way that breaks is that you had installed NM durin the dev cycle17:02
persiaogra, Ignore the context.  The logic in the check is wrong.17:03
ograthe current package and the released version will have the right setting ... so it doesnt matter if the file is removed or not17:03
ograsince it will always default to make ifup -a work17:03
ograWARNING: ifup -a is disabled in favour of NetworkManager.17:04
ogra  Set ifupdown:managed=false in /etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf.17:04
persiaogra, No, because the logic is wrong.  Instead of defaulting to make ifup work, it defaults to break ifup.17:04
ograis what the bug says17:04
ograno17:04
persiaYes, the bug doesn't describe the issue very well.17:04
persiaRead the code.17:04
ograit defaults to make ifup -a work17:04
persia"int managed = iniparser_getboolean (ini_dict, "ifupdown:managed", -1);" shoud be "int managed = iniparser_getboolean (ini_dict, "ifupdown:managed", 0);"17:05
ograbecause either the file doesnt exist or it has "ifupdown:managed=false"17:05
persiaBy passing "-1" as the default, the default for managed becomes TRUE17:05
james_wogra: of course they are not the only two cases17:05
ograjames_w, what are the others ?17:05
ograif you have changed the file manually i expect you to know what you are doing ... the same goes for an unreleased ubuntu version17:06
persiaRight.  Ignore the context.17:06
persiaThe behaviour you describe is how it should work.17:07
ograthe bug itself, being  "ifupdown:managed=true" is fixed17:07
persiaIt's not how it currently works.  It currently defaults to TRUE.17:07
ograif a user removed nm before the fix went in he might have that setting as true, but thats the nature of a development release, it has bugs and you are supposed to be able to cope with that or not use a unreleased distro17:09
james_wogra: while the defaults may work fine, the system fails open, as you can end up with nothing managing your interfaces.17:09
ograpersia, it doesnt17:09
persiaogra, -1 doesn't evaluate to TRUE in C?17:09
ograogra@osiris:~$ grep true /etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf17:10
ograogra@osiris:~$17:10
persiaogra, Right.  No issue there.  It's the check in ifupdown that has the issue.  "int managed = iniparser_getboolean (ini_dict, "ifupdown:managed", -1);" shoud be "int managed = iniparser_getboolean (ini_dict, "ifupdown:managed", 0);17:10
ograif the file exists it will by default be false17:10
ograif the file doesnt exist it doesnt matter at all17:10
james_wogra: while a user should be expected to be able to fix things if they are running a development release, can't we fix things when it is a clear bug, we know the fix, and it is small and non-invasive?17:10
persiaThe code is passing -1 as the default value.  That's TRUE.  It doesn't matter what is in the configuration.17:11
ograjames_w, all i say is that NM is fine17:11
james_wogra: I agree, the bug is in ifupdown, I've never said nm was doing anything wrong.17:11
ograwell, ask asac what he thought :)17:12
ograhe made the ifupdown change17:12
james_wogra: it's a small logic bug in the change he made. I doubt someone would pass "-1" if they wanted a true value, "1" would be much more usual.17:13
james_wright, the user that reported the bug confirms the fix, is a core-dev willing to upload the fixed package?17:13
cjwatsonRiddell,ArneGoetje: en@quot and en@boldquot are variants of English messages with different kinds of quotation marks; run 'info gettext' and press Ctrl-s @quot17:15
cjwatsonRiddell,ArneGoetje: I think you have to go through some contortions to get them to work in Ubuntu though; they at least don't seem to work out of the box, unless I'm missing something. I wouldn't worry about them17:16
ograjames_w, if it doesnt break the behavior :)17:16
ograjames_w, there is still time to revert it, i would go ahead17:16
james_wogra: nope, it shouldn't break anything that currently works17:16
james_wogra: well, I can't go ahead, I'm asking for someone to sponsor it.17:17
ograoh17:17
ograjames_w, you are not core-dev ??17:17
ogrageez ... about time, eh ? :) where is the fix17:17
james_wI've only been a MOTU for two weeks :-)17:17
james_wthe fix is in the bug report17:18
persiaAnd we're *very* glad to have you :)17:18
ograthe bugreport is a ranting chaos ...17:18
persiaIgnore the report.  The fix is good.17:18
ograah17:19
* ogra had to reload the report :)17:19
ograuploaded17:21
persiaogra, Thank you.  Sorry for the confusion of the report.17:21
ograyeah, the anti NM ranting got me quite confused17:22
james_wthanks ogra17:23
ogralest see if asac kills me tomorrow :)17:23
persiaogra, If he complains, just blame james_w :)17:23
ograthe changelog already does that enough i think :)17:24
james_wpersia told me too :-p17:24
persiaOK.  Blame me then :)17:24
* persia looks for another changelog entry to avoid being in17:24
* ogra cries ...18:44
* ogra wants his webcam back18:44
stgraberoh, you broke a webcam ?18:45
stgraberor just the driver :)18:45
ograstgraber, its simply gone18:46
ograi have a builtin cam in my display frame on the laptop18:46
dmbany of you know the last release that used linuxthreads as opposed to nptl?18:47
stgraberogra: USB wired (as in, it's exposed as a usb device) ?18:47
ograi cant see it anymore, not in lsusb nor in lspci or any other HW detection tool18:47
ograit used to use uvcvideo and was/is a usb device afaik18:48
ograi only used it once to test it in hardy18:48
ograloading uvcvideo doesnt reveal anything in dmesg either18:49
stgraberhmm, ok. I have some uvcvideo webcams at the office, I'll give that a try tomorrow. Though last video conference we had (1-2 weeks) it worked correctly.18:49
ograwell, there is also a transition away from /dev/video going on apparently18:50
ograbut that still doesnt explain why lsusb doesnt see it18:50
* ogra gets a hardy livecd18:52
evandslangasek: is there a trick to preparing grub from bzr for an upload?  The clean rule removes files that are in the repository.19:06
directhexdmb, has ubuntu EVER done that?19:08
directhexdmb, NPTL became the norm when 2.6 kernels became the norm19:08
slangasekevand: well, I use bzr builddeb, and never run the clean rule in my working directory19:42
fbondHi, I just upgraded to Intrepid and am seeing some funny issues with my network.  I'm trying to debug to see if I can figure out exactly where the problem is.  I suspect the b43 driver.  I have a wireshark trace of the problem.  Is anyone able to assist me in debugging?19:55
fbondActually, nm, let me do some process-of-elimination tests to implicate b43...19:57
evandyay, after struggling with bzr bd for a bit, I got it working.  Thanks slangasek20:14
Chipzzfbond: 1) it's weekend and 2) #ubuntu+1 (cfr topic)20:14
superm1StevenK, well given bug 281580 we might have to bring a bluez-compat package it looks.  I'm definitely against putting those binaries in the main package though.20:16
ubottuLaunchpad bug 281580 in mactel-support "[Intrepid] New Bluetooth Wizard fails to pair with Apple Keyboard..." [Medium,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/28158020:16
superm1StevenK, i've got two of these keyboards though, i'll experiment with them in the wizard.  i know they are finicky to get into pairing mode sometimes20:17
superm1oh well actually mine are both aluminum, the newer ones.20:18
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emgentScottK-laptop: ping21:06
dmbdirecthex, just trying to build this application that depends on linuxthreads21:06
dmbsheepshaver for ppc requires linuxthreads, or it crashes21:07
dmbwell, not crashes, but errors on the build21:07
cjwatsonI think in early releases of Ubuntu we did build with 2.4 compatibility in glibc for at least some architectures, which resulted in linuxthreads by default21:07
dmbcjwatson, you happen to know which release possible for ppc?21:08
cjwatsonI'm looking, but it's sort of hard to tell at this distance21:08
dmbyeh21:08
cjwatsoncertainly no later than dapper, probably earlier21:08
dmbyeh, i looked into dapper, uses nptl there also21:09
cjwatsonnothing really has any excuse for still requiring linuxthreads21:09
* cjwatson fishes down ancient .diff.gzs from LP21:09
dmbcjwatson, indeed, basically, what they did was copy and paste some stuff from linuxthreads into there implementation, changed the structs a bit, and some more21:12
dmbobviously bad programming practice21:13
cjwatsondmb: I'd have to actually build a chroot to be sure of it, but it looks to me as if we enabled NPTL on powerpc in Ubuntu 5.1021:15
dmbhmm21:15
dmbyou can usually tell by looking at at the libc6-dev package and looking at /usr/include/pthread.h and seeing if in the comments it mentions linuxthreads21:17
dmbwhere can you find the old release stuff?21:18
dmbits not in archive.ubuntu.com21:18
cjwatsonphone21:18
cjwatsondmb: I was looking at the source packages, not the binaries, so I was looking for debian/sysdeps/powerpc.mk21:21
cjwatsonwith GLIBC_PASSES and/or *_add-ons variables mentioning nptl21:21
cjwatsondmb: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/glibc has the publishing history - only the final release and some post-release updates for pre-dapper, but good enough for this purpose21:21
dmboh21:21
cjwatsondmb: installable archives of end-of-life releases are at http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/21:22
cjwatsonso you could probably double-check libc6-dev from there21:22
jspirojust curious: do you offer downloadable preinstalled VMs of ubuntu?21:23
cjwatsonjspiro: http://isv-image.ubuntu.com/vmware/ has VMware images for some older releases, although not for 8.04 (yet? I'm not sure, I don't run that site any more)21:23
jspirocjwatson:  cool, they should market that site more for home users who want to run Ubuntu in VMware to try it.21:24
cjwatsonI believe it's actually quite prominent in the VMware appliances download site21:26
cjwatsonat least it used to be21:26
gaspacjwatson, pitti: i've patched usplash for #219867 (and probably other)...21:40
gaspabasically 'status' overflow without any check.21:40
gaspabut i'm wondering what's the expected behavior with a status command that overflow...21:40
cjwatsonwell, presumably there are two bugs here21:41
cjwatsonone is that usplash just leaves text hanging around the screen on overflow, rather than either cutting it off or arranging to scroll it21:41
cjwatsonthe other is that initscripts prints a message that we know will overflow usplash21:41
cjwatsonI'd be inclined to say that usplash should cut off the message at the borders of the region it's going to scroll; pitti might feel differently21:42
gaspacjwatson: well, the problem is in the fsck steps. classical initscript behave correctly.21:42
cjwatsonit's in /lib/init/usplash-fsck-functions.sh, right? that file is owned by the initscripts binary package21:43
gaspayep.21:43
gaspacjwatson: couldn't we wrap status too? I simply did this way. ( I'm ready to change my patch as well )21:46
gaspa... probably it involves problems with newlines, or redrawing of the status...21:47
cjwatsongaspa: well, that would work too I guess21:48
cjwatsonit's been a bit too long since I was in the internals of usplash to say21:49
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cjwatsonI'd rather pitti reviewed it21:49
cjwatson(if he has time)21:49
gaspaok, i'd ask him what he think about that...21:49
ograbah, no bluetooth love at all on my laptop22:32
* ogra just tried his dongle for the first time with the new bluez stack ... but it looks more loike blues than bluez22:33
asacogra: persia: whats up on the front? is my iniparser wrong and should use ,0?23:00
asacjames_w: ^^23:01
james_wasac: yeah, I believe so, I requested the upload of that change23:02
asacjames_w: do you have that change somewhere?23:03
asacjames_w: or was it uploaded?23:03
james_wasac: it was uploaded, you can find the diff attached to bug 28198423:03
ubottuLaunchpad bug 281984 in ifupdown "Updating ifupdown to 0.6.8ubuntu10 breaks non-NM configurations that have /etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf" [Critical,Fix released] https://launchpad.net/bugs/28198423:03
asacjames_w: look at the debdiff ;)23:05
asachttp://launchpadlibrarian.net/18464705/ifupdown_0.6.8ubuntu10_0.6.8ubuntu11.diff.gz23:05
asacwhoever uploaded it, eliminated the _darcs directory :-P23:05
james_woops, yeah, I should have warned them about that23:06
asacjames_w: well. i bumbed into this and it wasnt really nice23:06
bunnytoI LOVE you guys... i LOVE UBUNTU!!! if you all were girls i would....23:06
asaci mean that things refused to not remove _darcs unless i built with -iNOTHING -INOTHING :)23:06
james_wheh :-)23:07
asacanyway. i think we should resurrect that.23:07
asacwhats the reason to change dpkg-source in such a way that it removed _darcs automatically?23:07
ograasac, my fault, what did i do wrong ?23:09
jspirobunnyto:  thank you.23:09
jspiroi guess23:09
jspirosee, the only problem with your comment is that i'm a guy.23:10
jspiro:)23:10
asacogra: you bumped into the (imo) new behaviour that you need to add a fake -iNOTHING -INOTHING in order to make dpkg-source keep your vcs dir ;)23:10
asacogra: i will resurrect that. so not a big problem..23:10
ograi pulled the source package, dpkg-source -x'ed, cd'ed into it, ran patch -p1 <../blah.diff and ran dpkg-buildpackage23:10
ograouch, ok23:11
asacogra: yeah. dpkg-buildpackage will strip _darcs if you dont tell different23:11
ograok, i'll keep that in mind, really sorry for that23:11
asacogra: i was quite confused when reviewing my debdiffs before uploading23:11
asacogra: heh. no problem at all ;)23:11
bunnytois possible to upgrade from 8.04 to 8.10 ?23:15
pwnguinbunnyto: yes. #ubuntu+1 can help you with that23:16
bunnytothanks guys!! keep the good work!!! damn.. i wish you all were girls.. dammit.... i would... THANKS!!23:17
jmillikinI have a one-line patch that I'd like to get into gst-plugins-base package; is that easy? There's an off-by-one error that's preventing all my album art from displaying.23:20
jmillikinReported upstream at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=556066 , but haven't bothered with a launchpad bug23:20
ubottuGnome bug 556066 in gst-plugins-base "Last byte of FLAC image buffer chopped off" [Normal,Unconfirmed]23:21
johanbrHow does usb-creator determine what's a USB disk? It doesn't seem to want to recognize my SD card.23:38
pwnguinuh23:38
pwnguinit depends on how your system is built23:39
pwnguinsometimes, SD readers will export USB mass storage to the OS23:39
cjwatsonit looks in hal: storage.bus == usb, storage.removable, and storage.drive_type == disk23:39
pwnguinsometimes, they expect drivers to handle the real work.23:40
johanbrYes I just found "if (dev.PropertyExists('storage.bus')"23:42
johanbrWhereas my SD card has   storage.bus = 'mmc'  (string)23:42
pwnguinthat would be not usb23:42
cjwatsonpwnguin: you're stating the obvious a bit :)23:43
cjwatsonjohanbr: bug 28033623:43
ubottuLaunchpad bug 280336 in usb-creator "support for SD cards and removable media" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/28033623:43
johanbrcjwatson: Oh, someone beat me to it. :) Thank you.23:43
cjwatsonseems to be the same23:43
cjwatsoninterestingly storage.removable == false there23:43
pwnguincjwatson: ok, captain knows everything; whats the difference between sd boot and usb boot?23:43
cjwatsonpwnguin: does it matter? if the BIOS supports it, it would be nice for usb-creator to be able to generate bootable images on it23:44
johanbrpwnguin: Well, your bios needs to able to boot from your card reader for the former.23:44
cjwatsonpwnguin: and if you're going to be rude you can leave23:45
johanbrAnd I also have storage.removable == false. That sounds like a bug somewhere.23:46
cjwatsonyeah, I think I agree there23:46
cjwatsonthough I wonder if it's necessary for usb-creator to check storage.removable23:47
cjwatsonjohanbr: storage.removable.media_available is true though23:48
cjwatson(at least in newz2000's lshal)23:48
johanbrsame for me23:48
johanbrI suppose it's true that the reader itself it not removable. At least not very easily. :)23:49
johanbr*is not23:49
cjwatsonthe definition of storage.removable in hal-spec-properties is "Media can be removed from the storage device", though23:50
pwnguinremovable versus hotpluggable23:50
* ogra sighs ... i knew i had the solution how to prevent the stripping of translations from sourcepackages but i cant find the runes to put into debian/rules anymore23:51
cjwatsonhmm23:51
cjwatson         * As discussed on lkml, GENHD_FL_REMOVABLE should:23:51
cjwatson         *23:51
cjwatson         * - be set for removable media with permanent block devices23:51
cjwatson         * - be unset for removable block devices with permanent media23:51
cjwatson         *23:51
cjwatson         * Since MMC block devices clearly fall under the second23:51
cjwatson         * case, we do not set GENHD_FL_REMOVABLE.  Userspace23:52
cjwatson         * should use the block device creation/destruction hotplug23:52
cjwatson         * messages to tell when the card is present.23:52
cjwatson(drivers/mmc/card/block.c)23:52
pwnguinso does that mean usb is broken?23:52
johanbrWhat does "removable block device" mean in this context?23:54
pwnguinprobably device node23:54
cjwatsonI don't have the lkml context, dunno23:54
pwnguinie /mnt versus /media23:54
cjwatsonogra: export NO_PKG_MANGLE=123:54
cjwatsonneither /mnt nor /media is a device node ...?23:54
ogramy builtin readers are all plain PCI devices23:54
ogranot attached to USB23:54
ogracjwatson, thanks a lot, i searched myself to dead23:55
pwnguincjwatson: what i mean is that /mnt is expected to be static, and /media is "removable media"23:55
johanbrThis discussion has nothing to do with mount points.23:55
cjwatsonpwnguin: hmm, that just takes us back to the question though23:55
bunnytowhen is going to be released 8.10?23:55
pwnguinbut indeed, the lkml context would be helpful23:55
cjwatsonbunnyto: http://wiki.ubuntu.com/IntrepidReleaseSchedule23:55
ograhttps://wiki.ubuntu.com/IntrepidReleaseSchedule23:56
ograheh, to slow23:56
pwnguincjwatson: what i can see though, is that hotpluggable is set for both my sd card and usb drive23:56
johanbrThink I found the lkml discussion: http://groups.google.com/group/fa.linux.kernel/browse_thread/thread/be696fb615c95ddf23:58
cjwatsonso I think "permanent block devices" means that /dev/cdrom is the same no matter what CD you insert, and doesn't change depending on the media23:58
cjwatsonI'm not familiar with how MMC is different23:58
johanbr"However, when we insert and remove a MMC card, we create and destroy the block device itself.  Therefore, as far as the block layer is concerned, the device itself is being inserted and removed, so telling the block layer that the media is removable is just silly."23:59
cjwatsonanyway, a different question is what usb-creator is trying to achieve with this check23:59

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