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czrhughhalf :-)08:38
Kanohi apw , when will rc7 be ready for mainline?13:01
apwKano, a couple of hours at least, seems there was some blockage due to fookage at kernel.org13:42
lamontapw: so that ich10 thing we weree playing with smb on... (hardy)...14:04
lamontI suspect that so long as it sees the disk, we're good, right?14:04
apwlamont, blimey that seems like a long time ago, they were missing completly right?  so yes if you can see them then things must be good14:05
apwlamont, can you remind me the bug number?14:05
lamontwe didn't have a bug number yet... missing PCI(?) ID14:05
apwdid smb or i make the test kernels, and where where they14:06
apw(should help me find the original branch)14:06
lamonthttp://people.canonical.com/~apw/lamont-ich10-hardy/linux-image-2.6.24-28-generic_2.6.24-28.83~lamontich10v201012031333_amd64.deb14:07
lamontand smb threw together a random initrd that matches it14:07
apwlamont, nice i should be able to find that14:07
lamontsadly, that means that my initrd believes that I have a german keyboard, which makes the flaky kvm even less useful to me... WTF is the | key??14:08
apwlamont, i presume you want than in lucid?  for that we need a bug for the SRU are you able to ubuntu-bug it for me?14:08
apwlamont, i _think_ its something like altgr-714:08
lamontI need it in haryd14:08
apw(as in rightgr)14:08
apwlamont, same deal, and clearly hardy from the version number, doh14:09
lamontunless you want to give me a working xen in lucid....14:09
apwlamont, i would love to, but i think working xen is going to be n or o14:09
lamontand yeah, once I confirm that I'm really happy, then I'll file the bug and push for the SRU14:09
lamont'zactly14:09
apwlamont, sweet14:09
lamontwhich means ppa builders are all hardy until at least then14:09
apwlamont, i wonder, if we get it say in O then maybe Lucid+O backport will work for you14:10
apwbut i guess we wait for comfirmation that the xen as merged is actually useful14:11
lamontyeah - merged will definitely give us an idea of when14:12
apwlamont, heh my hardy tree is on the branch with that patch still ... i obviously do little to that14:13
lamontapw: got a reference for me to stuff in the bug report, or would you just like the bugnumber and add it  yourself?14:14
apwyeah i don't really need anything in the bug, just the number when you are happy14:14
lamont[  122.278637] scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access     ATA      ST3500320NS      SN04 PQ14:15
lamontI do believe we done found a disk.14:15
apwas soon as i have that i can get it on the kernel-team list for review14:15
apwthat does indeed look promising14:15
lamont[  119.770221] hub 8-0:1.0: USB hub found <-- do we have enough USB, I wonder?14:15
apwdo those things have much usb in em?14:16
apwi assume your keyboard is14:16
lamontit's some random phat box in the DC - I'm on the serial console... and yeah, that many USB ports is not terribly surprising14:17
apwthese days they put additional hubs in in an area of the board rather than run cables, somehow its cheaper14:18
lamont24GB of ram, linux claims '8' processors, X5570 2.93GHz Xeon ('tever) w/8M cache.. these could be suitable builders14:19
lamontwhich source package? 'linux'14:20
lamont?14:20
lamontcool.  we did do the name switch that long ago14:20
tgardnerlamont, dapper is the last one with the version in the name14:22
lamonttgardner: yeah, but I really care very little about edgy-gutsy14:23
lamontwell, less than "very little", actually14:23
lamontdapper I do have some care for, at least for another 6 months14:23
tgardnerlamont, I have a similar level of concern14:24
lamontin other news, for whatever reason, the maverick kernel running on lucid seems to make Xserves happier (ppc64-smp)14:24
lamonttgardner: I believe we are on exactly the same page14:24
tgardnerlamont, so, the mutex race (or whatever it was) on PPC has gone away?14:25
lamontapw: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/69340114:25
ubot2Launchpad bug 693401 in linux (Ubuntu) "hardy kernel lacks support for ICH10 controller in Intel Server System SR1600UR (affects: 1) (heat: 6)" [Undecided,New]14:25
lamonttgardner: I have completely forgotten what the particular failure is, beyond it filling the display with backtrace - well past any meaningful content, mixed with my abject failure to figure out how to get the *(^)^) box to use a serial console14:26
lamontapw: you update it with fix info, and I'll +1 it when you poke me14:26
apwlamont, will do14:28
apwlamont, details of the fix are in14:32
lamontand my +1 is in14:35
apwlamont, ok the patch is up for review14:43
apwit should be eligable for the next stable update14:44
czrtgardner, tracking the ftdi-issue, any ideas on the timeframe ofor 32.27 on hardy?14:47
czrs/ofor/for/.14:47
tgardnerczr Lucid will get uploaded to -proposed likely sometime first week in Jan14:48
czrcool. will take it for a spin then.14:48
tgardnerczr: I don't think the issue exists in Hardy. 14:48
czrah. my bad :-). lucid I meant14:48
czrusing hardy for now because lucid is unusable.14:49
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keestgardner: er, so what's the state of the kernels in -updates? some have CVEs.18:17
tgardnerkees, um, I'd have to check which ones got promoted. 18:17
keestgardner: I guess I'm worried about process -- the security team was not notified about it :( they need to go to -security too with USN publication.18:18
keeslucid and maverick got promoted18:18
keesand maverick is an ABI bump'18:18
tgardnerkees, I'm not sure sconklin was ready to have them promoted, but I guess the archive admins did it anyways. lemme check18:18
tgardnerkees, Lucid 2.6.32-27.49 was promoted to -updates and _does_ contain CVE, and it was also built in the non-virtualized PPA. You're right in that its promotion to -updates should have been coordinated with the security team. I assume the same is true of Karmic and Maverick18:24
keestgardner: yeah, though karmic doesn't seem to have been promoted yet. I'll ask in email, since pitti started a thread on that.18:27
apwanyone know if pitti still about ?18:43
Keybukis he not on leave this week?18:54
Keybukkees: here/18:55
keesKeybuk: well, I tried to make a minimal testcase, but it doesn't fail. this is bug 693510. I assigned it to upstart for now since it's not obviously a kernel bug yet.18:56
ubot2Launchpad bug 693510 in upstart (Ubuntu) "child paused by SIGTSTP fails to cause wait() to report WSTOPPED (affects: 1) (heat: 6)" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/69351018:56
Keybukwhich version of upstart?18:57
kees0.6.7-1 with natty kernel18:59
Keybukright18:59
KeybukI've just built that on the maverick kernel18:59
Keybukand it passes18:59
Keybukso back to linux, I'm afraid18:59
keesKeybuk: does my testcase match? because it passes on natty18:59
Keybukit's hard to tell19:00
Keybukbecause you've not really given any information19:00
kees?19:00
Keybukwell19:00
Keybukan ssh into the machine that's failing to run the test suite would be nice ;-)19:00
keesyou don't have natty?19:00
Keybukno19:01
keeslet me construct a tunnel, gimme a minute...19:02
Keybukone of the differences is that the test case lets the child go first19:05
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Keybuk(or at least forces them to run in parallel)19:05
keesadding sleep(1) to the parent doesn't seem to change anything19:06
keesKeybuk: see privmsg for tunnel details19:16
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stentenHi, does someone mind telling me how to set gfxpayload=text easily for testing a bug? Can I just put that in the parameter line in grub after 'quiet splash'?20:15
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LLStarksogasawara, i've done a fair amount of testing and i believe that there is no future for the iwl3945 driver: http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/546765/23:22
LLStarksoh wait, she's not here23:22
LLStarksat any rate, i believe that the continuing regressions of the driver warrant a serious discussion with intel. i don't care if ipw3945 is revived/forked or if iwl3945 is rewritten. something needs to be done.23:26
ohsixLLStarks: theres some power curve stuff thats being integrated into the drivers as time goes on, did you try checking out rssi and seeing if its flagging between bit rates23:29
LLStarksrssi?23:29
ohsixit's the number that you see for signal strength, it's kind of opaque and depends on the driver but you can use it to check for relative signal strength23:29
ohsixthe bit rate on the connection changes dynamically based on signal conditions and what the driver decides to do; sometimes it can get pathological and bounce between say 54mbps and 11mbps, you'll get better behaviour if you lock it to the lower bitrate, but if there are changes that are making it less stable those should probably be looked at23:31
LLStarkswhy are there no userland controls that prevent that?23:31
ohsixto prevent the flagging? it's something the driver is supposed to or is assumed it will do appropriately23:32
LLStarksbrb, i'd like to illustrate a point.23:32
ohsixbut the point of mentioning it was so you could watch rssi/bitrate (with wavemon) and see if its stable23:32
LLStarkseven with iwl3945, a 54Mb rate connection will not exceed 1Mb in actual speed23:33
LLStarksthat's the problem23:33
ohsixah23:34
LLStarkswen yi is pretty much the only guy working 3945 drivers23:35
ohsixthere are some counters you can read for that too23:35
ohsixfor excessive retries and stuff, it could be just that the rate limiting algo changed23:35
LLStarksi need a way to test all of this without senseless kernel rerolls23:36
LLStarkscompat-wireless splices are iffy23:36
ohsixyou could stash the .ko from the compat-wireless builds for each version you're testing23:36
LLStarkstrue. and i've done that.23:37
LLStarksi could back as far as i wanted if i so desired.23:37
LLStarksnot sure how far back the git goes though.23:37
ohsixheres some info on the rate limiting stuff most things use and its inputs/tweakable stuff, i don't know what intel's stuff actually does with respect to this however http://wireless.kernel.org/en/developers/Documentation/mac80211/RateControl/minstrel23:37

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