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ppisatimoin05:40
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apwppisati, moin07:57
ppisatiapw: moin07:57
apwman that was an early one too07:57
ppisatiapw: neh, i usually wake up way earlier than that07:57
apwwierd gym lover :)07:58
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zequenceAnyone available for a fairly simple upload (artwork update)? lp:ubuntustudio-menu08:32
zequenceAh, sorry. Wrong channel :)08:33
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apwzequence, i might be able to help if it is truly trivial :)09:25
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apwoh i so did not want to know anything about autopkgtest environments10:50
lerraHey guys, im having a couple of machines running different versions of the kernel 2.6.32-*-server (mostly 40 and 42), I have a vmcore file that I am trying to analyse but I cant find a debug kernel for that but I manage to analyse the binary with strings and manage to get the following content from http://pastebin.com/hCW6W8p9 10:56
lerraAnybody seen this ? Its basically a postgres hammering (300-600mb/s) the system (on a mounted xfs partition)10:57
apwlerra, not seen that befoer indeed.  the oops says that the thread overran the stack, which if accurate is very bad10:59
apwlerra, have you looked on ddebs.ubuntu.com for the ddebs ?11:01
apwlerra, and those seem anchient kernels11:02
apwlerra, ok i can see -40 on ddebs.u.c, but -42 seems to be awol, but the latest is -51 so we are a heap of pain away from soemthing current here11:06
apwlerra, i would if you can see if you can get something a bit more recent in there11:06
lerrain ddebs ? I did check it and noticed the same as you :)11:21
zequenceapw: Thanks. I had forgotten there's a procedure for this, i.e. file a bug and subscribe ubuntu-sponsors. Seems we already got it uploaded :)11:22
lerraWhere did you find the -40 kernel ? and what do you mean with awol ?11:23
lerrafound http://ddebs.ubuntu.com/pool/main/l/linux/linux-image-2.6.32-40-server-dbgsym_2.6.32-40.87_amd64.ddeb11:25
apwzequence, ok good11:25
apwlerra, yeah -40 seems to be where you just indicated, the -42 is missing, but that is so old now i suspect there is no hope of recovery11:25
lerraI only got a vmcore from a -42 but I will try and see how far I can go with that11:25
apwwell that stack you indicated clearly shows a very very deep xfs stack11:26
apwand deep stacks are illegal, so if it is real, and it looks believeable at least11:26
apwthen xfs is probabally at fault.  there may be fixes for that in later kernls and you are some 10 abi's behine11:27
apwbehind11:27
apw(awol == absent with out leave, ie missing)11:27
lerraoki, will see if I can dist upgrade it to 12.04 from 10.0411:30
lerraor maybe a backported kernel11:31
apwlerra, i was more thinking the latest kernel on the release11:31
apwlerra, at least there if it reporoduces you know you are on the latest and we have debug symbols11:32
lerrabasically to the -51 version, right ?11:33
lerraeven 49, I will see how I can proceed11:34
apwlerra, i would say the one in -updates if you are going anywhere11:34
lerrathanks apw, very helpfull, not to mutch documentation on this out there11:34
apwlerra, np latest is:      linux | 2.6.32-51.113 | lucid-updates | source11:35
jafehahi, i'm looking for someone with insights into intel lynnfield cpus on ubuntu 12.04 lts (enablement stack / kernel 3.8.0-30-generic). can anyone help me?12:21
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jafehamy question is: i'm running my ubuntu 12.04 with an lynnfield i5 760, which officially has no hyperthreading support. if i check /proc/cpuinfo i get the cpuflag "ht" which should indicate hyperthreading. ht is not activated on the host as far as i can see: lscpu tells me that i've got only one thread per core. so could i actually turn on the hyperthreading bootflag and acutally get more threads per core? or is th12:43
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ckingjafeha, i was under the impression that the i5 760 has 4 cores and not hyperthreads13:03
apwi have the feeling that the ht flag is a lie in some cases, "else windows does not see all teh CPUs" or something13:12
jafehaok thank you cking and apw thats what i already thought. i just wanted to be sure. there were some discussions on the i5 760 enabling ht, but it did not make it into the specs. so how much can i actually trust those flags being shown in cpuinfo?13:53
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ckingjafeha, the cpuinfo flags come from what cpuid is reporting on the CPU, so one has to trust the CPU not to be lying I guess13:54
jafehahum, what a mess. :D13:55
jafehawhat would actually happen if i tried turning it on in the bootflags?13:55
apwjafeha, i would say that the key is how many siblings are reported, as the kernel will use all the ones it finds it does not use the HT flag to determin which cpus to enable13:58
jafehalast thing i found out about that was that the generic kernel won't activate ht without using ht=on as a boot parameter. thats why i'm asking.14:01
argeshey guys, is there a tool that automagically pulls in patch deps (based on context) when cherry-picking? doing it manually with git blame / log is fun and all14:01
apwarges, not that i know of14:02
argesi'll put that on my list of 'projects to work on when you have the time', if i ever have the time14:03
apwjefferai, are you sure, where have you seen that documented14:04
apwarges, i generally use selective log to see what all else changes the same files14:04
argesyea git log -S'blah' /path14:04
apwjafeha, are you sure, where have you seen that documented14:07
apwjafeha, i can find no documentation for that and it doesn't fit my experience either14:07
apwjafeha, i have tended to get the CPU name out of cpuinfo and look that up on intel (or whoevers) website to be sure14:08
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xnoxsforshee: hello, stgraber says you are good with backlit brightness. I can echo values between 100 -> 4882 into /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness but the keyboard buttons / brigtness settings in the gnome control centre.14:22
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xnoxsforshee: any idea what I can tweak to make the buttons work? =)14:22
sforsheexnox: are there other devices under /sys/class/backlight?14:23
xnoxsforshee: yes, acpi_video014:24
sforsheexnox: userspace is going to try to use that ahead of intel_backlight14:25
sforsheedoes writing values to its brightness file work?14:25
xnoxsforshee: nope, no effect.14:26
sforsheexnox: a workaround is to pass acpi_backlight=vendor to the kernel14:27
sforsheebut you should probably file a bug14:27
xnoxsforshee: i had that, didn't work. (had that in grub cmd line)14:27
stgraberxnox: that's not the line I gave you, did you try that specific one before?14:27
xnoxstgraber: yeah, i had acpi_backlight=vendor before trying yours. (found it somewhere online)14:28
stgraberk14:29
sforsheexnox: do you have the acpi_video0 backlight when you boot with it?14:29
xnoxHm: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5055114:29
ubot2`bugzilla.kernel.org bug 50551 in Power-Video "ACPI uses acpi_video0 instead of intel_backlight for Intel GMA 4500M" [Normal,Closed: will_not_fix]14:29
sforsheexnox: that's not a bug per se, the rules are that firmware interfaces should be preferred over raw interfaces (which is what a backlight from a graphics driver would be)14:30
sforsheethe bug is that acpi_video backlight doesn't work14:30
sforsheebut it's probably a firmware problem14:31
xnoxsforshee: stgraber: right so with acpi_backlight=vendor I get under /sys/class/backlight ideapad and intel_backlight14:33
xnoxintel_backlight works, ideapad doesn't.14:33
sforsheexnox: bah. Yeah, and ideapad will be preferred over intel.14:34
sforsheexnox: ikepanhc might be able to help you with the ideapad backlight14:38
sforsheexnox: for the acpi one, file a bug and point me at it so I can look at your acpi tables14:38
xnoxsforshee: right. Well in the end I added xorg.conf.d snippet bug 115893414:50
xnoxhttps://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1158934/comments/414:50
xnoxI guess idepad should also be blacklisted just like the HP video.14:50
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xnoxsforshee: is bug 1227188 ok?15:00
xnoxbug #122718815:01
xnoxubot2`: awake?15:01
ubot2`Factoid 'awake?' not found15:01
xnoxhttps://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/122718815:01
sforsheexnox, got it15:01
sforsheexnox: can you also attach acpi tables? acpidump > acpi_tables.txt15:03
xnoxsforshee: attached: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1158934/+attachment/3827417/+files/acpi_tables.txt.gz15:04
sforsheexnox: ta15:05
phillwHi folks, we seem to have narrowed down an issue with freezing to being a version of zram that doesn't work correctly in kernel 3.11.x How should this be reported?15:09
jsalisburyphillw, A launchpad bug is best15:11
phillwagainst kernel?15:11
sforsheexnox: there's nothing obvious in the acpi tables to explain why the acpi_video0 backlight doesn't work. I wonder if the backlight iplementation there just doesn't work.15:11
jsalisburyphillw, yes.  You can use the linux package.  For example, from a terminal run: ubuntu-bug linux15:12
phillwthanks, will do and will add in all the we have found (the last part of the jig saw arrived about an hour ago)15:12
xnoxsforshee: i believe it just plain doesn't work, and the other one does =)15:13
sforsheexnox: well some lenovos have another workaround which works, but not yours15:14
sforsheeit seems like lenovo doesn't test the acpi backlight implementation in their firmware on machines shipping with win815:14
xnox=/ i did have windows 8 pre-installed on it but no obvious "Certified for Windows 8" logos or some such.15:19
xnoxlike I don't have "Windows 8 compatible sticker" only windows 8 sticker on the back.15:19
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phillwjsalisbury: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1227202 I've just asked those also affected to mark themselves as such.15:27
jsalisburyphillw, great, thanks15:27
ppisatiinfinity: you there?15:29
kdubhow would one compile a kernel for ubuntu touch?16:08
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phillwjsalisbury: I'd need some instructions as to how get the kernel into my machine and then see if the Error: /dev/zram0: unrecognised disk label  and Error: /dev/zram1: unrecognised disk label  disappear (that is assuming this fix will also solve that issue).17:45
jsalisburyphillw, From a terminal, you can run:  sudo dpkg -i PACKAGE_NAME to install the two kernel .deb packages.17:46
jsalisburyphillw, It would be the linux-image and linux-image-extra .deb packages17:46
jsalisburyphillw, A reboot is then needed17:46
phillwso, a wget into what directory ?17:47
phillwis my home directory okay?17:47
jsalisburyphillw, sure, any directory should work17:48
phillwdownloading (sorry for being a n00b to this!)17:49
jsalisburyphillw, You can go to that link and click the two package names to download them: linux-image-3.11.0-7-generic_3.11.0-7.14~lp1227202v1_amd64.deb and linux-image-extra-3.11.0-7-generic_3.11.0-7.14~lp1227202v1_amd64.deb17:49
phillwwget'ing them into my ~/phillw directory now.17:50
phillwjsalisbury: will it be 17:53
phillwsudo dpkg -i linux-image-extra-3.11.0-7-generic_3.11.0-7.1417:53
phillwto install them?17:53
jsalisburyphillw, use the full file name, so: sudo dpkg -i linux-image-3.11.0-7-generic_3.11.0-7.14~lp1227202v1_amd64.deb17:54
jsalisburyand sudo dpkg -i linux-image-extra-3.11.0-7-generic_3.11.0-7.14~lp1227202v1_amd64.deb17:54
phillwokies, thanks!17:54
jsalisburyphillw, install linux-image first then linux-image-extra17:54
phillwwill do, no hardware update bit, I take.17:56
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phillwsee you shortly!18:01
phillwjsalisbury: sudo parted -l still has the Error: /dev/zram0: unrecognised disk label  and Error: /dev/zram1: unrecognised disk label 18:06
phillwTo test against an ISO it would need injecting into one. And that is way, way beyond anything I even begin to understand!18:08
jsalisburyphillw, thanks for testing.  Does the test kernel resolve bug 1227202, which is the freeze when using zram?18:15
jsalisburyphillw, the other issue may need to be a seperate bug18:15
phillwjsalisbury: that only appears when installing from an ISO. that kernel would have to be on the kernel of the ISO?18:16
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jsalisburyphillw, ahh, ok.  18:16
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jsalisburyphillw, yeah, creating a custom iso isn't very easy18:17
phillwjsalisbury: the only other way would be to add it to the build list of lubuntu desktop amd64 daily and my set the system to do a rebuild of just that one ISO ?18:18
phillwbut, again, that is well beyond my limited abilities - possibly someone on the release team could help? We (lubuntu testers) would be more than happy to test it for you.18:20
jsalisburyphillw, ack, I've been looking into doing that for another bug18:20
phillwif you add it to that ISO, just give me a ping and we'll happily descend on it like a pack of vultures :)18:21
phillw2 days before freeze for next beta, so we do still have (a little) time.18:22
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phillwhaving said that, a poorly kernel is not really a candidate for beta testing.... But, not my call :)18:23
kdubwhere does the nexus 4 kernel come from? I heard its stock CM kernel with some patches and config file changes...18:49
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apwkdub, that is a pretty accurate description19:51
kdubapw, so... just the changes in the 'porting guide' is what's needed?19:52
apwkdub, not sure what the porting guides says, but the end of the kernel log will show you what we did to it19:53
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zequence-workapw: orig file for linux-lowlatency saucy?20:44
infinityapw: Did you want to do tools things to lowlatency too?21:27
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