Re: Bug#705168: Any multi VGA controller systems failing to boot?
On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 11:14:23AM -0400, Barry Fishman wrote:
> On 2013-04-22 19:40:01 EDT, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > On Mon, 2013-04-22 at 18:21 -0400, Barry Fishman wrote:
> >> Is anyone else seeing a boot hangup on wheezy with the linux/3.2.41-2 kernel
> >> on systems with multiple display controllers?
> >>
> >> I filed the bug report on April 5, and it got filed with normal severity
> >> and misfiled against the linux/3.2.39-2 kernel.
> >>
> >> I think it might affect many more people when Wheezy is released.
> >
> > This might be fixed by:
> >
> > commit 054430e773c9a1e26f38e30156eff02dedfffc17
> > Author: Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>
> > Date: Fri Jan 25 11:38:56 2013 +1000
> >
> > fbcon: fix locking harder
> >
> > which is in 3.2.44-rc1 and should be included in an early kernel update
> > for wheezy. This was confirmed to fix bug #704933.
>
> 1) This bug is a month old and due to a Debian patch which was rejected
> by the upstream kernel team.
Perhaps you should tell us which that is, then.
> It still is't fixed in Wheezy, although
> it is listed as pending since April 15.
The change identified above is pending in svn.
> 2) It was incorrectly marked against the wrong kernel version, ignoring
> the my attempt to correct it.
>
> 3) Its very likely the same bug as #704933, although your bug tracking
> system seems unable to link related bugs together.
Instructions for using the BTS are at http://bugs.debian.org
> 4) Its not listed in the release notes for Wheezy as a problem
> installing on systems with multiple VGA controllers.
We can't list every bug in the release notes.
> 5) I had been running Wheezy for about a year, and the only issue I had
> with it occurred a month before it released, without the problem
> being considered significant to apply a known fix, or even tag it
> correctly, although it makes some systems unbootable.
What known fix? You never even followed up to say whether the
possible fix I found actually worked.
(Why is this on debian-devel? It won't get your bug fixed any
faster, in fact it is worse because your message wasn't logged
on the bug.)
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings
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