linux-image-k7: System unusable after reboot because rivafb is compiled with debugging enabled.

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Automatically imported from Debian bug report #333067 http://bugs.debian.org/333067

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Automatically imported from Debian bug report #333067 http://bugs.debian.org/333067

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Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 08:39:35 +0000
From: Dominik Kubla <email address hidden>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <email address hidden>
Subject: linux-image-k7: System unusable after reboot because rivafb is compiled with
 debugging enabled.

Package: linux-image-k7
Version: 2.6.12-10
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks the whole system

After updating udev a reboot resulted in a unusable system because
rivafb was being loaded by udev/coldplug. rivafb is not usable,
especially not when being compiled with debugging enabled. Result was a
system that only printed panning related debugging messages.

To revive the system i had to boot into emergency mode (using -b, using
the grub recovery boot was not successful. I doubt a normal user would
have known what to do.) and delete rivafb. Now udev was correctly using
nvidiafb, which worked.

And the bottomline is:

* Don't compile any modules with debugging support enabled. (If you like
  you can provide a kernel-modules-dbg package.) In almost all cases the
  debugging options are only useful to kernel developers anyway.
* Don't compile rivafb: it was never really usable and except for old
  riva cards nvidiafb is the better choice anyway (but that is arguably
  a bug in udev/coldplug).

Regards,
  Dominik

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (800, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-k7
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages linux-image-k7 depends on:
ii linux-image-2.6-k7 2.6.12-10 Linux kernel 2.6 image on AMD K7 m

linux-image-k7 recommends no packages.

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[Frederik Schueler (fs-lowpingbastards)]

Hello,

On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 08:39:35AM +0000, Dominik Kubla wrote:
> After updating udev a reboot resulted in a unusable system because
> rivafb was being loaded by udev/coldplug. rivafb is not usable,
> especially not when being compiled with debugging enabled. Result was a
> system that only printed panning related debugging messages.

The driver has been deactivated in svn for both 2.6.12 and 13 now.

Best regards
Frederik Schueler

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Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 21:47:26 +0200
From: Frederik Schueler <email address hidden>
To: Dominik Kubla <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#333067: linux-image-k7: System unusable after reboot because rivafb is compiled
 with debugging enabled.

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Hello,

On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 08:39:35AM +0000, Dominik Kubla wrote:
> After updating udev a reboot resulted in a unusable system because
> rivafb was being loaded by udev/coldplug. rivafb is not usable,
> especially not when being compiled with debugging enabled. Result was a
> system that only printed panning related debugging messages.

The driver has been deactivated in svn for both 2.6.12 and 13 now.

Best regards
Frederik Schueler

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[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

Debian-specific

[Jurij Smakov (jurij)]

reassign 279689 linux-image-k7
merge 279689 333067
thanks

Jurij Smakov <email address hidden>
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Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 23:35:53 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: Merging duplicate bugs

reassign 279689 linux-image-k7
merge 279689 333067
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Jurij Smakov <email address hidden>
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[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

# Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.9.4
reassign 279689 linux-image-27
merge 279689 333067

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

# Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.9.7
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reassign 279689 linux-image-k7

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Subject: reassign 279689 to linux-image-27, merging 279689 333067

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[Sven Luther (sven-luther)]

This is fixed, but we missed the changelog close.

Friendly,

Sven Luther

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Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 00:52:58 +0100
From: Sven Luther <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>
Subject: Closing, as rivafb is no more built in 2.6.14.

This is fixed, but we missed the changelog close.

Friendly,

Sven Luther